not that he punches her like that. i didn t see that coming at all. the punch sends rosenthal sprawling backwards towards the squad car. walsh tries to cuff her but now levias is on the attack. are you serious? are you serious? walsh orders levias to comply. stop resisting. put your hands behind your back. you re under arrest. get off of me! get the off of me! hey! after a three-minute struggle, officer walsh gets levias cuffed and into the back of his squad car. still at the scene, angel rosenthal, the teen who punched earlier by walsh. but rosenthal will not go quietly. relax. walsh needs another set of handcuffs. as he calls for backup, the cameraman questions the officer s use of force.
different wrist holds to get her to comply. things escalate when a second teen, 17-year-old angel rosenthal, jumps in to help her friend. a boy in a blue shirt grabs rosenthal but she breaks free and gets in between officer walsh and her friend pushing walsh back. anytime you put your hands on or assault a uniformed officer, you re going to expect that there s going to be force used against you. officer walsh attempts to gain control of the situation by first grabbing rosenthal s right arm, then delivering a swift right hook to her forehead. greg goolsbee is the cameraman recording the scene. i thought it was going to get to a point that he knocks her out on the ground.
i saw officers had their guns drawn. i pulled up on the curb and got the camera out. moments after all hell broke loose. collier is shooting at the officers in the street. rookie officer tim mcfarland in the foreground uses greg s car for cover. i see an officer across the street from me. i zoom in on him and i think i m going to get him with his gun drawn, and i see he has his hands up to his throat and he has blood coming down his hands. it s mcfarland s partner officer jared slocumb. he s been shot in the left temple. the bullet traveled around his skull and exited the rear of his head. when i saw that he was shot, i was scared. i was, like, okay, i m going to have to go get my partner because he s got go home tonight. crouching behind collier s white pickup truck, officer
why did you have to hit her with a closed fist? you socked this girl. yes, i did, sir. she s underage. i don t care. you don t care? she s going to fight with me, i ll fight with her. she didn t put up a fight. soon, backup arrives. she stopped fighting. take all the picture you want but back up. sure, sure. but the incident is far from over. the cameraman sells the video to news outlets across the country. and walsh s punch goes viral. a scuffle over a jay-walking ticket that ended with a police officer punching a 17-year-old girl in the face. we got calls all over the country and all over the world about it. james kelly was president of the seattle urban league at the time. well, it was, i felt, unnecessary. a full blown violence of a punch to the face was just wrong. but at the same time i also felt like what the young woman did to the police officer was wrong as well.
a sunny day in el cajon, california, just outside san diego. 23-year-old freelance cameraman greg torkildsen is listening to his police camera. something happens. you know, a shooting, car crash, a house fire, something like that, i respond to it and i try to get the good shots. shortly after 5:00 p.m., greg hears about a man brandishing a gun inside a residential home. that man is 32-year-old kevin collier, despondent since his wife filed for divorce five days earlier. he had moved out, but now came back with a gun. when he discovers alissa is out, he instead shoots and kills their 14-month-old daughter riley and his mother-in-law. i had no reason not to be home. i should have been there. he thought i was going to be there. collier is now holed up in the house. el cajon police have taken up position outside when greg arrives.