An Iowa officer jumped onto the hood of a car after a driver attempted to flee a police stop.
It all started when the driver was pulled over by one police officer. The officer who jumps on the car approached for backup, and that’s when the driver took off.
Video shows the moment the driver began slowly moving his red car as the officer had a gun pointed at him.
Instead of firing, the officer jumped onto the hood of the car and began yelling at the driver to stop the car.
The video shows the driver with his hands up as the officer points a gun at him from the hood of the car, but the driver does not put his foot on the brakes.
Eventually, the driver sped up, causing the officer to hold on for dear life.
Another video showed the officer eventually being thrown off the car after it ran over a ditch.
The officer flown from the car suffered a broken vertebrae in his back.
The driver, Dennis James Guider Jr., later pleaded guilty to serious injury by vehicle and has been sentenced to five years in prison.
The injured officer has since fully recovered and is back on the job.
Officer clings to roof of suspect’s car in new video of a Carroll car chase
A stunning new video from Carroll shows the moment a wanted man sped away from police during a 2021 traffic stop with one officer clinging to the car’s roof.
It started as a fairly normal traffic stop on March 5, 2021. Until Officer Patrick McCarty told Dennis Guider Jr. there was a warrant for his arrest out of Illinois. When Guider started to drive away, McCarty stepped in front of the car.
“Stop the car, man. Stop the car,” McCarty yelled at Guider, kneeling on the hood of the car with his gun drawn.
Other squad cars went after Guider while McCarty hung on to the roof. The chase only lasted for about a minute as Guider turned into a gravel lot and drove through a ditch where McCarty lost his grip, fell to the ground, and broke his back.
Guider pleaded guilty in March 2023, two years after the initial chase.
During sentencing, Guider’s attorney asked the judge for leniency, arguing McCarty was never trained to step in front of a moving car.
KCCI reached out to Carroll police today for a comment, but they did not respond.
Guider was sentenced on May 11 to up to five years in prison, which will be served separately from his sentence in Illinois.
