An unnamed Miami cop pulled an absolutely kick ass move in the Bayfront Park area on Sunday when he clung to the hood of a moving BMW whose driver had tried to run him over, pulled out his service pistol, and proceeded to blast the son of a bitch through the windshield, NBC6 reports.
Supect Menelek Clarke, 21, is facing charges including aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, leaving the scene of a crash with no serious bodily injury, fleeing or eluding a police officer, and resisting an officer with violence, jail records showed. Clarke was arraigned via videoconference from his hospital bed on Thursday. An arrest report says the officer had been directing traffic outside of a concert when Carke’s car made contact with him. “The defendant began slowly driving towards officer [name redacted] who can be seen on body-worn camera using a whistle and raising his hand with his palm facing outward, signaling the defendant to stop,” the report said.
Clarke then kept driving, causing the cop “to bend forward and place both hands on the hood of the vehicle to maintain his balance,” after which Clarke hit the gas, sending the cop onto the hood of the moving vehicle. The cop then fired several shots through the windshield, striking Clarke in the torso.
Sherylann Clarke, who was in the car, claims the cop started the confrontation with her brother. “He was trying to move and the officer went in front of his car again and he’s moving with his car as he’s moving trying to get out of his way so obviously they came into contact because he’s hovering over my brother’s car, touching his car. Then he pulls out his gun to shoot him,” she told NBC6. The entire incident was caught on bodycam, so a jury will eventually decide who started the little tiff.