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Jennifer Grasso figured she had a strong case to become the tactical unit’s next leader when the position opened up this year.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates police shootings, said this month that five members of a district tactical unit pulled Reed’s vehicle over, purportedly because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

The police’s tactical unit responded and tried for some time to get the man to surrender, Winegar said.

According to Andrea Kersten, the office’s chief administrator, five plainclothes officers who were assigned to a tactical unit and traveling in an unmarked vehicle stopped Mr. Reed at about 6 p.m. on March 21.

The officers were part of a “district tactical unit,” according to COPA.