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Arkansas trooper denies any wrongdoing after using PIT maneuver to stop vehicle


This screen shot taken from dash cam video owned by the Arkansas State Police shows trooper Rodney Dunn walking toward a flipped car in Pulaski County, Ark., on July 9, 2020. An Arkansas woman is suing the state police after she says a trooper crashed into her car, causing it to flip, after she didn't immediately pull over for a traffic stop. An attorney for Janice Nicole Harper filed the lawsuit last month, May 2021, in Pulaski County against trooper Rodney Dunn and the Arkansas State Police. (Arkansas State Police via AP).
This screen shot taken from dash cam video owned by the Arkansas State Police shows trooper Rodney Dunn walking toward a flipped car in Pulaski County, Ark., on July 9, 2020. An Arkansas woman is suing the state police after she says a trooper crashed into her car, causing it to flip, after she didn't immediately pull over for a traffic stop. An attorney for Janice Nicole Harper filed the lawsuit last month, May 2021, in Pulaski County against trooper Rodney Dunn and the Arkansas State Police. (Arkansas State Police via AP).
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An Arkansas State trooper who is being sued by a North Little Rock woman is denying any wrongdoing, a state lawyer said.

Nicole Harper is suing Officer Rodney Dunn for using a PIT maneuver and causing her car to flip on Highway 67/167 in July 2020. Harper was pregnant at the time of the crash.

Lawyers for Officer Dunn said that the trooper's actions during the incident "were based upon probable cause and reasonable cause, were those of an objectively reasonable officer, and were in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and state law."

In the complaint, Harper claims she could not safely pull over her car due to concrete barriers and a reduced shoulder so she put her hazard lights on. In just over two minutes, she said Trooper Dunn used the PIT maneuver on her vehicle.

Harper said she filed the lawsuit hoping to prevent this from ever happening to anyone else.


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