EXCLUSIVE: Dashcam video shows moments Atlanta police used batons to stop hijacked bus – WSB-TV Channel 2

The other passenger, identified as Ernest Byrd according to the arrest warrant, pulled out a gun. Grier took the gun from Byrd and began threatening the passengers.

According to the GBI, Grier then shot Byrd in the leg with his own gun and ordered the bus driver to drive away.

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Numerous police officers pursued the bus as it headed north on I-85 into Gwinnett and DeKalb counties. During the chase, the bus struck several other cars and several police vehicles.

Mark Winne from Channel 2 obtained dashcam video of the tense moments when officers pursued the bus and the moments when officers managed to stop the vehicle using batons.

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Officers from the Atlanta Police Department’s elite squad train for such dangerous scenarios, but Officers Ricky Ferraro and Willie Adams of the Auto Crimes Enforcement Unit (ACE) said they have never experienced anything like this before.

“My manager basically called it like a quarterback,” Ferarro said.

Officers initially responded to reports of shots fired at a bus, but then discovered that Grier had hostages.

“Be warned, everyone on the bus has their hands up,” an officer said in an audio recording from the dispatch center. “We are in the third lane and heading right. Exit the front of the bus with sticks.”

Ferraro and Adams said they took into account the speed of the bus, heavy traffic and the safety of passengers and other drivers when they tried to slide “stop sticks” – a police tool used to deflate the tires of fleeing vehicles – in front of the bus’s tires.

“When I pulled over to put up stop signs, everyone’s hands were up and looking at me,” Adams said. “And I just thought, they’re counting on us to get them off the bus safely.”

A video shows the gruesome chase, on Channel 2 Action News at 6 p.m.