A deranged Illinois motorist purposely drove his car into the back of a police SUV during a traffic stop, then bizarrely told officers he did it because he was “bored” and “hates cops.”
Body camera footage captures a Fairview Heights police officer stepping out of his cruiser during a Wednesday traffic stop when Keajion L. Jennings crashes his gray 2018 Chevrolet Camaro into the back of the patrol car — missing the officer by inches and nearly crushing him between the two vehicles, video released by the department shows.
Seconds after the crash, Jennings, 28, appears out of his wrecked car and asks the officer, “What happened?”
“You tell me?” the officer replies.
“I need a new car,” Jennings answers, before being instructed by the cop to take a seat on the sidewalk and wait for an ambulance to arrive to check him out.
Jennings is seen trying to get up multiple times after being asked to sit, but listens to the officer when he’s told to stay seated.
After asking Jennings if he is all right, the officer asks what caused him to crash into the back of his cruiser.
“I don’t know, man. I’ve been drinking … And I took some weed pills,” he tells the officer.
The video then shows Jennings handing over his ID to the officer and blatantly stating that he “did that on purpose.”
“What? You hit me on purpose?” the cop asks.
“Yeah, I did,” Jennings calmly says.
The 28-year-old suspect then tells the officer that he did it because he was “bored.”
“I hate cops,” Jennings later adds to his reasoning for driving into the officer’s SUV as backup arrives.
Jennings was then immediately handcuffed and placed under arrest. He is being held at the St. Clair County Jail.
The two people in the car that the officer had pulled over initially were unharmed and received only a warning for their expired tags. No injuries were reported at the scene.
Jennings allegedly caused more than $10,000 worth of damage to the squad car, the Belleville News-Democrat reported.
The Fairview Heights Police Department said the St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office has charged Jennings with one count of criminal damage to government property, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and one count of aggravated battery with a motor vehicle.
St. Clair County moved to keep Jennings locked up before trial, warning he’s a real danger to the community.
The Illinois State Police are leading the investigation into the crash.
