up hands up stay stay stay right there open the door open the door open door on Thursday February 6th 2025 at approximately 5:11 p.m. New Orleans police officers spotted a stolen white Kia Optima that had been reported missing earlier that day as officers moved in exiting their vehicles and approaching the car on foot they issued clear verbal commands for the occupants to step out however rather than surrendering the driver made a desperate attempt to escape slamming the vehicle into other cars as they recklessly maneuvered off the bridge by jumping the curb in the chaos the suspect nearly Struck One officer before coll iding with another sending the scene into immediate danger with the stolen vehicle posing a direct threat to life three officers open fire as the Optima speda away this video begins with intense body cam footage from one of the responding officers capturing the heart pounding moments as the situation unfolds stay tuned for the full breakdown and remember to leave your thoughts in the comments below moving hands up stay stay stay right there open the door open the door open the door [Applause] door this is footage from the New Orleans realtime crime Center which is a centralized Hub operated by the city's office of Homeland Security and emergency preparedness established in 2017 as part of a $40 million Public Safety initiative the rtcc leverages advanced technology to monitor various locations across the city providing critical intelligence to First Responders in real time the center accesses hundreds of CCTV feeds and integrates data streams to enhance situational awareness thereby improving the efficiency and safety of mergency responses unfortunately there is no audio in this portion of the footage but that will resume with the officer's body cam here in a minute as you can see the suspect's vehicle Rams through stop traffic it forces cars out of the way and nearly runs down two police officers in the process see the blue car start moving up got eyes on a blue bar focus on that they'll jump they'll jump be aware get on both sides all right I'm watching the uh blue watch that white key your left right there in the middle blue make way up to the see what's going on get somebody over here St stay St moving don't get in front of that car hands up hands up put your hands up the bridge hands up open the door all right right on right on car this incident began when police responded to an armed robbery in the 1300 block of France Road officers spotted the white Kia as it was stuck in traffic on the Clayborn Bridge the Kia attempted to flee striking an NPD officer in the process the officer sustained minor injuries as the Kia sped away it collided with multiple vehicles on the bridge in an effort to evade capture in response three NPD officers Sergeant Lewis fa a 25-year veteran officer Marcus Caldwell a six-year member and Officer Shawn Booth a 2-year member fired a total of 11 rounds shattering the car's back window the driver jquan Dominic was later arrested in charge with two counts of attempted murder the involved officers have since returned to full duty if you like this video please remember to subscribe to our Channel and please hit the like button your support helps us more than you know please leave your thoughts in the comments below thank you and see you at the next video