Excellent Police Chase and Suspect Take Down

This is an Emmy award winning story shot by a photojournalist from WSYX/WTTE (ACB/FOX) in Columbus, OH heard a chase going down on his police scanner. The chase involved multiple juristictions (Columbus police and Gahanna police and Franklin Co. Sheriff's) so he decided to find a spot ahead of the chase to pull over and get some video of the cruisers as they flew past. Amazingly enough the Gahanna cop who has special training made a bold move right there in front of his camera! He did what is called a P.I.T. move. This swings the car around and allows the cop to use his cruiser to block the driver in the car. This suspect however chose to climb out the passenger door and the foot chase was on. The photographer pulled his camera off of his tri-pod and joined in as Columbus officers chased him down and tackled him. Watch carefully! The photographer reaches the scene before most of the officers involved in the pursuit! This is not like the show "COPS" (which I love) where the crew is already in the cruiser as it pulls up to the scene. This was a seasoned photographer trusting his instincts and placing himself at the right place at the right time. "COPS" photographers also use smaller cameras to make it easier to run along on a chase. In this case the photographer is carrying a much bigger news camera.
This is the work of a seasoned and dedicated journalist!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cops
• chase
• PIT
• maneauver
• PITsuspect
• police
• robber
• Columbus
• Gahanna
• takedown

[shortstackJMD96]

looks like a movie

[RollingThunderHorse]

@shortstackJMD96  thank you for the nice comment. I will pass it on to the photojournailist that shot it.

[fearonthefat]

cool video

[RollingThunderHorse]

@fearonthefat thanks for the nice comment. Went to your page. You have some fun videos so I subscribed.

[grimeyb0i]

right place at the right time

[RollingThunderHorse]

@grimeyb0i definitely right place at the right time. The odds of that happening were probably a million to one!

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[noodler11]

That was a perfect P.I.T

[warmaste103]

That was a sexy pit roll

[shortstackJMD96]

@RollingThunderHorse no problem brother

[9gent]

what a fail that guy tried opening the door then the cop shut it with the hood of his car and then the suspect got out and ran like a fag

[thephipster]

Nice video! What a tank.

[fearonthefat]

@RollingThunderHorse Jeez, thanks man it means a lot to me

[Shiyanification]

He was trying to go on a speedchase with a minivan