for giving up information, for giving up game. for explaining how it is in here. that s a ten-four. we ll keep that area clear until we re complete. as in most prisons, the exercise yard can be the most dangerous place in the facility. right off the bat you can tell when something is going to go on. it gets quiet. guys are grouping up in different races. you ve got blacks, whites, everybody. if violence does break out, yard gunner hosso is well equipped to respond. this is a 40 millimeter. i ve got some wooden baton rounds, direct foam rounds. it s a less lethal weapon. this is a deadly weapon. this is a lethal weapon. this is a mini-14. it s exciting, but then again, it s not as exciting to see some of your teammates out there, some of your partners get attacked and assaulted. it happens a lot. we re always looking for something. they have it. and it s just cat and mouse. sometimes they beat us, sometimes we beat them. let s go, gentlemen. back up. recall. this is a reca
just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and it s people chasing other people with knives. a full-scale attack. the southern hispanics ambushed the black guerilla family. within seconds b yard becomes a war zone. there was a lot of confusion and a lot of chaos. the level of violence on this one yard at that one day, that one moment, was as large as i had ever seen in my life. nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas canister. i looked up and i saw the white smoke billowing out of b yard and then i heard the crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. dr. everett allen, the surgeon at pelican bay, watches the mayhem unfold just steps away from his clinic. you see these little combat scenes going on all over the yard as far as you can see. you see smoke all over the yard,
one moment, was as large as i had ever seen in my life. nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas canister. i looked up and i saw the white smoke billowing out of b yard and then i heard the crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. dr. everett allen, the surgeon at pelican bay, watches the mayhem unfold just steps away from his clinic. you see these little combat scenes going on all over the yard as far as you can see. you see smoke all over the yard, and you know that this is a pretty massive event. the sheer number of the people involved in the riot is overwhelming, 200 inmates, 100 officers. it was well choreographed. it was extremely well executed. the hispanics outnumbered the blacks two to one. they knew exactly what time they were going to do this, and they had their targets already picked out. you could see inmates working in pairs. it was teamwork.
the officers up here control every aspect of inmate activity. only the downstairs officers have physical contact with the inmates. their colleagues upstairs are their eyes and ears, and their protection. this is the l-88. it fires rubber rounds. it s an intimidating weapon. as you can see, it holds six rounds. it s ready to fire at all times. and the event that rubber rounds don t work, what we have is a cn gas gun that s ready to shoot cn gas in there. in the convenient the inmate won t stop and we have a mini 14, fires a lethal round, and there is no warning shots fired with it, it is used to stop the attack, if it is deemed bodily injury would come into attack. pelican bay s general population housing units are designed to give the control
we don t let them mix the race to come to the yard out here. they go with their own race, to the concrete yards. this is a camera that oversees the yard that i m working on right now. within a millisecond, these guys will stab each other and they will try to toss the weapon, so the camera comes into good play. every door in inmate housing is operated from the upstairs control level. the officers up here control every aspect of inmate activity. only the downstairs officers have physical contact with the inmates. their colleagues upstairs are their eyes and ears, and their protection. this is the l-88. it fires rubber rounds. it s an intimidating weapon. as you can see, it holds six rounds. it s ready to fire at all times. and the event that rubber rounds don t work, what we have is a cn gas gun that s ready to shoot cn gas in there. in the convenient the inmate won t stop and we have a mini