Pulling off a profitable P.I.T. maneuver is not any straightforward process however the officer on this video does it with a a lot smaller automobile than the goal automobile and whereas being shot at. Not solely is he profitable however he additionally occurs to look fully unfazed by the hazard all through the complete ordeal.
On April 2nd, 32-year-old Charles Carswelllef police on a prolonged high-speed chase in a brand new Grand Wagoneer. The Jeep solely turned disabled due to the skillfully accomplished P.I.T. maneuver (pursuit intervention method) or TVI (tactical automobile intervention) seen within the video beneath. On the wheel of the police automobile, a Dodge Charger was Oklahoma State Trooper Brack Miller.
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Footage of a chase involving an Oklahoma Freeway Patrol Trooper and an armed theft suspect went viral when it was launched to the general public.https://t.co/vPTQbJ88cw pic.twitter.com/tlezS3CU0i
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 19, 2022
Native authorities have been on the look ahead to Carswell, an armed theft suspect, after being alerted by police from Sedona, Arizona on April 2nd. As soon as troopers positioned Carswell they tried a visitors cease which finally led to the chase which spanned throughout a lot of Canadian County in Oklahoma earlier than concluding on the Kilpatrick Turnpike.
Within the pretty quick video, we get simply the final couple of minutes of the chase and see as Carswell takes goal and fires at Officer Miller a number of instances. At no level does Officer Miller return hearth. As a substitute, he manages to dodge and weave the incoming bullets and makes an attempt to disable the Grand Wagoneer two instances earlier than discovering success on his third try.
The one level throughout the complete video the place Miller appears even barely unsettled is after the primary try the place he doesn’t appear to get a lot buy on the sting of the Jeep and finally has to catch his personal automobile in what might’ve been a nasty fishtail state of affairs.
Because of the excessive speeds on the time of the profitable takedown, Miller really drives on fairly a methods earlier than coming to a cease himself. The movie ends with him getting out and observing the injury to his patrol unit. Whereas police didn’t share footage of what occurred after stopping the automobile, Carswell reportedly barricaded himself on the opposite aspect of the model new however disabled Jeep Grand Wagoneer luxurious SUV. In keeping with KFOR information, he obtained out of the SUV, grabbed an AK-47 and began firing at troopers who shot again and killed him.
Whatever the components relating to security at play right here, there’s little doubt that Officer Miller demonstrated some distinctive automobile management below an extremely aggravating state of affairs.