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>> it starts out as just a man and a video camera, but quickly grows into something much bigger when this regular guy turned video vigilante sees how powerful the camera can be, exposing hookers and the men who pay for them, drawing them out of the shadows. >> do you want to go to jail? >> i can do something that in a lot of cases an entire police force and millions of tax dollars can't do, and that's scare the bejesus out of the prostitutes and the johns. >> police are on their way. >> what the camera does is it not only proves that what they were up to is criminal, but it also receivers to s...

Realizes she's in serious trouble. >> take this. >> he asks someone to hold his camera, and he jumps in. >> literally, you have this girl who is down on the ground with another prostitute holding her hair, beating her in the face. the pimp's beating her too. and cars aren't even stopping. they're just kind of slowing down. i'm trying to pull the prostitute off, but i'm trying not to aggravate the situation into a bigger brawl. i can't throw any punches. i don't want to do anything now that's going to focus all their energy on me. >> bates breaks up the fight. watch, as he tears the attacker of...

He's made a name for himself locally, with his eye-popping video. but then, what he catches on tape here vaults him into the national spotlight. >> tell me what you were shooting and how it unraveled. >> well, at that time i was actually just driving through the neighborhood and saw -- >> the date is monday, july 8th, 2002. and brian bates is out videotaping, as usual. he sees a truck pick up a woman he knows to be a prostitute. so he starts rolling. >> no big deal. like every other case, i'll follow it and see where they go. well, the first thing that caught me odd was they went to a church p...

Turning point in his friendly relationship with the oklahoma city pd. >> up to that point, i think the police really looked at me as being on their side, and when i released this tape and was critical of the tape, things changed, and they changed dramatically in my relationship with the police. >> despite his rift with law enforcement, nothing will stop brian bates. he's out filming on a spring afternoon and sees another scuffle. and this time, he breaks his own rule and gets dangerously close to the action. >> one afternoon, i'm out taping. there was a large group, probably five or six known ...

Daughter really liked the video. >> armed with a camera and some serious chutzpah -- >> don't be bringing hookers down here, buddy. >> -- this video vigilante captures prostitutes and their johns in the act. >> i hope you're not married. >> oklahoma city native brian bates then posts the videos on his website, john tv, for all the world to see. >> what are y'all doing? >> nothing. >> what are you doing? >> are you kidding me? what is wrong with you people? >> bam, right there on the hood of the car. it was like an x-rated white snake video. it was terrible. >> people have seen this lowe's truc...