Dashcam movie of police pursue and crash: ‘CPD is injured but they’re alive!’
Dash cam movies display a pursuit and crash in the West Pullman neighborhood on July 1, 2016. (IPRA) (Caution: Graphic language)
Dash cam movies demonstrate a pursuit and crash in the West Pullman neighborhood on July 1, 2016. (IPRA) (Caution: Graphic language)
Dashcam movies from a high-speed police pursue last summer demonstrate an explosive collision inbetween a Chicago police SUV and a car that ended with two suspects dead and four officers injured.
“Oh sh–! Chicago, give me Fire!” an officer yells into his radio as he pulls up to the scene at 124th Street and Union Avenue in West Pullman around eleven a.m. July 1, which was released by the Independent Police Review Authority on Friday. “CPD just got into a 10-50 with him! Get me Fire out here!” A 10-50 is a traffic accident.
The officer vows and shouts, “Are you guys all right? Get me Fire out here! I got three of these guys I think! CPD is injured, but they’re alive!”
In a dashcam movie from another police car, two officers stumble out of the crashed SUV. One of them puts his head to the ground and rolls onto his back, his right palm clutching his forehead. The other lays on his back near the car and attempts to sit up before lounging down again.
At least one suspect is ordered onto the ground, and another is seen being manacled in the movies, which were released by the Independent Police Review Authority. Two other suspects in the car were killed.
The pursue began on the off-ramp of Interstate fifty seven near 127th Street after a robbery at a business in Tinley Park, police said.
The very first movie is shot from a state police car and shows a suntan car stopped on an off-ramp of Interstate fifty seven near 127th Street. A trooper repeatedly yells, “Step out! Step out! Step out!” But the car makes a U-turn and speeds off through a motel parking lot.
The pursue resumes through at least one crimson light, down an alley, across a vacant lot, scarcely missing a parked van, and then down a one-way street, where it collides with the police SUV in a burst of smoke and dust.
The car rolls over, and the SUV spins around. Both come to rest against a brick home on the corner of 124th Street and Union Avenue. A tire flies across the road.
Two suspects died in the crash. They were identified as Jimmy Malone, 26, and Ronald Arrington, 22, of the twelve thousand four hundred block of South Union Avenue. Two other suspects were arrested and charged with robbery: Michael Cokes, 26, of Alsip, and Isiah Stevenson, 24, of Matteson.
On Tuesday, Cokes and Stevenson both pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft charges, according to the Will County clerk’s website.