Coco Gauff Smashes Tennis Racket: Surveillance Videos of the Week

Other top surveillance videos this week include a Good Samaritan rescuing a postal worker, a 2-year-old boy saved by police and much more.
Published: January 30, 2026

By now, we all know that video surveillance cameras are everywhere and nothing we do escapes the eye of someone’s lens, whether that’s a professionally installed, high-definition PTZ camera or a more rudimentary device on someone’s phone.

Coco Gauff clearly temporarily forgot that simple truth, letting her frustration after her Australian Open upset loss get the best of her when she smashed her racket in the tunnel on the way to the locker room at Rod Laver Arena. Gauff apparently wasn’t aware that she was being watched by the entire tennis-loving world as she was letting her emotions get the best of her.

In other Surveillance Videos of the Week, we watch a wild police chase through the streets of Los Angeles, see a mountain lion doing his best Karl Malden impersonation and see Alex Pretti’s interaction with federal officials less than two weeks before his fatal shooting by an ICE agent.

Click here to check out the latest batch of Surveillance Videos of the Week. Send your suggestions for future editions to digital editor Craig MacCormack at [email protected].

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