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New Video Shows Car Smashing Through Wichita City Hall

The surveillance video shows a Lincoln Towncar crashing through the East-facing doors of Wichita's City Hall, barreling through the hall in an almost perfectly straight line. The car exits through the west side of the building, destroying security equipment and a revolving door, before stopping in the attached parking garage.

More than a year and a half later, the driver sentenced, and City Hall looks almost exactly like it did before Marcus Johnson drove through it.

Lt. Chris Bannister spent the first hours of January 7, 2008 cleaning up the damage. "It came right through here," he gestured. He pointed from the new black exit doors - which will always stay locked now - and almost straight into the hallway flanked with elevator banks. "And then right though the elevator shaft. It's wide enough to fit a vehicle through. It fit perfectly. It made one little scrape against the marble on City Hall."

Now, city employees walk by new marble tiles - not a scrape to show since the city replaced them.

The video shows a person at the security area - and then the car charges through. But motion activates the cameras - so minutes elapsed between the man and the car.

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