we've got a chase overnight in the
southwest metro highway 62 eastbound
heading into edina take a look and
listen because we've got the dispatch
audio as well
speeds are approximately 105.
eastbound 62 passing tracing coming up
to 100 and about three quarters of a
mile
100
so it looks to me like the car
tried to get out of the way of the stop
sticks at the last moment or spotted
them very late in the chase and
made an abrupt move to the right
continued trying to get away but i think
they got a little spooked the tires are
deflating they also know it's over at
this point but but i i wasn't sure i
thought i saw maybe a little bit of
wobble or just maybe they started to
lose a little bit of control and got a
little spooked there decide to give it
up doors open
hands up they're stepping out and the
officers weapons drawn doing a felony
stop taking a look at the stop sticks
again i'll show it a couple times you
can see if you look carefully there's an
officer behind the guardrail to the
right pulling those stop sticks they've
got them on the far side
of the freeway and they actually pulled
those stop sticks across to the right
as the car moved to the left on your
screen and got a successful deflation
everyone loved seeing pits but it is the
stop sticks that get the cars to go slow
enough below about 45 or 55 miles an
hour so that you can do a
less lethal pet painting with broad
strokes because each department will
have its own policy but generally
speaking
most agencies are going to have a pit or
pursuit intervention technique above a
certain speed as lethal force but once
you get it maybe below 55 or 45 they'll
consider the agency and its policy book
will consider it to be
less lethal or some other type of
non-lethal force again it varies a lot
by agency but that's why those stop
sticks are so important and they also
greatly reduce the risk to the officer
because you're doing stuff at a slower
speed