(Actual vid. in.)Prosecutors say man killed by NJ cops had gun, but multiple witnesses disagree

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Prosecutors say man killed by NJ cops had gun, but multiple witnesses disagree

Witnesses dispute the police account of a traffic stop shooting late Tuesday that left a New Jersey man dead.

Police in Bridgeton stopped a car about 9:20 p.m. for unspecified reasons in a residential neighborhood, and multiple people said they witnessed two officers open fire on 36-year-old Jerame Reid.

Prosecutors said “during the course of the stop a handgun was revealed and later recovered,” but investigators have not specified whether the weapon was found before or after Reid – a passenger in the car – was shot.
The driver, whose name was not released, was not injured and was taken into police custody afterward.

Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley have been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

Zakeeda Hill, 28, and her 12-year-old cousin, Josh Scurry, said they watched the traffic stop and shooting from a home across the street.

Hill told The Daily Journal that the car’s occupants insisted to officers that they didn’t have anything and asked police why they had been pulled over.

Suddenly, they said, officers opened fire. Hill and Scurry each agreed they heard at least seven gunshots.

Tahli Dawkins, 34, told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched officers approach the car with their weapons drawn and yell “don’t effing move” at the occupants before suddenly opening fire.

Denzel Mosley, 17, witnessed the incident from the attic of his house, which overlooked the shooting scene.

He told KYW-TV that both of Reid’s hands were in “plain sight,” and the teen said he never saw a gun.

“They were telling him, ‘Get out the car,’” Mosley said. “(Officers were) like, ‘Stop!’ and they started shooting.”

The traffic stop was recorded on cell phone video by one witness and posted online, but it does not show the shooting directly.

Ben Mosely, a retired sheriff’s deputy, told WPVI-TV he watched the incident from his bedroom window.

He said Reid had gotten out of his car but then tried to get back into the vehicle when officers opened fire, but – based on his own police training — he does not believe the shooting was justified…..more here

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