we've got a trooper on the ground and
that is never a good sign let's take a
look at how we got here and break this
one down it all starts with a pedestrian
on the freeway illegal in most States
including Minnesota normally it's a very
easy call for police you just give them
a courtesy ride to the nearest service
station or to a place that's safe but as
you know this this call is going to be
far from easy and the first hint of
something weird about this is The
Pedestrian is actually walking away from
the nearest gas station the gas station
or service station is actually behind
him within seven to ten minutes or so
our first Trooper arrives on scene to
help The Pedestrian get to a safer
location our pedestrian now looking cool
as a cucumber takes one final Swig of
his drink he's been walking for over a
mile by now
and reading the body language it seems
The Pedestrian wants to keep walking
down the freeway and seems like the
individual in question starts walking
away from the trooper and he's coming up
to a big interchange here so the trooper
to protect everyone's safety is going to
step between him and that interchange
that's coming up because there's a a big
on-ramp between i-694 and i-35w in the
North Metro so he's going to stop him
from just walking in to traffic or
crossing the freeway on ramp here and
any parent or school teacher knows this
expression as you could see him pointing
and saying why can't I why can't you
just let me do what I want and he's
going to give a little shrug here the
kind of you're not in charge of me I'm
going to do what I want and you hear the
the officer is telling him no and you
can see he moves back like what you're
going to tell me no and this is where we
kind of get to adult coping skills uh
you wanna you wanna as an adult develop
the skills to handle reduction to handle
someone telling you no you can't do what
you want anyway here's the moment you
can see the trooper there reaching for
His Radio asking for a second unit
we get a little obstructed by the sign
but thankfully we have another angle our
individual is going to try to walk away
again and get the same answer and this
is where things go Hands-On it looks
like he reaches out at the trooper and
this is the point where the trooper has
just had decided he's had enough and
he's going to be Eastern 694 at w we've
got the exclusive dispatch audio we'll
let that play out measure helping out 14
he's going with one one can be pushed up
against us Troopers done on the ground
wrestling 433 traffic special thanks to
the dispatcher who was very aware of the
situation and on the radio and
manipulating the cameras at the same
time now I want to be fair to the
suspect in this case at no point does he
strike the officer and I want to be
explicit about this he's also not
accused of striking the officer so this
looks more like a matter of a bear hug
as opposed to a street fight as a rule
of thumb we actually don't publish
street fights that's the policy that we
have here now you saw the Tracer out we
did confirm the taser was never deployed
the individual gave up and was taken
into custody without injury thankfully
without anyone being injured and no
taser deployed in this instance but
importantly you don't have to take my
word for it or the polices word for it
because we actually have a third angle
on this incident and take a look it
provides a third angle and the benefit
of some of these DOT cameras in
Minnesota of which there's about 1 100
of them is they do provide a good sense
for transparency in government and to
allow citizens to see what's really
happening out there so credit to the
Minnesota Department of Transportation
for providing this network for the
citizens of Minnesota again you can see
it's really more of a scuffle the
officer thinks about tasing the suspect
but he gives up and we were able to
confirm again no taser deployment and if
you look at the ground actually when a
taser goes off it bursts a bunch of
confetti you can actually see on the
ground thanks to the the definition of
these cameras there's no confetti out
and so that's a way that we can
independently confirm no taser deployed
in this situation the suspect was
arrested on charges of obstruction
failed to obey a lawful order possession
of drug paraphernalia and pedestrians
prohibited on the highway next time just
let them give you a ride off the freeway
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