Fleeing Police, Suspect Carjacks BMW To Keep Running

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This police chase featuring a Georgia trooper driving like a professional wheelman, a suspect carjacking a BMW, and more is gripping. It’s more nerve racking and interesting than just about any movie car chase scene as a desperate suspect and a desperate trooper match wits.

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Everything starts with the trooper trying to pull over a crappy car (a Nissan Sentra?) for a traffic violation. The thing is beat up, has a busted taillight, and it’s not a great option for fleeing from police. Still, the suspect tries to run.

But soon enough he pulls into a parking lot and ditches the econo-box, running away on foot and using a gun to carjack a BMW from some poor innocent bystander.

As the guy tears out of the neighborhood where he took the Bimmer, cops start swarming. We can’t imagine what the guy’s thinking with the extreme show of force, but he keeps on driving like crazy to try getting away.

He gaps the trooper by a good distance before too long, pushing the little German car for all it’s worth. But the trooper keeps it together, relying on his training even though he knows in the back of his mind if he loses the armed and clearly dangerous man, some innocent person might be killed.

Taking to the interstate, the suspect passes on the shoulders, thanks to fairly thick traffic. There are plenty of close calls as the speed and potential danger of the chase elevate dramatically. One close call in particular with another cruiser crossing the median makes the trooper scream in terror as he almost wrecks out.

All that hard driving leads to one of the tires on the BMW blowing out. He keeps pushing the stolen car, even though he’s clearly having trouble controlling it.

Sadly, we don’t get to see the conclusion to this chase, apparently because YouTube thought it was too much. We see him crash the BMW, but in the rest of the foot he gets out with the gun pointed at his head. Somehow, troopers are able to de-escalate the situation and take the guy into custody without further violence.

Image via State Boyzzz/YouTube

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