FATAL Police Pursuit - Watch Trooper go AIRBORNE | Dashcam and Photos - Arkansas State Police

This video is intended for educational and news reporting purposes. It is not intended to shock. 34-year-old Justin Battenfield, a man whose family said he was mentally disabled and loved to drive the roads around his home in Van Buren, Arkansas. Shortly after dawn on April 10 near Fort Smith, Arkansas, 34-year-old Justin Battenfield ran a red light in the black Dodge Ram pickup he had purchased a few days before. For reasons that will never be known, Battenfield, who lived on Social Security payments from a mental disability, refused to stop when a U.S. Forest Service officer tried to pull him over. It was a decision that cost him his life Arkansas State Trooper Michael Shawn Ellis picked up the pursuit. Dashboard-camera video from the trooper’s car captured Battenfield as he swerved into the path of oncoming traffic. “Get this car stopped as soon as there’s an opening,” a supervisor told Ellis over the radio. Ellis' PIT maneuver at 109 mph, sent both vehicles into a tumble. Battenfield’s truck landed on its roof and acted as a launching pad for the trooper’s car, sending it into the air, where it sliced through two street lamps.