The Los Angeles Police Department released video Friday of a fully automatic rifle attack on two officers during a traffic stop in Willowbrook.
The more than 11-minute video, including dashcam and body-worn camera footage, captured some of the events that followed the July 3 traffic stop in the southern Los Angeles County community.
At about 9 p.m. that night, officers pulled a driver suspect of DUI over near Broadway and Rosecrans Avenue, but before officers got out of the patrol vehicle, a barrage of rounds were fired from the suspect’s’ Chevrolet sedan, police said.
Authorities later determined the rounds were fired from a fully automatic AR-style rifle, a self-loading rifle that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger is held down. The officers’ in-car camera captured the harrowing sound of rapid gunfire coming from the sedan and striking the patrol vehicle.
One officer can be heard asking, “What’d he hit us with, dude?”
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