(man)
One way or another, we're going
to get you out of here. (woman)
He has a high powered rifle which can go through
pretty much anything. (man)
This guy is serious
about hurting you. Keep hunting for him
all night if we have to. blam! blam! blam! blam! (man) (man)
To see your buddies get shot, I hope I don't have
to do it again, but I also realize
it can happen right now. (man)
It's the Dallas
Police Department SWAT team. We have the house
totally surrounded. [speaking Spanish] [glass smashing] (man)
Barricaded suspect, armed and dangerous. (man)
Suspect is inside. (man)
We're going to hit
the ground running. (man)
♪ Adrenaline's running higher. ♪ ♪ Strap the metal to my back. ♪ (man)
30 seconds to the target house. Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! ♪ ♪ Police!
Police! (Emberlin)
I'm heading out
to a squad golf outing. Should be a good time, because I don't think anybody
has any golf skills. We've talked about it for years, and we're finally going
to do it, so it should be a real fun time, see the guys
out of their normal element and playing some really,
really bad golf. [brakes squeal] [goofy laughter] SWAT is Sit, Wait, And Talk, and that's
what we're doing today. It was funny,
man. (Claggett)
Better find something to do with my gun. (Emberlin)
A day at the golfing range is the same as a day
out at the rifle range or the pistol range. You know, we all show up
with our gear. (Claggett)
Todd, are those official golf shoes? <i>Only flip flops.</i> <i>You can't
hide money.</i> (Emberlin)
This is fun to see these guys who know everything about
their job and their profession and come out here
and be completely disarmed by not knowing anything
about golf. (Claggett)
Did we need to establish a suck factor right off the bat? All right. <i>Nice and straight.</i> Aww! [laughing] (Claggett)
We're an hour
and 15 minutes into the game, and we're still
on the first hole, so we're doing all the good. Yaw! [laughter] (Emberlin)
If we shot weapons
the way we golfed, people in the surrounding
neighborhood would be killed. <i>Ohh!</i> [laughing] There it is. Oh, no! It's in
the hole.
Look at there. Look at that.
[cell phone rings] South Dallas?
Okay. Hey, patrol
has a guy barricaded in a house
in South Dallas. We're headed down
to Southeast Dallas. <i>Suspect allegedly
shot a friend of his</i> <i>with an AR-15</i> and then put her in a vehicle and burned the vehicle
and her up. [sirens wailing] (Emberlin)
The deployment and homicide guys have got him cornered
in a house. (Vancuren)
Sometimes murder warrants
are older. Of course,
this is a more exciting one, 'cause it just happened. Any time you go into
an operation, you should expect the worst
out of the suspect inside. (Emberlin)
We're going to treat it as a barricaded person just because he has the AR-15, and he's not afraid to use it. When these suspects
are armed with, you know, military assault rifles, it changes our tactics up
a little bit. <i>We're setting up
in a parking lot</i> not too far
from the suspect's location. (Vancuren)
The guys that
have been watching the house just saw a pickup drive up, and they ID-ed to think
that that's the suspect that went inside the house. And how do you
pronounce his name? Who?
Ismael? Ismael?
Uh-huh. Okay. (Byas)
These are going to be family, so we're going
to kind of talk to them and see if we can find out
any information, anything like that. What I need for you to do is, I want you to picture as though
you're in a helicopter looking down on the house, okay? and you just draw
where the rooms are. <i>Where's the front door?</i> There's
a front door here. Okay, is there a window
in the front door or a window here? There's two? No, it's just one big one. Now, can you get into the garage
from inside, right? <i>Or do you have to go outside
to open it?</i> <i>Oh, yeah.</i> Do you have any questions
or anything? Yeah, why are you here? Why are you here? We have a warrant
for his arrest. Oh, why? Why?
That I can't tell you. (Emberlin)
The scout's good,
because it allows us to gather information
about the surrounding areas and the target itself. We need to find places
to put our snipers, where to put an arrest team, where to put the entry team. Gathering intel for that
is a major priority right now. Okay, that's going
to be it. That's our target,
right next door to the school. <i>Get the APC on the backup.</i> (Emberlin)
The big problem with it now is, it's got a fatal funnel
on the front, which is a doorway
that funnels everybody that's going into the house
down into one small area. (Fuller)
It's an area where they
can funnel you into, and then with
his high-powered weapons, he could take out most
of the entry team right there in one spot. Strategy right now is just
to get it locked down. Surround it, call him out. (Vancuren)
My team will take
the A side of the house, which is the front of the house. The other team will take
the C side of the house, which is the rear of the house. <i>They ready to pull up?</i> <i>(man)
House will be on our left,</i> a red brick house. A red brick house. We might want
to crash a fence when we arrive. <i>Load it up.</i> We're crashing the fence. We'll be
on the charlie-baker side. The house will be
on that side of us, on the passenger side
of the vehicle. <i>(man)
House is gonna be on that side.</i> Is anybody else
inside? All right. So, Jim, when we
go stage up, <i>Yeah, we're gonna
just crash.</i> We're going straight
to the door? <i>(man)
Guys,</i> this guy is serious
about hurting you, so be careful. <i>Can I get a yes?</i> Okay. <i>We're here, guys.
We're here, guys.</i> [wire fence rattling] Keep going.
Keep going. Keep going.
Go, go. (Emberlin)
There's a male inside that matches
our suspect's description. Suspect's coming
out of the garage. Ah! I got him. On the ground. <i>Right here.</i> <i>Good, good.
Okay.</i> Come on. You got anything on you
I need to know about? No. Knives, guns, drugs?
Anything? No. (Emberlin)
Turns out that the guy
was the suspect's brother, so the suspect's still inside. There's no one else
in the house? No, nada.
[speaking Spanish] <i>Turn on your cell.</i> (Moreno)
Yeah, they say
he's not in there, but you know how that goes. We've heard that before, so we've got to take
every precaution we can to make sure that
the suspect's not in there, 'cause he could be in there holding somebody
against their will. <i>(Jackson)
This is Dallas SWAT.</i> This place
is completely surrounded. <i>This is not a difficult
decision to make.</i> <i>The only move
you can make right now</i> that would benefit you
and your family <i>is for you to walk
out the front door.</i> <i>(man)
801 to 894.</i> <i>(man)
Go ahead.</i> <i>(Jackson)
Don't be foolish
and stay inside the house</i> and make this more difficult
than it has to be. (Emberlin)
We're going to deploy a phone so the suspect can talk to us. Soon as I get clear, I'm going to chunk it
as far as I can back in the room. <i>Ready?</i>
Yes, sir. (Emberlin)
We're going to break and rake this far right window out and throw the phone in, see if he'll respond to that. [glass breaking] (Emberlin)
I don't like this. [glass smashing] Out there in the line of fire, they stand a chance
of getting shot. Didn't like Mike hanging out
there in the center. There wasn't really
another way to do it, though. [beeping] <i>(Jackson)
As you can see,
things are changing.</i> <i>Pick the phone up
and talk to him.</i> <i>I hear it,
and we know you're inside.</i> <i>Pick the phone up.</i> [beeping] The negotiators
are trying to get this guy to talk to them,
but no luck yet. [beeping] (Vancuren)
If he doesn't respond soon, we're going to have
to escalate our tactics. (Emberlin)
Since the suspect's
not responding, we're going to start
pumping gas in. <i>When you get up there,
take those yellow stoppers...</i> (Vancuren)
We have good intel that the suspect is possibly
in the attic. We're going to deliver
a 517 gas canister in the attic, see if we can get him
to come out. We can get a 517, Jim,
through this vent right here. See it below the flashing? <i>Yep.</i> We can go up there, <i>drive a tool up there,</i> <i>and then I can put one
in there hand-tossed.</i> <i>Hopefully fill up
the attic.</i> (Emberlin)
Looks like the attic's divided
into two sections, so the alpha team's
going to pump gas through the garage
up into the ceiling. We're going to put it in
through the side vents here, through the soffits. One way or another, we're going
to get you out of here. <i>(Jackson)
But we're also
concerned about...</i> (man) <i>(Jackson)
I should tell you</i> <i>we don't have
a whole lot of time.</i> (man) (man) Ready, guys?
Move. <i>(Jackson)
I suggest keeping safe.</i> <i>Tear everybody else up?
What you want to do?</i> <i>If you stay inside,
I assure you,</i> <i>it's going to get tougher
for you.</i> Nobody wants to harm you, but we can't wait
all day for you, <i>so if you want us
to come in and get you,</i> <i>we'll oblige.</i> [grunting] [sniffles]
Whoo. I got a dose of that. <i>[man on radio]
Vehicle is a gold
or dirty Ford Taurus.</i> <i>(man)
We went through,
and I got,</i> <i>I was looking
in that room.</i> And now we're going
to start putting gas in the lower part of the house. <i>(Jackson)
If you say nothing,</i> <i>we're forced to believe</i> <i>that you want to be inside.</i> <i>Then that forces our hand.</i> [grenade launcher crackles] [coughing] <i>Right now,
before any more damage is done,</i> you should walk out. (Vancuren) (Fuller)
Keep an eye on the alpha door. Actually, the windows, the alpha windows right now. <i>We're fixing to move
up to the door.</i> [glass breaking] We're fixing to punch
a hole right in here. (Emberlin)
You just have to search
every inch of it. We're going to go up
in the attic. <i>Be sure to check inside
those big vents.</i> (Vancuren)
Did you just make that hole? <i>(man)
Did you just make that hole?</i> <i>(Emberlin)
Yeah, yeah, we made the hole.</i> It's clear. (Vancuren)
It's frustrating,
'cause this guy allegedly just killed a girl,
and he's still at large, so now the detectives
pretty much have to start over looking for him again. (Emberlin)
The house
was a dry hole for bodies, but it probably wasn't
for evidence. When these detectives come, they're going to go through,
search for things like weapons and bloody clothes. They're not always going to be in the very
first place you look. We're going
to keep hunting for him all night if we have to. We'll get him. (Junger)
I've been a sergeant
with the police department now for about six years and SWAT now
for about a year and a half. SWAT demands a lot
of you physically, mentally, and part of being
in the SWAT team is being in good shape, being able to do
what you need to do. Not only that,
but setting an example for the people that work
with you and under you. Let's face it. We don't get hurt as much
when we're in shape, compared to people
that are out of shape. <i>19.</i> 187. (Easterling)
Your body fat total is 15.2%, so as far as a male, 30 to 39, <i>you're at 70%.</i> (Junger)
Being in the 70th percentile
isn't terrible, but being a member
of an elite SWAT team, that percentage
isn't acceptable. My goal is basically
to lose about five pounds and some body fat, get in the shape
that I was in 15 years ago. One more. (Junger)
That's one of the reasons why I've been
working with Randy. I'm in charge for an hour a day. Just give me a month. We'll do it. This is Randy. This is what we all
aspire to be right here. (Junger)
Randy's a pretty good
motivational factor. He's pretty intense
about his workouts and about his eating habits,
but it shows. (Lancaster)
Paul's been bugging me. He came to me and wanted me
to write him out a diet plan. He seems to be serious, so I told him I'd sit down
and write him one out. <i>If it looks good,
don't eat it.</i> Sweets, pizza, pasta. If it looks like cardboard,
you can have it. Pizza will be the hard one,
pizza and pasta. If you do it,
I'll take the whole squad out for pizza, and I'll buy, and we'll all have pizza
for the day. Okay. If you don't do it, me and you have to run
the obstacle course together. All right, you're on. [cell phone rings] This is Sergeant Junger. You said patrol actually
saw him run in there? All right, well,
I'll rally the troops, and we'll start that way. Thank you. Patrol was attempting to serve a felony arrest warrant
on a suspect. As patrol pulled up
to his house, the suspect took off running
inside of his house. He barricaded himself, and patrol formed a perimeter
and called SWAT. Show me the house. It's not this one. Right in front
of it there. (Junger)
Right now, I'm acting
as a perimeter officer to make sure
that he doesn't come out the back side of the house. Okay, so based
on your information and what you're going to tell me
is that he was a felon. He got caught with a gun. He bonded out for $5,000, and now he's reneged
on the bond, and that's why he's got
the warrant out. (Vancuren)
We don't know very much. I know that he has
a felony warrant for some kind of weapons charge. I'm part of the entry team, and if we decide to go in
after the guy, I'll be part of that team
that goes inside. See that B1
window? Mm-hmm. That's a water heater, and he has something on there that doesn't belong
on a water heater, so it could be
a shooting platform, <i>and in the B2 window,</i> <i>he's been looking out
over that blue thing in there.</i> (Junger)
In the back of his house,
he has a porch with an attic opening with all of his weapons
in the attic. The fourth window in,
he's got a bow set up for hunting, so I'd assume
it had broadheads on it, which would virtually
go through our vest. (Humphrey)
Well, we've got
a couple phone numbers with a cell phone. If we can get him to talk
to us on the cell phone, we'll do that. [telephone ring tone] [voice mail greeting] <i>[recorded female voice]
Sorry, that voice mailbox
is full.</i> <i>Please call again later.
Good-bye.</i> <i>(Byas)
Okay, well,</i> we can't use his number. We can't even leave
a phone number in it, because his mailbox is full. (Junger)
Our command post has a phone that we actually physically
throw into the structure to try to establish
a negotiation or communication. (Junger)
It's starting to transition
into nighttime, so light is an issue to us. If we stay behind light,
anything in front of that light would be blinded
to what's behind it. Therefore, we gain
the element of surprise. (Vancuren)
We need to get rid
of that light, 'cause I can't see any
of those windows. [glass breaking] (Junger)
It sounds
like they're getting ready to deploy the throw phone now. <i>(man)
We've put a telephone
in there for you.</i> <i>You need to answer
the telephone.</i> [beeping] (Byas)
As of right now,
we haven't been able to get any communication. <i>(man)
Do the right thing
for your family.</i> <i>If not for you,
do it for your family.</i> <i>At least answer the telephone
and talk to us.</i> (Byas)
He's not answering
the cell phone. He's not answering
to the loud hailer. He's not picking up
the throw phone. What we're going to do now is, we're going to end up
deploying gas into the house. Is that my gas gun? Do it. (man) crack! crack! [grenade launchers firing] (Byas)
We've tried to do
everything we can to get any type of response
from this guy, and we haven't had anything, so what we're doing now is, we're actually
sending our team in to see if we can find him. Four of us are going
to make entry through the baker side door, which is the back door, and we're going to do
a slow search and search room to room. Okay, got it.
We're ready to go in. You ready? (Vancuren)
I'm with you.
I'm with you. Keep going. All right, you want
to do the closet first? (Junger)
My understanding
of the house is, it's cluttered. (Vancuren)
Is there any way to get
in those boards behind that? There's a million places
he could be hiding, so they're making sure that they
leave no stone unturned. (Vancuren)
Can you see that corner
down in there? Our entry team
has been searching the structure for a little while now. No sign of a suspect yet. However, they recovered
a couple rifles inside the house. He just didn't disappear,
did he? (Junger)
We've been out here a total of about six hours. They're in the process of searching
the attic right now. It's also the most dangerous. First part of your body that goes through
an attic opening is your head. This guy has weapons, and he can shoot
at the first thing he sees. <i>(man)
He's in--
He's in here.</i> <i>We got him.</i> Keep your hands out
in front of you. <i>I got his legs.
Back him up.</i> <i>Back him up.
Back him up to me.</i> Back him up. <i>(man)
Received, 71.</i> <i>Suspect's in custody</i> at 11:15. I got him. (Humphrey)
He withstood a lot of gas. He withstood a lot of searching, and stayed secreted
for a long time. Very, very unusual. (Vancuren)
He was in a cubby. Like, you had to crawl through
two different things to get back in there. Scottie had
to take off everything to crawl back there
to get to him. Yeah. What--
What's the deal? Got a warrant
for your arrest. All this
behind a warrant? Yeah. [bleep] damn,
bro. <i>You been up there
the whole time?</i> Yes, sir.
How'd you deal
with the gas? How'd you handle it?
I mean, seriously. Covered my mouth. Kicking my
[bleep], man. (Junger)
Well, it turns out he's been gassed
in prison before. He's used to it, so he knew we were out here. He knew why we were out here, and he played a game. Turns out he lost. Randy's going
to be disappointed. I haven't eaten
in about six hours now, but I got some stuff in the car, some brown rice
and some lean beef. (woman) (man) (Junger)
I'm on my way
to Parkland Hospital. Dale Hackbarth was the one
who was shot in the leg. I think he's the one
with the most serious injury, so I'm going to go
see how he's doing. (man) (Junger)
It's been a long time since SWAT officers
actually have been shot. It makes you think, and in our job, unfortunately,
there's risks, and we can't avoid risks. This job means the world to me. It's something that I've always
wanted to do, but I'm acutely aware
of the dangers that are associated with it. (Hackbarth)
It's a warrant that we've run
a hundred times before. Suspects were believed
to have weapons. The front door
was somewhat barricaded. Shots were ringing
through the door, and that's when I got
shot in the leg. (woman)
Doing pretty well.
You want to talk to him? Dale?
How you feeling? <i>Fine, thank you.</i> Thanks a lot
for stopping by. Oh, not a problem,
man. I just want to let you know that I just left Eddie,
and I left the A unit guys, and they all wish you well, and say if there's anything
we can do, in your family life or you,
let us know. <i>I appreciate that.</i> You very well
could have been one of us or one of my guys. It could have been a lot worse. Your wound was... <i>A little too close there.</i> <i>Little close.</i> How you doing,
Dale? Good. You know, it takes something
like this before you realize, "Man, I'm a fortunate guy
to have this many friends." Take care. <i>Appreciate it, bud.</i> <i>All right.
Bye now.
Bye-bye.</i> (Emberlin)
We're here to take care of anything he needs
throughout the night. He'd do it for us. We're doing it for him. Well, fortunately, we don't have
to do this very often. There's probably some things
that we can learn from it, but as far as it
making me apprehensive about the next operation, not by any stretch
of the imagination, because, you know,
this is the job that every one of us
chose to do. [beeping] He just what? Okay. We have another barricaded
person in West Dallas. Allegedly threatened
his neighbor with a weapon, and he's barricaded
inside an apartment. I'm feeling
a little apprehensive. We can get into another shooting
here now. [siren wailing] (man) We have another barricaded
person in West Dallas. Allegedly threatened
his neighbor with a weapon. We have to be ready
for what happened this morning at any moment. We can get
into another shooting here now. (Claggett)
My job here is one
of the entry guys. I'm going to be
on the assault element that goes in
and secures the place. (Byas)
Complainant says, "I know where the suspect is. "He lives right
around the corner. "He threatened me with a gun while he was trying
to break into my place." <i>Okay.</i> "And he's right over there, and that's the one
that's looking at you." <i>(Junger)
Link up with him.</i> He's got the
deliberate assault. You're on the deliberate
assault team. Link up with him.
He's got... (Junger)
Suspect is allegedly MHMR, which is Mental Health,
Mental Retardation. The intel said this suspect
might have a pistol on him. We're physically
two or three inches from him, just a couple sheetrock
walls away. Considering this guy's
mental condition, this could be a pretty
volatile situation. My role as a sergeant here
will be to oversee and orchestrate
the movements of the officers in deploying gas when they need it
and where they need it. (Claggett)
With MHMR patients, you can never count
on their actions and their reactions. You know, they're-- You can't predict them,
basically, is what it is, so that's going to be
our challenge on this one. We've had a busy day so far. Early this morning, we ran
a warrant, a drug warrant, and four of our guys
got shot at the front door, through the door. We secured the location, and in the midst of doing
all the paperwork for that and all the after-action
stuff on that, we got called out
on this barricade situation. The information
that we have right now is he's the only person inside. Witnesses have said
they've seen him on the second-floor window. (man)
If you look
at the complex there, we have our target. <i>This is our suspect here.</i> <i>This team here</i> <i>is going to be the arrest team
on alpha side.</i> (Junger)
Although the suspect
left his front door open, we don't want to just barge in, because he's supposed
to be armed. The first thing he'll see is,
basically, the top of our heads coming up the stairs, and we don't want to give him
something to shoot at. (Claggett)
We don't want
to take these stairs. That's asking for trouble. That's asking
for four more guys shot today. Listen up, guys. They're going to start
loud hailing, okay? [speaking Spanish] At this operation here, people are kind of on edge. We had no time to,
basically, decompress. Complacency is probably
the biggest battle we fight. We think that we
go beating on somebody's door and breaking their windows, they're going
to give up every time. The guy this morning,
he didn't want to. (Junger)
I tell you, to see your buddies get shot, that's a pretty
unique experience. I hope I don't have
to do it again, but I also realize
in this line of work, it's a realistic possibility, and it can happen right now. [speaking Spanish] (man)
Can you hear me? <i>810 to 850.</i> <i>Go ahead.</i> (Junger)
The suspect isn't responding
to our loud hails, so we'll start preparation
to deploy gas to drive him
from the second floor down to the first floor. We'll push the gas and see if we can get
some movement downstairs, <i>and we could launch one
in there,</i> <i>or we can just hold
what we got,</i> <i>see if we can't
press him out to us.</i> Don't give him
the opportunity to barricade himself
downstairs. Now we've really
gained nothing, because he's
still inside. [speaking Spanish] Everybody hold your positions. (Junger)
Now, whether
he's going to give up, barricade himself,
we don't know. [man speaking Spanish] (Claggett)
We don't want
to take these stairs. That's asking
for four more guys shot today. Our goal is to drive him
from the second floor down to the first floor. We're going
to step out, and we're going to start
putting Less Le-- our chemical agent <i>into all
the upstairs windows.</i> (Junger)
This is a 40 millimeter
less-than-lethal munitions weapon equipped with an EOTech
sighting system. We use this to deploy tear gas in the form of a ferret round. It's a projectile
that contains a powder of CS gas. blam! When people come
in contact with tear gas, it causes their lungs to burn. It causes their skin to burn,
their eyes to burn. It makes it real hard
for them to breathe, and it just creates
an uncomfortable environment for them to be in. blam! And immediately
after we deploy those, we start following up-- (Claggett)
Chemical agents
are generally used to drive somebody from a point,
or in this case, to a point. We want him
to come downstairs to us where we've got eyes on him. We'll probably have a team
waiting for him when he comes downstairs. We've had some guys that were
impervious to the stuff. We're hoping he's not
one of them. [man speaking Spanish] Can you hear me? We got suspect
in baker 2 window, second baker 2 window. [grenade launchers firing] <i>(man)
Can't continue to be inside.</i> blam! (man)
Baker, you got hands on. <i>We're good.
We're good right here, guys.</i> <i>Stay right here.</i> [man speaking Spanish] He's coming downstairs. <i>Coming out
the front door.</i> [man speaking Spanish] <i>(man)
In there.
In there.</i> It's okay. <i>Okay.
Okay.</i> (Claggett)
Now that our guy has come out, we'll do a cursory search
for the weapons. [man speaks Spanish] (man) <i>(man)
Received, 812.</i> <i>Helmets information,
suspect is in custody.</i> [man speaks Spanish] The paramedics
are coming out. (Claggett)
At this point,
we're helping him out, getting the gas washed
out of his eyes and his face. With this guy supposedly being
a mental health patient, he will be taken in
for evaluation, and then after that,
we'll book him. (Junger)
This operation, this one here went as planned. It actually went pretty well. Our guys got their mind right. They realized what
they needed to do on this one. They didn't lose sight
of their mission, and they carried on. óo
(Junger)
My goal is basically to lose about five pounds
and some body fat, get in the shape that I was in
15 years ago. Randy Lancaster
has basically offered to personally
take on the challenge of getting me in shape. Randy, what are we doing? <i>Desperate times</i> call for desperate measures,
Paul. <i>You got a few
more pounds to go.</i> Jump rope, hit the bag,
the step, and some sit-ups, and just keep going
for about 30 minutes straight. Don't film me. I haven't done this
in ages. (Junger)
Feelin' pretty good. So, Randy, you'll owe me
a dinner. Well, it's test time. We'll go 12. <i>Is there any way of cheating
on this thing?</i> 13. <i>Okay.</i> When I started, I was about 187. 181. <i>Not bad.</i> Let's see the charts. All right. See, the old <i>was 15.2% body fat.</i> Okay, now your total is 9.8%. That's not bad. Randy, I give him credit. Anything
under 10% is exceptional. I didn't anticipate
getting under 10% body fat, so, actually, this I'm proud of. How are y'all? (Claggett) What should I get, Randy? <i>Paul,</i> you won the bet. Whatever you want.
Maybe. What about a stromboli? You can do that. Stromboli? You could. I actually thought
you'd say no.
