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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 f...

>> 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 whits lifeline, but before whit can make the call, thomas maneuvers behind him to take control, and thats 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...

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 officers neck and applies a stranglehold. >> i am sure to officer whit it seemed like a lifetime for backup to arrive. thats what it feels like. when you fight somebody straight for 30...

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 ...

Backup finally arrives. the officer lets go, but thomas continues to struggle. >> once on the ground, mr. thomas didnt give up. trying to handcuff somebody who doesnt want to be handcuffed is not an easy task. the officers were holding down his shoulders, they were holding down his legs so he couldnt kick them, and, finally, they were able to get him handcuffed. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to the lorain county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on a contem...

Trying to handcuff someone who doesnt want to be handcuffed, the officers were holding down his shoulders and holding down his legs so he couldnt kick him. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to lorraine county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on a contempt of court charge which is a low-grade misdemeanor and he felt with a felony assaulting an officer charge all when he was going to be released on a summons. >> he pled guilty on assault and be on strkting offic...

But nobody at the sheriffs office seems to notice their missing prisoners. >> they were surprised. i said, you guys want your prisoner back? and they looked at me like they didnt know what was going on. they didnt know there was an attempted escape. >> at the same time officer morris chases mobley across a busy street and corners her at the edge of the freeway where shes hiding in the bushes. >> im not sure what she was trying to do because from this point on theres nowhere to go. >> it takes 15...

I dont know. but there was a true sense of fear. >> but none of that is known when without warning, guerrero attacks officer roman salazar. he will later say he feels disrespected by the officer. >> you see guerrero lunge forward start to strike immediately officer salazar in the face, knocks him to the ground, continues the attack, punches him further, breaks his nose, cuts his face. >> guerrero pummels him with a closed fist and kicks him in the gut. >> officer salazar had no clue or understan...

>> mr. thomas clearly resecures his pants and moves back to get himself in position go over the counter. so it was clearly thought about. it wasnt like it was something that just happened. >> officer whit slams him down on the floor. >> he pushes his hands forward to try to stop the attack. theres a pretty intense struggle. theres absolutely no way i would want to encounter officer whit. just his size alone, his stature is intimidating. >> officer whit is probably the biggest officer we have on ...

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