Friday, September 20

Aerial footage shows police chasing a pickup truck in South Los Angeles

Agents of the California Highway Patrol ( CHP , for its acronym in English, began a police pursuit in the the south of Los Angeles to the driver of a black truck, which was circulating at a not very high speed entering and leaving the highway. They finally got the car to overturn and took the man into custody .

The authorities were looking for the man for allegedly not yielding to law enforcement officers , as published by KTLA . The aerial cameras of this television station broadcast the entire accident live. At one point it is even seen that the driver seems to greet the helicopter.

The suspect was driving on the highway 110 but shortly after He got out of it and began to lead the chase through nearby streets of the nearby residential area . There he did not even stop at two red lights and, he always turned left or right to avoid the authorities. On some occasions i also crossed the opposite lanes and forced the rest of the drivers to change lanes.

After that around 9: 42 in the morning the truck entered and left a parking structure located on San Vicente Boulevard with Venice Boulevard, a CHP unit obtained hit the rear of the vehicle to make it stop , but had to try several more times to make it stop.

In In the last attempt by CHP agents, the van overturned at the height of San Vicente and South Redondo boulevards, in the Mid-Wilshire area, according to the indications KTLA.

The officers at that moment broke the driver’s window and were able to remove the suspect from the truck and take him into custody . The man put up a bit of resistance, but was eventually taken to one of the patrol cars that had traveled to the area.

There are no further details on the identity of the suspect.

This chase took place two days after another in Buena Park in which the suspect was driving a stolen Uhaul truck . On that occasion, the chase lasted for two hours and the man ended up stopping the vehicle and getting out after the cabin began to burn. After trying to escape by jumping over walls and fences in the residential area, the officers managed to arrest him and took him into custody without incident.