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>> caught on camera, point of no return. an under cover surveillance operation quickly erupts into a violent shootout with one police officer in the fight for his life. >> to crack down on the drug trade, the detective and the fbi target grow houses. otherwise ordinary used to illegally plant, grow, and sell marijuana. in 2012, they set their sights
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on a suspected operation in west miami-dade. >> the plan was to get to the house to see who was coming in and out. once it takes place, let's go ahead and knock on the door and find out who lives there and talk to them and see if we can get consent. >> july 31st, go time and it's captured by security cameras installed outside the house. right before the team makes its move, a man emerges from the house and briefly out of the officer's sight enters a vehicle parked in the driveway. seconds later, unbenounced to him, he walks past a potentially dangerous threat in the car and heads towards the front door. >> i'm the first to approach him where they can knock on the door. the other armed officers approach.
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>> i say to police i actually have a smile on my face. >> as the mood shifts, he advises this will not be a friendly call. >> i heard him say miamiidate police. >> they are not aware the second suspect is still in the car as tensions mound. he finds himself in great danger. >> he begins walking away from the house. actually making me give my back towards the house and anyone else behind me, putting me at a disadvantage. i don't know what he is trying to do, but i definitely feel that he is alerting someone. my partner comes from the other side and grabs the other side. we are facing it. our back is towards the vehicle that is parked there towards the house. we are at a disadvantage at this point. >> as the officers scrambled to contain the suspect, another threat emerges.
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not from inside the house, but the car parked behind them. >> a second subject exits the vehicle. this part right behind me. he exits the vehicle with a firearm. >> they attempt to control the man and fbi agents controlled. >> they pointed it at the fbi. i was in fear for his and my life. >> suddenly the second subject begins firing. they go from a knock to a wild shootout. >> i draw my firearm and begin firing. he points at me and shoots. >> bullets are flying and he is directly in the line of fire. >> as i'm firing, i get struck on the abdomen.
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the right side. right below. >> as the scene plays out, it is captured. as i'm shooting, i try to get a better angle. as i'm taking a step, he shoots me and that's the round that takes me down. >> he has been shot and continues to battle the first suspect. >> now i'm engaged in hand to hand combat with the guy. still while shooters are standing behind me. i am able to fight him off. i am able to find cover. i see i'm shot. i take a deep breath and i say to allow this to take me away.
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i will be here for my family. >> severely wounded he directings himself across the street to call emergency responders. meanwhile his fellow officers take aim and take down the second suspect. >> i was shot three times and had to have an exploratory surgery. i was cut wide open. one of the rounds that hit my abdomen went in and out. the other round went across and through my stomach. it was too risk tow take it out. >> authorities find 80 pounds of marijuana and the shoot er dies as a result of injuries.
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possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana. he pleads not guilty to all charges. because of his injuries, he misses work for 14 months. in 2012 for his courage under fire, the police benevolent association named him police officer of the year. >> every day we leave our house, we kiss our family goodbye, it could be the last time. we kind of try to prepare ourselves for this, but when it actually happens, you are not prepared. >> coming up -- prostitutes and johns beware. >> you are busted, buddy. >> it's a video vigilante on the prowl. >> how about you not be having sex with hookers back here, buddy. >> i pulled my weapon out and stuck it in his mouth. >> they mess with the wrong store clerk. >> i said you need to get the f out of here. >> when caught on camera continues.
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>> on a shadowy back road of oklahoma city -- >> you will see one to 20. >> street prostitution runs rampant. >> this girl is walking around in jeans and cutoffs and waving at cars. >> man takes the law and a video camera into his own hands. >> instead of giving her $20, he said giving you something extra. i almost lost it. >> a self-proclaimed video vigilante runs john tv.com to expose a widespread culture of prostitution and a main thoroughfare. >> it started in 1996. i was working at a hospital and
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i worked downtown. i had never seen prostitution. i didn't know it existed. we had a lot of friendly people and a lot of cars driving around and i soon realized that was prostitution. >> as seen previously, he cleaned up the streets and in even more recent videos exposes the exposed. >> one day i decided to use the video camera and the prostitute was with the customer. what do you say? i uttered the words you are busted, buddy. >> in 2013, he follows one couple. >> the customer attempts to flee. not before taking out the side of his car.
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. >> that's expensive. >> after another gotcha moment, the alleged prostitute demands the driver take off immediately. >> he's not going anywhere. >> drive! >> when he sets his sights on the sex capade, he is not shy when approaching the vehicle. >> if the car door is unlocked, i will open it, literally catching you with your pants down. people want to know if it is breaking and entering, they determined while it was ill-advised, it was not illegal. it's not breaking and entering because it's not your home. >> you are busted, buddy. >> you are busted, buddy. it's not an invasion of privacy and doesn't qualify as press
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passing. >> it's not just about shaming johns. they are handed over to be used as evidence. >> when i turn the tapes in, they are investigated for about a week and charges are filed against anybody who can be identified. the john and the prostitute get charged. i serve it up on a silver platter. >> while patrolling, he snagged men from almost all walks of life. >> i caught pastors and firemen and blue collar workers and professionals and married men, single men. elderly men, high school guys. you name it. >> as i video vigilante, he makes no apologies for exposing them. >> rarely do i feel sorry for anybody i catch. there moments that you literally in the middle of it want to shut your camera off and shake your head and walk away. >> please -- >> this is the first time. don't do this. >> he does not view it as a victimless crime. after he witnesses what he
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believes to be an altercation, he jumps to this witness's defense. go! get the [ bleep ] out of here. move. move. i will beat your as down if you make a move. you are going at a woman. you are a coward! move! >> he has grown more concerned about what he said is a bigger problem. underage sex and human trafficking. >> if you were to ask me does child prostitution happen in oklahoma, i would have been in locked step and said it doesn't happen here. i can absolutely tell you that is a complete lie. the problem is when the girl is only 11, 12, 15 years old, she is worth a lot of money. you can sell her for more than somebody else. >> in 2013, this harsh reality becomes even more clear. when authorities ask him to be on the look out for an underage girl, missing and in trouble.
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>> the officer said there is this girl, she is underage and are ran away. we are trying to locate her. i'm going to send you a picture of her on your phone. you probably won't see her because they are working her on the internet. in case you do, you might give us a call. >> later that day, he spots the young woman working the streets. >> 45 minutes later, i can't believe it, but i'm pretty certain she is standing in front of me waving at cars. i zoomed in on her with my camera and froze one of the frames and took a picture with my cell phone off of the screen on my camera. i texted that off to an officer and said is this your girl? >> her identity is confirmed as she entered a vehicle, they hope to arrive before she is driven away. >> i'm on the phone saying you guys have got to get here. you have the cash and i may lose him in traffic. then they drive. they go to a popular store
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parking lot. they look like they are engaming in a lewd act. i am not going to let a 15-year-old get raped. despite your thoughts, she is 15. >> they wait for authorities and every minute counts. >> i'm ready to confront him, but here come all the unmarked cars, hopping curbs and you name it. stop the car. get the girl out and obtain the guy. the vice officer gets back on the phone and said that's the girl we were looking for. >> i appreciate your help. >> it's one of the moments where you stop and reccollect. everything you have been through, it's worth it. as long as prostitution exists and people are willing to sell our children, i'm going continue to do exactly what i'm doing. >> for 16 years, he scoured the community, waging war on prostitution armed only with a video camera, steadfast in his mission. >> if you engage in that action sift, i guarantee at some point
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you are going to run into me and it will be the worst day of your life. >> if he can't confront you face-to-face, he will still track you down on the phone. >> i was wondering if i could ask you something real quick. i know you are married and got two kids so what are you doing picking up a street prostitute and taking her to a hotel. >> during a liquor store robbery -- >> he pulled this gun up. >> an armed collect stands his ground. >> i decided it's not going to happen. >> and a father seeking revenge taking aim. when caught on camera point of no return continues.
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it's the liquor store in marionville, missouri. that is until an unfamiliar and suspicious customer walked through the door and it's all caught on camera. >> there was about nine. i had a gentlemen that came in smoking a cigarette. i asked the gentlemen, sir, we don't allow smoking here in the store. can you please take the cigarette back outside. he just stood there staring at me and took another puff off his cigarette. >> alexander thinks he might have a major problem on his hands. >> just the look on him. looking dead in in my eyes, i can tell he was trying to psych himself up to do what he was coming in there to do. >> alexander trying to remain calm, allowing the customer whose name is arvin brandon smith to make the next move.
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>> he put his cigarette down and reached down and pulled this gun out and told me you need to give me all of your f-ing money. >> the only employee in the store takes action. >> i blocked his hand to keep it from coming up any higher. >> he stares straight into his eyes in a life or death standoff. >> if they come in with a weapon and they are going rob you and they don't have a mask, they don't care if you can identify them. they are going to kill you. they want to kill you. i decided it's not going to happen. >> alexander is determined to stop the robbery in progress. >> if you want the money, you have to get a job and earn it like everybody else does. >> a work ethic during his 30-year career in the united states military. alexander is always ready when necessary to protect and defend.
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>> i carry a gun since i was 18 years old and i have with me 24 hours a day, seven days a week. it's part of me. you are not going to come in there while i'm working and think you will get something that don't belong to you. >> when alexander sees an opportunity, he draws his weapon. >> i pulled my weapon out and i said you need to get the f out of here before i blow your f-ing head off. >> smith finds himself tasting alexander's nine-millimeter hand gun. >> i placed that weapon where i did. on his mouth. it seemed like time stopped completely for him. he kind of looked at me and kind of looked down slowly with his eyes. >> his gun still drawn, alexander holds his ground and allows the peper to slowly back
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out of the store. >> he never turned away from me. he kept facing me until he got out the door. then i saw him go off to the right side of the building. everybody was uk welly that night. he was lucky he didn't get shot. i was lucky i didn't have to pull the trigger. >> alexander immediately calls for help. in hindsight, he worries what might have happened if somebody else was working. >> he would have gotten what he wanted. i would almost say he did get hurt. >> alexander remains thankful. >> i prevented a person from losing his life. >> crisis averted. he didn't have to fire a single shot. what looks like another gun toting robber meets his match
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when the bus persons throw him to the ground. and the melee is caught on camera. november, 2013. a 19-year-old seattle man can be seen in surety camera footage towards the back of a king county metro bus. within minutes, he approaches a female passenger and appears -- a few seconds later, another phone is plucked from an unsuspecting commuter. most riders are unaware until he walks forward, brandishing his weapon in plain sight. after a few more steps, he lifts and points the gun. this time a startled would be victim leaps to his feet and grabs the weapon. other bus riders band to take justice into their own hands. some scramble, but a small group jumps the armed suspect and throws him to the ground.
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a frantic female ride or crutches tries to flee, but the brawling pack landed on all of her belongings. punches are flying. despite three men holding him down, the help refuses to let go. as tension mounts, one of the riders screams for help. after five more minutes of intense struggle, authorities arrive on the harrowing scene. the suspect is eventually charged with two counts of first degree robbery, one count of attempted first degree robbery and one count of second-degree robbery. he completes guilt tow one count of first degree and one count of attempted first degree robbery. coming up -- a shocking close range shooting.
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. >> a martial arts instructor is accused of kidnapping and abusing one young student. the father uses a gun to take matters into his own hands and a horrifying scene is caught on camera. jeff teaches martial arts to children in louisiana. >> there is a lot of throws and take downs and choke holds. >> he appears to take a special interest in students, 11-year-old jody. february 19, 1984. jody suddenly disappears and his instructor is also gone. >> he was in anaheim, california. i went to disneyland for the day. >> as an adult, jody remembers being taken across the country by him. >> this was kidnapping. he had no right to take me. i went willingly and people said why would you go with him to
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california? i will say this, that was the closest i ever came to telling what was going on. i didn't want to go to california. >> afraid of upsetting his family, jody carries to california a dark secret about jeff. >> jeff had been sexual cly abusing me the year leading up to going to california. there is all kind of molesters out there. most are someone the kid knows and trusts. >> back home, his parents, unaware of the alleged abuse hoped for any sign of their son. finally the phone rings. >> he allowed me to call my mom and say i was okay. we were running out of money and when you are kidnapping, you call collect. >> the police monitoring the family's phone line traced the call. officers in california stormed the motel room. >> that door came busting open and they are covering and have guns on him and me and the go uh is in my face. i was panicking and they pulled
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me out. he said i will punch you in the f-ing face and they drug me out by the pool and sat me down. they said are you cold? i said no, i'm not cold. they said why are you shaking? i said y'all just had a hundred guns in my face. >> a local pastor interviews gary's father as he waits for his son to be returned safely the next day. >> we did a long interview about what the family was going through. >> we were scared. the erection was erratic at times. it's just the waiting. it's a lot of waiting. we didn't know what to do. we feel helpless. >> definitely a worried father. he wanted to celebrate because his son was on his way home, but he was anxious. >> a sense of relief for a worried father, but no one knows the extent of his anger. the next day in front of local
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news cameras, jody is reunited with his family. you all right? >> yeah. >> my baby. >> did you learn anything from this? >> how much i love my children. really how much. it's very emotional. >> days later, authorities are set to bring jeff back to louisiana. retired sheriffy deputy michael barnett. >> i went to california to pick jeff up and bring him back to baton rouge. >> as authorities move the accused through the airport, the team is on high alert. he films the arrival for a local television station. >> i was up just off the security area where the passengers were leaving the security area.
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i noticed a gentlemen standing by the phones which was about eight feet from me. >> that gentlemen is the victim's father. >> i didn't pay too close of attention because he seemed like a normal passenger waiting for someone. >> i didn't know that gary was standing there. i didn't recognize him. i was looking behind the tv lights to see who else was there. >> i had my recorder go close to the security side to let me know when the suspect, jeff, was being brought in. as he was coming, i zoomed in and zoomed out. we are all lined up. the person on the phone, jeff and myself on the other side of him. >> gary is now in arm's reach of his son's suspected abuser. with his camera, he videotapes what happens next. a shocking close range shooting after gary takes aim.
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>> once i was past the pay phone, six feet or so. he turned and fired. >> i hear this pop. it's almost like a firecracker. >> i turneded around and recognized gary because he was facing. >> his disbelief can be heard in the footage. >> the film shows us. he has a house full of children and now he will spend the rest of his life in a penitentiary. who is going to take care of your kids. why did do you this? i have known him since junior high school and laid back. the last person in the world you think would be aggressive. >> the photographer witnesses the entire shooting through his camera lens. >> i follow jeff who is all of a sudden following and his body is completely limp. he turns his head and i can see coming out of his right ear, blood. as i pan up, i can see him
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standing there and almost immediately the two officers who escorted him pounce upon him. >> i turned and got the gun away from gary. gary gave up. we took the handcuffs off jeffrey and put them on him. gary was almost cat tonic. not aggressive and not trying to get away. just, i did it. >> i have covered war zones and been in conventions and interviewed presidents and never seen anything like that. >> hew dies from a single gunshot wound to the head. gary is taken into custody. >> he has been actually arrested and booked with second-degree murder. >> jody finds out his father killed jeff and it was all caught on camera. >> they told me they said they have video footage of it. do not watch it. seeing it now i know what happened. >> after the shooting the story dominates the local news and a
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wave of support grows for jody's father. >> the next day, the phone was swamped with people calling and i would guess 19 out of 20 were very upset about us even booking him for murder. people said what would you do? he deserved what he got. in the end, gary pleads no contest to manslaughter and sentenced to five years probation and community service. >> as a prosecutor, you have to make decisions on every case. here the evidence was clearly a murder had taken place by gary against jeff. but you have to take into consideration the impact on the victim. jody would have to relive some of the horrors that happened to him as a witness in a case in which his father is being charged with murder. >> i understand exactly what my father did.
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he got lucky because he didn't go to jail, but i understand. >> jody remains vocal about his abuse as a child and hopes speaking out will continue to raise awareness and provide hope to other victims of abuse. >> you were a victim of this type of use for sexual abuse. with the proper support and counseling, my family with my support, you can be okay. you don't have to be scarred for life. . >> coming up -- thieves on the loose. >> stop! get on the ground! >> and an angry mom comes out swinging. >> that's when [ bleep ] got real. uh-huh... you don't love the dress? i love my sister... 40 flavors. 100 calories or less.
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>> shoppers caught on camera with sticky fingers. busted. >> stop! get on the ground! >> the lieutenant was on widespread retail theft in the community. >> the sales tax money that the state is losing. >> through the year, the routine operation dubbed booster buster snagged a bunch. 131 arrests with 222 charges. >> the term is used for shoplifters. the act of taking merchandise within a retail establishment and concealing it on their person or walking out the door without paying for it. >> anything from a pack of gim
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to inside the store out of the store without stopping in the register. >> the busters are police officers looking for any suspicious behavior. some in plain clothes and others in uniform. circle retail parking lots and scoping out the more well-known offenders. in sarasota county, it's caught on camera. the sheriff and his force see them coming a mile away. >> the boosters will get off the interstate and the targets and they will have a storeroom and out on the floor watching the
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individuals. by texts or by cell phone. >> cracking down on criminalses who come up with new ways to cheat the stores. some scanners swipe coupons at the self check out counter. >> it's a good scam. the others wring up only a few of their bagged items. >> i will see everything that will be on here. >> i will tell you right now it isn't. >> surming another suspected shoplifter, officers find more than just a few stolen shirts. >> surveillance captured the new woman stuffing items into her clothing. >> seeing the stuff bulging out
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of her panneds. she has clothes concealed in front. she has all this brandt new clothing back here. the stuff all has tags on it. another steals big from a local wal-mart. >> when he would enter the store, he would collect a shopping cart and set him in the top of his car. whatever section of the store he wanted to steal from, select an item and you are right on top of the cart and he wheels the items out of the front door. >> the suspect is on the move and has seconds to get away in hot pursuit. they rush the scene. >> get on the ground! get on the ground! >> he was chased from out of the
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store and eventually arrested in the parking lot by the deputy. he was stealing a generator. a quite large generator that would power a standard sized home. >> i wasn't going anywhere. >> you were running from me. >> approaching and profiting. >> we went back and did research on him and we found out he was selling the items at a pawn shop in our area. we saw based on the date of occurrences, the establishment checked the camera systems and he came in every day at the same time walking straight into the store. >> according to the sheriff to warn the area's lesser known thieves in waiting, modern criminals make great use of social media. >> they have in this day and age of facebook and instant messaging, they communicate on a regular basis and we arrest them and hear them talking to other people about not coming to
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sarasota county. >> don't go to burlington. >> despite the warnings during the first raid in july of 2013, they make 59 arrests in just six days. >> these operations make an impact where getting feedback the operations have been taking place with the media attention they received. video footage. being put up to the media. the word of mouth seeing a dramatic decrease. >> if you are thinking of lifting and leaving, learn your lesson. >> that i like to be the predators. >> it sends a strong message to those reading the paper and watching the media who are committing the crimes and they understand what they do and what they will do to arrest them. >> get on the ground! get on the ground! >> coming up, a punch in the park.
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i feel like it's too fun to stop. >> miranda is filming goldberg in a local park for an upcoming video showcasing the talents of bay area skaters. >> cannery park is a skate park. it's kind of conjoining to the elementary school. >> for skaters, the main draw to cannery park is the multiple row of low granite benches. >> the reason why the ledges at cannery park are so good for skating is because there's numerous ones in a row where you can do your trick, do your next trick and do your next trick. it's pretty bad. >> for his segment of the video, goldberg plans to attempt a series of difficult tricks all accomplished in a row called a line. >> a line would be a sequence of however many trick you could do consecutively, and that's what i was doing. skating, trying to do a consecutive amount of tricks back to back in one stream of film. just so it all flows nicely. >> what appeals to the skating lines is to show you can do certain tricks in a row without messing up. >> but cannery park isn't just for skaters. families with small children
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also enjoy the recreation area. >> there's always like some amount of children there that are around there, and you can never really tell where kids go because they're always darting one way or the other. >> and the relationship between skaters and others enjoying the park is not always rad. >> especially with like older people. they still kind of feel like skateboarders are rambunctious little rascals. >> sometimes you end up in front of someone's house, and they're totally pro skateboarding like, yeah, you know, it's really cool. they're stoked on it rather than the other, you know, 50% of people who are just like hating you for what you're doing. you know, calling the cops on you. >> only person we're hurting is ourselves really when we fall. >> after a number of failed
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attempts -- >> oh! >> goldberg tries once again to land his line in cannery park. >> first trick he's doing is called front side blunt slide. he lands it pretty easily. then he goes to do a half cab flip. >> i landed the front blunt, took one push, and then set up for my trick. >> just after goldberg launches, he notices a pint-sized object stack nell his way. a young boy playing in the area is now directly in his path. >> as i put my head down to pop the flip, noticed that he was actually dead in front of me. i kind of hesitate -- use see i hesitate a little bit in my pop. i didn't really pop and flick because i was more jumping off my board. and i should have just caught him, but i couldn't. it was too late. >> goldberg loses his bearings and accidentally crash into the boy, knocking him to the ground. [ crying ] >> that's a deadly cry. it's -- it's so piercing. [ crying ] >> i immediately tried to help him up. i was apologizing, asking if he
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was okay. i was worried about him hitting his head, but i saw he didn't hit his head. that was like an instant relief. >> the boy is not hurt, but the accidental collision is just the beginning. >> the lady comes up, picks the kid up. and not sure if it's the mom -- >> as goldberg would later learn, the woman is the boy's aunt. >> initially i thought the aunt was the mom. and then i realized when the aunt just picked the child up and the real mother actually came -- >> you know, it could have been the end of it. and then [ bleep ] got real. >> seeing her child crying, the boy's mother approaches the skaters. what begins as an accident quickly hits a downward slope into a full-on physical confrontation. >> you run into my son? >> it was an accident -- >> on his birthday? >> i thought it was going to go from her pushing me initially to pushing my again. but it was the initial push, and then swing. >> you see him? [ bleep ] >> the skaters are
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stunned by the punch heard around the halfpipe. >> she just decks him with a right hook super good. >> see him? >> she sucker punched me. i guess it's not a sucker punch because she straight-up hit me face to face. not a sucker punch. i can not believe she just punched me like a dude in the face. and i like turned around and i was like, i don't even know what to do. i look at daniel, and daniel's like, what to do. >> call the cops, dude. i got the video right here. >> call the cops. call the cops. >> she's still pacing toward me. she was almost antagonizing me to punch her back. >> in the end, cooler heads prevail. no more punches are thrown, and the police are never called. after the playground punch, daniel miranda posts the video on line. within days, the clip goes viral.
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>> so i put it up youtube. the first day it had like 13,000 views, and i was like, wow, that's ridiculous. so i got it -- from there it kept escalating until it hit like a million. >> i swear i would have been happy if daniel left that clip buried. just embarrassing accident. >> embarrassing maybe, but goldberg takes all the teasing in stride. >> i get ridiculed for sure. my friends make fun of me to this day. pretty bad -- lee can't dodge a punch. can't go to the skate park without little girls i don't even know -- "on his birthday"? it's funny when my friends do, it but when kids i don't know are yelling that at me, like they're being the funny ones, i'm like, you're not funny, you're as old as the kid was, and you're making fun of me.
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>> miranda hits the ramp with a new, perhaps less polite approach. >> you run into a kid, you could say sorry, but it might get you a punch. if you run into a kid, just leave. [ laughter ] gambling with their lives. pushing the limits. >> i knew the car had more in it. >> oh, my gosh. >> i'm going to die right now. >> crossing the boundaries. >> i was fighting the whole way down. >> and facing the ultimate test. >> ahh! >> you feel a large jolting. glass flying everywhere. debris flying everywhere. >> all on the brink -- racing, leaping, flying, with only the
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