Watching Florida Highway Patrol troopers stop fleeing street takeover dorks in brutal fashion is admittedly entertaining. After all, the takeover or sideshow crowd is annoying and dangerous, plus they give car enthusiasts a bad reputation.
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Dashcam footage from FHP shows them teaming up with local police in Orange County to bust up a takeover that’s in progress. As soon as the kids doing smokey donuts and recording the antics realize police are coming to get them, they scatter.
You see the line of cars going the opposite direction as dozens and dozens of carloads of kids try getting away. Normally, police are able to bust a car or two, but these troopers take off the gloves and help take down more than that.
Our camera car crosses over at a median break and goes wrong way with the fleeing suspects. His colleagues follow and while a few more squeeze past, they’re able to blockade the road, trapping quite a few people who were fleeing.
But two drivers decide to ram the FHP cruisers. They weren’t able to escape and were arrested. Instead of just facing charges related to the takeover and fleeing law enforcement, they’re also getting aggravated assault charges.
These kids need to learn and apparently the won’t listen unless they have to learn the hard way.
In Florida as well as many other states, street takeover events have become a real problem law enforcement has to address. Last year, a new law in Florida has allowed police and prosecutors to crack down on the illegal gatherings more than ever before.
What this means is the people you see get busted in this video are facing some serious consequences, not just a slap on the wrist. That might have factored into their being so desperate to get away, although we’ve seen that type of behavior in California where takeover participants often get a slap on the wrist, if that.
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