bates plays it safe and calls 911. wondering if you had an officer available. prostitute and her pimp out at southwest 33rd and south robinson. she walks right up to the window, inches away. how does it feel to be films? finally, a money shot for the video vigilante. bates doesn t necessarily mind having his picture taken. in fact, he s glad this woman is recording. he thinks everyone, himself included, is fair game when it comes to being caught on camera. i think when i first picked up my camera, 12 years ago, what i was doing was extreme. now, when we re becoming a society where everyone has a cell phone, everyone has a video camera, everyone has access to the internet, what i do is no longer an oddity like it was 12 years ago. i think it s a good thing. up next, shocking abuse caught on camera. a woman summons all of her
no gotcha moment to post on the web this time. you figure the hookers aren t going anywhere, so they ll be back. we ll have another shot. as we pass through town, he spots a prostitute he knows, so he takes out his camera. the last time she got arrested, she had a set of brass knuckles with knives coming off each hand on her. as bates tells our crew about this woman s violent past, she spots us across the street and reaches for something hidden in her coat. a tense moment. will she pull out a weapon? she s going to take a picture of me. but she whips out a camera and turns the tables on brian. i m sure for the mantle. she s obviously making a joke. but she s got a violent past. so bates plays it safe and calls 911. i just wonder if there s an officer available. prostitute and her pimp out at southwest 33rd and south robinson. she walks right up to the window, inches away. how does it feel to be
who is down on the ground with another prostitute holding her hair, beating her in the face. the pimp s beating her too. and cars aren t even stopping. they re just kind of slowing down. i m trying to pull the prostitute off, but i m trying not to aggravate the situation into a bigger brawl. i can t throw any punches. i don t want to do anything now that s going to focus all their energy on me. bates breaks up the fight. watch, as he tears the attacker off of this woman. let s to go. let s to go. the girl had broken bones to her face. it would have really been bad if somebody hadn t intervened. it just so happened it was me. the hooker got hurt. but brian was fine. and no regrets about getting involved. the experience reminds him how violent prostitution can be. and he doesn t think most folks realize that. i get people all the time say, brian, why prostitution? why don t you go after the murderers? the drug dealers? the child rapists? why don t you go after those people? well,
and why don t you have a wedding ring on? i lost it in iraq. you lost your wedding ring in iraq. why don t you buy another one? i don t have the money. you just paid for a hooker. you can afford a hooker, but you can t afford a wedding ring? you know, it s funny, these johns go out and think wow, what a great deal on robinson. you can buy just about any sex act for $20. well, i m here to tell you, $20 can also cost you your job. it can get you a disease. it can cost you your marriage. it can cost you your reputation in the community. and if i post the video online, it s a life sentence. so i guess it s quite a deal for 20 bucks. so this is your ride. i was just stalling till the cops got here. i m going to jail? we called lowe s, and they tell us that the incident concerns them. they have this to say the behavior we observed on the video is clearly a violation of lowe s policy, and we have taken corrective measures to address this matter. as for the john, police arrest
this is robinson avenue, south robinson avenue in oklahoma city. it s notorious not only here in oklahoma city but really all over the globe, especially through the internet, for the availability of street prostitutes. with video camera in hand, brian bates is trying to drive prostitution out of his hometown, oklahoma city. this is the most notorious area right in here for prostitution and all kinds of criminal activity. a lot of them live in these little flophouses around here. little rooms for rent. this time, he s taking us along for a rare view into his seedy, underground world, and it doesn t take more than 15 minutes before bates and our cameras spot a prostitute working a street corner in broad daylight. she might know this car. so i m going to kind of pull further away. act like we re not interested in her and see if she s going to get picked up. he doesn t want to get too