Dramatic police dashcam footage has emerged showing the moment a suspected shoplifter tried to flee from police – despite officers being halfway inside her vehicle.
Newly released video shows Laquandra D. Borden, 25, from Sumter, South Carolina, dragging two officers along as she smashes into a police vehicle before being shot in the shoulder in November last year.
Borden then leads police on a chase the wrong way up a street before she is finally stopped, with dozens of armed officers dragging her from her car and throwing her on the ground.
Borden was charged with first degree assault and battery, aggravated assault, shoplifting and criminal conspiracy alongside Chasity Stokes, 36, who was charged with shoplifting, WMBF reported.
Police were called to the Walmart store at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at around 10.30am, on November 10, to reports that two women had walked out of the store with more than $2,000 of goods including razors, broadband routers and a sewing machine.
The women are accused of placing them in a plastic bucket inside their shopping cart before walking out of the garden entrance of the store – before attempting to sell the goods at a nearby pawn shop.
Police eventually caught up with the women and took them over to their cruiser for questioning, which appears at the start of the film.
As Stokes leans on the hood of the police car, Borden can be seen walking back to her vehicle, a black Jeep, before climbing inside as an officer stands in the open doorway.
Once inside the vehicle, Borden suddenly accelerates forward and smashes into the police car despite officers yelling at her to stop.
She then reverses backwards at speed while two cops hang on to her open car door, at which point one of them can be heard firing a weapon, which hit her in the shoulder.
Despite her injuries, Borden sped away again, this time avoiding the police car, before heading out on to the road.
Footage shows officers pursuing her vehicle as one policeman tries to hit her car with a stinger, though she appears to avoid it before heading the wrong way up the street.
Eventually, as cop car close in on her from both directions, Borden stops the vehicle before dozens of officers run over with their weapons drawn, as one officer speaking over radio seems to suggest she also has a gun.
Despite being surrounded by police, Borden still refuses to open the door for police, crawling her car forward, before apparently giving up and unlocking the vehicle.
Officers can be seen dragging her into the middle of the road before pushing her face-down on the tarmac, where she is handcuffed.
Two police officers were taken to hospital and treated after the incident before being released, though reports from the time do not make it clear what injuries they sustained.
Borden was taken to hospital in stable condition to be treated for the gunshot wound, and was charged on her release.
