Newly released dash camera video shows the moment a man rammed his SUV into a Dayton police cruiser before driving off from a gas station and starting a police chase.
This happened on Jan. 30 when Dayton officers tried to take Scott Jarrett, 39, into custody on an active warrant. While Jarrett was pulled up to a gas pump on E. Third Street, several officers pulled up to both the front and back of Jarrett’s SUV and turned their emergency lights on.
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Dash camera video shows Jarrett put his SUV in reverse and back into one of the cruisers behind him. He pulls forward slightly as officers throw stop sticks under his SUV, but then he reveres into the cruiser again.
After hitting the cruiser a second time, another Dayton officer rams his cruiser into the driver’s side of the SUV. As officers surround the sides of the SUV with their weapons drawn, Jarrett puts the SUV in drive and takes off between two gas pumps.