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we'll be back next week because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." get in your house. >> a dangerous chase. >> i hit him and he came back and started firing at me. >> i saw the wheel coming at my face. >> a crash not to be believed. >> he was bent in half. >> one dog leads a trooper to a burning building and the dog whisperer tells us why. >> he was charged with the message. go find help. >> this dog takes a bite out of the cop's bumper. >> as you see, he's playing. he's not being aggressive.
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>> and this suspect seems to take a bite out of the evidence. >> he swallowed it. swallowed it fast, too. >> tense situations. >> he fired seven shots very quickly. >> heartbreaking stories. >> what happened was so senseless. it was senseless. >> and moments that have to be seen to be believed. >> i was dumbfounded. i was -- you're kidding me, right? "caught on camera: dashcam diaries." hemm hello, i'm con tess that brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." a police officer's working day may include violent confrontations, touching human dramas and even comic relief. for an officer in a patrol car, the dashboard camera is the
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silent witness capturing the action and preserving some hair-raising stories. our first video begins in new mexico with an amazing high-speed chase and a shootout caught on multiple dash cams. with their dash cams rolling, police cruisers chase after a 22-year-old man through highways and country roads in northern new mexico. the pursuit is not only dangerous, it's violent. >> shots fired. shots fired. >> i started hearing we have an officer injured. that's when i noticed sergeant faulk had blood coming from the area of his face. >> in may 2007, sergeant jackie bud of the sangyuan san juan county sheriff's office in
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aztec, new mexico, is the first backup to respond to an incident that begins in a nearby town. that's where lionel claw gets into a confrontation near a laundromat and local police are called. >> claw and his party was trying to leave in a vehicle. a bloomfield officer approached them head on in a vehicle in an attempt to stop him to find out what was going on. shots were fired at bloomfield police. a taser was deployed and at some point mr. claw was able to drive out and around partially taking out a fence and then drove out to third street and headed north. >> by the time budd gets to the scene, everyone is gone. budd rushes to catch up with the suspect who has two others in the car with him. as he closes in on them, he notices the rear passenger door opening. >> i see a head poke out. sure enough, somebody comes diving out of the vehicle. >> somebody jumping out! somebody just jumped out. >> i believe the speed was 97 miles an hour and i'm thinking to myself, oh, my lord, somebody wanted out pretty bad. >> the sergeant veers to the
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right who tries to avoid the passenger in the road. >> i didn't want to run over this person. they had all been drinking at the time, and they were -- he was just along for the ride more or less. >> another officer stops to help the passenger who is then taken to the hospital. it's hard to believe but he has no serious injuries. the situation in the getaway vehicle escalates. >> shots fired. shots fired. >> the passenger, a woman, fires from the front seat of the suspect's car. >> i'm thinking to myself i didn't have any rounds come through my wind shield, so apparently life is good. >> the chase continues on as seen in these four different cash cams and the chase enters the navajo nation. by this time a spike strip has
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been thrown in the car's path. >> at the time i caught up it wasn't high speed at all. the suspect vehicle's tires had already been punctured by spike strips. >> at one point it looks as though the chase is over. as claw drives through the residential area of the reservation, he stops and the female passenger runs from the car into a house. then claw gets out of his car. >> lionel claw actually gets out of the vehicle and points his weapon at me. and i'm thinking at this time, you know, i'm just going to run him over. and i keep going and then i realize there is a house behind him. there could be a baby on the other side of that wall sleeping. >> my concern at that point wasn't so much the capturing of the bad guy. it was making sure everybody was safe. >> get in your house. get in your home! >> get down. >> the officers shut down their vehicles and shout commands to claw, but he's not backing down. >> mr. claw got back in and took off again and we started another pursuit.
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at that time, i called out we need to go ahead and force this vehicle off the roadway. we don't need to let him back in this residential area. >> a decision is made to initiate the pursuant intervention technique. also known as the p.i.t. maneuver. >> it's basically where the patrol vehicle kind of nudges the suspect vehicle one way or the other and it causes the suspect's vehicle to spin out. >> at that moment, another officer, sergeant corey faulk, rams his vehicle into claw's car. >> i hit him. his arm went up in the air as he was off balance and he came back and started firing at me. i leaned over my computer and began firing my weapon at him directly through my windshield. there were several officers that were firing rounds at him. i saw that he was down. he wasn't moving anymore, didn't have the gun in his hand and it
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was over with at that point. i got out of my unit and was going to engage him again and noticed i had been hit. >> one that's been hit. conscious and breathing. >> sergeant faulk is hit three different times. one on the bridge of his nose, another alongside his head and a third in his hand. he is immediately taken to a hospital. >> i could have easily been killed. >> claw is also wounded. >> what stands out? seeing sergeant faulk injured like he was. that was a reality check. >> the female passenger, a juvenile, is discovered to be claw's girlfriend and is convicted of two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer and sentenced to three years in prison. lionel claw gets 25 years for attempting to murder a police officer. turns out he and that police
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officer, sergeant faulk, are no strangers to one another. >> i had him on an armed robbery case when i was in the detective division two years prior. >> claw is eventually convicted and sentenced to five years for that crime, too, and goes to prison. >> i don't think this guy deserves to get out of prison. i think based on his mentality he should stay in prison for the rest of his life. coming up, a robber chowing down on the evidence. >> he swallowed it. he swallowed it fast, too. a van steamrolls a patrol car. >> when i saw the wheel coming at my face, that was a very scary moment. and a german shepherd saves the day. >> he's telling you something wrong is happening in my house. >> it makes a person wonder what their pets are really made of. >> when "caught on camera: dash cam diaries" continues. like limiting where you earn bonus cash back.
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a bank robber in cuffs seems to make a last-ditch attempt to get rid of some evidence by swallowing it. that's right. while police pat him down, the suspect is chewing on what could be the note handed to the bank teller. >> we had no clue he did it until we saw the video. >> officers daniel biyata and alan chernowski have been patrolling the streets of twinsburg, ohio, for years. >> happened to be scanning for other city's radio traffic and i had picked up that a bank robbery just occurred in streets borough which is to the east of us. >> a witness at the bank gets the license plate number and a good description of the suspect's car and the twinsburg police force spreads out knowing the bank robber is headed their way. >> the advisory on the radio was a gray car with a certain license plate, and i just happened to see a black car with
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the same license plate come past me. i pulled out and followed it and radioed it in. >> minutes later the officers catch with up with the suspect. they pull him over and shut down the freeway. with the suspect by the side of the road, the officers try to make sure they're not in for any surprises. >> he's capable ever anything. and any time there's a bank robber in a vehicle, it could go one of many ways. >> we handcuffed him and brought him back to one of our cruisers, and as we laid him on the hood of the cruiser to do a search. his person to make sure there's no weapons. >> when i was patting him down. >> he's searching his front left pocket, he's throwing change and paperwork, whatever is in that pocket out of it so he knows he cleared it. one of the things he threw up on the hood of the car was a folded up piece of paper. >> with the cops focused on a weapons search, the suspect seizes his opportunity. gee reaches over -- stretches
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his neck out and eats the paper. >> he swallowed it. he swallowed it fast, too. >> even without the note the twinsburg police find plenty of evidence in the suspect's car. >> on the passenger floorboard we came across a bag full of money and on the driver's side we found a loaded handgun on the floorboards which had been right at his feet. >> the suspect, john ford, is convicted of this robbery and two others in the akron area. surveillance video from the bank seals the federal case against him. the note the bank robber used to hold up the teller is never found. coincidence? >> we're not aware of exactly what the note was. we know it meant something to him, enough to eat it. so i would imagine it's the bank note, but it could have been a shopping list. backing up in tight spots is one thing, but pushing it to the limit like this is quite another. especially if the guy behind you
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is a cop in a patrol car. >> i just saw the bumper jump up and at that point i saw the wheels. when i saw the wheel coming at nigh face, that was a very scary moment. >> that's what happened the night of july 22nd, 2010, to patrol officer seth carson of the montgomery county police department in bethesda, maryland. and it's all caught on his police dashcam. the fiasco starts when officer carson, who was out patrolling, gets word an attempted armed robbery has taken place. and that three suspects are on the loose in a white suv. >> 15 officers flooded the area. we were trying to find the vehicle that robbed the individual. one officer thought they had seen him in an apartment complex. >> officer carson is right at that apartment complex and spots the van. >> my whole intentions were to make a left-hand turn when the traffic cleared up, but when i saw them i turned right.
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sgr >> a chase ensues. >> i knew we were headed to a one-lane bridge. i can see a vehicle coming across that bridge. i know no other car can get through it. i knew there was nowhere for them to go. >> once on the one-lane bridge, the driver tries to maneuver around an oncoming taxi but instead hits it. now the passenger side is up against the guardrail and it seems like these guys have no choice but to give up. >> just when i thought it was over, i'm telling dispatch there's nowhere for them to go. >> but instead the driver puts the van in reverse and guns it. >> i saw wheels coming at my face. pretty much the point when i saw the wheel coming at the windshield, i didn't know if the car would cave in. i didn't know if i would have a roof when i was done. when the car flipped over, they were still hitting the gas. >> officer carson jumps out of
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his car and with another officer grabs the three suspects. aside from cuts from the broken glass, no one is hurt. >> the roof caved in maybe five, six inches in the center. the windshield was pushed the whole way down. >> all three suspects are arrested. among the charges are armed robbery and motor vehicle theft, malicious destruction of property and two counts of resisting arrest. looking back on that incident, officer carson realizes what a dangerous situation he was in and how lucky he is. >> i'm just happy that when it's all said and done, i walked away from it. >> coming up, a driver plows into an overpass at 100 miles an hour. >> the driver was three lanes over from where the crash had occurred. >> a shootout from the back of a taxi. and a tale of two very different dogs. the dog whisperer weighs in. >> look at his tail. it's up and he's having a great
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what you're watching is not a stunt from an action-packed movie but a real-life car crash with 19-year-old brennan eden, a student from mason, ohio, at the wheel. >> it just was a freakish, freakish accident. >> it's early in the morning on august 23rd, 2010. an officer from sugar creek, ohio, near dayton, is scanning i-675 for traffic hazards when suddenly he sees a car flying fast through the air. sergeant james williams, a crash reconstructionist, rushes to the scene. >> the first thing i noticed was what appeared to be the engine compartment on fire in the high. speed northbound lane which is opposite from where the crash occurred.
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then i noticed the occupant compartment in the center median and then the right side of the vehicle sitting underneath the bridge. >> the car is totally demolished with pieces scattered all over the highway. >> the driver was three lanes over from where the crash had occurred. >> miraculously eden is alive. he is rushed to the hospital by helicopter. >> so i described it as a bifold wallet. he was bent in half. it's amazing that he's even around. he hit the drainage ditch and went airborne glancing off the guardrail at that point. i would say he was going well in excess of 100 miles an hour. >> eden's mother is stunned. >> from what the police and doctors have told us, we really feel this is a miracle that brennan is alive. >> as it turns out brennan was pulled over by police just an hour before the crash. >> brennan had alcohol inside
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the car, trace amount of marijuana with him and also a device that was used as a pipe. >> a sobriety test shows brennan is not under the influence but he receives a summons. less than an hour later, he ends up here. after the accident eden's license is suspended for two years for reckless driving. all involved agree, eden is lucky to get a second chance. >> based on the manner that he was ejected and the distance and the circumstances, he should not be alive today. >> it's january 10th, 2009, and state trooper ian henry is patrolling interstate 90 outside albany, new york. in the westbound lane he spots a speeding taxi and takes off after it. eventually the trooper catches up and pulls over the cab. >> first thing he noticed was out of state cab which is unusual to have somebody come all the way from connecticut. pretty expensive cab ride.
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>> the trooper talks to the driver and then focuses his attention on the passenger in the backseat who has two duffel bags with him. one has clothing in it. >> the passenger was somewhat hesitant to show him the second duffel bag but trooper henry was able to see an assault rifle amongst the clothing there. >> the passenger grabs the rifle before henry can get at it. the trooper quickly backs off leaving the taxi driver in the car. >> the trooper made that choice to retreat because really that was all he could do at that time to save his life in case the passenger started immediately firing. better to have one person than two people die. you know, you just can't stay there and spend a minute trying to get somebody out of the vehicle. >> the passenger turns out to be 23-year-old darryl brown from hartford, connecticut. the cops later find out he's a
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member of a gang called the bloods and is fleeing hartford because he was involved in a carjacking the night before. >> it was a knife point carjacking and he seriously injured the man involved and he was made to believe from a third party that he killed the person so he thought he was dealing with a homicide as well. >> brown had jumped in a taxi and told him to head for the albany area. >> he told the driver to keep driving. he would let him know when he got there. >> on the dashcam, you can see the cab driver frantically waving his hands, putting his head out the side window. then in a zdramatic move, he makes a run for it. the cab driver shoot edshouted trooper henry to let him go with him. trooper henry is also telling the cab driver, put your hands up, pull your shirt up. he wanted to make sure he wasn't a co-conspirator or buddy of the passenger.
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>> with the cab driver out daryl brown opens fire and shoots out the back window. >> he fired seven shots very quickly. he knocked out the back window. he peered out. he opened two back doors and then the eighth shot knocked out the dashcam of the trooper's camera. the other departments are picking up on the radio what's going on and we're getting a quick response within a matter of a few minutes. >> the internet is shut down and police position themselves with the taxi in their line of fire. after a 40-minute standoff brown is silenced by a sharpshooter and dies two days later in the hospital. miraculously everyone else is safe. >> the only person who died that day was daryl brown, and he had initiated the entire incident. it just is amazing that someone can fire that many rounds and have no concern for the public or the police and have it as
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contained as it was and we are certainly grateful for that as well. coming up, one dog leads police to a burning home. >> buddy saved us i would say. buddy saved our home. it was just a miracle. >> while another takes police for a totally different kind of ride. >> what the -- >> look at his tail. it's up. and he's having a great time and the police car. the holidays bring many challenges to the feet.
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change. and a 31-year-old man is in custody in pennsylvania in the shooting death of a veteran police officer who was responding to a domestic dispute. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. so far our dashcam videos have showed us people whose deeds ranged from outrageous to criminal but humans aren't the only ones who step into the limelight here. next are two of man's best friends, remarkable dogs with two very different tales. even in april it's still a cold, dark night in 2010 when state trooper terrence shannigan navigating his ways through alaska's back roads. he just received word about a fire on someone's property. >> we had quite a bit of snow on the ground yet. the roads were all ice covered. it was dark, and visibility was
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poor just because of low light conditions. >> at an intersection, the trooper decides to go straight. >> something caught my eye about 100 yards in front of me. as i came to the crest of a hill and then around the corner, i saw that there was a german shepherd in the middle of the road that was coming towards me. >> the officer detects something special about this dog. he himself raises sled dogs and spends much of his free time with his four-legged pals, so when he see this is canine out on the road, he knows the dog is there for a good reason. >> there was that split second where immediately we connected and there was just some type of second nature that i was falling back on and following the dog on a hunch. >> the german shepherd is a 5-year-old dog named buddy. >> it was just the body language of the dog, the way he would look over his shoulders, giving
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me prompts and cues to speed up and slow down. >> the trooper follows the german shepherd and incredibly the dog turns up the driveway that leads to the fire where a building is engulfed in flames. >> buddy stopped at the end of the driveway, quit running from me, and came around my vehicle and greeted me at my driver's side door and started to nudge me in the palm of my hand. >> the property is owned by tom and lynette hinrichs who live with their 22-year-old son ben, buddy's best pal. >> i would say buddy is pretty much ben's shadow. when ben leaves, buddy leaves. you could tell that buddy was ben's dog because he was right there with him, and he listens to him real well. ben is definitely the master. >> the night of the fire buddy is right beside ben who is working on his car in the shed when gasoline ignites.
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the blaze leaves ben with first and second-degree burns. >> one of my parts had fallen into the tank of gas and splashed up on my heater and ignited catching me on fire. i ran outside in the snow. told buddy we need to go find help. >> buddy obeys and that's when he runs to the road and meets up with the trooper. >> i am very proud for what my dog did leading the state trooper to our house. by doing so he saved our house. >> but buddy isn't finished. he runs back out to the road again. >> i had a firefighter that had come up to me during the whole episode and told me that they had followed a german shepherd in from the same general location that i had met the german shepherd. the dog had led two different people in to the same location doing almost the very same thing. >> the fire is so intense it could have spread to the hinrich's home if it hadn't been
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for buddy. the family says buddy's actions are totally out of character. >> the reason it's hard to believe because he's always so shy and always kind of skittish around people. i just didn't think he'd do it. >> it makes a person wonder what -- actually what their pets are really made of, you know. what did we do to have him do this for us? we didn't teach him that. how did he do that? >> perhaps the best person to answer this is caesar milan, most of national geographic channel's "dog whisperer" and author of "caesar's rules." >> it's an instinct. animals are not afraid of life. they just have an internal understanding of fear of fire, fear of earthquake, fear of natural disasters. they're in tune to mother nature, especially dogs who get to live in the woods. >> looking at the dashcam video, cesar sees how buddy
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communicates with the trooper. >> a stray dog in the road and he does this, you know, he's not concerned about anything else except who you are. but a dog that is he is prexpreu is telling you something is wrong in my house. dogs are charged with this message and dogs do listen to our message. in this case is go find help. >> i'm really speechless. i didn't think my dog really was that smart to do what he did. >> this example of heroism -- >> since his heroic act he has received numerous rewards and accolades. >> we need to recognize the value of our animal companions. >> he receives a stainless steel dog bowl engraved with the alaska state trooper badge as well as some doggy treats. >> buddy saved us i would say. buddy saved our home. it was just a miracle. >> he'll always be there for me and i'll always be there for
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him. >> and for trooper shanigan who is now buddy's pal, honoring him means a great deal. >> i think our animal companions do deserve a lot of credit for everything they do. for the family dog to step up and do something people rarely get to experience but i think was fortunate enough to be caught on a camera. >> this example of heroism -- >> if buddy proves dogs can be heroes, winston proves dogs will be dogs. the 2-year-old pit bull mix is caught on camera chomping away on the bumper of a chattanooga, tennessee, police car. >> all right, fellows. this bulldog has almost got his whole bumper ripped off. >> on march 14th, 2010, the naughty winston unlocks the grate from his home and ends up
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here, where he discovers a new doggy treat. the police try prying loose the 80-pound dog by moving the patrol car back and forth, but winston just won't let go. >> you want me to take action or just sit here and wait? >> hang on a second. do you have your video on? you're recording this? >> that's correct. >> so what is it about this bumper that winston so thoroughly enjoys? is it the smell? the taste? it's neither according to the dog whisperer, cesar milan. >> he would be peeing on it or rubbing himself against it, not chewing. this is a smell of plastic that triggers fun to him. this dog was encouraged to bite plastic for tires. they're not born wanting to bite a tire. they just get encouraged. the dog learned to release his frustration on that object. >> from the sidelines, other dogs seem to be cheering on
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winst winston. >> as you see, he's playing. he's not being aggressive. this is why the other dogs are not attacking him. if he was aggressive the other dogs would be attacking -- see. now they're going to a chase behavior because the car is now a toy. they're playing with the car. >> believe it or not, the dashcam video lasts for almost an hour. >> now he's trying to chew his tire as he drives off. >> look at his tail. it's up and he's having a great time with the police car, taxpayer money. he doesn't know that. he's just having a good time. see, look at this guy right here. >> police even try to catch the dog on foot but winston remains steadfast, so what would the dog whisperer do? >> i'd stop the car and i put a leash on the dog so he could stop or redirect him with food. stop it. and ask him to lay down in front of the bumper.
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you know. sow learns to relax in front of the bumper. >> finally, the animal center arrives and takes winston away. then his owner comes to pick him up. >> we're glad that he's getting to come home and get back to his old life. pre all the excitement. >> but winston snd off the hook yet. charged with being a potentially dangerous dog, he's ordered to attend obedience school and a canine good citizenship class. in september 2010 he graduates. as for the damage to the patrol car, winston's family paid a hefty fee. >> he did act very badly but that was not his typical behavior and we're sure he'll be a model citizen from now on. >> and he was. sadly, winston died of heart failure on october 15th, 2010. but we're sure he's on his best behavior in doggy heaven. coming up, a chase that even
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the cops can't believe. >> behind a drunk driver that's really bad. >> this is somebody who took it to the whole next level because now he's putting many more people's lives at stake. but next, two officers pay the ultimate price in the line of duty. >> what happened was so senseless. it was senseless. >> and a police chief that will never forget. >> it was the worst day in my life ever. we were totally caught unprepared and we won't be again. ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business...
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senseless. it was senseless. >> what happened on may 20th, 2010, was something the town of west memphis, arkansas, will never forget. particularly its police chief. >> we're leaving en route to your location. >> there's no such thing as a routine police car. nothing is routine. >> on that day in may, officer bill evans is patrolling the interstate and pulls owe every a white van with an out of state plate. inside the van are jerry cane and his 16-year-old son joe. >> the license didn't appear right when he stopped the van. and then when he checked it, the paperwork said it was not in order. it was not issued by the state. >> instead, the paperwork is issued by the department of heaven. a bit suspicious, evans calls for backup and a second officer arrives on the scene. >> i think they realized it was up. there was two officers there then, and they were in trouble.
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>> off camera jerry cane pushes officer evans down an incline and then on the dashcam cane's son joe appears with a gun. >> bill is stumbling down this incline. he shoots at him. he didn't have time to get his weapon out. he hit him many times in the body, in the back. >> at that point the second officer tries to help evans, but the 16-year-old turns his weapon on him. >> officer down, officer down. >> a deliver driver witnesses the whole scene. >> these guys just shot a police officer. >> through the statements of the driver, this kid was very methodical, very slow, knew exactly what he was doing, and he handled that ak-47 like a military person would. >> the father/son team calmly gets back in the van and takes off leaving the officers bleeding on the ground. shortly after, more police arrive and find that officer
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evans is alive, but just barely. >> and there was about three officers standing over him, and they were saying, bill, you're going to be okay. bill, you're going to be okay. there was quite a bit of blood around and then i saw another officer lying on his back. one of the sergeants stopped me and said don't go up there. >> sadly that second officer lying on the ground is the son of the police chief, 39-year-old brandon powder. >> i pushed him aside and i went up there and i saw brandon lying on his back facing straight up with his pistol in his right hand. to find your son in the condition that i found brandon, no parent should ever have to endure that pain ever. >> officer bill evans dies later at the hospital, but brandon powder is dead at the scene. >> it was the worst day in my life ever. still are affected and will be affected to the day we die by brandon's death. >> with the suspects on the
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loose, an all-out manhunt begins. >> 911? >> there's a white van sitting here in the parking lot here at walmart. >> less than a mile from the shooting, the white van is spotted in a walmart parking lot. gunfire erupts between the suspects in the van and other police officers. then out of nowhere comes mike neal, an arkansas whild life officer who has his police scanner on. >> i pulled my m-4 up and i was driving towards the suspects. i was holding the steering wheel with my left hand and the m-4 with my right and i drove straight towards him. i made the decision at that point to ram the van to shut it down. >> the suspects begin firing spraying neal's truck with bullets. within a matter of minutes it's all over. jerry cane and his son joe are dead. weather it's mike neal's gun that silences the duo is not certain. other officers were also firing at them.
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>> there was bullet holes that went through the top, went right above my head. i took multiple rounds into the grill, the hood, the dash, the windshield. everywhere he was sitting in the truck was shot. there's no reason i shouldn't have been shot. >> it's obvious that mike neal was a hero in this case. had those two got out of that van and got in walmart, it's untold how many lives would have been lost. >> still, the question remains why all this happened if the first place. the west memphis police discover that jerry and joe cane were radical right members of the sovereign citizens movement, the canes traveled america giving seminars on how to avoid following some of the laws of this country. this video was posted on youtube by one of the seminar's participants who wanted to spread their message. >> you're being lied to just so we can wrap our hands around your throat. >> they don't have to go by any rules of this country.
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they misinterpret the constitution. they say that the federal laws do not affect them. that they have their own laws. >> at the time of the murders of officers evans and powder, no one at the west memphis police department had heard of the organization. >> we were totally caught other law enforcement communities about the sovereign citizens movement and he's on what many view as a controversial mission, arming his police force with more powerful weaponry and changing police procedure so that what happened to his son and fellow officer won't happen again. >> we're arming our police officers with ar-15 rifles. when an officer does a traffic stop a backup officer will be standing out in front of his patrol car with an ar-15. i know we'll catch some heat from some in the communities but i personally don't care. i'm here to save officers' lives.
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>> if each police officer doesn't believe they're going to war every day they put that gun and badge on, they're living in a false world. >> reflecting on his son's death and the dangerous criminals police face every day, the chief is convinced if officers bill evans and brandon had the right information and the right ammunition, the outcome would have been very different. >> brandon would have been there with an ar-15 and could have taken this 16-year-old punk out. coming up -- a cop on a slow-speed chase can't believe who's at the wheel. >> i was dumbfounded. i was -- you're kidding me, right? >> when "caught on camera: dash cam diaries" continues. s mess? a mess? i don't think -- what's that? snapshot from progressive. plug it in, and you can save on car insurance based on your good driving. you sell to me? no, it's free. you want to try? i try this if you try... not this.
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911, where's your emergency? >> i'm behind a drunk driver that's really bad. i'm in greenfield. she's going off -- she is about
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off the road. >> patrol officer anthony newmeister is following a drunk driver out on the highway late at night, and it's all caught on his dash cam. >> the vehicle was over the road, left to right. i got in behind it. >> but he's in for the surprise of his life when he eventually catches up with the car after a 25-minute slow-speed chase. >> i was dumbfounded. i was -- you're kidding me, right? >> it's august 29, 2009 in greenfield, indiana. and the seemingly intoxicated driver is oblivious and just keeps on going. at one point when the vehicle stops at a stop sign, the officer thinks the driver is about to pull over but instead the car goes right through traffic just missing two other vehicles. >> oh -- >> i thought he was going to get hit. i thought it was going to be bad so i knew there would be some sort of chase.
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there wasn't. >> as the pursuit continues, the driver becomes even more reckless, switching lanes numerous times, driving over the median and heading straight int oncoming traffic. >> this is somebody who just took it to the whole next level because now he's putting many more people's lives at stake and driving the wrong way on a two-lane highway that has a 60 mile per hour speed limit. that's when it got really interesting as far as this isn't just a regular thing that we see every now and then. this is the real game and let's try to get it ended before somebody gets hurt. and it had the potential to get really ugly. >> by this time squad cars from at least four different counties get in on the chase. one gets ahead of the out-of-control driver and throws down a spike strip in the driver's path deflating one of the tires. >> and the vehicle come back into the right lanes and then slowed way down, went off the right side of the road and veered off and went down to the
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field. i mean, it ended. >> the chase is over. officers order the suspect to get out of the car. but no one comes out. carefully they approach the vehicle and find a little boy hunched down on the floorboard. >> of course, we make sure he's okay. we ask him what happened and at the time we're asking where the other person went. where is the other person and we're asking ourself, we didn't see anybody run. >> police believe there has to be another person. someone else had to be driving the vehicle and then -- >> it clicked that that kid was driving the car. >> the driver of the chase that had officers from four counties and a k-9 unit after him was no drunk driver. it was a 9-year-old boy who could barely see above the steering wheel. >> i never experienced anything like that. i think i was just shocked. i wasn't really sure what to think about it.
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the kid was cool, calm and collected. probably a little bit more than me. >> so what made this little guy do such an impulsive thing? >> he was mad at mom and dad. mom and dad made him come in, get ready for bed. he didn't like that so he was going to go -- he was going to leave. he took the vehicle and left and he was going to a friend's house he had $2 or $3 in his pocket and that was going to get him wherever he needed to go and his worry wasn't running from the police, his worry was, officer, i really tried to stay around the speed limit as you were behind me. i really didn't want to speed. >> a call was made to the parents who had no idea what had happened. they thought their son was asleep in the next room. little did they realize he was keeping several police forces very busy that night. >>had told me that mom and dad are probably going to ground him. i remember looking at him and i said, i'm pretty sure that you
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are going to get grounded, young man. >> the 9-year-old was charged with fleeing and resisting law enforcement. the juvenile was released to his parents, ordered child counseling and put on probation. since his infamous escapade, no further incidents have been reported. >> a lot of people could have got hurt. a 9-year-old kid who gets hurt or killed in a car crash where the police are chasing him, i don't even want to begin where that would have went. at the end of the day, nobody got hurt. the only damage to the vehicles the only damage to the vehicle was a flat tire, and a 9-year-old at home. i don't think you can ask for a better ending to a situation like that. >> officers of the law step in when people or situations get out of control. whether they're facing robbers or rambunctious dogs or a mischievous 9-year-old. and when they do it in front of a dashboard camera we may all witness the challenges they face every day.
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i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." set them free! >> sitting protesters doused with pepper spray. >> i was really shocked and pretty angry about sort of how they handled that. >> a slithering snake on a windshield. >> that was totally unexpected. >> and two old-timers battling it out for old time's sake. >> that day was not a fun day. >> videos that make you want to do a double take. >> we weren't expecting that at all. >> stories so shocking -- >> oh, my god. i thought she literally lost her mind. >> okay, i got it. >> so unique -- >> that hurt just a lile

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