only after he was able to trigger some kind of button around his neck releasing his canine officer from the back of his patrol car. let s go live to jackson, mississippi. first of all, welcome. thanks for coming on. thanks brooke. let s set up the story. it s pretty incredible. set the scene for me. how did the ambush happen? how many people were involved? then the canine. well deputy frazier was, as you said on a dark road in the mississippi woods. he saw a car that had stopped on the side of the roads and all the lights were off. he just stopped to do a welfare check on the driver. there was one man inside the car. as he approached the car, two other men ran out of the woods. as he started to back pedal, he fell. all three of them jumped on top of him. during this time he was able to trigger the pop mechanism for the back of the car that had the canine officer in it. the canine whose name is lucas, was able to get out and got a
other law enforcement that gangs have out orders to shoot or basically attack on site. a few days before this happened there was an officer shot in jackson in what started off as what appeared to be an altercation at a gas station. but the shots appeared to come from across the street in an empty lot. in all these cases, in the bulletins they had talked about how these things would be set up as potentially traffic stops or disturbance in progress or things like that. so law enforcement officers in mississippi right now who are going to routine calls are having to be even more vigilant than ever because there actually is intelligence on the street among gang investigators that these some of these gangs are looking to attack and kill police officers. it s incredibly frightening. that s goodness our best to deputy frazier here. and thank you for joining me with that. coming up next stunning scandal at the highest level of