Not my first chase but my most exciting one so far. We (myself and my partner) were going to backing up another officer who was trying to stop a reckless driver of a stolen vehicle (did not find this out till well into the chase). I am ridding passenger. We enter the pursuit and are the sixth car back. My buddy decides we need to be leading this chase. So after several graceful maneuvers we are second car. This idiot has drove all over the city and has changed direction twice and avoided the spike strips two times also. At a intersection congested with traffic the idiot tries to run over a police officer (who for some reason has gotten out of his car). We take to the median and recover to take the lead in the chase. New ball game. I am calling the action on the radio for dispatch. I see this guy making gestures with what I think is a gun toward his head. I advise other units of his actions. Pursuit continues 70 +miles/hour down city streets. Our part of the chase ends at an intersection with an unsuccessful pit maneuver. We hit the left corner of his bumper and turn him he somehow corrects from this and hits us in the right front of car (bumper car time). Well shit we went this far so lets take him out. My buddy hits the gas and we side swipe him in an effort to get him off the road. No such luck he is driving an older Lincoln town car and he just hits us back. So we are going down the road and instead of us pushing this guy off the road he is getting the best of us. He get us pinned against a curb and is giving us hell. I am trying to draw my weapon but my seat belt has me hung up. The guy finally get off the side of the car and starts to pull away we go to fall back in behind him and realize we have lost our steering. End of the road for us. Shit-Bird finally crashes out in the next parish after avoiding the spike strips three more times and two more agencies taking up the chase. Come to find out guy is drunk (hell of a driver) stole the car Sunday in Jackson MS. and want the police to kill him (depressed and off his medicine). No serious injuries involved shit-bird goes to hospital for chest pains (probably from the numerous taser probes in his ass) and will be charged with three counts of Att. Murder of a Police officer and numerous traffic charges. The only good thing is I don't have to write all the reports but did have to go piss in a cup. I have requested the video of the chase so when I get it I will post it.Link to news story click video "High speed chase"Dash camera video
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