A driver who refused to stop for a sheriff’s deputy during a Live on Patrol broadcast made it roughly 40 seconds before slamming into an uninvolved car in front of a live audience.
The clip comes from a longer patrol livestream, with viewers identifying the agency as the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota. The stream shows patrol activity in near real time, so the whole thing played out on camera with no editing and no warning.
According to the footage, the car blew past the deputy at high speed and was already weaving through traffic, nearly clipping other vehicles. The deputy hit his lights. The driver hit the gas instead.
What followed barely counts as a chase. The deputy stayed well back and never closed the gap, while the fleeing car pulled further ahead. Near an exit ramp, the driver signaled, tried to squeeze through a tight opening in traffic, and lost it, colliding with another motorist who had nothing to do with any of it.
Debris was scattered across the roadway by the time the deputy pulled up. Two men were in the fleeing car, and at least one of them was seen walking away from the wreck on foot.
The getaway plan had a flaw
Both men reportedly came back to the scene minutes later and were arrested. Viewers who stuck with the stream said the suspected driver initially tried to claim he’d actually been the passenger.
Information given later in the broadcast suggests the suspected driver was taken to a hospital to be checked out and was expected to face allegations including fleeing a peace officer, an open container violation, and criminal vehicular operation tied to an injury suffered by someone in the other car. The passenger was reportedly booked on a firearm allegation and a marijuana-related count, and was said to have an outstanding burglary warrant.
None of that is confirmed by official records yet, and no formal charges have been published. Both men are presumed innocent.
The condition of the injured motorist hasn’t been released. EMS was called to the scene, but there’s no confirmation of how serious the injury was or how many people were in the struck vehicle. No death has been reported.
Pursuit rules vary by agency, and many departments require deputies to weigh the seriousness of the suspected offense against the risk to the public before continuing. In this case there was almost no time to weigh anything, since the crash happened before the deputy had a chance to call it off.
