Spotted: hit and near-run

At around 3:15 on Tuesday afternoon a guy who seemed to appear from the cracks in the pavement darted across Nicollet from 27th Street. It looked like he was attempting to evade two oncoming cop cars, and another that was stopped on 27th. One cop car, going north on Nicollet, screeched to a rolling stop before hitting the black late-teen/early-twentysomething male. There was a thud, the suspect rolled to the ground, and then wobbled on bent ankles as he tried to pick himself up and run again.

A few staggering half-steps later, he again was brought to the ground by the cop who struck him with his car, though by this time the cop was out of the car and using his hands to wrap the man's arms around his back. The suspect lay face-first on Nicollet as the cop cuffed him, picked up something that had fallen from the young man's pocket, and then placed him in the back of the cop car and drove off, two other cop cars in tow. So why was this guy sprinting from the cops, only to literally run into them? According to the 5th Precinct, there is no record of the incident or the arrest.