By Police1 Staff
NEW YORK — Neighbors were stunned when they witnessed a wild police pursuit on their block.
NBC 4 reported witnesses took cellphone videos of the incident as they screamed at officers to shoot the suspect.
“It was insane,” witness Eddie Moronta told the news site. “There were car pieces everywhere, side mirrors, headlights everywhere.”
The pursuit began when police tried to stop the 2003 Land Rover for making an illegal turn. The SUV fled and went the wrong way down a one-way street.
“Shoot him,” bystanders scream in the video.
“He’s putting lives in danger, bro,” another witness tells the cop.
“We don’t shoot people out here, bro,” the unidentified officer responded. “You know how that works. That’s only in movies, bro. You shoot a tire, that bullet pops back up.”
The 35-year-old driver ditched the car during the pursuit and fled on foot. Officers later found and arrested him for several charges including reckless endangerment, aggravated unlicensed operation, leaving the scene of an accident, resisting arrest and criminal possession of a controlled substance/