Rookie lesson # 57

Rookie lesson # 57
I learned another rookie lesson tonight. Turns out the P on the dash stands for park.
I was sitting along a major road trying to find a car to stop while about three blocks away two officers foot patrolled near a local homeless shelter. Suddenly I heard one of the officers yelling 10-80 (a chase). I knew roughly where they were so I threw the car into drive hit the blue lights and took off. I flew down the road trying to figure out where they were. I looked up and saw one of the officers running across the road ahead of me. I then heard them yelling “office depot.” So I took a left and spotted an officer chasing a white male running across the parking lot. I flew up beside the man at which time he stopped running. I then slammed on the brakes screeching to a halt. (side note: watching the video later it was pretty awesome gunning the engine with a loud roar then screeching to a halt.)
I jumped out yelling for him to get on the ground. He was standing looking back at the other officer as we yelled for him to get on the ground. I then used all of my ultimate Popo skills and grabbed the guy and slammed him to the ground. After I got his arms behind his back me and the other officer got him cuffed and into custody.
Did I leave something out you may be asking yourself? Well I may have over looked one little detail.
As I finished cuffing the guy another officer walked up and said you left your car running and I was like what? Thinking why does that matter. Then he said “your car, you left it rolling” I looked back and saw one of the original officers from the foot chase walking back from my car which was about 50 feet from where I left it and all of about 3 feet from a rather large brick column on the front of office depot. Needless to say I suddenly got a little weak in the knee. I went from “man did you see me lay that guy out to man, thank you so much for saving my butt.
About the time we have everything under control my sergeant arrived and the officer who had first informed me of my runaway car proceeded to play his video for the sarge. In it you can clearly see me on the ground tussling with the bad guy then hear him say on the radio “someone stop the rolling car” and then the other officer sprints past me to catch my car that still has all of the blue lights going while steadily approaching the very ugly brick wall. It was defiantly a close call.
Ohh I knew I was going to hear all about this but I didn’t realize how quickly. One officer was kind enough to get on the radio and say Dispatch we will be in service ohh and update the dispatch screen to shown that Gumpcop’s car didn’t hit the building. I had to stop the car cause I couldn’t drive because I was laughing so hard.