Florida state trooper mistakes police captain for fleeing suspect, stops him with wild maneuver: ‘You f–king kidding me?’
Wild video shows a Florida state trooper forcing a car to stop with a high-risk immobilization technique — but the suspect turned out to be a fellow cop in the middle of a pursuit.
Highway patrol received reports of a reckless driver speeding through Miami Gardens traffic on the night of Nov. 29 and dispatched Trooper Walner Wroy to the area, according to Local 10.
Wroy eventually located the vehicle on the freeway — a Kia Stinger — and turned on his lights.
But the vehicle didn’t slow down or pull over, continuing to blast through red lights after taking an exit.
Dash cam footage shows Wroy eventually making contact with the car’s rear, forcing it to spin out and stop directly ahead of him, face to face.
But the halted driver — who turned out to be Opa-locka police captain Cory Krotenberg — then activated flashing blue and red lights to identify him as law enforcement.
He then gets out of the car and raises hands in disbelief.
‘You f—— kidding me?” Krotenberg tells the stunned trooper.
“Oh, I got the wrong car,” he says. “I didn’t see the light in the back.”
After a probe, officials said last week that Krotenberg was part of a multi-agency anti-gang operation and was pursuing a suspect believed to have taken part in a violent crime,
Krotenberg also had a helicopter flying overhead to help him track the suspect.
“It was a blacked out car,” he tells Wroy. “I was right on his a–!”
“Oh my God,” the trooper says in response.
Wroy, officials said, was not disciplined because he had reasonable grounds to mistake the fleeing car for a civilian.
“The Trooper had a well-founded and reasonable belief that a violator was fleeing and eluding a lawful order to stop, and the Trooper performed his duties with professionalism and precision,” FHP Executive Director Dave Kerner told the outlet. “Police work is a challenging profession, and State Troopers are trained and trusted to make difficult decisions under the most challenging of circumstances.”
Krotenberg’s agency told Local 10 that he did not violate any policies either during the pursuit.
