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seen through the unblinking eye of the dashboard camera. caught on camera, dash cam diaries. welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. dashboard cameras are an important policing tool that can bare witness to details missed by the human eye and reveal invaluable lessons for law enforcement. in this hour you'll see compelling situations caught on dashboard cameras from get-aways gone awry to ruthless gunmen firing at will. awe routine traffic stop turns into a roadside shoot-out when troopers unknowingly pull over an armed and dangerous escaped prisoner. >> i'm thinking already i shouldn't have stopped this car.
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>> october 26th, 1998, tyler, texas. troorp barry an 18 year veteran of the force is assigned to train a rookie six months out of the academy. >> barry was not my fto. he was not my field training officer. i was riding with him that night because my fto had other arrangements and had something else to do that night. >> no. no, we don't go out with rookie very often. >> they're at the tail end of a particularly busy night when they decide to look for an easy way to finish their shift. >> i went on the county road that i'm familiar with, and was just going to stay there until the end of the shift. >> we were working stationary radar so we were sitting still and the lights were out. make a traffic stop on a car.
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the trooper questions the driver who is now out of the car while trooper goyns talks to the passenger who is avoiding eye contact. >> we'll go up and id and see what the story is. something i didn't like about him and wanted to find out what was going on. i asked him to step out of the car, and he didn't want to step out of the car. it's against the law for you not to do what i told you to do. >> the passenger still refuses to exit the car and trooper goins is losing patience. >> we can do it the easy way or the hard way. which way you want to go? >> he just stopped for a moment in your mind and think to yourself, okay, am i prepared? something is fixing to happen. >> although she senses danger, trooper andrisen focuses on the driver as the passenger emerge from the car and faces trooper goins. >> didn't want to step out, and he looped, and undernooet his
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leg he had a saturday night special. .22 revolver. in less than heart beats he had me. >> scott is fighting with him, and barry is trying to get his gun out. i can see he is trying to get his gun out, and i'm going for my gun, and first out of the ru krut school was all i wanted was cover. >> andicen backs away as the scuffle quickly escalates into a life or death situation. >> don't move. don't move. don't move. don't move, lady. don't move, lady. >> this thing has been happening. i had a partner that night, and jasmine was moving around not listening to anything he was saying. he was going for my sidearm. he had his pistol up to my neck, and then he was trying to get my weapon away from me. i figured i was done for anyway. i was hoping for at least two
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seconds to shoot him before something -- before i lost consciousness. >> the suspect is momentarily distracted and trooper goins makes his move. >> when he finally took his eyes off of me for a second, i looked at her to see what she was doing. i said that was my only spot. it didn't get any better than that. that was it. duck down and grabbed him. we danced for a couple of seconds. he was trying to grab my weapon. was trying to grab his. then i got mad. i said, you know, this guy is going out. i might go out too, but is he definitely going to go out too. >> the trooper breaks free from the suspect, pulls his gun, and fires one shot at point-blank range. he misses.
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>> get down on the ground. >> you think you're there for 15 minutes, but are you only there for maybe five or six seconds. the whole thing was over with in, what, eight, ten, 13 seconds. zoo always wonder what's going, on what's going to happen? >> as the troopers wait for backup to arrive, they begin to question the driver who seems perplexed by what just happened. listen closely as he describes how he met his passenger. >> give him a ride out here. seemed pretty nice to me. >> he even adds a little pleasantry to trooper goins. >> i'm glad nothing happened to you, sir. dmroo it turns out the passenger is sydney bird, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release.
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>> he had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to alabama penitenciary. >> backup is now on the scene, and the manhunt for bird is on. >> county calls their horse team out there and dog team, and pretty quick within an hour, hour and 15 minutes maybe, hour and a half tops -- less than 100 yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goinsndrecin recall the fateful events. >> get that one round off. >> 30 minutes left when all this happened. >> i got in the camera put in the date before. it was just one of those fluke things. >> three holes in his jacket. >> bird is found guilty of aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon and sentenced to life in prison.
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>> i started that day as a rookie. i went home that night as a veteran. >> coming up, with a gun in each hand, a man opens fire on police. >> i'm being fired at. the car has been hit several times. >> later, a get-away attempt goes bad when a woman runs over herself. when "caught on camera dash cam diaries continues. boys? (music) stop less, go more. the passat tdi clean diesel with up to 814 hwy miles per tank. hurry in, and you can get 0% apr for 72 months on 2015 passat tdi models plus a total of $1500 in available bonuses. boy: once upon a time,
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>> july 1st, 2003. tallahassee, florida. officer chuck perry is patrolling a local bank parking lot when a slow-moving car catches his attention. >> i looked at the two individuals, driver and a passenger, they were completely surprised. they had a very shocked look, and it wasn't normal. they immediately did a very rapid turn out of the parking lot. they aroused my suspicions to such a point that i had actually called james fairfield, my supervisor. >> he said, hey, i have something going. do you know anything? do you have any intel on a white brown vick or gray grount vic. he thought maybe this was a fraud suspect. >> it's clear to officer perry that the pair is deliberately trying to avoid him. with his suspicions and his dash cam now engaged, perry hits the lights and siren. >> wanted to wait for backup, actually, but as it turned out, they ended up driving into
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basically a closed neighborhood. >> the door immediately opens. >> i was expecting a foot chase. i was expecting to have to jump out of the car. >> the suspects don't run. one emerges instead with a car with a pistol in each hand. >> just raised it to shoulder level and was shooting, bang, bang, bang as fast as he could, both guns going. and he emptied both the weapons probably ten to 12 shots were fired. the shots that were being fired were incredibly loud. pistols were deafening. there was a lot of kids on the video. you can see a couple of them riding across the street just prior to the incident. >> for that reason perry holds his fire and the quick-thinking officer throws his cruiser in reverse creating distance between himself and the hail of
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gunfire. it's his best defense. >> i'm backing up simply just trying to survive, get out of the way, and at that point they got back in the car. >> the driver takes off again and so does officer perry. >> i have just fwen fired at. the car has been hit several times. >> it actually pissed me off, and i decided at that point to just go ahead and chase them to see if we could catch them. >> i've been shot at. >> it's remarkable. there is a indicatedance that we use when all things are well, and other than the speed at which it was coming out, it pretty much followed our standard protocol despite the fact he was getting shot at so, we got good detail. we got good indicators and great descriptions. >> i can't say i was calm that day. if it appeared that way, then that's great, but the truth is that i was scared, and i had a sinking feeling in the pit of my
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stomach like somebody had kicked me, and i wasn't really sure that i wanted to be there anymore. >> sergeant james fairfield and several other officers are on the way to help officer perry when the driver suddenly pulls the car over once more and once again the passenger door opens. >> the second time when he started getting out of the car, he didn't do it really quickly. i mean, you know, i could tell exactly what he was going to do. this time i could see that he was pulling a rifle out of the car. again, i immediately put it into reverse, and, again, he began firing just like at a firing range. >> a direct hit to the battery short circuits the electrical system bringing his car to a halt. the dash cam goes black. . >> the shootings are bad. the shooting pursuits, really, really good bad, and that's where we're at right now, and i began thinking about what i was really doing chase this guy who
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is so committed to putting an end to my life. we took off again. >> but officer perry's car is barely able to accelerate due to the damage, and he watches assist the men speed off. >> we were all running in emergency mode trying to figure out where this is going to get stable enough that we can assist as joe. >> after two terrifying encounters alone, backup is now on the scene. his cruiser is breaking down, but officer perry remains relentless in his pursuit. ahead, the harrowing chase is coming to a dramatic conclusion. >> the most amazing crash i've ever seen. the car went up about 15 feet in the air and spun sideways and did a barrel roll at the same time and flew about 35 or 40 feet going over an embankment. >> police immediately descend on the car, including officer perry. >> miraculously both the driver and the passenger survive the
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crash, but they are not ready to surrender. >> watch his left hand. his left hand. >> as we approached, he was still trying to get a gun. >> are you going to die if you move. don't move! >> the suspects finally give up and are taken into custody. police confiscate several firearms he is serving three consecutive life sentences. his son and accomplice is also convicted of first degree attempted murder and is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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>> don't just sit there. move. do something. >> i'm here today, and so i'm happy. it was a good day. >> when i saw the video for the first time, it had captured everything that these two guys had done and it brought back one, a lot of anger that they were trying to kill a cop and then, two, it also brought back a lot of memories and the details that will i had not
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recorded in my mind. you got a job to do, and so these guys if we don't stop them, there is nobody else out there to do it. coming up, a get-away attempt gone horribly wrong, and another brazen gunman in a shoot-out with police. when "caught on camera, dash cam diaries" continues. of shareable data. yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. for $80 a month. and $15 per line. more data than ever. for more of what you want. on the network that's #1 in speed, call, data, and reliability. so you never have to settle. $80 a month. for 10 gigs. and $15 per line. stop by or visit us online. and save without settling. only on verizon.
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a police chase with a bizarre ending. when a woman desperate trying to escape from police runs over herself. >> it's a hard thij to watch for a lot of people. >> january 3rd, 2011. moses lake, washington. corporal thomas is on the lookout for a woman wanted by police on forgery charges. >> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. i had gotten a phone call from our dispatch center to let me know that she was on the move in
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her car. >> that woman is jonah ziegler. she has a description and her vehicle, and it isn't long beforing he spots her. >> when i looked over to the left, i saw the pink vest and her head down against the steering wheel. i pulled in behind the truck. >> you finally convinced her i knew who she was and she was wanted on warrants. >> she has other plans. >> there's no time. ziegler is on the run. >> she flies by yelling at me as she's driving by, and she said "just [ bleep ] shoot me" as she's driving off. >> tufty gives chase.
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zeigler's vehicle is going fast leaving a cloud of smoke in its wake. trying to shake the officer zeigler turns abruptly cutting off two other cars. >> he sees the driver's side door open zoosh as i come around the corner, i can see that she's slipped out, and she's actually hanging on to the driver's door and the steering wheel. >> zeigler desperately holds on. she can neither stop the truck nor get back inside. >> and she's running with the truck and she's slipping as she's running, and she can't control it. >> zeigler tries to keep up with the moving vehicle, but this proves to be an even bigger mistake. >> it hits a curb for a driveway, hits a railroad tie that's next to a sidewalk, and that jarring motion she loses her grip and falls underneath the truck. the truck stops directly on top
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of her chest. perfectly centered right over her breastbone. the tires almost up to her neck. >> tufty immediately radios for an blans ambulance and then races over to zeigler's truck. >> check her. she's not breathing. just the sheer weight of the vehicle obviously she's not going to be breathing much taumt at all. >> the chase has now become a rescue mission as he tries in vein to push the vehicle off her. within minutes neighbors rush over to help, but even the additional manpower cannot lift the truck. corporal tufty makes a crucial decision. >> i knew that if i didn't get the truck off of her, she was not going to live. the only thing i had available to me was to drive it off. the cab was still running. i started to hit the accelerator really slow to try to feather it, and just all of a sudden she came out from underneath it. >> startled onlookers back away as zeigler's body spins out from under the wheel of the truck. corporal tufty's emt training quickly takes over. >> checked pulse.
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she had a pulse. wasn't breathing really well. stay on. we're going to help you out and get you to the hospital. >> zeigler is alive, but the extent of her injuries is unkno unknown. >> i've seen a lot of different things in this job, and i have come up against a number of different scenarios. this is one of the toughest ones to handle. >> zeigler has flown to spokane for treatment. miraculously she makes a full recovery. she pleads guilty on her original forgery charge and is awaiting sentencing for attempting to allude police. she's found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in prison. but before she goes to jail, she has one last encounter with tufty. >> i actually stopped her on a traffic stop about three months ago. went up to the car, didn't know it was her. just stopped the car for a violation. went up. saw who it was and talked to her for a couple of minutes, and she has apologized for what she did
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and in a letter and in person, and she did thank me for saving her life. if there's one thing that i could get across to i mean is don't run from the police. it's not worth endangering yourself, the public, or even the officer's lives in order to get away. doesn't end well usually. >> a man on a crime spree opens fire on police officers. who fire back with deadly force. april 22nd, 2011. tomah, wisconsin. sergeant scott and officer josh kenworthy were on the lookout for a man involved in a drive-by shooting. they spot the suspect seth mccloskey driving his red pickup truck. the officers follow. >> it takes a left into a residential street, and it cuts
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off another vehicle, so at that point we were pretty sure that. >> he starts coming at you. there was a video camera saying get back to my car, and i couldn't finish the sentence. i step out of the car, and i remember trying to get enough distance from the door to a high rifle slunk up as well, and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. >> i mean, officer kenworthy exited the passenger side, engaged him. i can over to his side, and engaged him, and he we started putting good return power on
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him. i was waiting for somebody to paudz it and start asking questions at the class. it was just -- it kind of kept going. it just didn't stop. >> i made a decision that he was not going to leave. >> mcclufky is fatally wounded. >> as can you see, if you look close, i i believe he took a head shot. i can see the hat fly off his head, and at some point you'll hear in the video the loud whine of his truck engine. the adrenaline rush is so
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intense it would be several minutes before officer kenworthy realizes he himself have been shot. >> i just remember feeling something hit my foot. i saw an exit hole in my boot, plus the tip of hi my third toe. the bullet went underneath my second tee tow and cut it and it went through my big toe. >> an investigation by the monroe county district attorney finds the shooting is justified. mccloskey is linked to as many as ten drive-by shootings across wisconsin and illinois. coming up, a high speed chase ends up in a high impact crash. and later a gunman shoots to kill. when caught on camera, dash cam diaries continues.
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>> i ammed i'm richard lui. the justice department saying it will review all available legal options after cleveland police officer was acquit odd state charges in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects. a judge today found him not guilty on all charges, including voluntary manslaughter in connection with the 2012 fatal shootings of timothy russell and melissa williams. both of whom were unharmed. the incident became known as the 137th shots case because of the number of bullets fired by 13 police officers at the end of a high speed clays. now back to caught on camera. >> welcome back to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. in our next video police go from pursuing a suspect to comforting a victim. it's a gripping story that shows to serve and protect means more than just catching the bad guys.
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a police chase ends after it slams into a brick wall. april 8th, 2011. myrtle beach, south carolina. officers ryan headily and matthew fox are working the night shift. they're on the lookout for a reported stolen vehicle. >> i saw the vehicle pass by me and as i was turning around on the suspect vehicle, i saw that the driver of the vehicle was a young female driver, and i knew right away that we were dealing with either a very petite individual or a teenager. >> we attempted to stop the vehicle, but she refused to stop.
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>> the officers are shocked when the driver suddenly veers off the road and crashes directly into the brick wall to a church. >> she just accelerated at a high rate of speed into the church. the impact was just tremendous, so i knew she was at a greater speed of 70 miles per hour when she hit the church. after the dust had settled, we could really see how bad the accident was because the entire front half of the jeep was into the church through the brick wall, and i never at one time saw the brake lights activate to indicate that she was trying to
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stop the vehicle. >> headily raced help the driver. they carefully searched the car, but they can't immediately find her. >> she's inside. she's inside. >> we were searching for her in the vehicle, and we could not see her. we started looking in front of the vehicle, calling out, and we had no response initially, but then officer cox was near the driver's door and could hear a female screaming inside. >> where are you at? >> it took us i would say a good 30 seconds to 45 seconds to determine that she was still in the vehicle. officer cox heard a voice, and after further investigation observed a young female up underneath the steering column inside the vehicle moaning in agony and pain. >> your leg is broken?
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you hit a wall going 60, ma'am. stay still. >> i was thinking that the injuries were going to be severe, maybe even fatal, and at that point in time our apprehension mode went to rescue mode. >> officer cox realizes there's nothing he can do to remove the girl from the car. she's trapped. officer headily calls for help. >> prior to policing, i spent ten years in the fire service, and through my experience with that, i received medical training, and i knew that her injuries were potentially life-threatening, and i wanted her to calm down, slow her heart rate down in case she had external, internal bleeding, anything of that nature. >> the victim is in excruciating pain, but officer cox is still able to get pertinent information.
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>> you trying to kill yourself? okay. why were you trying to kill yourself? >> why do you hate your life? >> i was thinking that obviously something was seriously wrong with the suspect other than just wanting to steal the vehicle for a joy ride. >> okay. you realize you got a lot to live for. stay with me. stay conscious, okay? >> there was an issue there internally, emotionally that kind of triggered her to do such an act. >> in the midst of her trauma the victim is afraid there may be consequences beyond her injuries. >> am i going to go to jail? >> she was more worried about the criminal charges, and i was
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trying to console her by telling her, you know, let's not worry about the charges at hand. let's just worry about you getting safely out of the vehicle. >> no, don't be sorry. hey, no, you just -- i know you just made a bad choice. you're not a bad person. you just made a bad choice. you know, i'm pretty sure after this we'll get you stabilized and we'll talk more about it later on, and -- >> officer cox never leaves the girl's side until firefighters and paramedics are on the scene. >> you hear those sirens? >> yes. >> okay. those -- that's the paramedics coming. all right? >> i'm scared. >> i know. don't -- you know, don't be scared. they're going to get you out of here. >> they safely get the suspect out of the vehicle.
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>> because the girl is a minor, her legal proceedings are not made public. >> the dash cam videos are often used as evidence against suspects. this incident reveals the compassionate side of police. >> we're not only there to apprehend. we're will to protect, and even if that's protecting the suspects, i mean, everybody needs protection even if it's from themselves. >> coming up. >> a distraught gunman who won't surrender. >> just put the gun down, man. we'll talk about it. >> when "caught on camera, dash cam diaries" continues.
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>> put it down. >> that ends with both men shot. >> the first thing i thought was i'm losing way too much blood to make it. >> april 2nd, 2011. conrow, texas. sergeant james kell i-man responds to an emergency cal. a man is wielding a shotgun outside a nearby bakery. >> at the time that's pretty much all the contents we had while en route. i was the first responding officer. typically here in conrow, a -- it just happened i was close to it. i knew there were at least two units responding. >> he has a gun. >> when i pulled in, i wasn't quite prepared for what i saw when i got there. he was at the door of the bakery. eshitting it wi he was hitting it with the butt of the gun. he wanted in. he walked across the front of the building and put his focus
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on me and then and there i knew i was in the wrong place. >> he has the gun aimed. >> the man with the shotgun is james richard hill. he is in the thick of a heated dispute with his girlfriend who works at the bakery. >> you got people in the store. come away from the windows. >> even before the officer arrives on the scene, he knows the situation is dire. >> the fact that he got on the radio and told dispatch to have the people inside the store move away from the windows, that told me that he was trying to prepare to use deadly force against this guy. >> as the dash cam rolls, sergeant kell i-man makes numerous attempts to negotiate with hill. the gunman refuses to comply. >> put the gun down, man. put it down. what's going on? >> in talking to him, the whole
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time i basically got my pistol out, and it's pointed at hirm, and he opened the braesh of the rifle, and i thought he was going to disarm it and give it and put it down, and what he ended up doing was looking to make sure it was loaded. >> police backup arrives and quickly gets into position. they wait for hill to make a move. >> come on, man. >> i saw that he had taken a defensive posture. he was laid across the trunk of a vehicle pointing his firearm towards sergeant kell i-man. i knew as soon as i pulled in and i looked over, i had a good shot. >> put the gun down. >> when you get on a scene like that and you made the decision that deadly force was going to have to be used, especially after he opened the breach of the weapon and cocked it back, i knew there was going to be some type of shooting. >> the gunman fires a single shot striking sergeant kell i-man in the face. >> i was still trying to communicate with him. he put the gun down and tried to have a personal demeanor with
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him. when he finally fired, i don't remember the gun blast. i remember hearing it. i knew it was him that had shot, and i felt more of a -- on my face. >> just as i was about to fire my first shot, he shot. it kind of distracted me for a second. shortly after he shot, i fired my first shot. you see the window on the car blow out. that was my first shot. >> in an instant several officers opened fire on the gunman as officer tyson rowley races to the aid of sergeant kel le i-man. >> the other officers that were there, i trust them with my life. i knew that they were going to do anything that they could to protect me and sergeant kell i-man, and at that point i cheese to holster my weapon and go to him. >> hill goes down. he is fatally wounded.
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>> officer raleigh tends to his fallen officer, but they are captured on the dash cam microphone. >> i got you right here. >> tell my wife and kids i love them. >> i will. you're going to tell them. you are. you are fine. mroo when i saw the blood coming out, the amount of blood, the first thing i thought was i'm losing way too much blood to make it. there's no way you can lose this much blood and live. then at that point officer tyson was basically at my side. >> stay still. >> i'm trying. i'm trying. >> stay right here. >> i'm losing a lot of blood. >> i keep asking how bad it looks. how bad is my eye. >> you don't look pretty, but you're going to be okay, all right? you weren't pretty before. >> he is even joking with me at some points wrush didn't look good before the shooting. it took me a minute to realize, hey, you know, i'm still getting
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a little humor out of this. i could hear everything he is saying. i could hear everything that's going on. >> the sergeant and i joke around a lot with one another, and when he said that i just wanted to give some level of normalcy to him. >> everybody had a role out there on that scene. me being there on the ground and seeing all that mrood, i knew he was going to die. >> sergeant kell i-man is losing a lot of blood and fears losing his life, but somehow has the presence of mind to call his wife. >> i could talk about this event, but it's talking about my wife that gets to me. i remember dialing her number and thinking, god, i hope she answers. she answered. i remember saying baby, i've been shot. i don't know if i'm going to make it. i love you, okay?
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>> those sergeant kell i-man is lucky to be alive, the bullet wound results in the loss of his right eye. >> it wasn't as bad as i thought. i mean, of course, i lost my vision, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. >> months later sergeant kell i-man and his colleagues return to the bakery parking lot, and they explain what we didn't see on dash cam. >> i took out a stance basically right here behind my car. most of me was shielded except for pretty much this part of me that was looking over my pistol, and that's when he took the shot. ambulance stopped. we went from your car to the ambulance, and then the helicopter was stopped right out here. >> the relationship with the officers that were on that scene has definitely grown. any time you are in some type of situation like we were in, there's definitely camaraderie there, something that some other officers can't necessarily
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police officers encounter unexpected situation on a regular basis. thanks to dashboard cameras, we can watch these events unfold. like this improbable incident in moore, oklahoma. a robbery suspect is tasered by police putting cuffs and placed in the back of a squad car. but that isn't enough to hold him. he is able to slep out of the back seat and steal the police
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cruiser. >> in oregon. an officer rushes to an emergency only to become one himself. when a motorist fails to yield. the officer swerves, but still hits the car and a house. the owner is at home, but luckily, no one is injured. but one of the most bewilledering occurrences ever caught on dash cam is this one when police pursue a 15 foot
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limousine going down the highway backward. april 22nd, fz. westchester county, new york. they are busy -- >> i was conducting right off when i saw a large limo, white limo, coming northbound. >> the officer gives chase as the driver tears down the interstate. officer womer is left to wonder why. >> in any mind what does he have to do? who is in the vehicle? >> neighbor hears the call for assistance. >> i was in good position, and i was north of his location, and there was a good chance i was going to be able to dpsh trooper kelly enters the interstate and
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spots the limo. >> he passed cars and he passed a number of cars in front of me. >> then something finally gives. >> it seems the culprit has finally run out of options, but just when the troopers think the chase is over, the driver finds another gear that works. reverse. >> backwards. >> the people that were on the road, i don't know what was going through their mind. you would think that you're filming an episode of bullet or something, some type of cop show. >> his only possible way out at that poebt was to actually utilize the entrance ramp to exit the interstate.
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>> the limo loses control and crashes, and then he realizes there's also a passenger along for the wild ride. >> whether police ask the driver the reason he fled? >> just thought that he had a suspended license, and that's why he took off. >> now instead of facing a minor offense, the suspect dane christian, is convicted of criminal and traffic violations, including reckless driving and reckless endangerment in four separate jurisdictions. he was sentenced three years probation. his passenger is not charged. >> what you use it for, i don't know, but you can get didn't get away, though. >> it's impressive to see what officers face every day. working to keep their communities safe. some of these stories would be hard to believe if they weren't captured by dashboard cameras.
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