Too often, use-of-force cases are tried not in courts of law but in the court of public opinion, despite research showing such cases are hardly the norm.
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CHICAGO — Dexter Reed was shot 13 times by Chicago police officers during a fatal March traffic stop that left one of the officers shot in the wrist, authorities found. The Cook County medical examiner’s office released Reed’s autopsy and toxicological reports Thursday, five weeks after he was fatally shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said .
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The lawsuit accuses Chicago police of promoting "brutally violent, militarized policing tactics," and argues that the five officers who stopped Reed "created an environment that directly resulted in his death."