officer mortenson in the forehead, knocking him backwards. meanwhile officer salazar staggers away to get medical help. there was quite a bit of blood on the floor that mr. salazar had lost that day. he suffers a broken nose, cuts to the mouth and lips, a laceration above the eye, and a head injury that bleeds profusely. we needed to secure the area and to restrain this person who continued to be combative. after two intense minutes of what deputies call fight for life, guerrero finally gives up. he said i m not resisting. i m not resisting. please don t tase me. guerrero is subdued, taken back with handcuffs into the same holding cell he came out of. a few months after the incident, officer salazar returns to work. violence is always present here. you re dealing with the human psyche. you never know what makes a person function or tick. alejandro guerrero is sentenced to six years in prison for aggravated assault.
thomas was trying to get officer whit in it looks like a choke hold. officer whit is able to push away from that. you see officer whit go to the phone trying to call for help. that phone is officer whit s lifeline, but before whit can make the call, thomas maneuvers behind him to take control, and that s when the fight takes a potentially deadly turn. he definitely did try to go for the gun. but the gun is not in the holster. mr. thomas thought that officer whit still had his weapon. earlier that night whit brought thomas in through the station s secure sally port. prior to bringing him into the booking area, he removed his handgun and put it in the gun locker. but thomas did not see the officer put his gun away, which is why he continues to go after it, forcing whit to turn and defend himself. the violence escalates. it was an all out fight. there was a lot going on. it looked like he was hit full force. officer whit isn t able to call for help, but dislodging the
of the dispatcher. dispatcher tina thompson saw officer whit on the camera, and he was kind of hunched over. lunged over. she thought he was having some kind of medical distress. she immediately got on the radio and said an officer needs help in the jail. meanwhile, thomas pours on the pressure. he grabs the officer s neck and applies a stranglehold. i am sure to officer whit it seemed like a lifetime for backup to arrive. that s what it feels like. when you fight somebody straight for 30 seconds, it takes all your energy away. officer whit fought this guy for a minute and five seconds straight. just when it seems like thomas might suffocate him, officer whit summons a reserve of strength. officer whit s hands are on thomas s neck. you can see thomas slowly starting to lose the fight. in a situation where a policeman or anybody is fighting for their life, deadly force is justified. after whit regains control, almost 30 seconds pass before
an inmate about to walk out of jail a free man unleashes a vicious attack on an officer. this guy believed that if he went out those doors, he was going to be killed. pinal county, arizona. just 70 miles from the u.s.-mexico border, in addition to combatting local crimes, pinal county and its sheriff paul babeu face a growing and deadly threat. cocaine, black tar heroin, and black amphetamine, very dangerous drugs. me and my deputies and all the local officers are on the front lines of this drug war. and on april 17th, 2011, babeu says the ripple effects of that drug war find their way to the front steps of his jail in florence. 26-year-old alejandro guerrero is about to be released after being arrested for an outstanding warrant. he has been in and out of arizona correctional facilities
i had not had to chase anybody for at least ten years. this was almost like being a young officer again. tracy mobley is sentenced to four years in prison for her audacious escape attempt and her original charges. mary ann morrissey gets three years probation for the escape attempt. tracy was trying to be escaped. i think mary just happened to be there shackled to the wrong person. coming up, prisoners on the run in the streets of denmark. we didn t expect anything to happen like this. when caught on camera: inmates and outlaws continues. [ coughing ] [ sneezing ] a cold can make you miserable. luckily, alka seltzer plus cold and cough liquid gels. rush liquid fast relief to your tough cold symptoms. fast, powerful liquid gels from alka seltzer plus