then he threw it in park. at that point in time you can hear the transmission making a really bad grinding noise. however, it didn t stop. even though the driver has switched gears to park, the car doesn t stop immediately. there s a red light up ahead. if this driver doesn t come up with something quick, more people can get hurt. he then went left into oncoming traffic and he drove book toe to the right striking another vehicle and completely stopped his vehicle. with the car at a standstill, the officer can finally get to the bottom of who this man is and why he s driving with no brakes. i got him out of the vehicle. i asked what he was doing. i couldn t think of a normal guy that would do something like that. somebody had to be drunk or high or something like that. i had no brakes. i asked him how long his brakes had been out. he said he knew they were out, he had to get to work. i asked what he did, he said he was a commercial roofer.
okay. i will let you go. do not do this, please. it became a worse crime when he actually pulled a gun on me. before that, it was just a basic traffic stop. i swear to god, i will let you go. they will come and get me tomorrow morning, i know. i will not. i will let you go on your way. i m serious. the whole i m i m talking to him or trying to put the gun down i m trying to hit the emergency button on my radio and when i did that he looked down what i was doing. and at that time i m thinking he s going to shoot me so i m not going to do it again. they re checking on me right now. i need to let them know i m okay. i didn t think i m that fast that i could take my gun out and take the threat out before he does. i can get him to put the gun down. i m serious, i don t need this. amazingly, rivera does manage to defuse the situation. the driver puts the gun away in his back pocket. and i m like, okay, we can get through this. you know, we ll work through this. dude,
as i drove a little further towards the accident, i saw a hispanic male wearing a white t-shirt. and i slowed down, look at him in my rearview mirror. and it kind of crossed my mind, i wonder if he knows anything about the accident, if he saw it or maybe he was involved in it. as officer turner pulls up, there s no driver in sight. over the radio, he learns that a latino man was driving the suv and has fled the scene. i radioed back to dean, i knew he was sitting right back there up the street. i asked him if he would stop the male. it was kind of shocking that somebody could just walk away from that. responding to his partner s call, mcginniss takes off in search of the man and sees him walking into a nearby park. there was something odd, something more to what he was doing than just walking away from a vehicular to maybe avoid a ticket. mcginess radios turner for backup and tells him to meet him at the park. as i turned around, i could hear it in dean s voice, he was
the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver s door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i d never seen in over 20 years of police work. he s basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he s got the door open and he s got his legs hanging out of the car. that s when i realized he didn t have brakes. the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. he knows he has to act fast. first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle.
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