Dashcam Video Shows Arrest of UTC Basketball Player After Arkansas Police Pursuit
Dash camera video from a police pursuit in Blytheville, Arkansas, is drawing attention after a passenger identified as a former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball player posted footage of his arrest on Facebook. The video, published by Northeast Arkansas’s website, shows Blytheville police chasing an Infiniti on the night of Aug. The site quoted an arrest report stating police clocked the vehicle at 82 mph. After emergency lights were activated, the driver accelerated, with the video indicating the speed increased from 113 mph to 130 mph. One of the passengers in the SUV is listed on the Chattanooga Mocs basketball page as Tedrick Washington Jr., who played in 31 games for the Mocs last season.
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According to Northeast Arkansas, one trooper wrote that Washington said he could not get out of the car, but also did not follow repeated commands to crawl through the opening. Authorities caught up to the SUV minutes later and arrested the driver.