the situation that has been escalating is about to explode. without warning, the driver makes a run for it, heading straight to his car. he reached around his shoulder blades and tried to pull him back from the vehicle. the officers have only seconds to react. that s when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. gun, gun! gave a quick glance over to trooper harker as he was moving around and preparing to return fire. and that s when i put fire on him from the front of the vehicle. the passenger runs and deputy gates takes off after him. i started to chase after the passenger, but i didn t run full bore yet because i didn t know trooper harker s condition. freeze! the driver jumps in the truck and speeds off with harker still hanging on. after taking about three or four step after i got disengaged from the vehicle, i did fire a round to flatten a tire to impede his escape.
get away. and i think he was weighing his options on how best to achieve that goal. now what do you want to do, sir? the situation that has been escalating is about to explode. without warning, the driver makes a run for it, heading straight to his car. he reached around his shoulder blades and tried to pull him back from the vehicle. the officers have only seconds to react. that s when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. gun, gun! gave a quick glance over to trooper harker as he was moving around and preparing to return fire. and that s when i put fire on him from the front of the vehicle. the passenger runs and deputy gates takes off after him. i started to chase after the passenger, but i didn t run full bore yet because i didn t know trooper harker s condition. freeze! the driver jumps in the truck and speeds off with harker still hanging on.
to achieve that goal. now, what do you want to do, sir? the situation that has been escalating is about to explode. without warning, the driver makes a run for it, heading straight to his car. he reached around his shoulder blades and tried pull him back from the vehicles and the officers have seconds to react. that s when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. gave a quick glance over to trooper harkeras he was moving around and was preparing to return fire and that s when i put fire on him from the front of the vehicle. the passenger runs and deputy gates takes off after him. i started to chase after the passenger, but i didn t run full bore yet because i didn t know trooper harker s condition. the driver jumps in the truck and speeds off with harker still hanging on. after i got disengage the
the other side of the road. i saw that he was standing outside of his vehicle and was talking to what appeared to be the driver. i also noticed that the passenger sitting in the vehicle was staring at me intently and watched as i went by. deputy gates makes a u-turn and pulls up behind the trooper. right away, he senses something is off about the encounter. i noticed several times that the driver asked why he d been stopped. why am i being pulled over? believe i told you, sir. according to the computer the registration on the vehicle is expired. he was asking several questions and these were questions i already knew the answer to, and i had just gotten out there. i m not trying to make it difficult, sir. it was obvious to me that the driver was trying to stall. i didn t know if he had a weapon on him, if he had drugs on him or other contraband. i didn t know. about as long as we ve been standing here i wanted to resolve the situation, and he just wanted to get a
i also noticed that the passenger sitting in the vehicle was staring at me intently and watched as i went by. deputy gates makes a u-turn and pulls up behind the trooper. right away, he senses something is off about the encounter. i noticed several times that the driver asked why he had been stopped. why am i being pulled over? i believe i told you, sir, according to the computer, the registration on the vehicle has expired. he was asking several other questions. these were questions i already knew the answer to and i had just gotten there. why are you trying to make this so difficult? i m not trying to make it difficult, sir. it was obvious to me that the driver was trying to stall. you can get arrested for not having a survivor s license? yes, sir. i didn t know if he had a weapon on him or drugs on him or other kind of contraband, i didn t know. about as long as we ve been standing here i wanted to resolve the situation and he just wanted to get away. and