🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE HEIST & BATTLE OF NORTH HOLLYWOOD!
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They actually DID make a movie of this. "44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out"
It's nothing short of a miracle the robbers were the only ones killed in this incident.
I did 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, the first time was about the money, but after that was like a drug addiction that rush you get, the excitement is unparalleled to anything you can imagine.
Hope you're not a "one more job" guy lol. Next time getting caught you will never get out.
Africans trying to pretend they are British always makes me laugh
@@tyronedindu2094 if they were born in Britain then they are British
@@johnygoodman6659 so if me and my pregnant Scottish wife go on holiday to China and she gives birth there our child is Chinese 🤡🤣
What about if my wife gives birth on the plane is my child a sky person ?
I don't think you understand how genetics or ancestry work maybe try educating yourself before making such silly comments.
@@tyronedindu2094he is British dude. He was born there
Like many of the commenters, I watched this live(I was training and on a break), it sucks that more of the helicopter video wasn't shown. Also this shootout lasted 45 minutes, an eternity for the police, bystanders, and hostages. Brutal!
That is another thing this guy left out of the video, but it still is a Great, the video is on point. In War, a 15 min battle is an ETERNITY, an 45 min battle is HELL!!
But you completely correct, it did take time for S.W.A.T., to get there and it did take the LAPD, "a minute", for them to kinda raid the gun stores around the area, to acquire these rifles.. (I wound if they paid for them later or just returned them?!🤔🧐)
@@ulisesurbina7184 I think the LAPD just returned the rifles they borrowed.
There is a movie called 44 minutes.
Informative so worth a look
It was released before this happened, but you should react to the movie Heat (1995). The bank robbery/shootout scene is amazing, plus De Niro & Pacino opposite each other is a treat.
Yes! My favorite movie. If you have good surround sound turn it UP during that shoot out scene. I heard there is a sequel coming too.
@@devinutube Worth noting (for Kabir; you may well know already, Devin) that rather than dubbing the gunfire in post-production for that scene (as usual in film) they kept the audio they'd recorded on location because they couldn't top it.
I was living in North Hollywood approximately 2 blocks from Bank of America where this all started. I was unable to leave my apartment that entire morning because of the police activities and barricades - it was surreal watching it on the news as it happened. I was also incredibly frightened for all the cops who were unable to stop the gunmen with any of the equipment that they had on-hand at that moment. (I honestly WANTED to help, because I owned a 12-gauge shotgun and a had a box of rifled deer-slug ammunition - which would not have penetrated their armor - but would've definitely knocked them down ... but couldn't get it down to any of the officers involved at the time)
They should have taken your help. Cops need to reorganize and bring people more closely to actively stopping crime instead of bullying people-
I remember watching this with my dad, live on TV as it happened. I was 17 at the time. We lived about an hour north of Hollywood.
I was a junior in high school when this happened, I remember seeing it live, because they didn't blur out the...well what one guy does to himself.
Dang, so you actually saw him take himself out on live TV??
@@kabirconsiders The news media were in helicopters filming it live so of course they had no idea what they might capture, so yes, anything and everything was on live tv news. I was watching it at work as we had a small black and white tv. I was 29 years old, going on 30. The most unbelievable thing I had seen up to that time.
Kabir, yes, he dropped like a rock, nothing blurred out, it was all live
@@ajruther67 WOW!! A black and white TV!! I remember those TV's; I had a small little portable one, that used like a Million batteries..🙄
@@kabirconsiders Yes Kabir, it shows him stopping, know that he was too injured and like you said, he didn't want to be taken alive so, he did that.
Also, the video was Great, but he did leave out that this guys' armor was not as god as this "BBF; he did have kevlar vest, but I don't remember if his arms only had a few layers of cardboard, for sure his thighs and shins only had a few layers, so that is the reason he was the first to be taken out; is buddy had to be shot in the ankle, just like Achilles..
Kabir, the best documentary to watch, imo, is National Geographic Situation Critical North Hollywood Shootout. It's mostly " live " with minimal acting. It puts you right in the middle with actual video and you can hear those rounds sing. You also are able to witness those idiots come to an end. Very well done. Please check it out, it gives you all the missing pieces plus the heroic rescue of the terribly wounded. Well worth it!
This was a huge thing back in the day. You definitely have to check out the video footage they have of this event on RUclips. The gun fight went on for 45-60 mins around there. And if i remember correctly the last robber that died his family tried to sue the LAPD for wrongful death or something like that because they claimed nobody provided medical care and just let him bleed out. And technically that's exactly what they did and obviously the judge denied there claim.
Yep. The wife of one of the robbers said her husband shouldn't have been left in the street, bleeding out. But, the police didn't know if there were more people involved and there were cops and civilians still seriously wounded and hiding. The guilty come last. The first responders had to take care of them first while the police cleared the area. What her husband couldn't steal with a gun, she tried to steal with a lawyer. People were completely outraged. I think she dropped the claim after people began wondering how much she knew, benefitted, and maybe she should be sued by those who were affected by the shootout
@LA HA now i remember yah the cops said something like we already have so many civilians and officers down that it wasn't worth the risk of putting other people's lives at risk if he was playing possum(my word not theirs lol).
In my opinion they used that as an excuse and wanted him to die in retaliation for the downed officers.
I still remember vividly how 1 of the robbers drove the car at 5-10 mph while the other robber was walking next to the car providing covering fire.
The outcome of the fire fight could of been quite different if the robbers had chosen to rob the bank a day earlier or a day later then they actually did.
Reason being LA SWAT just happened to be just a mile away from the fire fight doing some training and were already geared up and ready to fight.
1 of those SWAT members arrived at the fire fight wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and flip flops (sandals).
The wife should of been arrested and charged because there is no way in hell she could of not noticed her husband stocking up on rifles, ammunition, body armor, and explosives for an extended period of time. Unless she was legally blind that is.
If a person can be arrested, charged, and convicted with PREMEDITATED 1ST DEGREE MURDER without proof(like a dead body) that a murder has taken place how come something similar can't been done to the wife?
Once the initial crime is successful, it builds the greed but also exploitation and hunger for high ego and feeling of control and power. Great video m8 as always
Cheers mate, and yes greed can easily destroy you if you’re not careful
@@kabirconsiders now you know why california has such a bad look on guns. even though they went to a gun shop to get the firepower they needed. since they were convicted of the serious crime before, they wouldn't be able to get a good job at all.
I currently live in Van Nuys (rhymes with buys) California which is very close to where this took place. Since I didn’t live here at the time of the robbery, i drive by that Bank of America and think nothing of it forgetting that there was a deadly confrontation there a few years back.
About damn time he reacted to this😂 real American history💯
KTLA Los Angeles showed it live. It was insane. You saw the bullets bounce off them.
I was a banker in Arizona at the time of this incident and pretty much the entire staff was gathered around an old black and white television in the break room watching this play out. There were uneasy days after that for a very long time, with everyone jumping whenever the doors opened. Scary times.
I was 16 when this happened.. and I remember the breaking news as it was happening... Talk about crazy!!
I was a young mother of two when this happened and I also remember watching this on TV. It was chilling. This is a turning point in the nation. Many began carrying military level firepower as well as military vehicles that included ROV's and tactical vehicles
Holy cow, I forgot I watched this happen live when I was 11. We lived in az but somehow would get ktla. That was the first major live event I remember watching. It led me to watching future car chases on ktla for years. I remember this and then one other car chase someone killed themselves so after that they started zooming out a bit after the suspect was stopped and tried not to show anything like that again.
Their is a movie out about it called "44 Minutes". It's pretty good even though you know the ending.
The shootout scene between police in the movie Heat. With AL Pacino and Robert DE Niro is also where these guys got inspired to do it
Great movie
Same thing happened a few weeks ago with my buddy at work. He was out to service a atm and 4 people hopped out a car and opened up with a short "draco" (small rifle) and pistols. He got hit in the arm but managed to get back in the truck and his driver took off. They got away and the robbers sped off without getting anything and got caught a few hours later trying to get out of the state
The family of the second shooter actually sued the LAPD saying that they had let him bleed to death. It ended in a mistrial and the family didn't pursue the case any further..
You might want to look into the Miami shootout between FBI and armored car robbers in the 1980s that was one of the biggest shootouts in history until 1995 when the North Hollywood shootout tied it for one of the most aggressive shootouts
Was that the one where FBI agent’s were either killed or injured. I remember watching about this on one of the real life crime shows several years ago
@@annpachini2155yea that even happened in 1986 where fbi agents were in a shootout with 2 suspects and I believe 2 agents died
I lived in the west San Fernando Valley in 1997, which is about 20-30 minutes west of North Hollywood. I was 17-years-old in my final year in high school, and I watched this live in TV. Crazy stuff! These guy's early robberies served as the inspiration for the movie "Heat" (1995).
@gmmbggr
I didn't know maybe I've forgotten that what happened on that day was the inspiration for "Heat".
Speaking of "Heat" l, rhe field that the last scene of the movie was in is across the street from In and Out by LAX in case you weren't aware. I know because my mom was a huge "Godfather" and Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino who both played Michael Carleone in the trilogy were in "Heat" and my mom pointed it to me the first time we passed by it going somewhere out in the South Bay.
What high school did you go to in SFV? I was in my freshman year of highschool in Inglewood at an All Girls Catholic high School. The shootout happened on my 15th birthday? Though I know there are so many schools in the SFV, if I can hazard a guess , did you go to Taft or El Camino Real , those two were the Brightest stars when talking about SFV high schools in the LAUSD back then. Especially with El Camino Real always winning the Academic decathlon just about every year.
@@danielleporter1829 ECR, class of '98; I was there when we were winning the Decathlon and hung out with many of the decathletes. The school's mascots were the Conquistadors, but I'm sure/hope they changed that. Tiffany Haddish was in a couple of my classes. Also funny movie fact. The interior scene from Farris Bueller's Day Off were filmed at ECR even though the story takes place in Chicago.
Heat came out before this robbery, so they were certainly not the inspiration. The inspiration was a real life career criminal/robber from Chicago that was the basis of Rob De Niros character.
@@Jon.A.Scholt Their early robberies of the armored car was the inspiration for the opening of the movie.
@@grntbggr126 you realize that Heat was made as a TV movie called LA Takedown in the 80s and remade into Heat in 1995 right? LA Takedown, made in 1989, has the same Armored Truck robbery nearly shot for shot, while the N Hollywood robbers only stuck up their first truck in 1993. Your timeline does not match up, sorry.
One of the officers that got shot ended up being an assistant pastor at my church. He got shot in the thigh and had to retire early.
My brother lived about 1 mile from there and could hear the shoot out. His friend lived a few blocks from the bank and found bullet holes in the walls.
Enjoy your content!
Another true story that was just like this you should react to called The DC Sniper.
I’ll check the DC sniper out!
I remember this very clearly. Truly amazing how they were so incredibly well armed!! It was live on tv for hours!!! It pretty much was a real life movie!!!💜💜💜💜
I watch this incident occurring live on television in real time as it occurred. I live about a 15 minute drive from the location of this bank branch and have utilized the ATM at that bank branch multiple times since that incident.
I lived a mile away when that happened. I remember the sounds of the sirens and helicopters. It was all over the news (radio, TV) in an era before cellphones or the internet. I didn’t dare step out of my home. It was scary. LA was in shock that weekend.
I remember when this happened. I was at school and though we were 7 miles away from the scene in Tarzana, we could still see and hear helicoptors, and were even told there was huge shootout at bank going on in North Hollywood (I was 16 at the time)
I remember this live. This video didn't mention that the family of the robber sued the police for waving off ambulances and letting him bleed out and die on the scene. My boss at the time had a meeting at LAPD and saw the patrol cars in the impound lot in the back - they truly looked like swiss cheese.
I worked with one of the LA police officers who was seriously injured during this heist. He came back to his hometown, Indianapolis. To hear him talk about a gun battle and the police being literally over powered was crazy.
Kabir, I lived in NoHo when this happened. I was coming home from work when I saw the choppers all over the place. My husband and I watched the whole thing on TV. The police were completely outgunned, nothing they had at that time could match it. The streets were closed, schools evacuated and the neighborhoods, terrified. The news helicopters were shot at, too.
Bullets bounced off the armor the two were wearing and no-one could get a head shot. The cops ran to a gun store close by and grabbed everything they could off the shelves. The owner just told them to go to it.
The ending was, sorry, but very satisfying. Finally a head shot, self inflicted IF I'm remembering correctly. The cops took the other guy out in a struggle. They were criticized for letting him bleed out. I didn't see it that way. Far as I could tell he was just bearly alive and then died.
The police car that was first on the scene was kept at the station, looking like Swiss cheese. It was an awful day producing a lot of heroes. So many people were hurt, so much destruction. Those of us who lived there will never forget it.
My dad has news footage on VHS of this incident from different channels, including local channels. I hope he transfers them to DVD/Blu-Ray someday. I don't want those tapes to degrade.
Such a brutal scene. Crazy crazy crazy.
I remember watching this as it happened. There was actually a more extreme one that happened in the city of Corona, California in the early eighties or late seventies.
I LOVE popo medic. Such a great guy. Super smart. He is good buddies with Donut Operator
I suspected they knew eachother, quite similar styles
I have been well aware of the north Hollywood incident for 20 years, but had no info about the previous heists they had pulled off before their final heist...
I knew about an armoured car heist and one bank heist they had done previous but not about the others.
This video doesn't do justice to how insane this really was. It was on live TV and seemed to last forever. Two guys had a whole police department outgunned. It's pretty bad when the police have to go raid a gun store down the street to get better weapons
Several movies that have shoot outs in them are often inspired by this incident. The opening level of GTA single campaign plays out very similar to this incident also.
The actual film footage of this shootout used to be everywhere on the internet. I'm pretty sure I saw the documentary. The made for TV movie was okay, but not as crazy as the real footage. You should watch that. It was shocking. Remember, as for their courage, they took a drug to deaden their nerves.
I remember phones were ringing that day "Dude turn on the news!"
It must have been all over TV at the time!
@@kabirconsiders Yes. I'm know it inspired some movies too.
It`s not the courage, it`s the dope.
What I remember, afterwards, the Romanian man's mother sued the authorities of her son's death. I forget it was not getting him medical help before he passed away. I remember the tv showed a photo of the man lying on the ground and you see his eyes (he was alive still).
You forgot to mention that the lawsuit was dismissed. Her "magnificent son" and his friend turned the crime scene into a battlefield, injuring police officers and civilians. There was no medical treatment because it was assumed that there was a third perpetrator in the area. and they didn't want to endanger the fire brigade and doctors under any circumstances. I have not the slightest bit of pity for either of them. They had gambled too high.
Man, I remember when this happened. I was still in elementary school but I was watching it unfold on the news. The 90's had some crazy newsworthy coverings.. The Hollywood shootout, the dude who ate his shotgun on the freeway, the tank in San Diego...
I watched this live on TV. There is a madevfor TV movie about it. It was crazy. A lot if stuff happened that day. This was a light interpretation of this incident. They showed the the guy who took his own life on TV. He shot himself in the head through under his jaw. They also showed when the guy got shot in the ankle and bullets just hitting him. They rendered no aid to the guy and he just bled out on TV.
Oh also of note... when the last guy got shot 29 times, swat was shooting at them with rifles... the armor they had at the time was the soft variety, which stops lower velocity rounds like pistols and shotguns, but high velocity rifle rounds like out of an m16 will punch right through... so yeah, our bad guy got swiss cheesed...
It was depicted in the movie S.W.A.T with Colin Ferrell
I suspected there has been adaptions of this
@@kabirconsiders it was the opening scene
The North Hollywood shootout happened on my 15th birthday. North Hollywood is a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, about 40 minutes north of Downtown LA. Winneka and Woodland Hills are ialso in the SFV. All of the cities in the SFV are right next to each other. The shootout was on every local channel's network affiliate. "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" which was a talk show that came on at 9Am PST ( Pacific Standard Time ) on rhe west coast was definitely prempted as was any thing that was normally on at time . These two were the epitome of the saying , "there's no honor among thieves " I was in the second semester of my freshman year of highschool back then 25 years ago. LAPD SWAT is the archetype for every SWAT team in the country.
The Devonshire Division of the LAPD was where the majority of police presence that day came from. L.A.'s mayor at the time, Richard Riordan and California's Governor , Gray Davis also gave the officers involved in the shootout commendations. Winneka, North Hollywood and Woodland Hills aren't cities in their own right with their own city government and services, they and several other parts of the SFV like Universal City, Reseda, Canoga Park, Studio City, Pocoima, Panarama City etc are part of the city of L.A. , so they all have city council members and county supervisors who represent them. Los Angeles County as a whole is massive, there are 88 cities , both incorporated ( wirh their own city governments and services and unincorporated areas.
I remember watching this live as it happened. Everyone was shocked and horrified by this. It was so terrifying to watch, much less being involved.
I grew up in LA and I remember this happening. It was really scary.
No doubt the heists that would go on to inspire numerous books, movies and video games. I remember watching this on TV as a kid, bank heists with automatic rifles hadn't been seen since the 1930s during the end of Prohibition and the Public Enemy Era. I served in Iraq during my time in the Army and none of the firefights we got into were anywhere on the level of that shootout, 2000 rounds from AK-47s on a crowded street would have been devastating on the senses for people not used to combat.
They basically turned the entire neighborhood of North Hollywood into a warzone.
Five must see money heist movies.
1) Heat
2) Inside Man
3) The Town
4) Den of Thieves
5) Bank Job
I remember this well. You can probably still find footage on youtube. But they broadcasted the footage right after it happened or live as it happened...I don't remember which.
I had a friend who lived 2 blocks away from where this happened. Fortunately, he was at work when it happened.
Great video. I lived in North Hollywood with my Mom. We were about 3 miles east of the shootout. It didn't affect us. Although I was a American Red Cross Disaster Services volunteer. We had an Agency Representative on scene liasionizing with LAPD Command Post (Located behind Sears in the Valley Plaza parking lot), a Canteen truck providing snacks, coffee, beverages to the police staging area. There must've been about 70 police cars, at least (Located in the Sears Automotive Center parking lot) and an Evac Center for the residents of neighborhoods affected by the shootout and investigation of the crime scene. Because they weren't allowed to leave or enter the crime scene. The Evac center was at a Valley Plaza Park & Recreation Center. I was shadowing the Agency Rep. We also had an Emergency Operations Center at Burbank District office.e
One more thing my Mom would sometimes take money of that banks ATM a few times. We would also eat mostly dinners at the IHOP (International House of Pancakes) one block South of the Bank of America.
**effect** Red Cross Nazi helper.
It was crazy watching this on the east coast then realizing that my cousin lived only a few minutes away. It was definitely a baddie situation
I don't know if they are still up but there was video showing all the footage. This guy had back story I didn't know but the shoot out was glossed over. And for some US history there was a ban on many "assault" style weapons from 92-2002.
You should look up the footage of the shootout and see just how fast an AK-platform rifle can spew lead. With over a thousand rounds of 7.62x39 going down range, it's a miracle no one was killed. The robbers' vehicle, clothing and equipment is on display at the Los Angeles Police museum.
For context: level IIIA (3A) body armor is rated to protect against common handgun cartridges (9x19) plus the more powerful .357 SIG and .44 Magnum handgun rounds. In perspective, a .44 Mag bullet weighs 15.6g and travels at ~436m/s. 9mm weighs half as much but goes about as fast. The next step up in armor, level III, is rated for common rifle rounds, i.e. 7.62x39 and 5.56x45. Had they been wearing the greater armor, the cops would have needed something more old school, like .30-06 (7.62x63) Springfield, the same round used in the M1 Garand from WWII. "Thirty-aught-six" is a mean cartridge.
I'm in CA. When this happened, even the L.A. gangs were going: DAYUM!! It was insane! Took the cops by surprise and they were not prepared. Being bad a$$ L.A. cops, they held their own. Barely. Most of them needed therapy. The gunmen were like Terminators. They absolutely would not stop until THEY were dead! Lol.
If you don't know about it you should check out the "Millennium Dome Diamond Raid" from Nov 2000 if you want some London action...
Not on thw same level as this, but still one hell of a story.
The Sun even had an exclusive with the headline "I'm only here for De Beers".
I witnessed two bank robberies in the nineties in Southern California. The first as in the city of Brea, across the street of the Brea Mall....ironically also right down the street from the Brea police department. I witnessed the guy come out of the bank and the die packs exploded and the guy momentarily tried to go back in, he fled in his car but only got about 50 feet from the bank and about 50 feet from me when he was shot to death in his car and died half in and half out of his car...50 feet in front of me. Interestingly, the cops had zero interest in getting a statement from me.
The next one was in Placentia on Kraemer and Yorba Linda Blvd. There was a standoff and the Roberts barricaded themselves inside. I arrived right after it started but before the majority of the police showed up. Ironically, this also was just down the street from the Placentia police department. Shortly thereafter the bulk of the police arrived, snipers took positions on the roof of an El Torito restaurant and then pushed the growing crowd back. The standoff lasted an hour or two (I don't remember), but I think the snipers took out the robber through the window. I didn't see that because the cops forced us to the next corner away from the bank. That bank is still there, but the El Torito restaurant was changed into a Starbucks a couple years ago. This happened about the time that Terminator 2 came out on TV.
If you really do some deep research on this like I have it seems like from the morning when they awoke. This was a mission to go out on top or die trying and I honestly believe they both knew it was going to be death. Phillips had a stovetop jam. Something very simple to resolve he just stopped shot himself. They were shooting him from under the car and hit him in his lower legs. I loved the comment "This could be a movie " It happened in Hollywood they were writing the script before the area was cleaned up
I love the music in this, there is a game called Payout in which you are robbers. It has the same kind of music. Great game. Obviously though no one really wants to be a robber in real life. But I can tell you, even in the game, there is some sort of adrenaline rush when robbing a bank and then getting away. These guys were obviously feeling the real world versions of it. I'll never understand why people want to do it, but if a game makes you feel a certain way, I can't imagine how a real person feels doing it.
You can see the actual footage of this on RUclips if search north Hollywood shootout and there is even a movie called 44 minutes.
it was used in the opening of the movie S.W.A.T. in 2003 staring Samual L. Jackson
Hello there Kabir...
If that caught your interest, here's another one for you...
The Bank of the West bank robbery and shootout that happened in Stockton, CA. in 2014...
On July 16, 2014, during an armed robbery of a Bank of the West bank, 4 bank robbers, after realizing that the Stockton Police Department (SPD) was waiting for them outside in the bank's parking lot, took 3 hostages and then lead members of the SPD on a high-speed pursuit though out the city of Stockton for about an hour...
During the course of the pursuit, 1 bank robber fired over 100 rounds from an AK-47 at the pursuing SPD police officers, disabling 14 police vehicles including 1 Lenco BearCat (an armored vehicle designed for law enforcement use), and 2 of the hostages were thrown from the fleeing vehicle by the bank robbers, in an attempt to either delay or stop the SPD from pursuing the bank robbers...
By the end of the pursuit, 2 of the bank robbers were killed, 2 of the hostages were injured, and 1 hostage was killed. and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police...
In the following investigation of the bank robbery, pursuit, and the exchange of gunfire, it was determined that over 30 SPD officers had fired over 600 rounds into the fleeing vehicle...
It’s possible that the second guy might not have died of his wounds if he had received aid sooner. What this video left out is that the officers did not bring in any medical attention for the wounded gunman, because they did not know if the area was secure yet or if there were more shooters on the loose. So until the area could be declared secure, medical personnel couldn’t come in to render aid.
North Hollywood is pitsville!! I grew up not too far from there and they were always our high school football rival. They were so mean. The commentator mentioned they went to Glendale which is where I was born. These robbers are crazy!!!
It's not just about the money. The danger is exhilarating and they become addicted to it. And then there is the feeling that they are smarter than the authorities.
This blew my mind when it went down.
I remember seeing this as it was being covered, and i kept wondering why no one had a rifle, let alone with a scope, both of which i had in the gun rack in my truck.
There is a movie or documentary called 44 minutes that covers the North Hollywood Shootout Robbery.
I got to watch this live including when the robber took his own life. The cops were so out gunned they had to go to a sporting good store to even attempt to match the robbers firepower
I wouldn't say this shootout shocked Americans at the time, but it did greatly surprise many of us. There have been deadly shootouts between criminals and police for a very long time in the US, so that wasn't really new. What was new was that this was just two guys practically taking on the entire police force of a major city and seemingly winning. The LAPD seemed like they were outgunned by just two guys.
Hey Kabir, Look up A gang tries to steal a Large Diamond in the year 2000 in London. One of the largest heist in british history.
The movie SWAT shows this shootout using real footage to introduce the team of Colin Farrell and Jeremy Renner characters at the beginning of the movie who go into the bank to stop the guys....its kind of the robbery shown from SWAT perspective
This defined the police shootout in California. Basically a simple arrest turned into a bloodbath over a bank heist in progress. The police were armed only with tiny 9 mm handguns that did nothing to body armor. While the robbers were armed with the best body armor and guns money could buy. It just was war on the streets of LA for several hours before the police had to raid a nearby gun store just to get high caliber rifles and ammo. The entire thing was finally ended when one was shot dead and the other was laying on the ground with a mortal wound. The alive guy died at the hospital later but the investigation later turned up a huge stash of guns, armor, maps of banks, blueprints of banks, bank schedules, and enough ammo to kill thousands. The police made massive changes to the force following the incident. Every police car in LA can now carry high powered rifles and the permission to kill is automatically given without asking. Body armor is now immediately worn during every stop just in case. Police in California don’t mess around. Remember this is same police force that survived the Rodney king riots in LA not long before. LA is a massive hot bed of criminal activity and the police can only do so much. And what’s left goes usually to NCIS, FBI, and Air Force special investigation. It’s a jungle in more ways than one out there.
Yeah even the cops and sheriffs in LA have gangs and gang tattoos 😂
Wow, there seems to be much more to LA than the glitz and glamor that it portrays..
It wasn't several hours. It was only 44 minutes. It only seemed longer than it really was.
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
I remember this.
Those two were fearless, reminds me of old school bandits like Dillinger
not sure why it doesn't allow any video, there were tons. it kinda makes it seem less insane and deadly than it was not seeing any footage
2000 rounds and the only people killed were the two robbers. God forbid anybody is ever in this situation but if you are pray the crooks have automatic weapons as they’ll be inaccurate as hell shooting holes in the sky and spend half their time swapping magazines.
its is a movie called 44 minutes you can find the whole movie on youtube
This one event is what made the US gravitate to a militarized police state. The police had very little if any bulletproof armor and were severely outgunned.
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I was a freshman and watched this live on tv
Brilliant, thanks for your reaction 👊
Rewatch this video and think about the plot line for the entire movie Heat starring Al Pacino Robert De Niro Val Kilmer Tom Sizemore and more. Just like in the movie Heat these guys they started with armored cars and then by the end they moved on to Banks and had a giant shootout with the cops this story of these two guys literally mimics the plot line to heat from start to finish.
It actually is a movie it’s called 44 minutes
I need to check that movie out!
The longest shootout in the history of Los Angeles, almost 50 minutes of shooting, more than 2000 to 4000 rounds of ammo used... two dead ( only the bank robbers, if I am not wrong) and A LOT OF LAPD officers badly wounded, and a shocked population that was until that day in bad terms with LAPD...
12:20 The bank only had that amount of money because they hadn't been yet delivered by the armored car... That was stuck in the morning traffic jam of LA that later would help the LAPD to save a lot of LAPD officers... It's ironic... Isn't it?
The intro scene in the movie swat also is inspired from this.
Anybody else think of "Den of Thieves" when watching this?
One detail the presenter left out was the police commandeering an armored car to retrieve wounded officers.
I lived close enough that I would have heard the gunfire if I was home.
I was in El Cajon and saw it live on tv like many. I felt the same exhilaration/ bewilderment/shock/ amazement as when I first heard Black Sabbath's - Iron Man on the radio when I was a kid in the 1970's. *I AM IRON MAN* Wtf is this?!?
I have been waiting for this!
Incredible story, wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a Netflix adaption in the works
@@kabirconsiders just wondering if you've watched the actual video of the shootout.
If you want a longer version of this story that goes into more detail, Wendigoon and Simon (Casual Criminalist maybe?) have done longform videos on it
ACTUALLY, there were several Movies made about the North Hollywood shootout.
EERILY< This kind of Incident Similarly happened in Miami as well, almost 10 years Earlier, but it involved the FBI. Two Agents were killed
You need to watch the actual footage of the shootout. It was CRAZY.
Highly Recommend watching the movie 44 Minutes… It’s about this robbery and is very good
He didn’t show it here, but I distinctly remember seeing either a photo or live coverage where you could see the bullets hitting them as they walked slowly down the sidewalk. They would pause, then keep going. The cops were behind cars, but they were not taking cover nor even running. Just walking and shooting. We didn’t know at the time they had the bulletproof stuff on their arms and legs so it was like some superhero shit. Eerie.
I remember that! You could definitely see the bullets bouncing off them!