A man stole a Los Angeles Police Department patrol SUV with an officer inside the vehicle Sunday morning and crashed into several cars at a downtown Los Angeles intersection. 

An officer was working as part of a security detail on 12th Street, location of the infamous “Graffiti Towers,” at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday when she was attacked by a man who jumped in the patrol SUV and took off, police said. At some point, the officer was ejected from the SUV.

“My thought was, ‘Why is this…