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tape of the assault with the police. the reality of the attack sets in. >> turns out i was hit a few times in the back of the head. as soon as i watched the footage i felt the back of my head and there was a big lump in the back. >> jim has minor injuries but does not press charges against his assailant. >> he was having a tough night. you know? it's no harm, no foul, you know. i wasn't hurt. so what do i care for. >> jeffries continues to tour like mad. he figures the comedy store punch-out won't be his last time getting up close and personal with the audience. >> i've probably done anywhere between 2,000 and 3,000 shows in my career, and it's only happened once so statistically not too bad. there's been other comics it's happened to. i'm the only one that's caught it on film. >> the next time you want to check out that comedy show, baseball game or surfing competition, the best and the
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safest seat in the house might just be right in front of your own tv. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." a dangerous chase. i hit him and he came back and started firing at me. >> a daring maneuver. >> i saw the wheel coming at my face. >> a crash not to be believed. >> he was bent in half. >> one dog leads a trooper to a burning building, and the dog whisperer tells us why. >> the dogs was charged with the message, get us help.
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>> this dog takes a bite out of a bumper. >> as you see, he's playing. he's not being aggressive. >> and this suspect seems to take a bite out of the evidence. >> he swallowed it. swallowed it fast, too. >> tense situations. >> he fired shots very quickly. >> heartbreaking stories. >> what happened was so senseless. senseless. >> and moments that have to be seen to be believed. >> i was dumbfounded. i was -- you're kidding me, right? >> caught on camera -- dash cam diaries. hello, i'm contessa brewer. a police officer's working day may include violent confrontations, touching human
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dramas, and even some comic relief. for an officer in a patrol car, the dashboard camera is the silent witness capturing the action and preserving some hair-raising stories. our first video begins in new mexico with an amazing high-speed chase and a shootout caught on multiple dash cams. with their dash cams rolling, police cruisers chase after a 22-year-old man through highways and country roads in northern new mexico. the pursuit is not only dangerous, it's violent. >> shots fired. shots fired. >> i started hearing we have an officer injured, he had blood coming from the area of his fac face. >> in may 2007, sergeant jackie budd of the san juan county sheriff's office in aztec, new mexico, is the first backup to respond to an incident that
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begins in a nearby town. that's where lionel gets into a confrontation with friends near a laundromat, and local police are called. >> he and his party were trying to leave in a vehicle. a bloomfield officer approached him in an attempt to stop him to find out what was going on. shots were fired at bloomfield police. a taser was deployed and at some point mr. claw was able to drive out and around, partially taking out a fence, and then drove out to 3rd street and headed north. >> by the time budd gets to the scene everyone is gone. budd rushes to catch up with the suspect who has two others in the car with him. as he closes in on them, he notices the rear passenger door opening. >> i see a head poke out. sure enough, somebody comes diving out of the vehicle. >> somebody is jumping out. somebody just jumped out of the vehicle. and i believe the speed was 97 miles per hour. i'm thinking, oh, my lord, somebody wanted out pretty bad.
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>> sergeant budd veers to his right trying to avoid the passenger in the road. >> i didn't want to run over this person. he had just been with them, they had all been drinking at the time and they were -- he was just along for the ride more or less. >> another officer stops to help the passenger who is then taken to the hospital. it's hard to believe but he has no serious injuries. the situation in the getaway vehicle escalates. the passenger, a woman fires from the front seat of the suspect's car. >> i'm thinking, okay, i didn't have any rounds come through my windshield, so apparently life is good. the chase continues on as seen in these four different dash many cams and he enters the navajo nation reservation. by this time a spike strip has been thrown in the car's path. >> at the time i caught up it wasn't high speed at all.
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the suspect vehicle's tires had already been punctured by spike strip strips. >> at one point it looks as though the chase it over. as claw drives through the residential area of the reservation, he stops and the female passenger runs from the car into a house then claw gets out of his car. >> lionel claw actually gets out of the vehicle and points his weapon at me. and i'm thinking at this time, you know, i'm just going to run him over. and i keep going then i realize there is a house behind him and there could a baby on the other side of that wall sleeping. >> my concern wasn't so much capturing the bad guy, it was making sure everybody was safe. >> get in your house. get in your house! get down! >> the officers shut down their vehicles and shout commands to him, but he's not backing down.
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>> mr. claw got back in and took off again. he started another pursuit. at that time i called out we need to go ahead and force this vehicle off the roadway. we don't need to let him back in this residential area. >> a decision is made to initiate the pursuant intervention technique. also known as the pit maneuver. >> it's just basically where the patrol vehicle kind of nudges the suspect vehicle one way or the other, and it causes the suspect's vehicle to spin out. >> at that moment another officer, sergeant cory falk, rams his vehicle into claw's car. >> i hit him. his arm went up in the air as he was off balance, and he came back and started firing at me. i leaned over my computer and began firing my weapon directly at him through my windshield. >> there were several officers firing rounds at him. i saw that he was down. he wasn't moving anymore.
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didn't have the gun in his hand and it was over with at that point. i got out of my unit and was going to engage him again and noticed i had been hit. >> i have one officer who has been hit. >> sergeant falk is hit three different times, one on the bridge of his nose, another alongside his head, and a third in his hand. he is immediately taken to a hospital. >> i could have easily been killed. >> claw is also wounded. >> what stands out, seeing sergeant falk injured like he was. that was a reality check. >> the female passenger, a juvenile, is discovered to be claw's girlfriend, and is convicted of two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer and sentenced to three years in prison. lionel claw gets 25 years for attempting to murder a police officer.
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turns out he and that police officer, sergeant falk, are no strangers to one another. >> i had him on an armed robbery case in the detective division two years prior. >> claw's eventually convicted and sentenced to five years for that crime, too, and goes to prison. >> i don't think this guy deserves to get out of prison. i think based on his mentality he should stay in prison for the rest of his life. >> coming up, a robber chowing down on the evidence. >> he swallowed it. >> he swallowed it fast too. >> when i saw the wheel coming at my face, that was a very scary moment. >> and a german shepherd saves the day. >> he's telling you something wrong is happening in my house. >> it makes a person wonder what their pets are really made of. >> when "caught on camera: dash cam diaries continues."
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a bank robber in cuffs seems to try to get rid of evidence by swallowing it. that's right. while police pat him down, the suspect is chewing on what could be the note handed to the bank teller. >> we had no clue he did it until we saw the video. >> officers daniel biyata and alan chernowski have been patrolling the streets of twinsburg, ohio for years. >> we had been scanning other cities radio traffic, and i had picked up a bank robbery had occurred in streetsboro, which is to the east of us. >> a witness gets a good description of the suspect's car and the twinsburg police force spreads out knowing the bank robber is headed their way. >> we were advised on the radio
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it was a gray car with a license plate and i saw one and radioed it in. >> minutes later the officers catch up with the suspect, they pull him over and shut down the freeway. >> with the suspect by the side of the road, the officers try to make sure they're not in for any surprises. >> he's capable of anything. any time there's a bank robber in a vehicle it could go one of many ways. >> we handcuffed him. we brought him back to one of our cruisers. as we laid him on the hood of the cruiser to do a search of his person, make sure there's no weapons on him -- >> i was patting him down and faking everything out of his pockets. >> the officer is searching his front left pocket. he's throwing change and paperwork. out of it so he knows he cleared it.
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one thing was a folded up piece of paper. >> with the cops focused on a weapons search, the suspect seizes his opportunity. >> he swallowed it. swallowed it fast, too. >> even without the note they find plenty of evidence in the suspect's car. >> on the passenger floorboard we came across a bag full of money, and on the floorboards we found a loaded handgun which had been right at his feet. >> the suspect is convicted of this and two others in the area. surveillance seals the case against him. the note that the bank robber used to hold up the teller was never found. coincidence? >> we're not aware of what the note was. we know it meant something to him, enough to eat it. i would imagine it was the bank note. it would have been a shopping list. backing up in tight spots is one thing, but pushing it to the
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limit like this is quite another, especially if the guy behind you is a cop in a patrol car. >> i saw the jumper jump up and at that point i saw the wheels. when i saw the wheel coming at my face, that was a scary moment. >> that's what happened the night of july 22, 2010 to patrol officer seth carson of bethesda, maryland. and it's all caught on his police dash cam. the fiasco starts when officer carson who was out patrolling gets word an attempted armed robbery has taken place and that three suspects are on the loose in a white suv. >> 15 officers flooded the area trying to find the individual. one officer thought he had seen him. >> officer carson is right at that apartment complex and spots the van. >> my whole intentions were to
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make a left-hand turn when the traffic cleared up, but when i saw him, i turned right. >> a chase ensues. officer carson radios in a description of the car with the plate numbers and quickly discovers it's a stolen van. >> i knew we were heading for a one-lane bridge. my dash cam can't show it but i can see a vehicle coming across the bridge. i knew there was nowhere for him to go. >> once on the one-lane bridge, the driver tries to maneuver around an oncoming taxi, but instead hits it. now the passenger side is up against the guardrail, and it seems like these guys have no choice but to give up. >> just when i thought it was over i'm telling dispatch there's nowhere to go. >> but instead the driver puts the van in reverse and guns it. >> i saw wheels coming at my face. pretty much to the point where i saw the wheel coming at the windshield, i didn't know if the car would cave in, i didn't know if i would have a roof when it was done. even when the car flipped over they were still hitting the gas.
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>> officer carson jumps out of his car, and with another officer grabs the three suspects. aside from cuts from the broken glass, no one is hurt. >> the roof caved in, maybe five, six inches in the center, the windshield was pushed the whole way down. >> all three suspects are arrested. among the charges are armed robbery and motor vehicle theft, malicious destruction of property and two counts of resisting arrest. looking back on that incident, officer carson realizes what a dangerous situation he was in and how lucky he is. >> i'm just happy that when it's all said and done i walked away from it. >> holy [ bleep ]. coming up, a driver plows into an overpass at 100 miles an hour. >> the driver was three lanes over from where the cash had occurred. >> a shootout from the back of a taxi. the tale of two very different dogs. the dog whisperer weighs in. >> well, look at his tail.
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what you're watching is not a stunt from an action-packed movie but a real-life car crash with 19-year-old brennan eden, a student from mason, ohio, at the wheel. >> it just was a freakish, freakish accident. >> it's early in the morning on august 23rd, 2010, an officer from sugar creek, ohio, from dayton is scanning i-675 for traffic hazards when suddenly he sees a car flying fast through the air. sergeant james williams, a crash reconstructionist rushes to the scene. >> the first thing i noticed wa what appeared to be the engine
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compartment on fire in the high speed northbound lane which is opposite from where the crash occurred. then i noticed the occupant compartment in the center median and then the right side of the vehicle sitting underneath the bridge. >> the car is totally demolished with pieces scattered all over the highway. >> the driver was three lanes over from where it occurred. >> miraculously eden is alive. he is rushed to the hospital by helicopter. >> so i described it at a bifold wallet. he was bent in half. it's amazing that he's even around. he hit the drainage ditch and went airborne glancing off the guardrail at that point. i would say he was going well in excess of 100 miles an hour. >> eden's mother is stunned. >> from what the police and the doctor told us, we really feel this is a miracle that brennan is alive. >> as it turns out brennan was pulled over by police just an hour before the crash.
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>> brennan had alcohol inside the car, trace amount of marijuana with him and also a device that was used as a pipe. >> sobriety tests shows brennan is not under the influence but he receives a summons less than an hour later he ends up here. after the accident eden's license is suspended for two years for reckless driving. all involved agree, eden is lucky to got a second chance. >> based on the manner that he was ejected and distance and circumstance, he should not be alive today. >> it's january 10, 2009 and state trooper ian henry is patrolling interstate 90 outside albany, new york. in the westbound lane he spots a speeding taxi and takes off after it. eventually the trooper catches up and pulls over the cab.
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>> the first thing he noticed was an out of state cab, which was unusual all the way from connecticut. pretty expensive cab ride. >> the trooper talks to the driver and then focuses his attention on the passenger in the backseat who has two duffel bags with him. one has clothing in it. >> the passenger was somewhat hesitant to show him the second duffel bag but trooper henry was able to see an assault rifle amongst the clothing there. >> the passenger grabs the rifle before henry can get at it. the trooper quickly backs off leaving the taxi driver in the car. >> the trooper made that choice to retreat because really that was all he could do at that time to save his life in case the passenger started immediately firing. better to have one person than two people die. you know, you just can't stay there and spend a minute trying to get somebody out of the vehicle. >> the passenger turns out to be
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23-year-old darryl brown from hartford, connecticut. the cops later find out he's a member of a gang called the bloods and is fleeing hartford because he was involved in a carjacking the knife before. >> it was a gun point carjacking, and he seriously injured the man involved. and he was made to believe from a third party that he had killed the person so he thought he was dealing with a homicide as well. >> he jumped in a taxi and told him to head for the albany area. >> he told the driver to keep driving, to look for signs for albany. he would let him know when they got there. >> on the dash cam, you can see the cab driver frantically waving his hands, putting his head out the side window then in a dramatic move he makes a run for it. >> he shouted to let him go with him. >> trooper henry while retreating to the rear of the car is telling the cab driver put your hand up, put your shirt up, i want to see your
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waistband. he wanted to make sure he wasn't a co-conspirator or a buddy. >> with the driver out, darrell brown opens fire and shoots out the back window. >> he fired seven shots very quickly. he knocked out the back window and peered around then his eighth shot knocked out the video cam of the trooper's camera. at this point all the other police departments are picking up on the radio what's going on and we're getting a quick response within a matter of minutes. >> the interstate is shut down and police position themselves with a taxi in their line of fire. after 40-minute standoff, brown is silenced by a sharp shooter and dies two days later in the hospital. miraculously everyone else is safe. >> the only person that died that day was darrell brown, and he had initiated the entire incident. it just is amazing someone can fire that many rounds and not
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have a concern for the public or police and have it as contained as it was. we are certainly grateful for that, as well. >> coming up, one dog leads police to a burning home. >> buddy saved us, i would say. buddy saved our home. it was just a miracle. >> while another takes police for a totally different kind of ride. >> look at his tail. it's up and he's having a great time in the police car. >> when "caught on camera: dashcam diaries" continues." to volunteer to help those in need. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to keep back pain away all day.
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six adults. hundreds died in egypt after death sentences were handed down for 21 convicteded in a soccer massacre. and congressman tom harkin has said he will not run for a sixth term. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. so far dash cam videos have shown us people whose deeds range from outrageous to criminal. but humans aren't the only ones that step into the limelight here. next are two of man's best friends, remarkable dogs with two very different tales. >> even in april it's a dark night in 2010 when state trooper terence shannigan navigates his way through alaska's back roads.
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he just received word about a fire on someone's property. >> we had quite a bit of snow on the ground yet the roads were all ice covered. it was dark and visibility was poor just because of low light conditions. >> at an intersection the trooper decides to go straight. >> something caught my eye about 100 yards in front of me. as i came to the crest of a hill and rounded the corner, i saw there was a german shepherd in the middle of the roadway coming towards me. >> shanigan discovered something special about this dog. he himself races sled dogs and spends much of his free time with his four-legged pals. so when he sees this canine out on the road, shanigan knows the dog is there for a good reason. >> there was that split second where immediately we connected and there was some type of second nature that i was falling back on and following the dog on a hunch. >> the german shepherd is a 5-year-old dog named buddy. >> it was just the body language of the dog, the way he would look over his shoulder giving me
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props or cues to speed up or slow down, almost the speed of my engine and i was totally focused on the dog. >> the trooper follows the german shepherd and incredibly the dog turns up the driveway that leads to the fire where a building is engulfed in flames. >> buddy stopped at the end of the driveway quit running and came around to my vehicle and greeted me at my driver's side door and started to nudge me in the palm of my hand. >> the property is owned by tom and lynette heinrichs who live with their 23-year-old son ben, buddy's best pal. >> i would say buddy has pretty much been ben's shadow. when ben leaves, buddy leaves. you could tell that buddy was ben's dog because he was right there with him and he listens to him real well. ben is definitely the master. >> the night of the fire, buddy is right beside ben who's working on his car in the shed
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when gasoline ignites. the blaze leaves ben with first and second-degree burns. >> one of my parts had fallen into the tank of gas and splashed up on my heater and ignited catching me on fire. i ran outside in the snow. told buddy we need to go find help. >> buddy obeys, that's when he runs to the road and meets up with trooper shanigan. >> i am very proud for what my dog did leading the state trooper to our house and by doing so, he saved our house. >> but buddy isn't finished. he runs back out to the road again. >> i had a firefighter that had come to up to me during the whole episode and told me they had followed a german shepherd in from the same general location that i had met the dog. the dog led two different people in to the same location doing almost the very same thing. >> the fire is so intense, it could have spread to the heinrichs' home if it hadn't been for buddy and his heroic
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act. the family says buddy's actions are totally out of character. >> the reason it's hard to believe he's always so shy and always kind of skittish around people. i just didn't think he'd do it. >> it makes a person wonder what actually what their pets are really made of. you know, well, what did we do to have him do this for us? we didn't teach him that. how did he do that? >> perhaps the best person to answer this is cesar millan, host of national geographic channel's "dog whisperer" and author of "cesar's rules." >> it's an instinct. animals are not afraid of life. they just have an internal understanding about fear of fire, fear of earthquake, fear of natural disasters so they're in tune to mother nature, you know, especially dogs who get to live in the woods. >> looking at the dash cam video
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cesar sees how he communicates with the trooper. >> a stray dog in the road and he does this, you know, he's not concerned about anything else except who you are. but a dog that's expressing this is telling you something wrong is happening in my house. the dog was charged with this message and dogs do listen to our message, and this case is go find help. >> i'm really speechless. i didn't think my dog was that smart to do what he did. >> this example of heroism. >> since buddy's heroic act, he has received numerous awards and accolades. >> we need to recognize the value of our animal companion. >> at a special ceremony he receives a stainless steel dog bowl with the state trooper badge as well as doggie treats. >> buddy saved us, i would say. buddy saved our home. it was just a miracle.
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>> he'll always be there for me and i'll always be there for him. >> and for trooper shanigan who is now buddy's pal, honoring him means a great deal. >> i think that our animal companions do deserve a lot of credit for many of the things they do every day. for the heinrich family for their own dog to step up and do something that people rarely get to experience but i think was fortunate enough to be caught on a camera. this example of heroism should open our eyes -- >> if buddy proves dogs can be heroes, winston proves dogs will be dogs. the 2-year-old pit bull mix is caught on camera chomping away on the bumper of a chattanooga, tennessee, police car. >> this daog almost has his whoe
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bumper ripped off. >> on march 14, 2010, the naughty winston unlocks the gate from his home and ends up here where he discovers a new doggie treat. the police tried prying loose the 80-pound dog by moving the patrol car back and forth but winston just won't let go. >> do you want me to take action or just sit here and wait. >> hang on for a minute. do you have the video on recording this. >> that's correct. >> so what is it about this bumper that winston so thoroughly enjoys. is it the smell, the taste? it's neither according to the dog whisperer cesar millan. >> if he was smelling an animal he would be peeing on it or rubbing himself against it, not chewing. this is the smell of plastic that triggers a memory to him. this dog was encouraged to bite plastic or tires. they are not born wanting to bite a tire. they just get encouraged. the dog learns to release his
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frustration on that object. >> from the sidelines other dogs seem to be cheering on winston. >> as you see, he's playing, he's not being aggressive, this is why the other dogs are not attacking him. if he was aggressive, the other dogs would be attacking -- see? now they're going to a chase behavior because the car is now a toy. they're playing the car. >> believe it or not the dash cam video lasts for almost an hour. >> now he's trying to chew his tire as he drives off. >> look at his tail. it's up and he's having a great time on the police car, taxpayer money. he doesn't know that. he's just having a good time. see look at this guy right here. >> police even try to catch the dog on foot, but winston remains steadfast, so what would the dog whisperer do? >> i stop the car and i put a leash on the dog or i redirect him with food. stop it. ask him to lay down in front of the bumper.
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you know, so he learns to relax in front of the bumper. >> finally, the animal center arrives and takes winston away. then his owner comes to pick him up. >> we're glad that he's getting to come home and get back to his old life. free of all the excitement. >> but winston isn't off the hook yet. charged with being a potentially dangerous dog winston is ordered to attend both obedience school and a canine good citizen class. in september 2010 he graduates. as for the damage to the patrol car, winston's family paid a hefty fee. >> he did act very badly, but that was not his typical behavior and we're sure that he will be a model citizen from now on. >> and he was, sadly winston died of heart failure on october 15th, 2010, but we're sure he's on his best behavior in doggie heaven.
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coming up, a chase that even the cops can't believe. >> behind a drunk driver that's really -- >> see somebody who took it to the whole next level, because now he's putting many more people's lives at stake. >> but next, two officers pay the ultimate price in the line of duty. >> what happened was so senseless. it was senseless. >> and a police chief that will never forget. >> it was the worst day of my life ever. we were totally caught unprepared, and we won't be again. >> when "caught on camera: dash cam diaries" continues. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. [ coughs ] [ baby crying ] ♪ [ male announcer ] robitussin® liquid formula
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two west memphis police officers are dead tonight killed in the line of duty around the noon hour today. >> what happened was so senseless. it was senseless. >> what happened on may 20, 2010 was something the town of west memphis, arkansas, will never forget. particularly its police chief bob pauder. >> we're leaving 626 en route to your location. >> there is no such thing as a routine police call. nothing is routine. >> on that day in may officer bill evans is patrolling the interstate and pulls over a white van with an out-of-state plate. inside the van are jerry cane and his 16-year-old son joe. >> the license didn't appear right when he stopped van. then when he checked it, the paperwork started out an order. it was not issued by the state. >> instead, the paperwork is issued by the department of heaven, a bit suspicious, evans calls for backup and a second officer arrives on the scene.
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>> i think they realized that it was up. there was two officers there then and they were in trouble. >> off camera, jerry cane pushes officer evans down an incline and then on the dash cam, cane's son joe appears with a gun. >> bill is stumbling down this incline. he shoots at him. he didn't have time to get his weapon out. he hit him many times in the body, in the back. >> at that point, the second officer tries to help evans with the 16-year-old turning his weapon on him. >> officer down, officer down. 277 westbound. >> a delivery driver witnesses the whole scene. >> these guys just shot a police officer. >> through the statements of the driver, this kid was very methodical, very slow, knew exactly what he was doing and he handled that ak-47 like a military person would. >> the father/son team calmly gets back in the van and takes
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off leaving the officers bleeding on the ground. >> shortly after more police arrive and find that officer evans is alive but just barely. >> and there was about three officers standing over him and they were saying, bill, you're going to be okay, you're going to be okay. there was quite a bit of blood around and then i saw another officer lying on his back. one of the sergeants stopped me and said don't go up there. >> sadly that second officer lying on the ground is the son of the police chief, 39-year-old brandon paudert. >> i pushed him aside, i went up there and i saw brandon lying on his back, facing straight up with his pistol in his right hand. to find your son in the condition i found brandon, no parent should ever have to endure that pain ever. >> officer bill evans dies later at the hospital but brandon is dead at the scene. >> it was the worst day of my
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life ever. still horrific. we'll be affected till the day we die by brandon's death. >> with the suspects on the loose, an all-out manhunt begins. >> 911. >> there's a white van sitting here in the parking lot at walmart. >> less than a mile from the shooting, the white van is spotted in a walmart parking lot. gunfire erupts between the suspects and the van and other police officers. then out of nowhere comes mike neill, an arkansas wildlife officer who has his police scanner on. >> i pulled my m-4 up and i was driving towards the suspect. i was holding the steering wheel with my left hand and the m-4 with my right and i drove straight towards him. i made the decision at that point to ram the van to shut it down. >> the suspects begin firing spraying neill's truck with bullets. within a matter of minutes it's all over. jerry cane and his son joe are dead.
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whether it's mike neill's gun that silences the duo is not certain. other officers were also firing at them. >> there was bullet holes that went through, right above my head. i took multiple rounds into the grill, the hood, through the dash, the windshield. everywhere i was sitting in the truck was shot. there's no reason i shouldn't have been shot. >> it's obvious that mike neill was a hero in this case. had those two got out of that van and got in walmart, there is untold how many lives would have been lost. >> still, the question remains why all this happened in the first place. the west memphis police discover that jerry and joe cane were radical right members of the sovereign citizens movement, the canes traveled america giving seminars on how to avoid following some of the laws of this country. this video was posted on youtube by one of the seminar's participants who wanted to spread their message. >> you're being lied to just so
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we can wrap our hands around your throat. >> they don't have to go by any rules of this country. they misinterpret the constitution. they say that the federal laws do not affect them, that they have their own laws. >> at the time of the murders no one at the west memphis police department had heard of the organization. >> we were totally caught unprepared and won't be again. >> the chief is informing other law enforcement communities about the sovereign citizens movement, and is on what many view is a controversial mission, arming his police force with more powerful weapons and changing policy so that what happened to his son and fellow officer won't happen again. >> we're arming the police officers with the ar-15 rifles. when an officer does a traffic stop, a backup officer will be behind him in the patrol car
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with the ar-15. i know we'll catch heat from some in the communities, but i personally don't care. i'm here to save officers' lives. >> if police officers don't believe they go to war every day they pin the badge on, they are living in a false world. >> reflecting on his son's death and the dangerous criminals police face every day, the chief is convinced if officers bill evans and brandon have the right information and ammunition the outcome would have been very different. >> brandon would have been there, with an ar-15, and could have taken a 16-year-old punk out. coming up, a cop on a slow speed chase can't believe who is at the wheel. >> i was shocked, i was -- you're kidding me, right? when "caught on camera: dash cam
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911, where is your emergency? >> i'm behind a drunk driver that is really bad, i'm in greenfield. she is about off the road. >> patrol officer anthony newmeister appears to be behind a drunk driver, and it is all on the dash cam. >> the vehicle was all over the road. >> but he is in for the surprise of his life when he eventually catches up with the car after a 25-minute slow speed chase. >> i was dumbfounded. i was -- you're kidding me, right explosi right. >> it is august, 2009, and the seemingly intoxicated driver is oblivious and just keeps going. at one point when the vehicle stops at a stop sign, the officer believes the vehicle is
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about to pull over. but instead, the car goes right through traffic just missing two other vehicles. >> i thought he was going to get hit. i thought it was going to be bad. i knew there was going to be a sort of chase. there was not. >> as the pursuit continues, the driver becomes even more reckless, switching lanes numerous times, driving over the median and heading straight into oncoming traffic. >> this is somebody who took it to a whole new level, he is putting lives at stake, and driving on a two-lane highway that has a 60 miles an hour speed limit. that is when it got really interesting, as far as this is the real game and let's try to end it before somebody gets hurt. and it had the potential to get really ugly. >> by this time, squad cars from at least four different counties are on the chase. one gets ahead of the out of
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control driver and throws a spike strip out, breaking one of the tires. >> the driver just veered off, went down in the field. and it ended. >> the chase is over. officers order the suspect to get out of the car. but no one comes out. carefully, they approach the vehicle and find a little boy hunched down on the floor board. >> of course, we make sure he is okay. we ask him what happened. and at the time, we're asking where the other person went, where is the other person? and we're asking them -- we didn't see anybody run. >> police believes there had to be another person, someone else had to be driving the vehicle, and then? >> it clicked, that kid was driving the car. >> the driver of the chase that had officers from four counties and a k-9 unit after him was no
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drunk driver. it was a 9-year-old boy who could barely see above the steering wheel. >> i never experienced anything like that, i think i was just shocked. i didn't know what to think about it. the kid was cool, calm, collected, probably more than me. >> so what made this guy do an impulsive thing? >> he was mad at mom and dad, they made him come in, get ready for bed and he didn't like it. so he was going to leave, he took the vehicle and left. he was going to a friend's house and had two or three dollars in his pocket and that would get him wherever he needed to go. and his worry was not running from the police. his worry was "officer, i really tried to stay behind the speed limit. as you were behind me, i wanted to stay in the speed limit". >> the parents didn't know
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