This is citizen reporting at its finest. Well, sort of. Damian Morys was in the perfect place at the perfect time doing the perfect thing. When he came across a Ferrari 458 Spider getting a ticket, he wanted to grab the comical video, so he started filming. From there, the owner, The Hills' Stephanie Pratt's boyfriend, came out to the valet area of the hotel where the car was parked, stepped right into the car and started to inch forward. This did not please the copper. Despite the policeman screaming at the top of his lungs to stop, the dude appears to run over the cop's foot. This was a terrible decision to say the least. The officer opens the door, grabs the driver and takes him down to the ground to cuff and arrest him. Watch the footage below and read the account from Damian after the jump.
[via Damian MorysPhotography via Jalopnik]
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"I was walking around Soho, NYC today when I stumbled upon this Ferrari 458 Spider with a cop writing a ticket next to it. I started to record the situation because I thought it'd make a cool video, little did I know what I was in for. As soon as I started recording the owner of the car appeared and got in it. He slowly started moving since he refused to accept the ticket (the car was parked in a hotels valet zone and the hotel valet had the keys, I myself don't understand why the cop was giving him the ticket, it was approved by the hotel that the car was parked there.) The cop then told him to stop but he proceeded to move forward. Now at this point I believe the cops foot was under the front drivers side tire. Yet again the owner moved the car forward and apparently he somewhat ran over the cops foot (or at least that's what can be made out from everything in the video, others at the scene claimed otherwise.) This triggered the cop and he slammed his hand into the drivers window and proceed to open the door (notice how many times he bumped it into the taxi cab) and pull the driver out forcefully. The driver was then thrown on the ground and handcuffed and arrested. The owners girlfriend seen in the video is also Stephanie Pratt from the MTV hit show, The Hills. The car did suffer some damage, paint chips on the door from when the cop slammed it into the cab and some scuffs by the engine bay shown in the last scene of this video. Pretty crazy situation, I was definitely at the right place at the right time!"
