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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 finally gives up. >> he said i'm not resisting. i'm not resisting. please don't tase me. >> guerrero ...

>> 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 t...

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 second...

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...

Backup finally arrives. the officer lets go, but thomas continues to struggle. >> once on the ground, mr. thomas didn't give up. trying to handcuff somebody who doesn't want to be handcuffed is not an easy task. the officers were holding down his shoulders, they were holding down his legs so he couldn't 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 contempt-of- court charge, which is a low-grade misdemeanor. he left our department with a felony assau...