a cop, getting a mouthful from this great grandma. but what will he do? and a nfl player and his wife desperately trying to make it to the hospital, detained by an unsympathetic cop. >> you ran a red light. >> my woman is dying. >> and i turn around, he has a

gun pointed at me. >> what will she do? >> people faced with tough decisions. >> i have to make a decision, what am i going to do now? >> and moral dilemmas, with life or death consequences. >> if he does jump, i'm going in. but i don't think that i really believed that i would actually -- it would come down to that. >> scenarios that force you to ask yourself, what would you do? hello. welcome to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. how well do you think you know yourself? in this show we pose the question, what would you do? in situations that are dangerous and even life threatening.

some are ethical questions. some are questions of judgment and others are uncomfortable. but briefly put yourself in the plays of these people and ask yourself, did they right the might choice? what would you decide? a car with its hazards on runs a red light and pulls into this hospital parking lot with police in hot pursuit. the driver is nfl running back ryan moats. earlier that the evening his wife gets an urgent phone call from a nurse telling them to come to the hospital. her mother, sick with cancer is very close to death. >> get in there. get in there. let me see your hands. get in there. put your hands on the car. >> officer robert powell gets out of his car, gun drawn as

ta-moesha moats tries to explain. >> he has a cold look in his eye, letting me know that he doesn't care. i was walking toward a hostile cop with a gun. >> what would you do in this situation? disobey a policeman with his gun drawn or stay and miss the only opportunity you'll have to stay good-bye to your dying mother. for ta-moesha, her decision is an easy one. along with her great aunt she heads into the hospital. >> i know a lot of people think what i did was crazy or dangerous, but the truth of the matter is there is nothing in the world that would keep me from going up at the time i did. >> ryan's faced with a decision too. should he disobey the officer? should he go into the hospital like tis wife? >> officer powell hasn't

responded to reason yet, and moats feels he's running out of time. >> you ran the rudd light. >> my mother is dying. right now. >> that doesn't constitute running a red light. >> your mother's dying? i waited until no traffic was coming. >> moats does provide his insurance to the officer, but the situation quickly escalates from there. >> do you have a problem? >> we don't have a problem. my mother-in-law is dying. >> listen to me. you can either settle down and cooperate or i can take you to jail. >> go ahead and take my inshurps so i can go ahead and go. if i need a ticket give me a ticket. >> your attitude says you need one. >> you're standing here talking to me. just do it. >> by now, ta-moesha has made it to her mother's side, but she's

worried her husband is in danger. >> shut your mouth and listen. >> shut your mouth and listen? >> if you don't settle down, i can put you in cuffs and take you to jail. i can screw you over. aid rather not do that. your attitude will dictate everything that happens. >> yes, sir. >> and right now, your attitude sucks. i can make your night very difficult. >> i wish you, i hope you are a great person and not do that. >> by now, more than five minutes have passed. for ryan, it all seems surreal. what should he do to get out of this situation? what can he do? can he make it in time to say his good-byes to a woman who has meant the world to him? >> my mom's relationship with ryan was very different than a typical mother and son-in-law

relationship. they were good friends, very close. my mom was like a jokester. so was ryan. >> when jo got diagnosed with cancer, her hair started falling out. so what she did, when she bought a wig, i put her wig on. i said see how good i look? i tried to cheer her up. it worked. >> they had been holding vingity for three weeks, rarely ever leaving her side. but on march 17th, the night of the incident, gentlemjanetta se be improving. >> they go home for a bit, shower and return to the hospital. shortly after they get a phone call. >> the nurse said she's on her last leg. if you guys want to say your

goode b good-byes, you should probably come back. >> coming up, would you spend the last moments with your loved one or obey an officer? >> i had my hands up, like what's going on? my mother's dying. >> what will ryan moats do? what would this officer do? what would you do? and a man about to jump off a bridge. >> he said to me, i might be going swimming today. >> would you risk your own life to save another? when caught on camera, what would you do, returns. tally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let's do that. (guy) you know you're eating a bug. (girl) because of the legs. (guy vo) we got a subaru to take us new places. (girl) yeah, it's a hot spring. (guy) we should do that. (guy vo) it did. (man) how's that feel? (guy) fine. (girl) we shouldn't have done that. (guy) no. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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ryan and ta-moesha moats have just gotten a phone call from the hospital. >> we proceeded to the hospital with our hazard lights on. >> it's late at night, past midnight, when ryan's car gets to the light right before the hospital.

it's red. >> the light didn't change. we blew our horn and i waved to the traffic. they saw hazard lights and let me go. they, like, told us to go, so we went ahead and went. >> ryan and tamisha believe it's fairly obvious what they're doing. the other driver seems to understand, allowing them to proceed to the hospital. >> yes, i ran a red light, but at the same time i was really safe about what i was doing. i didn't just run through the red light. i stopped at the red light, got everybody's attention to let them know, hey, i'm about to come through, can i come through first? and everybody waved me on to do so. [ sirens ] >> but then as they're pulling into the parking lot, flashing lights. >> get in there. get in there. >> powell says he doesn't remember pointing his gun, only drawing it. the moats say he pointed it, first at tamisha, then at ryan.

while tamisha goes in, ryan decides it's best to stay outside, hoping the officer will understand their situation. >> you ran a red light. >> we went back and forth for a little bit. and then i realized that i was talking to a wall. i mean, he wasn't going to listen. he didn't care. >> did i not stop at the red light? did i not -- >> stop. and then you ran through the red light. >> i waved the traffic off. >> it was still red. >> and then i turned. >> shut your mouth and listen. >> shut my mouth and listen? that's how you talk to me, dude? >> shut your mouth and listen. >> he was just, like, i can take you to jail, i can tow your car. shut your mouth. all this different stuff that i was thinking that wasn't appropriate for a cop to say to anybody. >> it's decision time for ryan. he knows if he stays he'll probably miss his opportunity to say good-bye and to be there for his wife. >> i was thinking i didn't want

anything else bad to happen, so i was trying to stay as calm as possible. >> ryan stays and hopes he can get a ticket to go into the hospital. >> that's the nurse and she says the mom's dying right now. >> all right. >> the head nurse comes out to see if she can help. but the officer seems to be taking his time. by now, nearly 13 minutes have passed. >> for the third time. >> okay. >> the nurses say it's urgent. >> and finally ryan moats is issued his ticket for running a red light. >> okay. attitude. >> by the time he makes it up to his mother-in-law, it's too late. she's already gone. >> i was angry that he wasn't understanding. head nurse came out and told him what was going on, another police officer came and tried to talk to him. a security guard from the hospital came out and talked to him. i was thinking about her.

i don't know if anybody's ever, you know, seen a loved one pass like that. that's a hard thing to see them actually pass. that's hard. and to deal with that by yourself is even tougher. >> it was definitely the hardest thing that i've ever had to do in my life. and just to go in, you know, and see her like that. >> the videos released to the media and the dallas police department immediately issues an apology. >> in the course and scope of everything we deal with in a year, this is more embarrassing and troublesome because it just seems to be so unreasonable based on the circumstances. >> officer robert powell issues an apology to the moats and resigns. the moats accept his apology. >> guess everybody deserves a second chance as far as proving what their true character is. so hopefully after this he'll change his ways. >> and the moats think change shouldn't end with robert

powell. though ryan didn't try to use his status as an nfl player during the incident, after they hoped to shine a spotlight. they meet with the dallas police department to discuss greater sensitivity training, better screening of officers, and procedures for their situation. >> the fact that he was an athlete makes people pay attention, and so if we have a voice to maybe help a situation, maybe bring about some changes to where someone else wouldn't have to go through what we had to go through, then that's what we're going to do. >> but more than anything, the moats want people to know about the type of person jeanetta collinsworth was -- a teacher, a mother, and an advocate for cancer research. they' set up a foundation called joeknowschildren in her honor. coming up, a man is knocked unconscious in front of a supermarket, and nobody seems to be doing anything. >> many of the people that walked by wanted to do something

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a vicious blow knocks this homeless man to the ground. he scrambles to his feet, but then minutes later he's pushed down again. and this time, he doesn't get up. it's 5:20 p.m. the beatdown occurs outside the pan am market, an international supermarket in washington, d.c. several people witness the knockout punch. watch as dozens of passersby sidestep the unconscious man, jose sanchez. if you saw this altercation, what would you do?

would you call 911 or maybe even try to help him? what if you just pass a man like him lying on the street? would you bother to find out if he's okay? >> it almost becomes sickening to see that nobody actually does anything. >> mark fischer is a reporter for "the washington post" who writes a column on the story called "166 chances to do the right thing." >> i think they ought to consider a fact that a person on the sidewalk is a person on the sidewalk. there is no excuse that so many passersby, in fact 166 of them, chose to walk by. >> hector gomez grew up in this neighborhood and now runs an organization dedicated to supporting business in the area. he says as disturbing as it is, he can understand why so many people just walked by. >> there are many homeless people and intoxicated vagrants in this neighborhood and throughout washington, d.c., that are laying on the ground, and you don't know if they're there just sleeping or if they're there drunk, passed out. so you do become desensitized to

it. >> desensitized is right. watch as five minutes pass. ten minutes. a man even loads his groceries into his minivan over the motionless victim. now it's 15 minutes since sanchez hit the ground and still people just walking by. finally, after 19 minutes, an employee in the pan am market dials 911. paramedics arrive two minutes later. by this time, 166 people either witnessed the beating or walked by the motionless body without doing a thing. the incident reminds writer mark fischer of a case from years past. >> you know, i grew up in new york city where there was the infamous case of kitty genovese. >> in 1964, kitty genovese, a 28-year-old woman, is stabbed outside her queens home, then later raped and stabbed again. nearly 40 people either see or hear the crime from their homes,

but no one responds to her calls for help. >> that led to a lot of studies looking at what's called the bystander effect, which is when people see someone in trouble, we are far less likely to reach out and help if we see that other people are around because we assume that means, hey, the other guy has it handled, when, in fact, if everybody thinks that way, nobody helps. >> unfortunately, more than four decades after the genovese murder jose sanchez suffers the same awful fate. the ambulance rushes him to the hospital, but it's too late. sanchez dies of a traumatic brain injury three days later. >> is it possible that immediate medical care would have made a difference? we'll never know for sure, but it does seem like there is a possibility. >> hector gomez thinks the makeup of the population in this neighborhood may have contributed to the lack of response for either those who witnessed the knockout or those who walked by. >> many of the people that

walked by this person maybe wanted to do something but felt like they couldn't, you know? you might say to yourself, what if i don't have papers and i'm here illegally and i'm scared? i just won't call. >> that said, while gomez says he understands why so many people may not have called 911, it doesn't mean he thinks it's excusable. in fact, he decides to use the incident as a teaching lesson. >> i thought to myself why is it that so many people walked by and are not calling? if i'm laying on the ground, i expect that first person to see me to call 911 right away. so i thought, well, let's make a call 911 campaign. >> immediately following the incident, hector gets together with the police, has flyers translated into several languages, and distributes them in his neighborhood. >> excuses are not valid, you know. i don't think they're valid. but i do think it's important to improve that that situation.

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the average price is 3.67 a gallon. welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. would you risk your life to save a stranger who seemingly wants to die? it's a question few people ever have to contemplate, but in our next story strangers is spending a relaxing day in the park were facing that very situation and they'll have to make a decision in an instant. a man at the end of a bridge contemplates life or death. >> oh, man. >> but as minutes tick by, the question soon becomes one for witnesses on the ground. what should they do? >> we're skating across the bridge here. >> tara johnson is roller-blading through fairmont park in philadelphia with her boyfriend, garrett couples, on may 6, 2000, when their leisurely saturday afternoon takes a turn. >> i glanced over my left shoulder and noticed there was a gentleman sitting on the bridge. >> next thing tara and garrett know, police cars and fire

trucks swarm all around them. they're forced off the bridge to a nearby riverbank. >> i remember commenting to my girlfriend that if he does jump, i'm going in. but i don't think that i really believed that i would actually -- that it would come down to that. >> if it does come to that, garrett couples is qualified. he's a medical student trained in lifesaving cpr. and for eight straight summers he's been an ocean lifeguard with a perfect rescue record. >> i've been in the water at least 100 times. >> by now, more than 50 policemen and firefighters are on the scene, and couples assumes that with so many rescuers around they won't need his help. and up on the bridge, negotiators make contact with the man on the ledge as a crowd of onlookers gathers below. >> i see the big rescue truck there. i see police all along the bridge. >> howard gillam works for a local capable station and just happens to be driving by when he notices some commotion. >> so i'm, like, hey, i've got

the camera in my car. let's get out and videotape it. >> gillam estimates by the time he starts taking this dramatic video, the man, matthew buford, has already been on the bridge for ten minutes, maybe more. >> the leg up. >> buford lets go with one hand, leaning out over the water. >> don't jump! >> police and firefighters are lining the bridge, but strangely, there's no rescue boat in the water. >> a mile down the river. >> but so far nearly 20 minutes have passed and no rescue boat has been able to make it there yet. >> whoa. >> the situation appears to be getting worse. >> oh, come on, buddy. don't jump. >> if buford does jump, he might survive the 50-foot fall. but no one knows if he can swim. >> garrett said to me, the guy's going to knock himself out and he's going to fall. a minute later he said i might be going swimming today.

>> and then nearly 25 minutes into the ordeal, matthew buford jumps. >> there he goes. >> oh! >> what y'all going to do? >> okay. he can swim. >> after he jumped into the river, he started treading water for a while. >> swim! >> and at this time, i'm thinking, okay, where's the rescue unit at? >> no matter what buford was thinking when he jumped, now in the water he seems to be fighting for his life and looks like a man who needs help. >> dude ain't doing good. >> authorities on the bridge toss down a lifeline, but it doesn't come close. you can see it off to the right. >> must have a hundred boats out there. >> by this time buford has been struggling for almost go minutes in the middle of a 500-foot-wide river. >> come on, man. >> matthew buford is losing strength. for the first time his head

slips under the water. there seems to be no official rescue response. what would you do? what would the bystanders do? should they risk their lives for someone who might not want to be saved? >> and then all of a sudden he went under and i turned around to look and garrett was gone. >> there's somebody out there coming. >> garrett couples, the lifeguard with a perfect record, is in the water, swimming from the opposite shore. buford's head pops back um, but it's clear there isn't much time. >> at that point i just freestyling as fast as i could. >> he's got a long way to go. >> couples know that when a victim goes under he has only a small window, about four minutes, to save someone from drowning. >> he goes under one more time, that's it. >> 50 yards left to swim and matthew buford goes under again. >> come on, man. about a half an hour. >> more than that. >> but garrett couples is

closing in. >> i mean, my record's perfect, and i wasn't giving it up. >> we got 900 cops here. >> on the shore, all hope seems lost. >> that's it. >> but under the water, near the muddy bottom, couples is still searching. >> i dove for the bottom, about eight feet, at which point i saw something that appeared white. a flash. and i didn't know what it was. i took another -- maybe a half a stroke and i opened my eyes again, and at that point mr. buford and i were face to face. >> miraculously, garrett couples brings the drowning man back to the surface. with adrenaline pumping, he's lost track of time but knows the four-minute mark that might mean the difference between life and death was fast approaching. >> i heard mr. buford make a sound as though he was attempting to breathe. >> breathe, buddy!

come on! >> garrett calls out for a life buoy he can use to brace buford as he brings him to shore. >> i need a brig! >> but authorities don't seem to understand. >> i gave him a second look and i noticed that now his lips were getting blue and i knew at that point it's -- you have to make a decision. >> this is a very difficult decision for couples to make. to prevent the spread of aids and other diseases, modern rescue crews carry plastic equipment so they can give emergency breathing without direct mouth-to-mouth contact, part of what's called universal precautions. >> i knew that it was probably going to be a couple minutes before i could get him to shore. >> he's trying to give him mouth to mouth. >> that boy is good. >> now finally, help is on the way. but it's not a policeman or fireman. like garrett, it's just another person who was out in the park that day. >> when he went under water, the clock's ticking instantly.

and that's why i went in the water. >> steven lloyd is a 46-year-old registered nurse, but unlike garrett couples he's not a lifeguard. in fact, steven lloyd says he hasn't been swimming in ten years. >> he's trying to do something. >> i just asked him, do you have any training? >> i gulped some water and said i'm exhausted. >> i said, okay, well grab him under his arm and we're going to tow him to shore. >> it's been more than four minutes now since matthew buford went under when garrett couples reaches the shore. but if he expects help to be waiting, he's in for another surprise. >> come on. come on. get him over. >> i expected them to have everything possible to save this gentleman set up and ready to go. at the very minimum the bag masks we use to ventilate somebody and oxygen. i mean, that alone does worlds of good.

>> get down there! >> keep the camera rolling. >> out of the way. >> but as the videotape shows, only now are authorities pushing spectators back, scrambling over the railing down to the river. >> i gave him two breaths before i handled him over and they pulled him on shore and began chest compressions. i remember hearing steven lloyd shouting at them. >> i said ventilate him, ventilate him, ventilate him. and they were, like, sir, we can't. universal precautions. >> now more time ticks away. you can see a rescuer carrying a plastic bag with the all-important breathing gear. only now on the way down to the river. >> the man needed to be ventilated. i really thought this guy could have been saved. i really did. >> we really tried. by the time philadelphia rescue

crews get him up from the riverbank and to a local hospital, it's too late. matthew buford is dead. >> no one will ever know for sure if he could have been saved. garrett couples says he doesn't blame the crowd or the police for not jumping in if they weren't properly trained. but he says it's hard to believe with so many authorities on the scene that none of them knew how to make a water rescue. >> i mean, it's -- it doesn't make sense to me that you have fire rescue within two blocks, marine rescue within two miles, and none of them are trained in water rescue. to me, that is -- i mean, that's unspeakable. >> after the incident, the victim's family files a complaint and the philadelphia police department conducts an internal investigation. the internal investigation concludes that their officers

provided adequate service. as soon as police were notified of buford's position, they dispatch a negotiator and within minutes also call their marine unit. but the marine unit, though based nearby, had been dispatched to another river earlier that day and is miles away, pulling up abandoned cars when they get the call. they immediately head for the bridge, but as we now know, don't make it in time. as for the criticism that the officers present should have done more, in a letter to a local newspaper the then philadelphia police commissioner p it's unfair to criticize officers who made reasonable effort does rescue someone who did not want to be rescued and could have easily caused the death of the other officers. writes -- [ applause ] >> when garrett couples climbs up from the shore, the crowd gives him and steven lloyd a round of applause for the

choices they made that day. but while the onlookers are impressed by what garrett couples did do, he can only think about the fact that a man lost his life and wonders what else could have been done. >> i think it came down to lack of training, no protocol, and no plan of action. i don't think i'll ever truly accept the fact that i did everything i could, because i'm always going to look back on it and say, you know, was there something different i could have done. coming up -- a routine traffic stop. escalates fast. >> you're going to taze a 72-year-old woman? >> a shocking incident. >> get on the ground! >> and a convenience store owner has a surprise in store for this would-be robber. >> i take the gun and i just chop off.

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well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. a 72-year-old woman, great grandmother katherine winkfine is pulled over for speeding just west of austin, texas. what appears to be a routine traffic stop is about to get disorderly. >> get on the ground now. >> oh, oh. you're going to stun me? >> the deputy warns the 4'11" woman. katherine winkfine may be a little feisty, but does the officer overreact?

what would you do if you were the officer? would you continue trying to talk the grandma down or would you follow through on your threat? here's what this officer does. [ screaming ] >> put your hands behind your back. >> the tasing goes viral with a tantalizing headline. >> let's move now to a traffic stop in texas that ended with a tasing, the tasing of a 72-year-old woman, a great grandmother. >> and without the full story, it seems this video will be damaging to the officer. his own dashboard cam catches him yelling at and shoving an elderly woman half his size. but watch the video again. this time listening to more of the conversation. it may change your opinion of the officer's decision.

first the deputy tries to get winkfine to sign her ticket, agreeing that she'd show up for court. and when he asks her to step out of the car, he says she puts both of them in an unsafe position. his politician department defending his actions saying what he's actually doing is trying to get himself and katherine winkfine away from a notoriously dangerous stretch of highway. >> she chose to disregard not only her own personal safety but she chose to disregard the safety of the deputy. >> the deputy warns her again. then she issues a challenge.

the officer doesn't take her up on her dare yet. she keeps moving forward. >> the lady was told nine times to step back and comply with the officer's request. step back, ma'am. step back, ma'am. if you don't step back, ma'am, i'm going to taser you. >> so finally the officer makes good on his promise. >> get on the ground. get on the ground. [ screaming ] >> put your hands behind your back. put your hands behind your back or you'll be tased again! >> the video sparks a national debate on morning news shows. >> okay, let me ask you, did the deputy do what was right or did he go over the line? >> you'll be tased again.

>> i would say he went a little over the line. >> really? >> he kept shoving this 72-year-old woman. >> i think he pushed her because they're in traffic. get her off the road. she kept trying to get the door of the car. >> couldn't he just grab and -- >> she kept saying don't touch me. i think at some point -- [ screaming ] >> put your hands behind your back. >> so should the deputy have found another way to gain control? >> he had attempted to put handcuffs on her, advising her she was under arrest. and she broke away from him. that's physical noncompliance. if he would have forced her down to the ground against -- totally against her will, he could have broke something. he mitigated this safely, effectively, and efficiently. >> medical personnel check out winkfine at the scene and she's not hurt from the tasing. but she is charged with resisting arrest, a charge she's fighting. and she sends a letter to the travis county commissioner's

office demanding $165,000 for pain and suffering, medical expenses and humiliation. the commissioner's office settles with winkfine for $40,000. the constable's office maintains the officer did nothing wrong and calls the payout a miscarriage of justice, insists it sets a bad precedent. the county judge says defending a lawsuit would have cost more than $40,000. winkfine tells us she's satisfied and just wants to put the whole thing behind her. sometimes decisions are made on gut instinct. there's no time to evaluate the consequences. and at a bank in seattle, washington, another man makes a quick decision. will he regret it? >> put the bag on the counter. he said this is a ransom. fill the bag with money. >> jim nicholson is the teller in this video. when the robber demands the money, caught on the bank's security cameras, jim's instincts kick in. >> i grabbed the bag, threw it on the ground and said where is it?

referring to if he had a weapon. >> it's a bold move by the teller. the robber hesitates. he doesn't show a weapon. what would you do in this situation? would you give the robber what he wants or call his bluff? would you attempt an aggressive move? the teller makes his decision. >> i lunged towards him. he backed off. at that point i ran around the counter and chased him. >> nicholson chases the robber down the street, tackling him and pinning him down until police arrive soon after. some see jim nicholson as a hero, but his bosses at the bank don't agree. two days after the robbery attempt, he's fired. some customers are outraged. >> i just can't believe that he would get fired for doing something that i feel was right. >> bank policy says tellers are supposed to comply with the robber, give him what he wants. basically the goal should be to get the robber out of the bank.

key bank has this to say. our policies and procedures are in the best interest of public safety. money which is insured can be replaced. lives cannot. the fbi agrees. >> in no way to we suggest physical confrontation with the robber. too many things can go on. >> but some say litting this guy get away it isn't the answer. >> i had to apprehend him so he cannot do this again. so he cannot rob another bank, so he cannot come to our branch and try to rob us again. >> the robber will not be robbing this bank or any other soon. >> he is sentenced to 3 years behind bars. and that's enough reward for

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convenience stores are notorious targets for thieves. >> you know i'm here long time. in this community. i'm here last 15 years. >> mohammed sahail owns this convenience store. he maintains a long following of customers and has managed to dodge a big bullet in his line of work -- getting robbed -- until now. it's just past midnight.

and mohammed is finishing up some paperwork before locking up for the night. >> my head is down on my paperwork. and the guy come quick say give me the money. give me the money. >> the robber tosses the phone violently and waves the baseball bat saying give me the money. one wrong move by mohammed could have deadly consequences. veeps store murders are near the top of the list of workplace slayings in the u.s. every year. and now the phone is across the room so he can't call the cops. but the clerk has been hiding something from the robber, with the menacing bat. he's got a weapon of his own -- a big gun under the counter. what would you do in this situation? would you fight back? break out the gun? or just give the man threatening you with the weapon what he wants. >> i had to decide myself. only two people's over here.

i can't call somebody ask what i'm going to do now. >> mohammed makes some choices this robber never sees coming. >> i say hold on, let me get the money. i get the gun i say drop the bat get down. when he see the gun that's a surprise by him. almost a shock. >> almost immediately, the thief drops to his knees and begs for mercy. >> he says please don't call police. please. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i have no money. i have no food. my family is hungry. >> the thief's words weigh heavily on mohammed. so next, in an extremely odd twist, the shop owner makes an unexpected decision. >> i feel bad. i'm going to help him. i tell him. listen, promise me you never rob anybody again. >> with the promise, mohammed decides he's going to give money to the man who wanted to take it from him only minutes later.

>> i open the cash register give $40. and i tell him, take this money, go get your family and never rob anybody again. >> mohammed's compassion seems to hit the thief hard. the now kneeling robber tells mohammed he wants to change his life in a big way. >> he says he wants to be a muslim just like me. i say okay, put are your right hand up. he puts his right hand up. i say say [ speaking in arabic ] . i agafrps, are you a muslim brother. >> he decides to do even more. >> i say take the bred. let me grab the milk for your

family. i go in the back, i grab the milk. then i come back. he's gone. he's left. >> mohammed said he wasn't going to call the police, but because the robber choose does run away instead of taking his mask off and facing mohammed like a man, he decides this thief's conversion may not have been completed. and now he's alone in the store, left to think about the decisions he just made. first his decision to overtake the man attacking him. >> if a person has a gun, knife, this kind of stuff, that i'm going to say okay brother, what do you need? you can have my cash register. then i see a baseball bat, then i'm thinking to myself, i can handle that. >> then the decision to help the very man trying to rob him. >> some people say why don't you shoot him? i say please, i can't do this thing. when i'm a little baby, my mom tell me, son, when somebody

comes to you, help him. >> so that's exactly what mohammed does. and when the cops ask the good smar at any if he wants to presh press charges he decline, figuring the robber probably learned his lesson. and mohammed says he learned a few lessons too. >> you know, this is my hometown. but most people in california are sending me checks and in future i'm going to make a charity. i'm going to help. >> unfortunately, less than a year after the accident, mohammed falls victim to a bad economy and is forced to close the store he ran in shirley for 15 years. but true to his word, he donates whatever's left on his shelf does churches and charities. if you have a video you want

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