caught on camera. police caught in the cross hairs. >> he was in attack mode. >> and the tables can turn in an instant. their dashboard cameras capturing real crime in real time. >> 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 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 is

supreme cysts role into town with guns blazing. february 15, 1997, wilmington, ohio. state trooper john harker is on the job. he has been involved in some of the riskiest and high profile cases in the state. >> we worked in southwest ohio with the intention of apprehending folks engaged in felony activities, drugs, stolen property, that type of enforcement. >> his day starts off like any other with a traffic stop. the suburban is missing a license plate. >> 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. >> a visual scan of the vehicle as i walked up appeared that they were doing construction. there were soiled jackets and, you know, heavy garmentes to wear outside in the weather. >> an expired license plate and no driver's license or any id 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 or have let their licenses expire who are not criminals. they're just forgetful. 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. i asked him why they were here. they indicated that they were

doing construction. they'd been to a gun show in the chill kothy area. >> two men from out of town, no identification and no registration. >> pan duri >> and during that time, the passenger was seated and his hands were palm up on his thighs. that's mott a normal posture. that's a posture of surrender. >> his gut now tells him something isn't right. trooper harker decides 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. as he came around the rear of the car, i started a pat down of his exterior gar meants. >> that's when the driver starts to get spooked.

>> he was feeling at that point 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 particular verbiage. it was a combination of factors. his recess tans, the verbiage he used. i felt that possibly these folks were some sort of militia or a paramilitary organization. >> there's also 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. >> in the meantime, another officer happens to drove by. he's deputy robert gates of the clinton county sheriff's department. he watches traffic harker navigate the traffic stop from or the side of the road. >> i saw 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 notice several times that the driver asked why he had been stopped. he was asking several other questions. these were questions i already knew the answer to and i had just gotten there. it bass obvious to me that the drover was trying to stall. i didn't know if he had a weapon on him, if he had drugs on him or other kind of contraband. i didn't know. >> i wanted to rye solve the situation, and he just wanted to get away. and i think he was weighing his options on how best to achieve that goal. >> the situation that has bee s

escalating is about to explode. without warping 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 second does react. >> that's when i saw a weapon coming across the back of the seat. >> give a quick glance over to trooper harker as he was moving around and was preparing to return fire. >> and 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 on yet because i didn't know trooper harker's condition. >> the driver jumps in the truck and speeds off with harker still hanging on. >> of an i got disengaged from the vehicle i did flatten a vehicle 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. 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 shape and chevy kehoe. they both manage to elude law enforcement that day. but four months later on june 16, 1997, the passenger, shane kehoe turns himself in. his brother chevy is arrested by the fbi the next day.

turns out, the brothers are founders of an antigovernment white supremacist group. >> they were in the area providing training to local groups and they were also somewhat on the run. >> they learn chevy is a suspect in the murder of an arkansas gun dealer. chevy's brother is sentenced for the ohio shootout. 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 all they they don't often speak about what happened that day, both are thankful to have survived an encounter that could have easily ended tragically.

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a car on fire. a driver trapped inside. police have only moments to save him. march 20th, 2007, fayetteville, arkansas. normally officers go pout solo, but corporal chris denton is recovering from a back injury, so he's riding shotgun with corporal phillip crosby.

>> i'm real excited to get back to work, but i knew there was some limitations i was going to have. >> several hours into their shift, it's turning out to be an uneventful evening, not a bad night as he 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, their night goes from 0 to 60 in seconds. they're des patched to a car accident. >> it's one of those situations where as soon as we got on scene, we knew action had to be taken right now. >> my first reaction is to get out of the car, make sure nobody's inside the vehicle. >> the clock is ticking, and the officers have to work fast to assess the situation. >> i could tell there was no window, but there was something blocking my view.

it seemed like plastic. it was the side air bag. and i cut it. that's when i first started talking to mr. barnes. in that instant, my mind, i knew i had to do everything i could to try to help him, try to get i am had out. burning alive is one. worst ways to die. >> desperate to get him out of the car, the officers try to open the doors with thewith the bare hands. but the smoke and heat is too intense, and the driver is pinned. >> he was wedged across the center console and behind the air bag. >> and there was just no way. i couldn't get him out, just could not pull him 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 just create a big enough space to try to pull him out. >> corporal denton grabs a fire extinguisher from the patrol car. hoping to fight back some of the flames. >> when the fire extinction wisher went dry, i even turned it over and started trying to break out the windshield just to try to give us access to the driver. couldn't see anything inside the car. there's smoke everywhere. >> the fire is roaring and the smoke is relentless. 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 much time. >> couldn't come straight out the window. we had to go toward the back of the car. >> i was getting really tired. i remember feeling him twisting just a little bit, and he finally moved. finally, he started coming out. >> it was like oo magic moment occurred. we were payable to both get in at the same time. and all of a sudden, he moved. whatever had been pinning him wasn't anymore. >> the driver, shawn barnes, is badly burned. and his legs are on fire when the officers pull him out of the car. >> at that point, we're all down 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 bead' gotten hem out of the car just because the flames were starting to get toward him again. >> his feet were still on fire. i. >> reporter: putting them out with my hands. and at that time, i immediately started trying to talk to him because i knew he would go into shock if we didn't. so i kept on trying to talk to him. and i remember him saying i can't breathe. >> emergency responders arrive four minutes after crosby and denton. >> and everybody just started doing their job as far as taking care of the accident scene, ems was taking care of shawn. >> 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 kroelt in just a few minutes. the overs are treated for smoke inhalation and burn, but it's

shawn whose life hangs in the balance. after numerous skin grafts and surgeries, shawn wakes up 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, you know, i'd been in a bad wreck. it came down between me and the legs. >> shawn 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 drover. somewhere in there, i don't actually remember leaving, burr i did. i left the house after that. and actually, the very last thing i remember was ordering a crown and coke. >> after leaving the second bar on also own, shawn says he drove home drunk, lost control and flipped his car twice. >> business was going great. personal life wasn't going so

well. i started drinking a lot of alcohol is a bad deal. and you do a lot of stupid stuff. >> a downward spiral almost ended shawn'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. i mean, 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 earn involved that night. corporals crosby pan denton are named police men of the month by the national law enforce. officers' memorial fund. >> it's not too often you pull somebody out of a burning fire. >> shawn donates the remains of his car to the police department. it's part of a show and tell presentation to give 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 did it. i don't want anybody to hurt anyone else. coming up, a simple traffic stop goes from dangerous to deadly. when caught on camera, dash cam diaries, continues. hey, look! a shooting star!

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a traffic stop goes from routine to life threatening in seconds. and it's all caught on camera. every night before deputy luis revere ra heads off, he goes through his normal routine, bedtime stories and a good-bye

kiss for his wife. danger is a fact of life for a deputy, especially one who's working the midnight shift. >> when i was working midnight shift, typically ten to 12 traffic stops, bringing people to jail for driving under the influence of drugs, warrants or some type of traffic violation. >> on january 25, 2010, one of deputy rivera's stops will take a deadly turn. it's been a routine patrol, and at 2:45 he's about to call it a night when he spots a car zooming past his cruiser. >> i notice the vehicle swerve without using his turn signal. i got suspicious. if he would have kept on going straight i probably wouldn't have noticed it. >> river eara thinks the driver might be drunk or high. >> it bass in my mind he was going to be the last traffic

stop for the night. as soon as i turned my lights on he complied right away. >> he walks up to the car. >> he had a suit, nice, clean cut. he seemed like a normal person, young white male, young guy, probably 23. >> rivera learns that the car belongs to his girlfriend and that his license is suspended. rivera smells marijuana coming from the car. >> probably thinking the more forthcoming i am he'll let me go. >> then the driver drops one last bomb. he's a convicted felon.

>> so i'm thinking in the back of my mind, okay. he's on probation for a knife, not a gun or anything. and i see that he's hesitating to open the door. so at that time i kind of got my suspicions a little bit. >> and in the blink of an eye this traffic stop goes from mundane to mayhem. >> i notice that he was pulling away. he was grabbing something from his right waist band. and that's when i saw the gun. and could i see that the finger was on the trigger, and i could see that the hammer on the gun was back.

it became a worse crime when he actually pulled a gun on me. before that, it was just a basic traffic stop. the whole time i'm talking to him or trying to get him to put the gun down i'm trying to hit the emergency butt top on my radio, and he looked down what i was doing. i was like okay, he's going to shoot me. i don't think i'm that fast that could i point a gun at him and take out the threat before he takes me out. i can probably de-escalate the situation. i can get him to put the gun down. >> amazingly, rivera does manage o 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.

he kept saying he didn't want to go back to prison. yeah i don't want somebody to go back to prison, but this is not the way to do this. 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 to 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. he really didn't have a way out. he wanted me to make this thing go away. he wanted me to never have ton the traffic stop. he wanted to make sure that he could go to his family. i also wanted this to end. i wanted him to understand that killing yourself is not the

answer. that's not thenswer for anything. >> but the driver sees no way out. he steps back, takes the gun out of his pocket and puts it to his head. >> i said think of your family. you don't want to do that to your family. you don't want to do this. >> the driver dies instantly. within three minutes of river a's first call, they're on the scene. >> why did this happen, so. >> in the days that follow, a sheriff's investigation reveals the driver was carrying a stolen handgun and had tonged about committing suicide the night of the of traffic stop.

>> so people that knew that this guy was a threat to himself or others, they knew if he got a traffic stop, he got pulled over he was either going to kill them or kill himself. >> these details helped the deputy understand that even though the stop did not go as he had hoped he did everything in his power to save a man's life. >> i western i could have gotten him to put the gun down. you do your best to help people, and sometimes you can't. you can't help everybody. coming up. 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. >> when caught on camera, dash cam diaries, continues. you thought this beach couldn't get any more tempting...

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6, 2009, in kansas city, missouri. dean mcginnis is a veteran with the kansas city police department. he and his partner start their shift at 3:00. often the officers will ride together. but today they're taking separate cars. after more than ten years working the same beat together, mcginnis and turner rely heavily on one another. >> we deal with a little bit of everything, disturbances, robberies, stealing, you name it. >> after a few hours on traffic duty in ruskin heights, a call comes 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 non-injury, vehicular, a car into a tree, which is a pretty nondangerous call. >> only officer turner is dispatched to check out the scene. mcagainis stays back to continue

running radar. >> as i drove a little further towards the accident, i saw a hispanic male wearing a white tee shirt, and i slowed down, looked at hull in my rear view mirror, and it crosses my mind, i wonder if he mows anything about the accident or maybe he was involved in it. >> as officer turner pulls up, there's no driver in skiegt. over the radio, he learns that a latino man was driving the suv. >> i asked if he would stop the male. coop of shocking that somebody could just walk away from that. >> responding to his partner's call, mcginnis takes off in search of the man and sees him walking into pa nearby park. >> there was something odd, something more to what he was doing than just walking away from a vehicular to maybe avoid a ticket. >> mcginnis radios turner for back up and tells him to meet

him at the park. >> as i turned around i could hear it in dean's voice. he was suspicious of something. >> mcguinness cuts across the grass to get a good look at the man. dash cam rolling the whole time. by this time, officer turner is on the scene. >> i expected to take off running and we'd be in a foot chase. >> as mcguinness pulls up closer the man turns around. that's when the situation turns ugly. >> as i went to hit my sirens, i saw him bring a gun up and point it towards dean. >> i'm looking into the barrel of this gun. it's pointed right at my face. so i duck down and took an evasive action to get away and bumped into the car door, fell to the ground. >> he wasn't being elusive anymore, he was actually in attack mode. he was going to execute officer mcagainis. he had no intention on running away.

>> as the gunman closes in on mcginnis, 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. >> he eventually dropped to his knees, and we tried to direct him verbally to throw the gun away so we could approach him. the suspect was still armed. he was still moving. and he still had the gun pointed down towards officer mcginnis. >> 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 brooke 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 mrs. a warraalso a war his arrest at the time of the shooting. >> the handgun he used had been stolen. >> he carried a weapon frequently. he had a couple bullets in his body from a previous gunfight. >> after the incident, mcginnis and turner are recognized for their valor and courage, they appreciate the praise but are more grateful to be alive. >> i think that's what he expected he picked the time, chashled through that he would be able to carry it off. >> when i look through 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

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a texas police officer pulls over a man for speeding. and what she thinks is a routine traffic stop turns into a fight for her life in the blink of an eye. march 6, 2006, austin, texas. it's 3:00 and officer brenda bermudez is starting off her shift with the austin police department. 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 or the night before. >> officer gabriel padilla is also a rookie starting his shift at the same time. they've been working together for eight months, and padilla considers her his confidante and mentor. >> we checked out equipment, i joked around a little bit. made fun of each other. >> we were like family. >> it's a typical shift. she takes some calls. one of them a complaint from a man who says he's had his car stolen. >> i'll never forget because the owner of the vehicle says you can't miss my car. it has on the side of the window, it says fat tee shirt with a ph with the fat part. it as written in shoe polish. >> she clocks a car doing 48 in a 30 mile an hour zone.

he pulls into a parking lot. the officer thinks the driver may be impaired so she radios for backup. >> i notice his eyes were really glassy. >> i knew the driver, i recognized his face. i just couldn't remember his name. >> then it hits her. wait amin ut. this is armando torres.

>> he is a known felon and previously assaulted her in 2005. >> i get into a lot of altercations when i'm trying to restrain people. >> just as it all comes back to her, the officer remembers something else too. >> i looked back to the rear side window, and i noticed white writing. it had phat tee shirts. and when i saw that, i remembered several hours earlier, a complaintant had tried to report his vehicle stolen. >> the driver overhears her radio call, and the situation is about to go downhill fast. officer bermudez sees the drover

going for something, she thinks a weapon. she reaches her hand into the car and the driver panics. >> 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 drover takes off with officer bermudez still reaching inside the car. >> 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 is still hard for her to talk about. >> and 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 onto 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. brenda, keep breathing. brenda, stay with me. stay with me. i thought i had heard, you know, don't die. and at that moment, i started kind of wondering if my legs were gone. >> another officer gives chase and captures it all on his dash

cam. officer bermudez is still conscious and glad to know the officer in pursuit is her buddy, gabrielle padilla. >> i couldn't make the police car go any faster than what i was already going. so many emotions were running through my head and i didn't know how bad it was. i thought she was, she was dead. >> the suspect jumps out of the stolen car and now he's on the run. while the passenger casually walks away from the scene, officer padilla goes after torres. >> so i gave chase up to the creek. i caught up it to him. he gave up, and he surrendered

himself. he laid down on the ground, and i had him at gunpoint. >> officer bermudez is rushed to the hospital. she has no broken bones, but she does need surgery on both knees. her recuperation is slow, but eventually, she makes a full recovery. armando torres pleads guilty to aggravated assault of a the public servant and is sentenced to 20 years behind bars. for officer bermudez it's a traumatic day for sure, but one that has not changed her outlook on her chosen profession. >> i took that job for a reason, because i could help people. i also took this job to make

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what do you get when you combine a bustling six lane highway and a driver in more than more than just a new set of brakes. >> the person was trying to use his feet to stop the car. >> you get one peeved police officer. august 8, 2011, roseville, michigan. this officer is working the day

shift when a strange call comes over the radio. >> the call came in that there was a vehicle was driving north and somebody was hanging out of the vehicle. i happened to be a few blocks away and drove up and saw the vehicle in front of me. and i saw him sticks his feet out of the driver's door. our first thought was that somebody was being kidnapped or something else and they were hanging trying to get out of the vehicle. it's something i'd never seen in over 20 years of police work. he's basically holding onto the steering wheel. he's got his door open and his legs hanging out of the car. that's when i realized he didn't have brakes. >> the 4,000 pickup truck is barrelling straight toward a busy intersection. he knows he has to act fast. >> the first thing i was trying to think of was 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 try to hit his car and try to move him. >> as seep on the dash cam, the driver runs a rid light, barrels into the intersection and hits a white suv. >> it forced that car off the roadway into a pole. and his vehicle kept moving. it's like a missile. it 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 hum to stop the vehicle. he yelled to me that he had no brakes. then the dispatch put out that he'd been driving like that for miles. so yeah, i was a little enraged at the thought that somebody would drive for miles without brakes. so i said throw it in park. and i brief his words back were, that will ruin my car. and then i threw it in park.

at that point in time, you could hear the transmission making a really bad grinding noise. however, it didn't stop. >> even though the car has switched gears to park the car doesn't stop immediately. there's a red light ahead. if this driver doesn't come up with something else, more people could get hurt. >> he then went left into oncoming traffic. he struck another vehicle and another vehicle struck him on his left side, completely stopped his vehicle at the time. >> with the car at a stand still, 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 and asked him what he was doing. i couldn't think of a normal guy who would doing is like that. somebody had to be drunk or high or something like that. i asked him how long his brakes had been out. he said he knew they were out and he had to get to work. i asked him what he did.

he was a commercial roofer. >> the driver has driven for at least five miles without brakes. he's charm the with reckless driving and driving with a suspended license. >> and that's as high of charges we could come up with. >> the biggest surprise, he passes every sew bright test he's given. >> luckily on this date he didn't cause any injuries. the only injury he caused was to his feet. >> the driver pleads not guilty to the charms, and whatever he was thinking that day will just have to remain a miystery. >> after all the tests, he was in his right mind, his mind wasn't right. unfloirnt we don't have a law driving while stupid. we'd have a hlot more arrests. that's all for this edition

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