I don’t know about you, but when I’m out terrorizing the streets of Los Angeles, I actively try to avoid hitting people. In fact, I have a perfect record where that is concerned. Unfortunately, this unnamed LAPD officer can’t say the same thing after they appear to run over a fellow officer on video.
In the clip published by KTLA on Tuesday, the driving officer’s vehicle cam shows them driving at high speed down a street in the Sun Valley part of the San Fernando Valley towards a crashed vehicle that was the subject of a police chase on October 13. As the cop car makes a right turn onto the street, they appear to drive directly at another running officer and the clip ends just before the moment of impact.
The struck officer was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, but the LAPD isn’t willing to admit that the cop was hit by a fellow cop’s cruiser, probably because it makes the LAPD look dangerous and inept. It did tell Jalopnik that it’s launching an investigation into the pursuit that led to this incident, as well as the events surrounding the termination of the pursuit.
While we certainly don’t want anyone to get run over by a car, and especially not by a coworker, it is nice to see that LA law enforcement is making headlines for something other than officer-involved shootings and inmate deaths in the county jail.
