welcome back to the civil rights lawyer Channel sometimes interesting issues
arise when police officers put themselves in places they really shouldn't be this
is such one case this comes to us from Carroll Iowa this police officer decided
to take a ride on the hood of a guy's car let's take a look at the footage [Music]
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the guy being stopped here his name is Dennis guider Jr he's age 27 of Chicago Heights
Illinois he was found by police at the Taco Bell drive-thru and he was stopped shortly thereafter
he was wanted in Illinois for violating his parole for burglary and fraud he had been sentenced up
to six years in prison and was paroled in July of 2019. so this traffic stop was occurring in March
of 2021. a woman had been driving his car when it was stopped that afternoon and guider refused to
get out and one of the officers involved in that stop confronted Dennis and you'll see what happens
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guys hey Dennis hey um hate to be the one to tell you this but it sounds like you got a warranty
okay you got your ID on it I'm sorry okay do you have anything
on you why don't you step out of the car until we can identify you
I'll note here just briefly that at a valid traffic stop police officers can order
the driver out of the car and can order any occupants out of the car the main US Supreme
Court decision on that is Pennsylvania versus mems it's very well settled law
you got anything on you any weapons or anything like that
what's up awesome okay go ahead and step out
hello let me step out man
yeah what's up
now I've never been to Police Academy but if I were a cop and if I were the cop in this
situation I probably would have gotten him out of the car first before telling him that
he had a warrant out of Illinois hey Dennis hey um hate to be the one to tell you this
but it sounds like you got a warrant out of Illinois but as you can see now he's in the
situation that he's told him about this warrant so he knows he's going to get arrested he knows
he's going to go to jail and face whatever's waiting for him back in Illinois so now he's
still in the car and he's not wanting to get out of the car the situation has escalated
oh
it's not the car man stop the car stop the car
stop the [ __ ] car stop the [ __ ] car now again I have not been in the police academy but I think
some poor choices have been made here this police officer is standing directly in front of this car
that is running and has somebody at the wheel and the occupants don't want to get out of the
car and there's a warrant in Illinois what's going to happen if they just run you over you
know I have kids if you have kids you've probably taken them through parking lots before in places
like Kroger or Walmart where you have absolutely insane people behind the wheel and it's always
running through the back your mind like they could run you over run your kid over at any time so if
you have somebody who is a known felon who is not wanting to get out of the car because he's
going to go to jail why are you getting in front of the vehicle so this is definitely a training
issue and what it's doing is either in endangering what's supposed to be the all-important thing of
Officer safety or it's setting up a situation where now you have a deadly force situation
because if the person hits the gas pedal now they treat the vehicle as a deadly weapon and you'll
you can watch video after video of the cops just shooting people through their windshield now was
that choice made intentionally here I don't think so based on what happens next stop the [ __ ] car
did break put on the [ __ ] brakes put on the plate stop the [ __ ] car stop the [ __ ] car man
Jesus
so it was probably at about this time that this police officer Patrick McCarty
realized that he had made a mistake he ended up being on the car for about a
third of a mile as this car sped around at estimated speeds of up to 60 miles per hour
of course there's a train up there I mean of course there is
foreign as you can see there officer McCarty was ultimately thrown from the
vehicle where he apparently broke his back and he was injured pretty
severely so now this guy Dennis who was on Parole and facing parole violations
for his six-year sentence in Illinois now has been sentenced to another five years
in prison as of this week which is why this video is coming out today so Dennis
guider now age 29 of Illinois is going to be imprisoned for quite a long time [Music]
I have officer McCarty down [Music]
I'm okay man go get him I'm all right sure you good go get it maybe this will make its way into
some Police Academy training sessions like don't jump on the hood of a car and if you're going to
jump in front of a car or jump on the hood of a car perhaps you want to be ready to use
deadly force and clearly this guy put himself in that position in the position to use deadly
force but then change his mind and decided he'd rather just go on a ride up to 60 miles an hour
like Grand Theft Auto style it did occur to me like all right so you're in that position now
what do you do well maybe if he wasn't willing to shoot the guy perhaps he could have just unloaded
his magazine into the engine compartment of the vehicle just like it worked in Blackhawk
Down right anyways just some crazy footage that I thought you would enjoy along with
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