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Silverman. >> every time he comes out he seems a little more enraged. >> at one point, silverman tries to keep plimer inside his store hoping he'll calm down. >> i didn't want him to get out on the street because i was worried that he might really lose it. the real issue was i didn't want to get into a brawl with this guy, because as a reporter, there is a line, but i didn't think i was at a point where this guy was going to try to really kill me. and then he makes a big mistake. he starts throwing snowballs at a commission inspector standing on the corner. >> he also takes a shot at silverman...

Then he barricades himself inside. >> then the emergency task force is called in. canada's version of the s.w.a.t. team. >> the etf has to be deployed because you could have a hostage situation. who knows what he's got inside there. >> cops tell plimer that he can come out the easy way or the hard way. >> plimer took about 30 or 40 seconds and said okay, he's coming out. so he came out and snatch, they grabbed him and cuffed him and took him off in a car. >> just as quickly, the video makes its way to the television air waves and beyond. >> a tv reporter's run-in with a store owner has led to ...

Physically attacked. >> whoa, what you going to hit me? you going to hit me? get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> then the arrival of police. >> [ bleep ] you. >> february 2007. toronto, canada. peter silverman is city tv's consumer reporter. he goes to confront local optician adam plimer about claims of shady dealings with sunglasses. >> a guy sent us an e-mail saying that he bought these oakley glasses, frames, from plimer. he had broken them, which he felt was a bit unusual because oakley had a reputation of being unbreakable. >> so silverman sends the glasses in question off to oakley. >> the...

To me. >> silverman arrives at adam plimer's optical store and is blindsided by what follows. >> oh, i'm sorry. did i hit you? >> he opens it up and just slams it in my face. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> then he grabs the papers out of my arm and starts whacking me with those. >> what, you going to hit me? you going to hit me? >> it just escalated. >> plimer even spits on silverman. >> every time he comes out he seems a little more enraged. >> at one point, silverman tries to keep plimer inside his store hoping he'll calm down. >> i didn't want him to get out on the street because i was worried that h...

A commission inspector standing on the corner. >> he also takes a shot at silverman's cameraman. the inspector immediately calls the cops. seeing the police enrages plimer even more. >> when they go to get him, he slams the door in their face. then he barricades himself inside. >> then the emergency task force is called in. canada's version of the s.w.a.t. team. >> the etf has to be deployed because you could have a hostage situation. who knows what he's got inside there. >> cops tell plimer that he can come out the easy way or the hard way. >> plimer took about 30 or 40 seconds and said okay,...