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Video: Suspected car thief pins NYPD community response officer to car, flees on rooftops before arrest

“Your Community Response Team officers would not let him get away after he tried to kill one of their own,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry

Video: Suspected car thief pins NYPD community response officer to car, flees on rooftops before arrest

“Another stolen car recovered, another violent criminal off your streets, and most importantly, your cops go home to their families,” Daughtry wrote.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry

By Joanna Putman
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NEW YORK — NYPD body-camera footage captures the intense moments when a suspect struck a Community Response officer with a stolen vehicle before leading officers on a dangerous foot pursuit through the streets and across rooftops, the New York Post reported.

The Aug. 18 incident began when officers pulled over a stolen white sedan, according to the report. The suspect initially complied with the stop but then reversed onto the sidewalk, narrowly missing a child, and struck a building’s metal shutters.

Despite officers’ commands to exit the vehicle, the suspect accelerated, pinning one officer between the sedan and a parked car before fleeing the scene, video shows. The suspect drove several blocks, hitting multiple cars, before abandoning the vehicle and attempting to escape on foot.

The pursuit led officers across a train line and building rooftops, and onto a second roof where the suspect was eventually apprehended, according to the report.

“Your Community Response Team officers would not let him get away after he tried to kill one of their own,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry.

The suspect was found lying on the second rooftop, where officers took him into custody. He faces nearly a dozen charges, including attempted aggravated murder, reckless endangerment and grand larceny auto, according to the report.

The officer struck during the incident was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital.

“Another stolen car recovered, another violent criminal off your streets, and most importantly, your cops go home to their families,” Daughtry wrote.

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