drop the gun! >> police caught in the crosshairs. >> he was in attack mode. >> and the tables can turn in an instant. >> okay, okay, do not. >> dashboard cameras capturing real crime in realtime. >> that's when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. >> moments of horror. >> i remember the back tire running over my leg. >> heroism -- >> we were able to both get in at the same time and all of a sudden he moved. >> and poor judgment. >> the person was using his feet to try to stop the car.

>> get ready for the unexpected and unbelievable captured by the law's unblinking eye. "caught on camera" "dash cam diaries." welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. there are no retakes, quick edits with police dashboard cameras, still the footage can be more compelling than any action movie. and it couldn't have gotten any more dramatic for the officers in our first video who have a violent confrontation in broad daylight. a peaceful town in ohio is turned upside down when two brothers, admitted white supremacists, with criminal records, roll into town with guns blazing.

february 15th, 1997, wilmington, ohio. state police trooper john harker is on highway patrol. with 11 years on the force's drug interdiction unit, harker has been involved in some of the riskiest and most high profile arrests in the state. >> we worked in southwestern ohio with the intention of apprehending folks engaged in criminal activities, felony activities, drugs, stolen property, that type of enforcement. >> trooper harker's day starts like any other, he pulls over a driver going under the speed limit and whose 1977 blue chevy suburban is missing a front license plate. >> so i had to call the patrol post in wilmington and have a dispatcher run that. the license plate did match, at least the appearance of that vehicle, but that it was expired. >> but for now this seems like it will be nothing more than a routine traffic stop. >> good afternoon, gentlemen.

a visual scan of the vehicle as i walked up appeared that they were doing construction. there were soiled jackets and heavy garments to wear outside in the weather. >> do you have i.d. with you? >> no, sir, i don't. >> an expired license plate and no driver's license or any i.d. for that matter, harker knows these factors can indicate criminal activity. but still he's not jumping to conclusions. >> there are a lot of folks who have suspended licenses who are not criminals. they're just forgetful. >> you got any registration with you? >> no, sir, i don't. >> i didn't want to be real aggressive with the gentleman in case he had a driver's license and we were just going to give him a warning. do you have any i.d. with you at all? i asked them why they were there, they said they were doing construction. they had been at the gun show in the chillicothe area. >> now he's getting suspicious,

two men from out of town, no i.d. and no registration. >> during that time the passenger was seated and his hands were palm up on his thighs. that's not a normal posture. that's a posture of surrender. step back here with me a second, sir? >> his gut now tells him something isn't right. trooper harker decide to separate the two men. >> i wanted to get information, and i didn't wish to be so accessible to the passenger and the driver both. you say you borrowed the vehicle? >> i'll tell what you the process is. >> as he came around the rear of the car, i started a pat-down of his exterior garments. >> that's when the driver starts to get spooked. >> any guns, knives, clubs -- >> i don't want you searching through your stuff. >> i'm not searching through your stuff, sir. i'm going to put you in my car. >> i feel violated. >> when he felt that i was violating some of his rights, to

the best of my recollection, i had never had anyone on a traffic stop use that type of verbiage. >> i don't want to be violated like this. >> all right, sir. i'll arrest you for not having a driver's license. i felt that these folks were some sort of a militia or paramilitary organization. >> there's something troubling trooper harker about the passenger. >> while we were discussing this, the passenger was watching us in the rear view mirror, but he was also -- i was losing vision of him completely. he dipped out of sight at least three times n the meantime, another officer happens to drive by. he's deputy robert gates of the clinton county sheriff's department. he watches trooper harker navigate the traffic stop from the other side of the road. >> i saw that he was standing outside of his vehicle and was talking to what appeared to be the driver. i also noticed that the passenger sitting in the vehicle was staring at me intently and watched as i went by.

>> deputy gates makes a u-turn and pulls up behind the trooper. right away he senses something is off about the encounter. >> i noticed several times that the driver asked why he had been stopped. >> why am i being pulled over? >> i believe i told you, sir, according to the computer, the registration on the vehicle has expired. >> these were questions i already knew the answer to and i had just gotten there. >> why are you trying to make this so difficult? >> i'm not trying to make it difficult, sir. >> it was obvious the driver was trying to stall. i didn't know if he had a weapon on him or drugs on him or other kind of contraband, i didn't know. >> about as long as we've been standing here -- >> i wanted to resolve the situation and he just wanted to get away. he was weighing his options on how best to achieve that goal. now what do you want to do, sir? >> the situation that has been escalating is about to explode. without warning the driver makes a run for it heading straight to

his car. >> he reached around his shoulder blades and tried to pull him back from the vehicle. >> the officers have only seconds to react. >> that's when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. >> gun, gun! >> quick glance on trooper harker as he was moving around and preparing to return fire. >> that's when i put fire on him from the front of the vehicle. >> the passenger runs and deputy gates takes off after him. >> i started to chase after the passenger, but i didn't run full bore yet because i didn't know trooper harker's condition. >> freeze! >> the driver jumps in the truck with harker still hanging on. >> after taking about three or four step after i got disengaged from the vehicle, i did fire a round to flatten a tire to impede his escape. >> meanwhile, the passenger has run off in the direction of this nearby condominium complex. back at the scene, trooper

harker radios for backup. >> 587. get me some units out here. the subject in the suburban has fled the scene. i have another subject out on foot. shots have been fired. >> the dispatch goes out, and another wilmington police dash cam shows an officer heading into an office park where the chevy suburban is reportedly parked. as that officer pulls in, one of the suspects opens fire and hits this police cruiser and then takes off on foot. the two suspects are identified as chayne and chevie kehoe. they manage to elude law enforcement that day. but later chayne turns himself in. his brother chevie is arrested the next day. turns out the brothers are founders of an anti-government white supremacist group.

>> they were in the area providing some training to the local aryan groups and that they were also somewhat on the run. >> incredibly police also learn chevie is a suspect in the murders of an arkansas gun dealer and his family. in 1998 chevie kehoe is sentenced to three life terms for murder, conspiracy and racketeering. his brother chayne is sentenced to 25 years for the ohio shoot-out. trooper harker has since retired from the ohio state police. deputy gates has been promoted to detective sergeant. they run into each other from time to time and, although they don't often speak about what happened that day, both are thankful to have survived an encounter that could have easily ended tragically. >> had deputy gates not stopped when he did, iprobably at the very least would have been severely injured or killed. >> gun, gun!

coming up -- police have just seconds to save a man before he burns alive. >> there's just no way. i couldn't get him out. just could not pull him out.

a car on fire. >> i can't breathe. get me out. >> a driver trapped inside. >> i'm the only one in here. >> yeah. >> police have only moments to save him. march 20th, 2007, fayetteville, arkansas. normally officers go out solo, but corporal chris denton is recovering from a back injury, so he's riding shotgun with corporate phillip crosby. >> just really excited to finally get back to work, but i knew there were some limitations that i was going to have. >> several hours into their shift, it's turning out to be an uneventful evening.

not a bad first night as corporate denton eases his way back into the job. >> we'd had a few service calls. i think we might have made a traffic stop or two, nothing stressful, nothing really big. >> but at 1:38 a.m. their night goes from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds. they're dispatched to a car accident that happens to be a block away from their location. >> it was one of those situations with as soon as we got on scene, we knew action had to be taken right now. >> the vehicle is on fire. >> my first reaction was to get out of the car and check to make sure nobody's inside of the vehicle. >> the clock is ticking and the officer have to work fast to assess the situation. >> how many people are in here? i could tell there was no window, but there was something blocking my view. seemed like plastic. it was the side air bag. i cut it. that's when i first started talking to mr. barnes? >> are you the only one in here?

>> i can't breathe. get me out. >> are you the only one in there? >> yeah. >> in that instant in my mind i knew i had to do everything i could to try to get him out. burning alive is one of the worst ways to die. >> i need help. i can't breathe. >> desperate to get him out of the car, the officers try to open the doors with their bare hands. but the smoke and heat are too intense and the driver is pinned. >> help! >> he was wedged kind of under the steering wheel and across the center console and behind the air bag. >> and there's just no way, i couldn't get him out. just could not pull him out. >> i can't breathe. get me out! >> every second that went by it was getting hotter and hotter. >> horrified at seeing someone burning alive on his watch, corporal crosby starts tearing at the passenger door, bending and pulling it away from the car.

>> we're trying to create a big space to try to pull him out. >> corporate denton grabs a fire extinguisher from the patrol car. >> we got to use this fire extinguisher. >> hoping to fight back some of the flames. >> when the fire extinguisher went dry, i turned it over and tried to break out the windshield. >> cover your eyes. >> just to give us access to the driver. >> holy -- >> i need help. i can't breathe. >> i couldn't see anything inside the car. there's smoke everywhere. >> the fire is roaring, and the smoke is relentless. >> i can't breathe. get me out! >> they give it all they can to pull the door away far enough so they can both get inside and pull out the driver. >> that last time before i moved in, we didn't have very much time. [ screams ]

>> we couldn't come straight out a window, we had to go toward the back of the car. >> i was getting really tired. i remember feeling and twisting just a little bit and he finally moved. finally he started coming out. >> i can't breathe. >> it was like a magic moment occurred. we were able to both get in at the same time and all of a sudden he moved. whatever had been pinning him wasn't any more. >> the driver, sean barnes is badly burned and his legs are on fire when the officers pull him out of the car. >> 353, please. we've extracted one. >> at this point we're all in the bottom of the ditch, the grass around the car was on fire at that point, too. we're basically still surrounded by smoke and flame. we had to move him again after

we had gotten him out of the car just because the flames were starting to get toward him again. >> his feet were still on fire. i remember pulling it out with my hands. and at that time i immediately started trying to talk to him because i knew he'd probably go into shock if we didn't, so i kept on trying to talk to him. i remember him saying, i can't breathe. >> emergency responders arrive four minutes after crosby and denton. >> everybody just started doing their job as far as taking care of the accident scene, ems was taking care of sean. it was so hot, the car fire was so hot and the smoke was so much, i remember having to back off because i couldn't breathe. >> they're able to get the blaze under control in just a few minutes. the officers are treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns, but it's sean whose life hangs in the balance. after numerous skin grafts and more than ten surgeries sean barnes wakes up from a chemically induced coma three

months later to find that his life is forever changed. >> my mom was sitting there beside me in the hospital room, and she explained to me that i'd been in a bad wreck. came down to between me or the legs. >> sean remembers nothing about the accident. only that it was preceded by a night of heavy drinking with friends. >> i remember being dropped off at my apartment by a designated driver. somewhere in there, i don't remember actually leaving, but i did. i left the house after that. and actually the last thing i remember was ordering a crown and coke. >> after leaving the second bar on his own, sean says he drove home drunk, lost control of his car while rounding a curve and flipped it twice, landing upright and in a ditch off the side of the road. >> business was going great. personal life wasn't going so well. i started drinking a lot. alcohol's a bad deal. and you do a lot of stupid stuff.

>> a downward spiral almost ended sean's life. but after years of recovery and rehabilitation, he has a new set of legs and a new perspective. >> i miss a lot of things but i see a lot more now. it's a different life. you notice things differently. you notice more about people, and you see people's situations. >> the accident changes the lives of everyone involved that night. corporals crosby and denton are named policemen of the month by the national law enforcement officers memorial fund. >> not too many times that you take and pull somebody out of a vehicle that's on fire. >> sean donates the remains of his car to the fayetteville police department. it's part of a show and tell presentation he gives students on the dangers of drunk driving. >> the pain that i put my family through and the fact that i could have hurt somebody else is really the reason i do that. because i don't want anybody to get hurt like that. i don't want anybody to hurt

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so this is your girlfriend's car? >> this is my girlfriend's car. >> a traffic stop goes from routine to life threatening in seconds. >> don't! do not. do not. >> okay, do not, please. >> it's all caught on camera. >> every night before deputy louis rivera heads off to his job in penfield, michigan, he goes about his usual routine. time with his family, bedtime stories and a good-bye kiss for his wife. danger is a fact of life for a deputy, especially one who is working the midnight shift.

>> when i was working midnight shift, typically 10 to 12 traffic stops, in the jail two or three times a night, bringing people in, whether for drunk driving, driving under the influence of drugs, warrants, or some type of traffic violation. >> on january 25th, 2010, one of deputy rivera's stops will take a deadly turn. it's been a routine road patrol. and at 2:45 a.m. he's about to call it a night when he spots a car zooming past his cruiser. >> i noticed the vehicle swerve without using his turn signal. so that time i kind of got suspicious because if he was going straight, i probably wouldn't have noticed it. >> rivera thinks the driver could be drunk or high. so he decides to pull him over. >> he was actually in my mind, he was going to be my last traffic stop for the night. 632 traffic stop as soon as i stopped and turned my lights on, he complied right away. >> after calling it in to the dispatcher, rivera walks up to the car.

>> how are you doing tonight? he had a suit. nice clean cut. he seemed like a normal person, young white male. young guy. probably 23. do you have your license, sir? >> rivera learns from the driver that the car belongs to the man's girlfriend and that his license is suspended. >> yeah, i just had a cigarette with my girlfriend and i'm headed back home. >> rivera smells marijuana coming from the car. >> do you have any marijuana in your car. >> no, sir, i don't. >> not at all right now. >> no, i don't, sir. >> the more i am, maybe he'll let me go and i can go on my way. >> then the driver drops one last bomb, he's a convicted felon. >> how many priors, do you know? >> two. i'm on federal probation, sir. >> what are your felonies for? >> i was on probation for a knife. >> not a gun or anything. >> you don't have any weapons or anything right now?

>> no, i'm good, officer. i'm coming home from work, man. i'm just trying to go home. >> okay, i want to make sure you got nothing else. he's hesitating opening the door. this is your girlfriend's car. >> this is my girlfriend's car. >> and in the blink of an eye, this traffic stop goes from mundane to mayhem. >> okay, okay. do not, please. >> i noticed he was pulling away, he was grabbing something from his right waistband, and that's when i saw the gun. >> no, do not, do not. do not, please. >> i can see that the finger was on the trigger and i can see that the hammer of the gun was back. >> do not do this, please. do not do this. i will not take you to jail. i have a family and kids. >> so do i, sir. >> i will let you go. do not do this, please. it became a worse crime when he

actually pulled a gun on me. before that, it was just a basic traffic stop. i swear to god. >> they will come and get me tomorrow morning, i know. >> i will not. i will let you gone or your way. i'm trying to hit my emergency button on my radio. when i did that, he looked down at what i'm doing. i thought he's going to shoot me. they're checking on me right now. so i need to let them know that you're okay. i didn't think i could take out the threat before he does. i can get him to put the gun down. i'm serious, i don't need this. >> amazingly rivera does manage to defuse the situation. the driver puts the gun away in his back pocket. >> and i'm like, okay, we can get through this. we'll work through this. >> dude, i'm sorry about this. i don't want to go to jail. >> i can't help you. >> i know i [ bleep ] up. >> he kept saying, i don't want to go back to prison. this is not the way to do it. >> you have a family you are saying.

>> yes, sir. >> so why are you doing this? >> i don't know. >> he got himself in a bad situation that he didn't know how to get out. >> the man is so consumed with not having to return the jail, he tells deputy rivera he's ready to do something drastic. >> he knew in the back of his mind that no matter what i could do, he wasn't going to be able to just go home. really didn't have a way out. >> how about this? i drive home, i put one in my head. >> no, i don't want you to do that. >> i don't do this. >> put the gun down, you and i can talk about this, i don't want you to do this. >> he wanted me to make this thing go away. he wanted me to have never done the traffic stop. he wanted to go home to his family. i also wanted this to end. >> do not do this. put the gun down. you and i can talk about this. >> i'm going to jail about this. >> i don't want you to kill yourself. killing yourself is not the answer. that's not the answer for anything. >> no, do not, do not. >> but the driver sees no way out.

he steps back, takes the gun out of his pocket and puts it to his head. >> i got a guy with a gun. stop, don't. damn it, don't. think of your family, you don't want to do this. drop the gun. don't. come on, don't. shots fired. he's down. send me an ambulance. damn it. >> the driver dies instantly. within three minutes of rivera's first call, emergency responders arrive on the scene. >> that's when it all started to hit me, trying to process everything, trying to figure out, why did this happen? so -- >> in the days that follow, a calhoun county sheriff's investigation reveals the driver was carrying a stolen handgun and had talked about committing suicide the night of the traffic stop. >> people that knew that this guy was a threat to himself or others, they knew that if he got a traffic stop, he got pulled over he was either going to kill them or kill himself.

>> these details helped deputy rivera see that even though the stop did not go as he hoped, he did everything in his power that night to save a man's life. >> i wish i could have gotten him to stop, get him to put the gun down. you try to do your best to help people. sometimes you can't help everybody. >> coming up -- >> drop the gun! >> it's open season on police as a gunman shoots to kill. >> i made up my mind i'm most likely going to get shot.

welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. for police on patrol, any day could be their last as two veteran officers nearly found out. a brazen gunman ready for the kill. >> drop the gun! >> he was going to execute the officer. he had no intention of running away. >> he was prepared to take a bullet. >> in a fraction of a second, i made up my mind, i'm most likely going to get shot. >> it all goes down on september 6th, 2009, in kansas city, missouri. dean mcginniss is a 30-year veteran with the kansas city

police department. he and his partner, officer eric turner, start their shift at 3:00 p.m. often the officers will ride together, but today they're taking separate cars. after more than ten years working the same beat together, mcginniss and turner rely heavily on one another. >> we deal with a little bit of everything, disturbances, robbery, stealing, you name it. >> after a few hours had on traffic duty in a residential neighborhood, a call comes in over the radio with few details. all they know is a car has crashed into a tree just a few blocks away. >> it was a noninjury vehicular one car into a tree. which is a pretty nondangerous call. >> only officer turner is dispatched to check out the scene. mcginniss stays back to continue running radar. >> as i drove a little further towards the accident, i saw an

hispanic male wearing a white t-shirt. i slowed down, look at him in the rear view mirror. it crossed my mind i wonder if he knows anything about the officer, he saw it or was involved in it. >> as officer turner pulls up, there's no driver in sight. over the radio he learns that a latino man was driving the suv and has fled the scene. >> i radioed back to dean, i knew he was sitting right back there up the street. i asked him if he would stop the male. it was kind of shocking that somebody could just walk away from that. >> responding to his partner's call, mcginniss takes off in search of the man and sees him walking into a nearby park. >> there was something odd, more to what he was doing than just walking away from a vehicular to maybe avoid a ticket. he radios turner for backup and tells him to meet at the park. >> as i turned around i could hear it in dean's voice, he was suspicious of something. >> with turner just a few seconds behind him, mcginniss cuts across the grass to get a

good look at the man, dash cam rolling the whole time. by now officer turner is on the scene. >> i really expected him to take off running, we'd be in a foot chase. >> as mcginniss pulls up closer, the man turns around. that's when without warning the situation turns ugly. >> as i went to hit my ire sioux irsirens i saw him lift a gun up and point it at his face. >> so i ducked down and took an evasive action to get away. and bumped into the car door and fell to the ground. >> he wasn't being elusive any more. he was actually in attack mode. he was going to execute officer mcginniss. he had no intention on running away. >> as the gunman closes in on mcginniss, officer turner races in opening fire. >> it was so fast.

as soon as i saw him draw the gun the way he did, it was just instant reaction. >> drop the gun! [ gunshots ] >> shots fired. >> he eventually dropped to his knees. we tried to direct him to throw the gun away so we could approach him. >> drop the gun! >> he's still got the gun, dean. >> drop the gun! >> the suspect was still armed. >> you okay? he was still moving. and he still had the gun pointed down towards officer mcginniss. >> the gunman is down, but he isn't dead. and as day turns to dusk, backup arrives and disarms him. he dies shortly after on scene. >> he had a blood alcohol of 18. that's roughly double what would be legal in missouri. and had marijuana in his system. >> investigators later learn the gunman was once a soldier in the

mexican military. there was also a warranted out for his arrest at the time of the shooting. >> we learned from the atf that the handgun he used had been stolen. >> he carried a weapon frequently. he had a couple of bullets in his body from a previous gun fight. >> after the incident turner and mcginniss are awarded several honors. they appreciate the praise but are even more grateful to be alive. >> i think that's what he expected. that if he just picked the time, charged through, that he'd be able to carry it off. >> when i look back at this whole thing, this guy was going to kill a police officer, take his car and drive on out of there. it's just unreal. coming up -- an officer is nearly dragged to death. >> i remember thinking that if this vehicle runs over me, i'm probably going to die.

a texas police officer pulls over a man for speeding. >> let me see the other hand. >> and what she thinks is a routine traffic stop. >> do you have your i.d.? >> no, i sure don't, ma'am. >> turns into a fight for her life in a blink of an eye. [ screams ] >> march 6th, 2006, austin, texas. it's 3:00 p.m. and officer brenda bermudez is starting off her shift. because of her current job, we've been asked not to show her face. >> they provide us with any updates, briefings of what might

have occurred in the prior shift tore night before. >> officer gabriel padilla is a rookie in the same squad. they've been working together for just eight months, padilla considers officer bermudez his confidant and mentor. >> i saw brenda and we did the usual, checked out equipment. i joked around a little bit, made fun of each other. >> we were like family. >> it's a typical shift according to bermudez. she takes some calls, one a complaint from a man who said he had his car stolen. >> i'll never forget. the owner of the vehicle said, you can't miss my car, it has on the side of the window, it says phat t-shirts, with a ph in for it. she clocks a car coulding 48 in a 30-mile per hour zone. >> he pulls into a parking lot.

>> we're now at 2410 east riverside. >> still advising. >> ten-four. all right, let me see the other hand. where are you all going? >> my mom's house. >> she thinks the driver might be impaired so she radios for backup. >> i noticed his eyes were really glassy. >> that's where i'm going right now so in my mom's house. you know where it's at, right? that's where i'm going. >> i knew the driver. i recognized his face. i just couldn't remember his name. you have your i.d.? >> no, i surely don't, ma'am. >> how come you don't have your i.d. with you? >> remember, i just barely got out.

>> you barely got out from where? >> then it hits her. >> this is ramon torres. >> he's a known fell number the area and previously assaulted her in 2005. >> i wasn't injured. i get into a lot of altercations when i'm trying to restrain people. >> i'm sorry, man. the speed limit or something? >> yeah, you were going 48 in a 30. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> just when it comes back to her, she remembers something else, too. >> whose car is this? i looked back to the rear side window. and i noticed white writing, it had "phaf t-shirts." i remember several hours earlier someone had reported the vehicle stolen. this is a vehicle that was missing earlier. >> the driver overhears the radio call and the situation is about to go downhill fast. >> as mentioned earlier? it was missing earlier? >> officer bermudez sees the driver going for something. she thinks a weapon, so she reaches her arm into the car and the driver panic.

>> but loosen your arm. >> i know, i know. what are you doing? >> loosen your arm. >> i know. i am. >> i knew that if i didn't take action, the possibility that he could come out and assault me or kill me was pretty great. >> from there the situation escalates further when the driver takes off with the officer still reaching inside the car. [ screams ] >> all i remember is hearing the engine rev really loud and the car begin to accelerate really fast, and i'm unable to come out of the vehicle. >> it's a moment of sheer terror for bermudez and one that's still hard for her to talk about. >> i remember thinking that if this vehicle runs over me, you

know, i'm probably going to die. >> we can't see it on dash cam, but the driver jerks the car to the right. >> i remember getting thrown on to the pavement, and then i remember feeling the back tire running over my leg. >> at that instant, two officers who heard the call on the radio arrive on the scene. >> i remember two female officers yelling my name. >> stay with us, brenda. >> brenda, keep breathing, brenda, stay with me, stay with me. i thought i had heard, you know, don't die. >> everything will be okay. you're going to be all right, brenda. >> at that moment i started wondering if my legs were gone. >> he's driving. he's taking off. he's going for the broadway parking lot. >> another officer gives chase and captures it all on his dash cam. >> officer down. >> officer bermudez is still

conscious and is glad to know that the officer in pursuit was officer padilla. >> i couldn't make the car go any faster than i was going. i didn't know how bad it was. vehicle turned left on willow creek. southbound. i thought she was dead. he's stopping. he's stopping in the street. >> the suspect jumps out of the stolen car and now he's on the run. >> hey! stop! police, stop! hey! >> while the passenger casually walks away from the scene, officer padilla goes after torres. >> so i gave chase through the creek.

i caught up to him and he gave up and he surrendered him. >> get down on the ground. >> he laid on the ground and i had him at gunpoint. >> yeah, i got him on the ground. >> popeye. i do got the driver. don't move. deep your hands down at your side! >> officer bermudez is rushed to the hospital. she has no broken bones, but she does need surgery on both niece. her recuperation is slow, but eventually she makes a full recovery. armando torres pleads guilty to felony aggravated assault of a public servant and is sentenced to 20 years behind bars. for officer bermudez, it's a traumatic day for sure, but amazingly one that has not changed her outlook on her chosen profession. >> i took this job for a reason, because i could help people. i also took this job to make sure that i could do whatever i could to try to stop people from harming others.

coming up -- >> the person was using his feet to try to stop the car. >> it's a real life fred flintstone, only this is no cartoon. >> put it in park! park!

he is unable to stop the vehicle. is that what you're saying? >> what do you get when you combine a bus lane, six-lane highway and a driver in need of more than just a new set of brakes. >> the person was using his feet to try to stop the car. >> you get one peeved police officer. >> put it in park! park! >> august 8th, 2011, roseville, michigan. the officer is working the day shift when a strange call comes over the radio. >> the call come up that there was a vehicle driving northbound

on grossbeck and they stated that somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. as i drive over to where they said they were near, i happened to be a few blocks away. and i drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. i saw him sticking his feet out of the driver's door. our first thought was that somebody was being either kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it was something i'd never seen in over 20 years of police work. he's basically sort of holding on to the steering wheel. he's got the door open and he's got his legs hanging out of the car. that's when i realized he didn't have brakes. >> the 4,000 pound pickup truck is barreling straight toward a busy intersection at 45 miles per hour. he knows he has to act fast. >> first thing i was trying to think of is how we could stop the motor vehicle. >> but with this volume of traffic, it's too dangerous for the officer to cut him off. it could cause a major accident. i was going to hit his car and try to move him or get in front

of him to stop him. >> as seen on the dash cam the driver runs a red light and hits a white suv. >> as he hit the car, it forced that car into a pole. and his vehicle just kept moving. it's like a missile, it just continues going until something stops it. >> the officer knows this real life fred flintstone must be stopped before he kills himself or someone else. >> i then got next to the car and told him to stop the vehicle. he yelled to me that he had no brakes. then the dispatcher put out that he'd been driving like that for miles. >> put it in park! so yeah, i was a little enraged at that thought that somebody would drive for miles without brakes. i said throw it in park. and i believe his words back were, that will ruin my car. >> put it in park! park! then he threw it in park. at that point in time you can hear the transmission making a

really bad grinding noise. however, it didn't stop. >> even though the driver has switched gears to park, the car doesn't stop immediately. there's a red light up ahead. if this driver doesn't come up with something quick, more people can get hurt. >> he then went left into oncoming traffic and he drove back to the right stopping another vehicle and completely stopped his vehicle. >> with the car at a standstill, the officer can finally get to the bottom of who this man is and why he's driving with no brakes. >> i got him out of the vehicle. i asked what he was doing. i couldn't think of a normal guy that would do something like that. somebody had to be drunk or high or something like that. >> i had no brakes. >> i asked him how long his brakes had been out. he said he knew they were out, he had to get to work. i asked what he did, he said he was a commercial roofer. >> the driver has driven for at least five miles without brakes.

he's charged with reckless driving and driving with a suspended license. >> that's as high of a charge we could come up with. >> the biggest surprise? he passes every sobriety test he's given. >> luckily in his state he didn't cause injuries. the only injury he probably caused was to his feet. >> the driver speed pleads not guilty to the charges and whatever he was thinking that day will just have to remain a mystery. >> after all the tests were over, he was in his right mind, it's just that his mind wasn't right. unfortunately, we don't have that law in driving while stupid. if we did, there would be a lot more people arrested. >> and we'd need a lot more jail space. i'd like to see the dash cam video for those arrests. i'm contessa brewer, that's all for this edition of "caught on camera."