The incredible moment a woman who’s arrested for shoplifting slips off her handcuffs and steals a police car 😲 pic.twitter.com/W1Jp18FUBS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 6, 2017
A Texas woman, Toscha Sponsler, left police officers scrambling after she managed to escape arrest in one of the police vehicles.
Sponsler was arrested for shoplifting and had been kept at the backseat of a vehicle, handcuffed afterwards.
What the officers did not expect was for her to free herself from the cuffs and make away with the vehicle.
However, she was eventually re-arrested by the cops following a 23-minute car chase which ended after she lost control on her getaway vehicle.
Meanwhile, reactions have trailed the incident, with many highlighting the fact that she would have been shot if she were black.
If a black person did this they’d be DEAD!
— Dorian Bae (@Mr_RightStuff) September 6, 2017
Well, hell – he’s 100% right. The race card practically pulled itself.
— schrifty (@schrifty) September 6, 2017
Wow, she wasn’t shot! Glad she obeyed the law!
— S. L. Bishop (@itsubish) September 6, 2017
The wordplay in this last one got us.
Qwhite lucky nobody was killed on this occaucasian.
— Huff Daddy (@SighmanCowell) September 6, 2017
What do you think? White privilege saved her life or people are overreacting?