So this was happening in our neighborhood an hour ago.
A big, white luxury car led California Highway Patrol and LAPD in a loop around Los Angeles for about three and a half hours before stopping on the street about two miles from our apartment – close to where the chase began.
For more than an hour, there was a standoff in front of the Toyota dealership.
Anthony just got back from the scene and reported that the dude just shot himself.
People are all wound up, because they think he’s a famous person. They’re mostly going on the fact that it’s an expensive car. For hours, TV news implied that it was Chris Brown. Then that it was DJ Khaled, a rapper from Miami.
Of course, he’d be from Florida.
Now, DJ Khaled has released a statement. He says he's still alive.
So, someone please explain this to me. The low-speed chase. Call me a hayseed, but I just don't get it.
He was on surface streets for much of it. For hours, he was going 30 to 40 mph, while people gathered on the sidewalks and overpasses to wave at him and holler.
The news chopper showed a dozen cop cars behind him, and the LAPD choppers overhead had spotlights on him.
It’s like he’s leading the Rose Parade. But police can’t figure out how to shoot him? Or throw down a spike strip?
Especially when they know he’s armed?
Apparently the low-speed chase is an LA thing, ever since OJ. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I don’t see why in the hell you wouldn’t just pull over someone who’s going the speed of a golf cart – or a Prius.
Indeed, the scene earlier, on the TV news, is pure LA – high-powered rifles, two dozen cops, paparazzi, onlookers, cell phone cameras…
And it’s all in front of a car dealership. Classic. Especially, I guess, for LA.
Top Photo Link: [cbs2.com] Bottom Photo courtesy of Anthony.
DJ Khaled's 'official press release' on his MySpace page is hilarious.
Posted by: Ezra | February 10, 2009 at 07:42 AM
I know -- I love it. It's even better that the release is dated two weeks ago. I guess someone must have roused DJ out of a sound sleep.
Posted by: Parker | February 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM