Two Florida Cops Meet, One Immediately PITs The Other

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There’s nothing cops love more than PIT maneuvers against seemingly every vehicle that appears in their windshield (except, maybe, killing dogs or beating their spouses). But Florida, as always, has to up the ante: Down there, the cops don’t just PIT civilians. Now, they’re starting to PIT each other.

Dashcam footage out of Fort Lauderdale, shared to Instagram, shows a chase where seemingly no one is in the right. The footage is from the perspective of a cruiser with its lights and siren on, chasing down a Kia Stinger that’s speeding through the night. After clearing an intersection, the cruiser PITs the Stinger, which does a full 180 on the road. After the spin, the Stinger flips on its own lights, revealing itself to have been an unmarked cop car the whole time.

The cop filming claims to have not seen the PITted Stinger’s lights, but rewatching the footage makes it clear that there were no lights to see — the unmarked car was simply darting along the back roads without any indication as to why, or whether it had any legal permission to be doing so.

We’re all accustomed to identifying cop cars in the night, but unmarked vehicles throw a wrench in the whole process — particularly something like the Stinger, which isn’t the type of Big Three sedan typically purchased for police fleets. Most of us likely wouldn’t have identified the car as undercover, making the pursing officer’s confusion understandable — if not their decision to PIT the Kia.

Unmarked cruisers shouldn’t be whipping around without their lights on, if at all. Cops also shouldn’t be throwing out PIT maneuvers like candy from a Thanksgiving parade. No one involved with this dashcam footage is in the right, except perhaps the person who posted it for us all to see.

h/t CarScoops