This Florida Trooper Performs One Sick PIT

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We’ve been told by a number of law enforcement officers we’ve known personally that many cops haven’t done a PIT maneuver since they were in the academy. That might be why quite a few municipal and even county agencies almost never let their rank and file do PITs, instead calling in state agencies to do the fun stuff. When you see the work of this Florida Highway Patrol trooper, it’s no wonder.

Watch a PIT maneuver flip a suspect’s car.

When you’ve analyzed as many PITs as we have, you start to get a little jaded. After all, a lot of them are kind of messy, with suspects going flying and sometimes hitting other cars, houses, churches, you name it.

But as you see in this dashcam footage, this trooper not only chases down the suspect in little time, he doesn’t hesitate to perform one of the most impressive PIT maneuvers we’ve ever seen. He actually maintains control not only of his cruiser, something which can be an issue, but also the suspect vehicle. That’s impressive.

First off, you see the trooper pull over a Chevy Trax that was weaving and speeding on State Road 836. For some reason, during the traffic stop the suspect just takes off with the trooper standing right there. Did he really think he’d get away?

If he did he was dead wrong. But the guy does give it the old college try, speeding and weaving through traffic, ironically the same thing which got him pulled over originally. But he’s seriously outgunned by the FHP Dodge Charger, which the trooper uses to chase him down like a wolf running down a lamb.

But instead of tearing the Chevy apart, the trooper does a PIT where he catches the rear quarter panel with his push bar, the crossover rotating so the push bar is on the doors as it slows down, then ending with the push bar on the front wheel/quarter panel. It was as controlled as when we’ve seen cops use the Grappler Bumper.

This trooper needs to start training others on his method.

Image via Scooper/YouTube

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