Tulsa Police on Tuesday released video from an officer's lapel camera showing a Feb. 1 foot chase with a jaywalking suspect that ended in his death in an auto-pedestrian collision.
Police have never publicly named the man, but the newly released video shows that officers stopped him for jaywalking about 2:45 p.m. near 11th Street and Garnett Road.
As the officer checked the man's drivers license in the parking lot of a pizza restaurant, the man said, "Can I be honest?" and confessed to having a marijuana cigarette in his hand. The officer instructed him to put his hands behind his back, but instead, the man took off running.
The officer chased him up an embankment of Interstate 44 and when the officer got to the top, he saw that the man had been struck by a vehicle.
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