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Photos from WDIV video.
Lasses in glasses can kick asses.
A bespectacled, pony-tailed Hamtramck police officer proves the validity of that rhyme with a swift tackle of a suspect Tuesday morning.
A chase through Detroit and a Hamtramck housing project, televised live by WDIV (video below) and WXYZ, ends with a fleeing female driver running from her van and trying to climb a chain-link fence. Officer Nikole Jabour promptly brings down the struggling suspect with a running pounce that sends them both to the pavement.
Officer Nikole Jabour has reason to smile.
"It was an NFL-worthy takedown," says reporter Steve Garagiola on WDIV's noon newscast.
The fleet-footed officer is identfied on Facebook by Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski.
"We don't know who the [arrested] woman is or why she fled police," adds Garagiola. Cmdr. Timothy Leach of Detroit's 11th Precinct tells Garigola: "She actually was delusional."
The drama began when Detroit police received a call and heard a child screaming in the background. When officers went to the scene near Gable Street and Stockton Avenue around 10 a.m., a blue Ford Transit Connect compact van with Florida license plates sped off and went north on Mt. Elliott.
Officer Jabour as the adrenaline flow starts to ease.
A check showed outstanding felony warrants for the van owner, according to police scanner transmissions tweeted by the Motor City 911 social media feed.
Three Detroit Police cars followed the suspect north to 7 Mile, then west to I-75 and south toward Hamtramck on the freeway. Speeds reached 55 mph, officers said.
A Detroit Police helicopter was overhead, and state troopers also monitored the chase. Hamtramck officers joined it in their city.
The driver crossed lawns and went the wrong way on one-way streets while trying to escape.
When patrol cars surrounded the suspect's vehicle near the I-75 service drive and Caniff., she ran toward a fence and was spectacularly tackled by Jabour, who lives in Dearborn.
Although officers initially feared a possible kidnapping, no child was in the vehicle.
The scanner monitor, a retired law enforcer, tweets:
Well done @Detroitpolice, and Hamtramck PD....well done.
— Motor City 911 (@DetroitScanner) April 4, 2017
An admirer of the perfectly executed tackle posts:
Female cops rock! Haha #BestTackleEver #Detroit # Police #Hero https://t.co/8sPZTNSheS
— Jennifer (@TomsMom1997) April 4, 2017
This nine-minute chase video is from WDIV:
