The reporters covering the police chase that just ended kept using the word "wild" to describe it…and that it was. Somehow — and there'll be investigations about this for sure — someone stole a police car out in Covina and led other police cars on a merry, high-speed chase for about an hour. There don't appear to have been any accidents to other motorists but a lot of drivers and pedestrians had to be wondering who they were chasing.
And there will sure be an inquiry into how it ended. The suspect pulled into an alley in Glendale. It looked like a dead-end but just in case it wasn't, a pursuing police vehicle did a P.I.T. manuever to stop the car from the fleeing. The suspect then put it into reverse and looked to be heading backwards out another route. That was when a police car rammed the driver's side, disabling the vehicle. It would appear the collision also killed the suspect. (The reporters have avoided saying that but they noted that no one was taken from the car, no ambulance has arrived and no one is trying to get the driver out of the vehicle.) Folks who were monitoring police scanners are posting that they heard shots were fired prior to the ramming.
If you're like me — and if you aren't, be grateful every day of your life — you wonder what, if anything, is going through the mind of a driver like that. Did he really think he was going to get away unharmed? Did he think it was fun? A moment of power and attention? More likely, he wasn't thinking at all…but we rarely hear anything more about these drivers. I can't help but be curious.