Hot pursuit: Dashcam video fuels Rugby Road chase debate
There has been an arrest in the infamous case of a chase that resulted in a stolen car going around 85mph on Rugby Road and causing over $100,000 in damage by scalping an occupied house. About two months after the August 7 incident, which captured widespread attention after the car's driver somehow disappeared from a seemingly fatal wreck, a 17-year-old city student was arrested in mid-October, according to Charlottesville spokesperson Ric Barrick, who–- in response to a reporter's request–- released a tape of the chase, a 112-second video in which even the police car hits 85mph on the residential road.
The video has touched off a whole new controversy because the chase appears to have violated a policy and, contrary to an initial media report, didn't appear to have been called off. And the pursuing officer, according to the police chief, wasn't even aware that he was chasing a stolen car.
"It was just senseless," says former Charlottesville Deputy Sheriff Steven W. Shifflett. "No car is worth a human life."
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