A former NYPD cop can be seen plowing his squad car into a robbery su🔯spect in newly released dashcam video of a wild incident in Arizona.
Michael Rapiejko, now 🌞a Marana, Ariz., police officer, responded to the scene where 36-year-old Mario Valencia was holding a shotgun to his own chin near a business district.
On Feb. 19, Valencia allegedly robbed a convenience store, broke into a church, invaded a home and stole 🧔a car. He drove the vehicle to a Walmart, where he stole the shotgun, cops said.
As police were closing in, he threatened to commit suicid✨e. sending him into the air as the squad car smashed a wall.
Valencia survived and was hospitalized for two days, theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn booked into jail.
Rapiej🍌ko was cleared of wrongdoing in the incident.
The officer servꦆed with the NYPD between July 2003 to June 2006. He was hit with a civil rights lawsuit i👍n 2008, two years after he left the force.
The suit was dismissed with prꦏejudice, according to the officer.