Surveillance footage from a Hollywood gas station captured the moment a woman pulled a male intruder out of her car and threw him to the ground while her husband stood nearby in disbelief, as reported by The Blaze.
The incident took place Tuesday evening, when Star Carter was sitting in the driver’s seat of her red Alfa Romeo at a gas station while her husband, Michael Carter, was on the other side of the vehicle pumping gas.
According to KCBS-TV, a male suspect approached the passenger side of the car and attempted to open the door.
“I stood up and was like, ‘Get outta here!’ and then I walked around this way,” Michael told the outlet, demonstrating how he moved toward the passenger side to confront the man.
As the couple believed the situation had de-escalated, the suspect circled back around the car, opened the rear driver-side door, and climbed into the back seat.
“I’m wrestling with him inside the car,” Michael said. “I’m kinda pushing him and pushing him, and all I know is he just disappeared.”
That’s when Star, who had exited the car, took control of the situation. Video footage shows her ripping the intruder out of the vehicle and throwing him onto the pavement in one swift motion.
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“I don’t condone violence, but I do condone self-defense,” Star told KCBS, explaining her instinctive reaction.
Star said she wasn’t thinking of anything specific in the moment except for a verse from a Kendrick Lamar song.
“It was just like that Kendrick Lamar verse [from ‘Peekaboo’] was playing in my head, you know like:
‘Bing bop boom bop boom bop bam!’”
Laughing, she added, “That’s all I remember. I’m so embarrassed.”
After being thrown to the ground, the intruder quickly got up and ran away. Before he fled, Star had some parting words for him: “I just said, ‘Don’t you ever do no stupid [word redacted] like this again!’”
The Carters continued their evening as planned, attending a comedy show at the Hollywood Improv later that night. Their daughter told KCBS she wasn’t surprised by her mother’s reaction.
“My mommy, she was in like fight or flight — but she definitely fought, and he definitely took flight,” she said.
Star told reporters she believed the suspect was under the influence of drugs during the incident. “I don’t know what this dude is capable of doing at all,” she said.
Her husband, still impressed, called his wife a hero. “She is indeed my hero,” Michael said with a laugh. “Thank you, Star!”
Police are still searching for the suspect. No injuries were reported.
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