UH OH, HERE WE GO AGAIN

Two Bridgeton, New Jersey cops - one white, the other black - shoot an unarmed black man to death

On December 30, Bridgeton, New Jersey cops Braheme Days and Roger Worley pulled over a Jaguar for running a stop sign. What started out as a routine traffic stop ended up in the shooting death of Jerame Reid, 36, a passenger in the car. A dash cam on the cop car shows Reid, who is black, getting shot after he emerged from the car with his empty hands at shoulder level.

Here from the Daily Mail are the details of the latest controversial shooting:

The officers had pulled over the Jaguar for rolling through a stop sign, and the encounter starts friendly. But Days suddenly steps back, pulls his gun and tells the men, 'Show me your hands.'

Days tells his partner there is a gun in the glove compartment and then appears to reach in and remove a handgun.

The driver, Leroy Tutt, is seen showing his hands atop the open window on his side of the car. It's not clear what Reid is doing, though Days repeatedly warns him not to move during the standoff of less than two minutes.

'I'm going to shoot you!' Days shouts, referring to Reid at one point by his first name.

'You're going to be fucking dead! If you reach for something, you're going to be fucking dead!'

'I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing, bro. I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing,' Reid says as Days continues to yell to his partner that Reid is reaching for something.

Someone then says,'I'm getting out and getting on the ground,' but Days yells at Reid not to move.

The passenger door pops open and Reid emerges. His hands are at about shoulder height and appear to be empty. As he steps out, the officers fire at least six shots.

The shooting involved a salt-and-pepper pair of cop partners, with Days black and Worley white.

Reid was an ex-con, having served 13 years in prison for shooting at New Jersey State Police troopers when he was a teenager.

The shooting outraged the black community, and that was before release of the dash cam footage.

This incident shows that cops, including black ones, are very apprehensive in confrontations with black men. It also illustrates what can happen when someone refuses to obey an officer’s commands.