From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Detectives are investigating, and two deputies are recovering after being injured during a traffic stop and pursuit.
At approximately 2:27 p.m., deputies assigned to the Crime Suppression Unit of Harford County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on I-95 near the Rt. 24 underpass. During the traffic stop, the driver, and sole occupant of the vehicle, began to pull away from the deputy who had approached the passenger side of the vehicle, dragging the deputy as the driver fled the traffic stop. The deputy, identified as DFC Austin Gentry, returned to his vehicle, after suffering minor injuries and began pursuit of the suspect vehicle. DFC Gentry is assigned to the Crime Suppression Unit and has been a member of the HCSO since June 2012. He was transported to University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Hospital where he was treated and released with minor injuries.
The suspect continued onto Rt. 152 before turning right onto Old Joppa Road. At this time, additional deputies, with assistance from the Maryland State Police, responded to assist. Tire spike strips were deployed at the intersection of Whitaker Mill Road and Old Joppa Road. The driver failed to stop at the intersection, striking Sr. Deputy J. Nate Gerres, and other vehicles in the intersection. Sr. Deputy Gerres, is assigned to the Warrant Apprehension Unit and has been a member of the Agency since July 2004. Sr. Deputy Gerres was airlifted to the University of Maryland R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, for non-life threatening injures to his lower leg. No other officers or civilians were injured.
The adult male suspect, who is not being identified at this time, was taken into custody after a brief foot pursuit.
The investigation was assumed by detectives from the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division along with a personal injury lawyer hired by the two deputies. Investigators from the Forensic Services Unit and Traffic Unit responded to the area to collect and preserve physical evidence in support of the investigation. Charges are pending against the suspect.
They really need to get Eddie Keplin back on the job….his fat ass would have chased that perp down in seconds…..
You are such an ass.
Do me a favor. Why don’t you wear the uniform? Maybe, because your fat as_ is sitting on the couch. You POS.
Only a white guy could do all that and still live.
I think you are speaking out of ignorance and obviously have never worn a badge. I know you are trying to be trendy but you are only contributing to racial divide. Were those cops in Minneapolis wrong? Absolutely! Does the officer kneeling on the man’s neck need to go to jail? Absolutely! The problem is you are painting with a very broad brush in your assessment of our police officers. Please let me explain. I took my grandkids to Ocean City this past weekend. For family safety reasons I took them to the boardwalk around lunch time. Guess what I witnessed? A group of 7 or 8 young black men were observed walking up to a young white man and his girlfriend. For no apparent reason they began making racially offensive statements about the couple. They then began an unprovoked assault on the white man knocking the man to the ground. The police arrived and these young black men began taunting them claiming they were being harassed due to their color. The police exercised incredible restraint. Finally the group left laughing and making racially divisive chants. (Unfortunately this type of behavior and these types of allegations are what police officers have to deal with all too frequently but rarely if ever are reported.) The victim of the assault did not wish to pursue the incident fearing further retaliation. With all of that being said I have a few questions for “laughing my mask off”
1) with all of the BLM outcry how could black people of this mindset possibly think that behavior of this type in anyway reinforces their claims of being innocent victim or in any way legitimizes their cause?
2) based on the behavior I just described should I or any other person lump all black people in to this criminal thug group the way you attempted to generalize about all police officers? I would be very interested in your responses. There is a very old but ver applicable saying for people the likes of “laughing my mask off” …If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. This country has enough problems please stop stirring the pot.
He IS speaking out of total ignorance and it shows. If anybody thinks that the guy in Georgia who shot off a taser in the one officer’s face and then shot off the the other round officer while running away was a racial incident then they are lying to themselves. If ANYONE did that then they would get blown away. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white or indifferent, male or female, you would get blown away for doing that and would be justified. I don’t think the George Floyd incident was racial either. I may have had some questions at first, but it is obvious those two knew each other and from what I understand they had a history of disagreement. The BLM movement has been conned and used by the Democratic Traitors Against America in order to spread chaos for political purposes. If it is ever proven that any elected official in Congress or the Senate was in on this, I would be onboard for a life sentence with no parole. The rioting, the looting and the burning down of businesses does nothing for their cause, but does make them look like a Domestic Terrorist Organization. ALL LIVES MATTER, not just Black ones….
Amen Brother
The problem is exactly what I just said, oh it was 7 black men harassing two white people, by u saying that is one of the problems. And as far as the blm movement , if u paid close attention officer u would have been able to see that there are all races involved not just black people it’s everybody against the police at this point.