Don't Run From the Arkansas State Police

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Say hello to Torkilo Hambrick and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Torkilo probably won’t be back on the streets anytime soon. Torkilo is a career criminal from Memphis who made the mistake of committing serious felonies in Lonoke County, Arkansas — where Donald Trump got 76% of the vote in the last election.

A guy with outstanding warrants decided to run from a traffic stop in Lonoke County, Arkansas. The county line of Lonoke County is about 10 miles east of Little Rock, though Hazen, Arkansas, the town where the chase ended, is about 45 mile drive east of Little Rock.

Torkilo Hambrick, 30, of Memphis was driving a white Dodge Ram pickup truck when he decided that he

1. didn't have to obey the traffic laws in Arkansas, and
2. didn't have to stop for Arkansas State Police (ASP).

He was wrong on both counts.

The Other McCain does a nice job of describing his list of crimes, and offers up some thoughts on what things in Memphis must be like, where "Kamala Harris got 62% of the vote."

You know how they say a career criminal has a record “as long as your arm”? Your arms aren’t long enough for Torkilo Hambrick’s criminal record.

When ASP stopped the truck by way of a Tactical Vehicle Intervention, also known as a precision immobilization technique or PIT, Latarica Walker, 26, and Laterrika Woods, 29, both from Memphis were ejected from the truck. Woods died, and Walker was airlifted to a trauma center. Hambrick and Zuri Jones, 45, were both taken to hospital.

And now Big Boogie’s sister has died because she was riding in a truck full of felonies, driven by a sex offender with tattoos on his face who thought he could outrun the Arkansas State Police.

Who is Big Boogie? Click the link above for his story, including his status as a rapper.

You can find a more dispassionate treatment of the incident at the following link: PRAIRIE COUNTY PURSUIT ENDS WITH ONE FATALITY AND THREE INJURED. It includes a list of the drugs found in the truck.

ASP usually posts their dashcam video to YouTube, but it is a couple of weeks too soon for that, at the very least. The chase took place on March 26th.

This falls under rule 2 of John Farnham's Rules of Stupid:

1. Don't go to stupid places
2. Don't associate with stupid people
3. Don't do stupid things

Getting into a "truck full of felonies" driven by Hambrick was contraindicated. But then in Memphis, I'm sure that the police would have terminated the chase, for safety reasons. ASP doesn't give up, and they will put you in the ditch.