Traffic was backed up for miles for thousands of drivers Friday night on a busy Los Angeles-area freeway after a chase that lasted well over an hour and saw the driver repeatedly back into police cruisers.
At one point after backing into a cruiser, the man gestured from his window with what appeared to be a knife.
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The man drove onto Interstate 5 in Burbank the wrong way, eventually passed a police barrier and rammed into several cars before stopping.
Police evacuated drivers from their cars while they had their guns trained on the car. The driver eventually got out.
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It appeared that officers used a stun gun on him, prompting him to get back into the car.
A standoff pursued and eventually ended after the man got out of the car, laid down for a while and tried to run away. He was arrested.
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