Body camera footage of an Oklahoma police officer doing everything in his power to arrest a suspect, including breaking through a fence, has been released and is causing a stir.
Last month, a 20-year-old suspect led officers on a wild chase.
Police dashcam footage shows officers pursuing a silver sedan speeding down the road, at one point nearly colliding with a white pickup truck at an intersection.
Police body camera footage shows the suspect abandoning his vehicle after the crash and jumping over a fence in a residential neighborhood.
Body camera footage shows an officer climbing to the top of a fence to fire a Taser at the fleeing man, but the suspect continues to flee.
A second officer from the Moore Police Department sneaks in through a hole in the dilapidated fence.
A third officer, Sergeant Justin Sternberg, is seen sprinting to the scene of the crime, buckling down and crashing through a fence. Despite crashing through the fence, the officer doesn’t waver for a second as he pursues the suspect.
Police body camera footage shows two officers climbing over another fence.
Officer Sternberg then jumped two more fences.
The shocking video shows Sternberg climbing onto a fence and making a flying tackle on the suspect, after a confrontation that ended with both Sternberg and the suspect being shot with a Taser.
The suspect was subsequently arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft, and police said they found a firearm and baggies of marijuana in the stolen vehicle.
Sternberg said: KOCO TV“I could either run through the fence or climb over it, but climbing over it would have taken longer, so I thought to myself, ‘Just run through it.’ I had to jump from one fence to another to get him under control, and as soon as I jumped over the fence, I got Tasered. So we were both Tasered at the same time.”
As for the now-broken fence that Sternberg ran through, the Moore Police Department Said“The family will continue to work with us and the city to make repairs.”
“We’ve attempted to speak with the homeowners, and as of last I checked, I don’t know if they’ve had direct contact with them yet, but they’re more than welcome to come into the police station and tell us what happened, and if they’re unable to do so themselves, we can put them in contact with the city,” said Clint Baillie with the Moore Police Department.
Sternberg offered to help the family repair a broken fence.
“We’re sorry. If we need to come out and fix it, we will. We can help you,” Sternberg said.
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