Video: Md. Police Officer Struck Trying to Stop Car Driving Through Festival

Body camera footage captured a Laurel police officer as he attempted to stop a woman who began driving through a crowd preparing for a street festival because she said she had to get to work.

Joe Vince

May 12, 2025

A Maryland police officer was struck over the weekend by a woman intentionally driving through crowds of a street festival.

The incident happened at around 9:45 a.m. Saturday as people were setting up for the Main Street Festival in Laurel, WRC-TV reports. In body camera footage, a Laurel police officer warns a woman not to drive through the festival area, but the woman said she had to get to work and began pulling down yellow police tape.

The officer offered to call a cab for the woman, who continued to ignore commands to stop. The woman then began driving through the festival crowd, hitting the officer in the process.

Police were eventually able to stop and arrest the woman. The officer suffered minor injuries and is excpected to recover.

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Joe Vince

Joining Endeavor Business Media in 2018, Joe has worked on the company's city services publications. He began working at OFFICER.com as the assistant editor. Before starting at Endeavor, Joe had worked for a variety of print and online news outlets, including the Indianapolis Star, the South Bend Tribune, Reddit and Patch.com.