[pager beeping]
Just got a page out.
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Right now we're headed to the Northwest part of the city.
Vice squad needs us to run a warrant for them.
On a typical Vice warrant, the Vice detectives will
hand walk their own warrants.
For them to have called us out, something
has gone wrong somewhere.
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When I was a patrol officer, I worked this Northwest division
and prostitution was rampant.
It's a big, huge business, and the part of town
that we're going to has a lot of these so-called massage
parlors.
We're going to try to call them out first?
Yeah, Vice hit the door.
It was barricaded, so they backed off and called us.
From my experience, when you had prostitution,
you had drugs, we had guns, and you had violence.
We're going into an unknown situation,
dealing with high risk people that we have no clue about.
We don't even know who they are.
They're just leaving downtown, so we're
a little bit ahead of them.
Right, I'm almost there.
And they hit the door, and it's barricaded and that's it or--
OK.
Bye.
The element of surprise is completely gone on this deal.
They know we're out here, and that's-- that's SWAT
101 for no no.
You don't hit things when they know you're coming.
Adult video store.
There's density right there, [inaudible]..
71 on your right.
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I don't know how many people are going to be in there.
I guess we're going to set up a perimeter.
Our detective went in there and made a prostitution case,
and when he came out they locked the door behind him.
We don't know if there are other customers
inside, being held in there.
We're trying to stop his phone contact right now,
to allow them to come out and surrender
and talk to the detectives.
They're making assignments now to surround the place,
giving everyone different assignments.
Go get them, man.
Let's get them.
Go get them.
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Right now, we're supposed to contain this whole side
of the business, which, I guess, the whole business is contained
in this whole building.
And we're not sure if it ends in one place or starts another.
And they were trying to contact them
and let them know we're out here for them to come on out.
It's hot, too.
About 100 degrees out here.
[helicopter sounds]
We might have to back up, because if you're
looking off your back--
OK.
We're kind of exposed.
[inaudible] Randy, give cover off the back.
We use this APC basically as our cover.
It's a moving, rolling cover for the team.
We got two of our snipers covering the back.
If they don't open the door and decide to come out,
then we'll increase our method of operation,
decide what we're going to do.
Basically, I guess it's up to them to see how--
how we escalate this.
I don't want that [inaudible] be
advised that there was a shooting
at this location a year ago.
Kind of in a holding pattern right now.
It's the worst part, having to sit and wait.
We're going to give him an opportunity to come out first.
After that, what they do next will take our tactics.
We've got this place completely surrounded
and we're not going to leave until the situation is over.
The biggest problem here is the conflicting information
that we're getting.
We've heard as many as 14 people in there,
we've heard as you know as few as eight.
We heard there's an armed security
person inside this location.
We don't know what he's armed with.
A patron has been killed here in the past.
We've got information that some of the girls in there
actually do want to come out.
They're doing exactly what the security guy said to do.
Sit back and--
The security guards are telling
everybody to stay in there.
The manager thought that he could get here
before anything else happened, and can talk to us,
and then make us go away.
But, you know, at that point, we've
already got a search warrant.
We told him to come out, and there's
nothing the owner can do.
We can hear them screaming.
There's a couple of guys in there
at least that are belligerent.
[bleeped out cursing]
Right now, they're not acting like they should.
We're fixing to step it up a little bit.
Our biggest objective to try to take out
un-reflective glass is that they can
see out that we can't see in.
I don't know how thick the glass is, but I try to look--
With the weight of that glass, I
think it'd be better shoot low.
Yeah.
This is our wooden baton round.
We can use these to break out windows or glass.
We're going to breach some of these windows,
try to get an eyeball in and see what
we can clear from the outside.
Try to own as much of it from the outside as we can.
Standby.
Any time you step out to shoot one
of these less than lethal rounds,
you always have lethal cover.
So, you're not just standing out there by yourself.
You let me know when you're ready.
Standby for four and five.
[gunshots]
[glass breaking]
Things are going to escalate.
[gunshots]
[glass breaking]
We just deployed some less lethal
rounds through the windows.
Let them know that we're out here.
We're not going away.
It's a reflective glass with tinted windows,
with double-pane.
It's a very tough situation.
You break and break, you're going to be front cover.
I'm rear cover.
The time has expired for them to do
what we've asked them to do.
Sergeant Younger's been given the command to go.
The team from the APC, Sergeant Younger's group,
we're going to move up to the front door.
I'm going to provide cover.
We're going to go straight to that wall,
and then you're going to hug the wall.
[music playing]
I love being the front line.
I love being put out in the front
to take care of the situation.
[glass breaking]
Walk towards my voice.
[inaudible]
Walk towards my voice.
[bleeped out cursing]
They knew we were coming.
They could hear us.
We st-- as soon as we got in there,
we started saying come to us, come to us.
And they kept saying, No, we're not.
You come to us.
[helicopter sounds]
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There was two guys in there and nine women.
The two men, one was a security guard.
I think he's the one that was talking to the owner
and gave them the advice: don't come out.
Just stay in there.
They can come get you.
Don't come out of the business.
We negotiated with them and pretty much gave
him every chance to come out.
It's secure.
But they wouldn't come out, you know we have to go in
and get them.
No one got hurt.
We got everybody out.
And our mission was successful.
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I think they thought we were going to go away.
A lot of people think that.