WATCH: Wild, 140 MPH Police Chase Ending With a 3 on 1 Showdown

Mediate founder Dan Abrams hosted a wild On Patrol: Live recently that featured a harrowing, high-speed chase involving three suspects with a baby inside the vehicle.

Abrams introduced the clip, saying, “Last night in Hazen, Arkansas, Chief Bradley Taylor found himself in a pursuit,” Abrams began. “It started when the chief pulled over a car, and as he approached, the driver took off. The pursuit quickly reached speeds of 140 miles an hour. The driver tried to lose the chief by driving on the shoulder, and then this semi tried to lend, actually, a helping hand by almost running the driver off the road. Eventually, the chief caught up and then moved in for the pit.”

When Abrams cut to the video, it revealed an intense scene where the police chief stood with his gun drawn.

“Let me see your hand! Get on the ground!” the chief instructed as a child strapped in a safety seat is heard crying. “Driver, you better come back out that door! Come back out this door. Get your face down on the floor. You understand me? You got a kid right here!”

The suspect climbed over the child as the chief pulled him to the ground, where he landed face-down.

The chief briefly holstered his gun to handcuff the suspect on the ground before turning his attention back to the suspects in the vehicle.

“Hands up! You better not grab anything, you hear me? I don’t know if you understand what this light is, but that’s a gun point. Shut your mouth. You keep your mouth shut till I get some help here, you hear me?” the chief commanded.

As the video ended, Abrams introduced the chief via live feed.

“Um, wow,” Abrams exclaimed. “You see the baby in that car and you’re thinking what?” he asked.

“Dan, that was a bad feeling,” the chief answered. “I’ve done this a long time, and I was at a very bad tactical standpoint at that point. If we’d had a gun battle, I’d have lost, because there’s no chance that I’d ever pulled the trigger with that baby sitting right there.”

He continued, “I had to take control of the scene with commands and probably being a little more rougher than I normally would, but I was outnumbered three to one. So, I knew I had take control real quick.”

Abrams asked about the baby’s welfare.

“Baby’s doing wonderful. Officer Walker got the baby and got him back in his patrol car, snuggled up, watched a little Bluey cartoons, and brought him to the office. And we got ahold of the baby’s mama, and we made sure that we could give him milk and juice and snacks…And Officer Walker and Officer Feltz took turns taking care of him,” answered Taylor.

“Wow,” Abrams said. “I’ll bet you had an angry mother.”

“She was upset at the baby daddy,” the chief said.

Abrams then switched gears to address another figure who could be seen in the dashcam footage.

“Now, as you got to the vehicle, we actually saw a second person approach. We here knew it wasn’t a Hazen police officer, but at the time we had no idea who it was. So tell us, who was that person?”

“I didn’t know either, Dan. I didn’t have a clue, I just knew it was a good guy. I looked out of my peripheral vision, and I could see a guy coming in blue jeans, a shirt, and had an AR. And I was still waiting on help. Like I said, you keep your hands ’till I get help here. And later on to me, it was the deputy out of Oklahoma that was passing through from training. And he stopped, and he assisted, and I couldn’t thank him enough,” replied Bradley.

That deputy, Blake Bennett of the McCurtain County Sheriff’s office, then joined the program to discuss the series of events from his point of view.

Watch the clip above via On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

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