(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The chief of Chicago's police oversight agency is questioning why CPD has not taken action against the officers involved in the shooting death of Dexter Reed earlier this year.
In a letter to Police Superintendent Larry Snelling late last month, Chief Administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, Andrea Kersten continued to push CPD to take police powers away from the four officers involved in the shooting that killed 26-year-old Dexter Reed in March.
The Sun Times reports that Kersten initially made this request in a letter to Snelling in April, she also raised "grave concerns" about the use of deadly deadly force in the shooting.
Police fired 96 bullets in 41 seconds at Reed, after Reed fired at an officer during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park. An autopsy found he was hit 13 times with wounds to his chest, shoulder, back, legs and buttocks.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office also reported that a toxicology report found the drug THC — the key psychoactive component found in marijuana — was in Reed’s system at the time of his death.
On March 21, he was stopped on the West Side by plainclothes tactical officers for a purported seat belt violation and failed to comply with orders to roll down his windows and open his door.
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