FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — Authorities released body camera video of the moment they say a driver purposefully crashed into the back of a police SUV in Fairview Heights on Wednesday.

Keajion L. Jennings, 28, was charged with criminal damage to government property and three counts of aggravated battery.

The Fairview Heights Police Department said it was releasing the video after it received several Freedom of Information Act requests for its release.

The video begins with the officer performing a traffic stop on an unrelated vehicle that had expired tags. As the officer approached the passenger window of the SUV he pulled over, a car slammed into the back of his SUV and sent it into the other SUV.

Jennings immediately exited the car and said, "Hey, what happened?"

"You tell me," the of

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