Number 9 Jodi Ann Harvey Law enforcement in Vero Beach,
Florida, initiated a traffic stop with a vehicle driven by 60-year-old local woman Jodi Ann Harvey,
in December of 2021. A chase ensued, during which Harvey drove through the gate of the Grand Harbor
golf course and onto the green. Officers proceeded to apply a pursuit intervention technique,
commonly abbreviated as PIT, which involves forcing a fleeing car to turn sideways and thus
be brought to a halt. The chase, resulting in Harvey’s SUV and two police cruisers sustaining
damage, was captured on dashcam video. Once the suspect’s vehicle was spun into submission,
Harvey emerged and was immediately ordered to hold her hands up and get down on her knees. The woman
briefly tried to check what appeared to be her cell phone but an officer promptly and forcefully
pushed her head down before restraining her with the help of a partner. Harvey was booked into the
Indian River County Jail, without bail, on charges that included DUI, two felony counts of criminal
mischief and aggravated flee and elude. Number 8 Nehemiah Harden
19-year-old Florida rapper Nehemiah Harden, who performed as SpotemGottem, was approached by the
authorities at the Marine Stadium Basin, in Miami, while he was riding a jet ski. In late June of
2022, Harden had been operating the watercraft recklessly, while in a restricted speed zone,
and performing S-turns close to anchored boats. The rapper refused to yield to the traffic stop,
accelerated his orange-black Seadoo and began swerving through circulating boats while
getting dangerously close to swimmers and docked vessels. An officer tried to get his attention by
using lights and sirens but Harden kept riding away. Additional support from law enforcement
eventually led to the rapper’s arrest, with the resulting report stating that he’d displayed
"a willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others”. His charges included eluding law
enforcement and reckless operation of a boat. Number 7 Lori Lindley
On February the 28th of 2022, Oklahoma police tried to bring in Lori Lindley, who had multiple
outstanding warrants for drug and weapons charges, among others. At around 2:25 pm, Broken Arrow law
enforcement attempted to serve the warrants during a traffic stop on State Highway 51. Lindley,
however, disobeyed the police’s commands, put her car in reverse and then rammed an undercover
officer’s vehicle as she proceeded to drive away. The resulting chase led law enforcement throughout
Tulsa and the Tulsa International Airport, resulting in the fleeing suspect hitting two more
unmarked police cars, which were stopped. Lindley swerved at an officer and narrowly avoided them
as they tried to bring her to a halt with stop sticks. The pursuit ended with the woman crashing
into a parked car, near Memorial and Highway 64, and then being taken into custody. The police
found drugs and cash in her vehicle, which only added further charges to her existing offenses.
Number 6 Alyssa Irwin-Debraux Police officers in Moraine, Ohio,
were in pursuit of a stolen Jeep, on September the 11th of 2018. The woman behind the wheel, later
identified as 19-year-old Alyssa Irwin-Debraux, refused to a stop and led them on a high-speed
chase. Chaos ensued on Ohio 74, as other drivers scrambled to get out of the suspect’s way.
In doing so, one vehicle collided with that of 57-year-old Lebanon Realtor Mary Taulbee. The
strike spun her car into the path of a pursuing police cruiser which violently crashed into it.
The woman was left in critical condition and passed away from her extensive injuries
at a local hospital. Following her eventual arrest and during her consequent trial,
Irwin-Debraux pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, failure to comply with an
order or signal or a police officer and grand theft of a motor vehicle. In February of 2019,
she was sentenced to 11 years on the first charge and to 18 months on each of the other two,
with her sentences to run consecutively. The young woman’s defense appealed the decision,
describing the punishment as “cruel and unusual”, but it ultimately remained unchanged.
Number 5 Yoinis Cruz Peña On May the 27th of 2018, Yoinis Cruz
Peña crashed his 2008 Kawasaki motorcycle into a retaining wall, on the Rickenbacker Causeway,
in Miami, and was sent flying from an overpass. The 29-year-old died but his wife, who’d been
riding on the back of the bike, survived the harrowing crash. She was taken to the intensive
care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center after having suffered fractures
to her femur and pelvis in addition to multiple abrasions. The woman, named as Yailen Gonzalez,
and other motorcyclists riding with Peña on the day claimed that law enforcement had been
chasing the man and cornered him into the wall, thus leading to the fatal crash. A spokesperson
for the Miami Police Department initially claimed to have had no knowledge of the pursuit, blaming
Peña’s high speed for the crash, while the police union blatantly accused the witnesses of lying.
Miami's Civilian Investigative Panel, or CIP, a board of local residents who examine
complaints against law enforcement, found several discrepancies between the official police report
and the circumstances surrounding the accident. They included the fact that local authorities
had been conducting a traffic-enforcement operation in the area and a potentially
damning video, published by Miami New Times on June the 4th of 2018. It showed an officer
seemingly chasing a motorcyclist, who witnesses claim was Peña, at an alleged speed of 100 mph
on the causeway. CIP investigators ultimately claimed that they were unable to authenticate the
clip. Nevertheless, according to the suspicions surrounding the incident was the fact that the
GoPro camera Peña had worn on his helmet had only started recording after the crash. There was also
misrepresentation and erroneous translations of Gonzalez’s statements to the police on the day.
Rumors of a cover-up began to take shape. As of the latest updates, the incident was undergoing a
fourth investigation carried out by the Miami Police Department Professional Compliance Bureau,
reviewing evidence gathered by CIP, the Internal Affairs Unit and the State Attorney’s Office.
Number 4 Frank "Trey" Shephard 18-year-old Andrea Espino was driving towards
the San Jacinto Jr College, in the Greater Houston area of Texas, in April of 2015. Roughly half an
hour earlier, the police had tried to pull over a blue Chrysler 300 driven by 41-year-old Frank
"Trey" Shephard. The vehicle had been engaged in what was deemed as “suspicious activity” that
included two unsafe lane changes. Shephard sped off as law enforcement approached his Chrysler
in the Crosstimbers area of US-59. During a chase that was shown on live television,
Shephard reportedly called 911 claiming he had a child in the car and threatening to harm them
if the police didn’t give up the pursuit. After nearly half an hour, over the course of which
multiple police cruisers lined up behind Shephard, the chase ended at an intersection
in Harris County when he plowed into the car driven by Espino and sent it spinning.
He then crashed into another vehicle, causing a pileup. After finally being brought to a stop,
Shephard got out of the Chrysler as two Houston Police Department officers had their weapons
aimed at him. The man then reached back inside the vehicle at which point law enforcement assumed he
was trying to grab a weapon and opened fire on him, letting off 10 to 12 rounds. Shephard, who
had a criminal record and an outstanding arrest warrant for assault at the time, was killed. No
weapon or child was found in the vehicle. Espino, who didn’t remember the crash or ensuing gunfire,
was taken to a local hospital and later released after being treated for a head injury.
Number 3 Demarcus King In June of 2022, officers from the
Franklin Police Department, in Arkansas, tried to pull over a vehicle for going 80 mph in a 60
mph zone. The driver, 18-year-old Demarcus King, gave the police a fake name and then fled as they
were checking their records. He then led them on a chase from Franklin down Highway 79 to Highway 6
south of Hearne, reaching speeds of up to 120 mph. King was, at the time, a capital murder suspect
in the shooting of 39-year-old Anthony Cousette, which had occurred at Jacksonville’s Johnson Park,
on March the 28th. During the chase, he turned abruptly near a railroad bridge
and crashed into an embankment. As reported by the pursuing officers, King then got out of his car
and shot himself in the head. A medical helicopter airlifted him to St. Joseph Health Hospital in
Bryan, in critical condition, and he later passed away. King’s passenger, a woman from Bryan,
was taken into custody, interrogated and later released without charges.
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Number 2 Los Angeles Motorcycle Crash In January of 2022, a horrific motorcycle crash
in Los Angeles was inadvertently broadcast on live television. The motorcycle had been
reported as stolen and the LAPD approached the rider, 30-year-old Ruben Contreras Jr.,
prompting him to flee. The man was tracked by helicopters as he sped towards Roscoe Boulevard
in West Hills. Contreras was recorded at over 130 mph as he whizzed past other motorists during his
flight from justice, which was aired by a local CBS station. At around 1 pm, while Contreras
was trying to make a left turn, he crashed head-on with a vehicle and was launched high into the air.
The news anchor covering the incident exclaimed “Oh my gosh!” and was shown clasping her hands to
her mouth during the subsequent video transition. Contreras died at the scene from blunt force
trauma while two people in the car that he’d struck were treated for unspecified injuries.
Number 1 Jayland Walker An officer from the New Franklin
police department, in Ohio, attempted to pull over 25-year-old Jayland Walker for a broken taillight
and license plate bulb, at around 2:30 am, on June the 26th of 2022, Walker failed to stop and drove
through the city streets at a reported 50 mph, before crossing into Akron. The following day,
at approximately 12:30 am, Akron law enforcement tried stopping Walker for an unspecified traffic
violation but the man disregarded their orders and a chase commenced. It began on the highway
and then continued through city streets, with pursuing officers later reporting that gunfire
had erupted from the vehicle less than a minute into the chase. While the car was still moving,
Walker, who at the time was reportedly wearing a ski mask, got out through the passenger side and
fled towards a parking lot. Law enforcement chased him on foot, for about ten seconds,
during which they allegedly tried using a Taser on him but it proved ineffective.
The police would subsequently report that the suspect then appeared to turn towards them,
reaching for his waistband and assuming a “firing position”. Eight officers shot an estimated 90
rounds at Walker. When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found him with his hands cuffed behind
his back and having sustained at least 60 wounds. Walker was pronounced dead at the scene but no gun
was found on him and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide.
In the investigation that followed, the police reportedly found a handgun and a loaded magazine
in the driver’s seat of Walker’s car. A bullet casing was recovered from the area in which the
officers had claimed he’d fired at them. All law enforcement members involved in the shooting were
placed on administrative leave pending a probe by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. On July
the 3rd, the bodycam footage from the shooting was released during a press conference but it
only reportedly showed the moment when the police opened fire and not the aftermath. Protests were
held in the days that followed the incident, sparked by accusations of racial injustice.
Akron’s mayor canceled July 4th celebrations and issued a curfew for downtown Akron in response to
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