A 32-year-old man is facing several charges after an allegedly stolen Hummer collided with multiple police cruisers in Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood Thursday night, police say.
Toronto police say the incident happened in the area of Richmond and George streets just after 10 p.m.
Officers tried to conduct a traffic stop on the Hummer and the accused drove the vehicle into several police cars, Const. Laurie McCann said in an email Thursday.
Police allege the Hummer was stolen.
A video obtained by CBC Toronto shows the Hummer being boxed in by two police cruisers on a city street while several officers with guns drawn approach on foot.
Chelsea Bradshaw, who lives on the street where the man was arrested, said she and others in her apartment saw the Hummer speeding down the street with police in pursuit.
“We all run over to the window, and then it’s, like, literally out of the movie, like, cars sprinting down,” Bradshaw said. “Then they’re ramming into the police. It was just insane.”
The man was taken into custody and no one was injured in the incident, police say.
The man now faces eight charges, including theft of a motor vehicle, assaulting a peace officer and failure to comply with a release order, police said in a news release Friday. He was scheduled to appear in court for a bail hearing Friday morning.