Laurel police say they stopped a lady as she purposely drove on a closed street via crowds of individuals preparing for the beginning of the Foremost Road Competition.
Officers advised News4 no pageant goers have been damage. An officer had minor accidents however is anticipated to be okay.
Police say The girl, 28-year-old Kai DeBerry-Bostick, was warned a number of occasions to not drive via closed roads, however she ignored their instructions, police stated.
Her automobile was parked throughout the perimeter of the pageant and he or she insisted she needed to get out to go to work.
Officers launched physique worn digital camera video exhibiting the officer’s interplay with the lady earlier than she pulled down the yellow tape and took off.
An officer could possibly be heard providing to name her a taxi earlier than she began driving. As she drove, an officer could possibly be heard repeatedly shouting, “Cease” and “Get out of the automobile.”
One other video shot by a vendor on the pageant confirmed how the incident ended: police pulled DeBerry-Bostick out of her automobile and main her away in handcuffs
“I simply did not know the place this was coming from,” stated Richard Pal, who shot the video of her arrest. “A weird technique to begin our morning for positive.”
It occurred close to his Laurel Historical past Boys sales space on the pageant.
“Listening to the commotion of individuals yelling “cease,” listening to her blow the horn, you instantly go to the worst case state of affairs, you’re pondering somebody is gonna drive via the group,” Pal stated. “However she was driving very slowly. We even thought, so not a type of, however did not know what was occurring.”
Two weeks in the past, Montgomery County police stopped a lady who allegedly tried to drive via a 10K race route.
Pal stated he did not really feel DeBerry-Bostick was attempting to harm anybody.
“we’re with the Laurel Historical past Boys, so we’re all about historical past. That is the primary time in 44 years of the Foremost Road Competition that we’ve had an incident like that,” Pal stated.
Police say DeBerry-Bostick is going through a number of costs together with assault resisting arrest and reckless endangerment.
