Joker Police Chase

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Overview

Joker Police Chase refers to the chase and arrest of a man in Orange County dressed as Batman villain The Joker. The man was caught when he stopped at a beach to help a group of people bury their friend in sand.

Background

On July 22nd, 2019, police in Orange County, California, began a lengthy car chase in an attempt to pull over a man driving in an aggressive manor, with half his body out of the car's sunroof and making vulgar gestures while wearing a Joker mask.^[1] After abandoning the vehicle, the perpetrator ran to a beach to help a group of people bury their friend in the sand before laying down and being arrested. Footage of the chase was caught by KRON4 (shown below).

SEE IT: Man dressed like ‘Joker’ leads police on chase in Orange Countyhttps://t.co/hdXVjQEKWk pic.twitter.com/4pg9RGCfSf

— KRON4 News (@kron4news) July 22, 2019

Twitter user @Rainneeeyy tweeted footage of the arrest she took showing the moment the man surrendered to the police (shown below).

What a time to be alive. Police chased a guy wearing a joker mask ending on Venice Beach pic.twitter.com/2nHIfJcCtQ
— Rainey Davis (@Rainneeeyy) July 21, 2019

Developments

Comicbook.com was able to identify the mask as having come from "one that came packaged with a trade paperback collection of Batman: Death of the Family."^[1] They also noted that the passenger of the car was detained and not arrested. Police have not specified what charges the man is facing.^[3] The chase was covered by multiple news outlets including eBaum's World^[2] and ABC.^[3] The video was joked about in /r/GamersRiseUp^[4] in a post by user clangprime (shown below).