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Michael Brown’s body lies in Ferguson, MO street Aug. 9, 2014 after the unarmed 18-year-old was killed by cop Darren Wilson. It stayed there for over four hours in the summer heat until the blood pouring from eight gunshot wounds turned black.
(VOD editor: below is a brief AP story published in the Detroit News today showing no video, although the video is referred to in the original headline. The video, obtained by the South Jersey Times, is shown above. It appears that the Bridgeton cops gave conflicting orders to Reid: “Don’t move” and “Get out of the car” before he complied with the second order, holding his hands out.
The South Jersey Times story is below the AP release. Mr. Reid was killed Dec. 30, 2014, but this is just now making national news. Is there a deliberate conspiracy to keep such killings quiet in the wake of the killings of two cops in NYC? Were those killings possibly a set-up to quiet the flood of protests since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO Aug. 9, 2014, followed by numerous other killings by police nationally, along with acquittals by grand juries? Photos below represent only a fraction of those killed across the U.S. since Mike Brown. Also see http://globalgrind.com/playlist/justice-for-a-list-of-people-killed-by-police-in-2014-photos/item/4043664/.
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Mike Brown, 18
Eric Garner
Tamir Rice, 12
Kaijeme Powell
Vonderrit Myers, 18
- Antonio Martin, 18
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Video shows man raised hands, then fatally shot by cops
January 20, 2014
Bridgeton, N.J. AP — A video shows a man stepping out of a car and raising his hands as he was fatally shot by police in New Jersey last month.
Video from a police car dashboard camera shows Bridgeton Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley ordering two men in a Jaguar to show their hands after they were pulled over for running a stop sign on Dec. 30. Days says a gun is in the glove compartment.
Driver Leroy Tutt is seen showing his hands. It’s not clear what passenger Jerame Reid is doing, though Days warns him not to move.
Reid then steps out of the car, raising his hands. The officers fire at least six shots, killing him.
The video was first obtained through an open records request from the South Jersey Times.
Dashcam video shows man’s fatal encounter with Bridgeton police
Cop Braheme Days knew Reid from previous encounter
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January 20, 2014
Jerame Reid with 3-month old son, superimposed on TV footage.
BRIDGETON — Video and audio released by the Bridgeton Police Department on Tuesday shows officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley ordering Jerame Reid not to move before Reid appears to push his way out of the passenger side door. The video appears to show Reid with his hands in front of him as he stands to get out of the car and is shot and killed by the officers.
The altercation with police, which began with a traffic stop, escalated in a matter of two minutes as police described finding a gun, according to the video which was recorded on a patrol car’s dashboard camera that was released after an Open Public Records request.
Days and Worley had pulled the car over at the intersection of South Avenue and Henry Street, in Bridgeton, at about 9:20 p.m. on Dec. 30. The video shows the officers driving through he city’s streets and coming up on on blue Jaguar, driven by Leroy Tutt, 46, of Long Branch. They pull the car over moments later, and after Days approaches the passenger side and introduces himself, he tells the driver he’s being pulled over for going through a stop sign on South Pine Street, which is adjacent to Henry Street.
Bridgeton Mayor Albert Kelly welcomes Braheme Days as newest full-time officer of police dept.
Days asks the driver to get his driver’s license and seconds later, the officer is seen pulling his gun.
“Show me your hands, show me your (expletive) hands!” Days says, as Worley approaches the driver’s side with what appears to be his gun drawn. The driver puts his hand out of the window and Days appears to attempt to open the passenger side door, as he says “Don’t (expletive) move!” repeatedly.
“Get ’em out the car, Rog. We’ve got a gun in his glove compartment,” Days said.
Days reaches through the window and retrieves what appears to be a silver object, removing it from the car.
They continue to tell the men inside the car not to move, and try to open up the front doors of the vehicle.
“I’m telling you, I’m telling you! Keep your (expletive) hands right there. Eh, eh, Jerame, you reach for something, you’re going to be (expletive) dead,” Days said.
Days shouts, “He’s reaching! He’s reaching!”
In the passenger seat, Reid, 36, can be heard saying what sounds like “let me out of the (expletive) car” and seconds later, the passenger side door opens and Days goes backward.
Reid gets out of the car with what appear to be his hands in front of his chest.
Walter Hudson leads protest Jan. 7 against Reid killing. He asked why the media always brings up past actions of those the police kill, but never investigate the cops’ backgrounds. He said Reid’s mother said as her son’s coffin was going into the ground, “I always knew they planned to get you, son.”
Both Days and Worley discharge their weapons.
Roughly nine shots are heard between them.
Reid previously spent about 13 years in state prison for shooting at three New Jersey State Police troopers when he was a teenager. Reid was also arrested this summer on charges of obstruction, resisting arrest, possession of narcotics and failure to appear in Millville Municipal Court. Authorities said Days was one of the arresting officers at the time.
The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the use of deadly force in the fatal shooting. An autopsy was conducted the following day, but the results haven’t been made public.
The Bridgeton Police Department released the video on Tuesday after an Open Public Records Request made by the South Jersey Times.
Capt. Michael Gaimari, of the Bridgeton Police Department, issued a news release Tuesday afternoon saying, “The Bridgeton Police Department as a law enforcement agency does not, as a routine, consider the posting of any such video as compassionate or professional.”
READ THE BRIDGETON POLICE DEPARTMENT’S FULL STATEMENT
“In absence of the OPRA request this video would not be released to the public out of respect for the family of Jerame Reid, basic human dignity and to protect the constitutional rights of all those involved,” Gaimari said.
Cop Roger Worley at trai.ning session
However, Reid’s wife did view the video on Tuesday afternoon as well.
“Since this remains a criminal investigation being conducted by the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office with assistance from the New Jersey State Police the administration of the Bridgeton Police Department will refrain from any further comment other than that it fully supports the officers involved as well as the legal process this incident is subject to.”
“It is also important to know that the Bridgeton Police Department policies and procedures regarding the use of force mirror that of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Guidelines on the use of force without deviation.”
The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office has only said that “during the course of the stop a handgun was revealed and later recovered.”
The prosecutor, Jennifer Webb-McRae, recused herself from the investigation last week because she knows Days from the community, according to Cumberland County First Assistant Prosecutor Harold Shapiro who has taken over for her.
In the weeks since the shooting, there have been protests in downtown Bridgeton, demanding answers about the shooting and justice for Reid. During one of the demonstrations, protesters used the phrases “Hands up, Don’t shoot” and “No justice, no peace,” similar to what was said during racially-charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City.
Days is black, Worley is white and Reid was black. Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave.
Wife ‘extremely upset’ by video of Bridgeton police shooting husband
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January 20, 2014
Lawanda Reid, wife of Jerame C. Reid
BRIDGETON — Jerame Reid’s wife is distraught after seeing the video of her husband’s shooting death during a police traffic stop last month.
The attorney representing Reid’s family said Lawanda Hartsfield-Reid viewed dashcam video Tuesday afternoon of her husband being shot.
“It’s traumatic,” said Philadelphia-based attorney Conrad J. Benedetto. ” … She is extremely upset. To see someone that close to you, it is a powerful thing. There is a lot of shock value to it.”
Benedetto said he was only able to view the video once Tuesday afternoon, and that at this point “it would be premature to draw any conclusions without further reflection.”
On the night of Dec. 30, at about 9:20 p.m., Bridgeton police officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley shot and killed Reid at the intersection of South Avenue and Henry Street, in Bridgeton, during a traffic stop.
The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office is heading the investigation, with the New Jersey State Police Crime Scene Investigation Unit assisting.
Benedetto confirmed Tuesday evening that his office has issued a letter to the county prosecutor’s office requesting that the entire department recuse itself from the investigation and that the probe be handed over to “either the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General or some non-conflicted law enforcement agency.”
Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae had recently recused herself from the investigation because she knows Days from the community, and delegated the investigation to Cumberland County First Assistant Prosecutor Harold Shapiro, according to a previous South Jersey Times article.
Spencer Kent may be reached at skent@southjerseymedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerMKent. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook.
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