In most news stories about the Chicago Police shooting of Dexter Reed there are certain established ingredients:

The weeping mother fainting, the suspicious white leftist lawyers wondering aloud if Dexter Reed’s death was caused by over-eager racist cops, suspicious black activists who see police as the embodiment of white rage even if they’re not white and repeated mention of the 96 shots.

Only rarely if at all was there mention of a most inconvenient fact.

He shot first.