A Chicago native who was stopped by the same tactical team of officers who would days later pull over Dexter Reed and kill him in a barrage of gunfire after he fired at officers has sued the city, claiming the traffic stop violated his constitutional rights.
Shunza Walker, a tattoo artist who was born and raised on the West Side but now lives in far west suburban Will County, was driving his black Maserati less than a mile away from the intersection on the border between Humboldt Park and Garfield Park where Reed would die when Chicago police officers stopped him, records show.
Walker told WTTW News the traffic stop left him scared to drive anywhere in Chicago and shocked, a feeling that intensified after Reed’s killing made headlines across the city, igniting a firestorm over CPD’s use of traffic stops…