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WATCH: Video Shows Shooting, Arrest Of Driver Who Fled Union Traffic Stop WATCH: Video Shows Shooting, Arrest Of Driver Who Fled Union Traffic Stop
Watch: Video Shows Shooting, Arrest Of Driver Who Fled Union Traffic Stop The Union County Prosecutor's Office has released police dash cam and body cam video showing a man getting shot by police after he fled a traffic stop in Union in June.  The video, which has been slightly edited, shows Lester Krek, 32, of Linden, getting interviewed by police during a traffic stop along Rt. 22 on June 7. After several minutes of back and forth with the officers, who inform Krek that his vehicle registration is expired, he takes off.  Krek later crashed in Mountainside and fled on foot into a nearby neighborhood, where officers catch up to him in the driveway of a …

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