Body camera footage shows a chase and a standoff with an armed suspect in Portland
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Portland, OR - New bodycam footage is giving a closer look into a chase in Northwest Portland, where a lieutenant used his police car to stop an armed suspect.
The footage is more than 20 minutes long, and reveals a lot more of what happened during this encounter earlier this month, which prompted a use of deadly force investigation.
“Police. Stop. You’re under arrest,” said one officer.
A dramatic chase started at around 2 p.m. on August 12, when two PPB officers spotted a suspect near Northwest 16th and Overton Street.
“I’m going to take you to the ground, you better stop running,” said an officer.
The suspect was wanted for unlawful use of a weapon, menacing, and criminal mischief. Police said when he was spotted, the suspect was armed with a large-blade hunting knife.
The suspect was seen by police running toward people in the neighborhood, including a mother and her child.
But as the suspect ran toward a Les Schwab, a PPB lieutenant who was in the area hit him with his police car at a low speed in the tire parking lot. That moment is not in the footage but police said the suspect fell briefly and continued running.
The suspect, identified as 33-year-old Joshua Kuras, then broke into a nearby business and barricaded himself in the basement storage.
“Come out with your hands up in the air, we have a whole drone in the air watching you, it’s time to surrender,” said one officer.
He refused to surrender, destroying a police drone, damaging a robot and striking a dog with a metal pipe.
“Let go of our dog now, do it now, get on the ground, get on the ground right now,” said another officer.
“Why am I being arrested? Tell me why I’m being arrested,” said Kuras.
Kuras finally surrendered more than two and half hours after the chase began. He was then treated for minor injuries before being booked into jail.