The Uncomfortable Info About Cop Shootings

When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was shortly grafted onto a story that started in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. – particularly, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who don’t imagine black lives matter. "Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions on Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in weapons blazing,’" blared a headline within the Chicago Solar-Instances.