 He's hit by the rear end of a fishtailing car and some of the crowd goes to help him while others keep cheering. We've had instances where people have been hit and killed. People have been hit and injured. People have been run over. Deputy Chief Michael Pickett runs the Special Operations Bureau of the Birmingham Police Department. He says these events took off during the pandemic and then kept going, so much so that this spring he started a coordinated effort to try to track where the shows tend to happen.