The driver said yes, but did he have a choice?
The chase occurred earlier this month, when Houston Police Department officers entered a rideshare vehicle while pursuing a suspect, according to the department.
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HPD said officers responded to a call around midnight on Aug. 7 about a suspect threatening to shoot a woman and her kids in the Heights area.
The department said that while officers were taking statements, the suspect left an apartment and began running away. That's when the chase started, HPD said.
An Uber driver caught the whole thing on camera and posted the video. But suddenly, the driver went from watching the chase to being a part of it.
"Hey, give me a ride over there, please," one of the officers told the Uber driver in the video.
The dash camera footage then shows the inside of the car as the police officer got in and told the driver to pick up the other officer, who was also chasing the suspect.
The second officer hopped in, directed the driver around the area, and about two minutes later they both got out, according to the video.
HPD confirmed that during the foot pursuit, the officer saw the driver, who then gave them a ride around the block.
The driver dropped the officers off, and they returned to their patrol vehicle to find the suspect but were unable to locate the person, according to HPD.
Dr. Greg Fremin, a retired HPD captain and criminal justice professor at the University of Houston Downtown, said this is a unique situation.
"It was a fast-evolving scene, and the officers felt the need to do this," Dr. Fremin said. "I commend the officers for using their creativity and doing what they felt they had to do to accomplish the police mission."
Dr. Fremin said this has happened long before Uber even existed. In the late 1980s, he remembered being on a scene where police commandeered a private citizen's vehicle.
"We were chasing after a bank robbery suspect, and we had chased him all the way down Airline Drive," Fremin said. "We were without our patrol cars, and we jumped into another vehicle."
HPD's foot pursuit policy doesn't address what to do when a vehicle is involved in a chase.
"I don't foresee a policy being made because of this, because it doesn't happen that often," Fremin said. "This is very unique under the circumstances."
But Fremin said ultimately, the public is not required to help when asked.
"Now you're bringing innocent civilians into a potentially threatening situation. So those are all factors," Fremin said. "But I'm assuming based on what they did, they were using him for transportation as they were doing this."