This video will raise your heartbeat, for sure.
A pair of heroic police officers put their own lives on the line to save others by purposely crashing into a rogue “wrong way” driver who came at them head-on at 80-MPH.
The two heroes are officers from Wyoming, Michigan.
They got a call about the rogue driver at 2 a.m. and quickly made their way to the scene.
The driver had already nearly hit one police officer, so the two officers Chris DeBoer and Rob Meredith knew this person was a danger to himself and others and a traditional “roadblock” wasn’t going to stop the car…so they decided to stop the car themselves, by purposely crashing into the car…and it was all captured on their dashcam.
DeBoer, the driver of the squad car, positioned it in the center lane facing the wrong-way driver. The cops activated their light bar and shone a powerful spotlight toward the oncoming car.
The driver didn’t seem to notice, and if he did, he didn’t seem to care he was speeding directly toward a parked cop car.
“You just see the headlights coming,” Meredith said.
“And they were coming fast, you know, 80 mph, it’s on you fast.”
At the last second, DeBoer angled the cruiser slightly, turning the potentially fatal collision into a powerful glancing
You can watch the video below:
The driver turned out to b a 62-year-old man who was taken into custody.
This was his third drunk driving offense, and he pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 months to five years in prison. He had just been released on parole about 7-months ago.
The two police officers just had minor wounds from the crash.
An amazing act of selfless bravery.
Can you believe that Democrat politicians and communists want to defund these people?
I’d like to see a “Defund the Police” Democrat do something like this for their citizens…would never happen.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on August 9, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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