CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 30-year-old South Side woman is charged with nine felonies after a videotaped incident in which she rammed three occupied police vehicles with her SUV while intervening in a South Side traffic stop.
Camera phones were rolling as the incident occurred at 11 a.m. Wednesday at 105th and State.
Shortly after officers stopped a driver at 11 a.m. for what police say was a minor traffic violation, Dawn Moore pulled up in a Jeep SUV. She told officers she knew the man and demanded they let him go, Chicago police spokeswoman Kellie Bartoli said in an email.
Officers told the 30-year-old woman to leave, since she was blocking traffic, while they questioned the man regarding a minor traffic violation in the 10500 block of South State Street, Bartoli said.
Video shot by a nearby resident, shared on Twitter by CWB Chicago, shows the Jeep on the sidewalk driving toward one officer on foot, who runs around a parked car, and then hitting a police SUV from behind.
Video shows an officer falling out the open door of the squad car onto the street.
And the woman isn't done.
She rams two more police vehicles, before police said, she took off.
Moore was later arrested and charged with three felony counts each of aggravated assault of an officer, aggravated battery to an officer, and criminal damage to property.
Three police vehicles were damaged, and three officers were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening, Bartoli said.
