We've got a little short notice gig from narcotics.
We're going to West Dallas.
In situations like that, then you
have to rely more heavily on your training
and work through the problems on the run basically.
See the knob on the door of the cage?
Looks like it's on the left side.
On this particular house, there's
a lot of bars on the windows.
Is that meshed up too?
It looks like it.
There's bars and mesh on the front porch.
Anytime you have that, we lose the speed element
and the surprise element.
Once we set that, we'll pull back.
Johnny, you dump the bag.
OK.
And what we're going to do to get the upper hand
on these guys, is we're going to immediately deploy flash bangs.
You get a bright flash and you get a loud bang or concussion.
And it works to give us that little edge
that we need in order to get the jump on these guys.
We'll take a strap to the door of the cage on the front porch.
In this particular warrant, we're going to use three pulls.
We're going to pull two doors and one window.
The primary entry is the delta 3 door.
He's guessing right now--
It's just a guess that if we don't
make it into the driveway, it won't be long enough to reach.
Our pulls on this operation are done
in real close-quarters environment,
so that's going to be a problem.
You have 25 feet from the street to that door.
That window, I don't think it'll reach.
Will this become primary entry point
then if we don't pop that?
Yes, sir, you will push in behind you guys.
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My role in this operation is we're breaching the front door,
the front cage, then we're going to breach
the front door and front window inside the cage.
If we fail to get the back door pulled off,
then our point will be the primary entry point.
We'll be the primary entry team on this.
Keith, what do you have going on here?
There's multiple pulls coming off the front of the vehicle.
There are two pulls coming up and passenger side,
one pull come off the driver.
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When we set up a pull, first thing we look at
is obviously our objective.
We hook up our strap, and then we
hook up the other end to whatever tool
we decide to use for the job.
This particular one's an easy little fish hook.
The straps will be fastened on the bumper for easy deployment.
You'll place the hook.
Step back, leave it.
Should come off all about the same time,
if we set our straps up right.
This is the Scott McIntyre deployment method, which works,
works very well.
It's a pretty complicated method, isn't it?
Yeah.
One bungee cord.
$2 bungee cord, and $400 strap.
We're good.
All's it takes on a warrant like this, is somebody
be out of position when the pulls are made
and catching a piece of steel alongside the head
and killing them.
Or the suspect turning aggressive
and being in a crossfire situation with other officers.
I mean, there's a whole gamut of things that could go wrong.
You know, it's just it's a dangerous job.
There's no doubt about it.
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Great.
Come in on the right-hand side, shy of me.
I'm going deep covering that door,
and then I'll try and pick up as much window as I can.
Yes, sir.
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There it is, boys.
Don't peel us off on the fence, Mo.
Offload.
Let's go, guys. Let's go.
- Move. - Stay tight.
Stay tight.
Set it.
Hit [inaudible]
Police!
Don't move.
Keep [inaudible].
The strap's not long enough.
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[gun shot]
Screen door [inaudible] You've got a breach.
Take the window from the outside.
- [inaudible] - Police!
Down!
Police!
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We're moving, guys.
Alternate entry.
- Police! - Move.
Move. Move.
Move it. Police!
Show me your hands.
There's two.
How many other people are in his house?
Keep moving.
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Where's the third one?
Inside.
Go through.
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Hang on a second guys.
Mark, hang on just one minute, because we
may have a separate room that we don't know about.
Hey, Keith.
Can you guys see this opening here from inside?
They made some adjustments to the structure,
so there may be a concealed space.
Just be careful, it might be a scuttle hole, bubba.
Right now, we're checking to make sure
that there is no possible place anybody could hide,
especially if they have a gun.
Lock it from the inside.
Step across.
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You locked the cage?
Yeah.
Let go of it.
Steve, you let them punch one just to make sure.
OK, we'll punch.
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We're good.
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All right.
That's what happened.
[inaudible]
Another one.
Oh, you got one back there still?
[inaudible]
One walking.
Playing a game?
[inaudible] We are secure.
Narcotics, you can come up.
This operation went very well, especially
considering the short time that we had to prepare for it.
We had a few issues on the side.
One of our problems was the strap
that we had wasn't long enough to make it to the back door,
so we aborted that.
I ran out of strap.
Look like a cartoon, getting yanked backward.
The strap's not long enough.
We were able to get our front door open quickly,
because we had the shortest strap
and obviously the shorter distance to go,
so it was no problem for us.
It didn't go as we planned, but that's
what contingencies are for.
If we can break a door and a window, and have them
give up on us.
Mission success.
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