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Detroit police SUV drives through protesters; officers in vehicle believed they were under attack

Detroit police SUV

(Screenshot Detroit Free Press)

June 29, 2020
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DETROIT — The Detroit Police Department has launched an investigation after one of its units was recorded driving through a group of protesters that began leeching onto it. As the police SUV went through the crowd, demonstrators who decided to jump on the hood and otherwise impede movement were sent tumbling onto the street as the driver took evasive action to avoid danger.

The alarming incident unfolded late Sunday following a rally in the area against perceptions of police brutality, deportations and other issues, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Police say the officers in the area were trying to redirect the marching protesters along a faster route back to the park where the rally was held earlier in the day. The scene, they say, escalated after one of the protesters busted out the cruiser’s back window.

“There is this loud crash or bang to the rear of the police car. And again in their mind, as according to our investigation, they believed they could be shot at, or were being fired upon and because of that they had to take quick, evasive action,” Police Chief James Craig told reporters Monday. “When you talk about training, if you run into an ambush situation the proper course is to get out for your safety and that is exactly what these officers opted to do.”

“We don’t know what broke the window – could have been a skateboard, could have been anything,” he added. “But whatever it was, it certainly created enough concern for the officers and their safety and to get out.”

He also said there were “repeated efforts by at least some of the 25 to 30 [protesters] to gain access to the inside of the car where the officers were located.”

  • SUSPECT ACCUSED OF SHOOTING TULSA OFFICERS STOOD OVER SERGEANT AND SHOT HIM THREE TIMES

Video of the incident begins with a crowd surrounding the vehicle while chanting, “No justice, no peace!”

As one demonstrator leans on the hood of the SUV – which has its siren activated – other protesters move in.

The police cruiser then inches forward before its driver accelerates rapidly, sending some of those on the hood tumbling to the ground.

The SUV then accelerates and brakes multiple times to clear the remaining protesters out of the way. One man is seen clinging onto the cruiser as it drives to get away, while repeated screams of, “Oh my God!” can be heard coming from the demonstrators.

The video ends with the protesters running after the vehicle.

  • ARMED ST. LOUIS RESIDENTS PROTECT PROPERTY AS PROTESTERS MARCH IN AFFLUENT NEIGHBORHOOD 

As expected, the protesters who created the perilous situation for the officers saw things differently than police.

“He went super fast. Me and a couple of other organizers that were with me, just went flinging off. We went flying off,” Jae Bass, a 24-year-old who claimed to be one of the men seen thrown to the ground in the video, told the Detroit Free Press.

“He ran over a couple people’s arms, feet,” Bass added. “I think I was the last person on the car. I was just holding onto the car. I could feel him speeding up and then… he flinged (sic) me off the car.”

Bass, meanwhile, claimed to the Detroit Free Press that police were trying to block the crowd from returning to the park.

He added that he tried to corral protesters around the roadblock and stood in front of the vehicle in hopes of preventing it from moving, out of concern for the other demonstrators.

“In response to that, he just floored it,” Bass told the newspaper.

  • WHY THE CAROTID RESTRAINT SHOULD BE KEPT AS A FORCE OPTION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Chief Craig said no officers were hurt in the incident and that the department wasn’t aware of any other injuries.

 


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