trooper albright goes into crisis mode. he hops on one foot, tending to the injured. kind of one of them things where you fight through the pain. okay. where is the officer at? where is this guy at? where is this person at? the dui suspect is crushed between his car and albright s cruiser. on impact, albright had lifted the man off the ground, possibly saving him from a worse injury. apparently i picked him straight up off the ground because my car hit him on the front side of his legs. and it smashed him down on top of the hood of my car. take those off of him, please. albright and another officer dislodged the man from between the two vehicles. incredibly, he only suffers minor injuries. once i realized where everybody was at, i kind of collapsed in the grass and that s when it really started hurting. oh, my knee is killing me. authorities soon determine that the driver who slammed into trooper albright s vehicle is
i feel if i can get him to the ground, i m going to kick his ass. deaton again uses his taser. this time uses a technique called a drive stun on german. i could take the cartridge off the taser and push the taser right on the subject and cycle it. deaton blasts german s back and neck with his taser. at the same time, officer malcolm tipton reaches the scene. he races toward the brawl with his taser locked and loaded. as i got about 10 to 15 feet from them, officer deaton turned mr. german toward me and gave me a clear shot at his back. tipton let s lose the barbs and zaps german with a direct hit. the officers cuff and arrest german. paramedics arrive at the scene to treat officer deaton. my adrenaline was still rushing. i saw all this blood that was on me and at this time i could see it was dripping off my nose. deaton s nose has been sliced open from one of german s punches. in the safety of the ambulance,
he is sentenced to six years in prison. if he would have just stopped, he would have got a $100 citation and had to fix the lady s mirror. now he s lost six years of his life. and he s behind bars. officer deaton goes back on his beat after a three-month recovery from his injuries. he looks at that roadside altercation as a learning experience and faces every day with a new routine. now every time i walk out the door i always make sure i say bye to my family because you never know. that might be the last time you see them. coming up these suspects really break the bank. you crashed a car into the bank. there s a problem here. when caught on camera: dash cam diaries continues. we are t. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we ve made our passions our life s work. we strive for the moments where we can say, i did it!
in violence forcing a police officer to fight for his life. your body just goes in survival mode. and you re going to do whatever you can to survive to make it home to your wife and kids. just 21, 2010, middletown, ohio. officer jason deaton is finishing up on a call when dispatch alerts him to a nearby hit and run accident involving two cars colliding. dispatcher started dispatching myself and other units to be on the lookout for a blue van with a ladder on it. within seconds of the call, deaton sees the van drive by. he flips on his blue and red flashers which automatically engages his dash cam. i got the vehicle up here. the blue van pulls over. officer deaton approaches the vehicle and identifies the driver as eric german, the 45-year-old is an intimidating figure. first when i make contact with him, i could tell he was much larger than i was. i could tell that he was in fairly good shape. almost from the start, deaton senses that german is going to be trouble. he
at that time, that kind of made me aware that for some odd reason this guy is having a very bad day. it s about to get worse. as the officer questions german about the hit and run, the suspect makes a peculiar claim. he started telling me that he was one of us. i said what do you mean? he then showed me badge, but it said security right across it, and i could tell that he was not a police officer. the officer thinks that german is trying to curry favor with him but his claim just makes deaton more suspicious. i told him that that s not a police officer s badge. that made him upset. he threw the badge towards the windshield dashboard area. now in addition to leaving the scene of an accident, german is impersonating a police officer. a serious offense. deaton radios for backup. at this time i was telling control to have another unit step it up because i could tell that he was very frustrated and very upset at the time. officer malcolm tipton receives the call.