- Dash cam footage has emerged showing the shocking moment a police car runs over a suspect after the officer forgot to use the parking brake
- A 20 minute car chase involving infamous thief Majestic Howard ended when three suspects got out of a stolen truck
- A police car rolled over a female suspect and pinned her underneath the vehicle
- Police say the woman was not seriously hurt and it was handled internally
Shocking dash cam footage has emerged of a police cruiser rolling over a female suspect after I high-speed car chase in Albuquerque when a cop forgot to brake.
A 20 minute car chase ended in June last year when three people in a stolen truck made their way out.
The video shows the driver, notorious New Mexico car thief Majestic Howard, going over a median to try and evade police.
He later drove the truck in the wrong lane and weaved dangerously.
Police sent Howard’s passenger to the hospital. She was not seriously injured nor was she charged with any crime.
Dash cam footage shows police engaged in a 20 minute car chase
The video shows a police cruiser slowly rolling toward a woman and an officer while he was handcuffing her
Dash cam video shows a State Police officer take a passenger down as another officer’s car rolls toward them.
An officer jumped out of his patrol car without putting it in park, State Police Chief Pete Kassetas told KRQUE News.
A police officer tells the woman: ‘Get on the f*****g ground’ and then begins to handcuff her.
The officer dove out of the way, but the car rolled over the woman and pinned her underneath
Dash cam footage from the rolling cruiser was also released
The video then shows another vehicle slowly rolling toward the woman and the officer.
The cop sees the car coming and dives out of the way. The cruiser then rolls over the woman and pins her underneath it.
State police reviewed the incident and ‘handled it internally.’ Charges against Howard were dropped in this case because he was found incompetent to stand trial.
This is not the first time Howard has been involved in dangerous car thefts. He has previously been involved in a stolen truck chase which ended in a crash.
In 2015, Howard was shot in the head by a man who spot him breaking into his car, according to a criminal complaint.
He was hospitalized for 10 days, and then a month later attempted to break into a bait car left by police.
NEW MEXICO THIEF MAJESTIC HOWARD’S INFAMOUS HISTORY
Majestic Howard has been arrested for DWI, drug trafficking, burglary and auto thefts.
He is a convicted felon and has repeatedly been arrested while in possession of a firearm.
Howard was shot in the head in 2015 while trying to steal a car. A month later he was arrested for trying to steal another car.
In 2016 he led police on a 20 minute high speed chase in a stolen truck.
Howard is now suing the City of Albuquerque and its police officers claiming the police used unreasonable force against him and failed to discipline its officers.
Majestic Howard (pictured) was the driver of the stolen car. The photograph on the right was taken before he was shot in the head