MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — Newly released footage shows the moment police ended a chase and pulled a young child from a fleeing car in Mesa last Sunday night.
The chase began just after 10 p.m. when officers responded to Ellsworth and Ray roads for a witness reporting seeing a man assault a woman in the roadway and take her cellphone, according to the Mesa Police Department.
The witness told officers the man, later identified as Denzel Franklin, assaulted another man who tried to intervene before speeding off with a 6-year-old child inside his car…