Police officers place a man they detained into an ambulance following a standoff along the southbound lanes of Interstate 75, Friday, March 29, 2019, near Marietta, Ga., northwest of Atlanta. Marietta police said an armed driver had stopped on the freeway and wasn’t cooperating with officers. Police had followed the vehicle to I-75 since it matched the description from an armed robbery nearby. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
ATLANTA (AP) – A police standoff brought traffic to a standstill Friday on an Atlanta-area freeway as officers confronted a motorist who they believed was armed and matched the description of a robbery suspect.
It ended without violence when he was taken into custody.
Video from a TV news helicopter showed police pulling the man from a car, apparently ending the confrontation that played out in the middle of Interstate 75.
More than a dozen officers with guns drawn had filled four lanes of the highway as police confronted a motorist they said was armed and not cooperating with the officers. The showdown lasted more than an hour.
News photos showed that the man was alive as he was carried away by officers, and police later said he was apprehended without injury.