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SnapShot...Fire Extinguisher Frenzy: Chaos at Joes Deli · Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)

• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Murders to Music podcast and a 10-minute snapshot of something fabulous and fun.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take you back to 2011.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: 2011,.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: It was a dark and stormy night and we had just got out of roll call.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: That means that there's a shift change.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: So there's a shift coming on and there's a shift going off duty.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I was the shift coming on.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: It was about nine or 10 o'clock at night and right out of the gate we get a phone call 911 call that says hey, it's a woman.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: She says I'm stuck in the bathroom at Joe's deli room.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: At Joe's Deli.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared.
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  Speaker 1: There's an armed robbery in progress.
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  Speaker 1: There's somebody going crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We need help.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: So in that moment you've got all these testosterone and estrogen filled cops that want to run out to this thing and just take care of business.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: So that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: So we flood Joe's Deli's parking lot with a bunch of cops.
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  Speaker 1: Now it was like a scene from Dukes and Hazards.
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  Speaker 1: There are cops coming in from every direction.
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  Speaker 1: Joe's Deli is sitting in the corner or sitting in a large parking lot just off of a main road, and the area between the main road and Joe's Deli is grass and it kind of comes off the main road.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: There's a little downhill slant into the parking lot and then you have the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Joe's Deli is a deli slash lottery place where people play pool tabs and lottery tickets, drink some alcohol, eat some mediocre not even mediocre some terrible food, and that's what it is.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: So 10 o'clock at night, the world is descending like locusts on Joe's Deli.
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  Speaker 1: Cops are coming in off of the sidewalks, they're coming down off that little grass indention, they're coming in from the parking lot and I happen to be one of the first ones to get there.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: So I pull up to the front of the building and when I'm in the front of the building, from a distance I can see there's a black male adult absolutely going wild inside of Joe's Deli.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: He's got a fire extinguisher and he's torching a fire extinguisher off all throughout this place.
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  Speaker 1: There is just dust.
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  Speaker 1: Inside.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like smoke, but you can see through the windows.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: There's just clouds of this dust.
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  Speaker 1: It's dark outside.
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  Speaker 1: It's winter time.
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  Speaker 1: You can clearly see in.
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  Speaker 1: There's people inside of there, there's civilians inside of there and there's this guy going absolutely crazy.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: So I start calling out as to what we need people to do.
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  Speaker 1: I need people on the south side of the building.
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  Speaker 1: We need to set up a perimeter containment.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 1: This is where he's at.
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  Speaker 1: You got a black male.
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  Speaker 1: I'm given the description.
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  Speaker 1: So all this stuff is happening very, very quickly.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: As the world continues to descend on Joe's deli, right out front pulls, uh, one of our patrol vehicles and it's a sergeant's vehicle.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: It's an unmarked black Tahoe and there's a bunch of gear in the back.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: So, uh, the back is opened up and when it's opened up, we're going to get out the shield and we're going to get out stuff to go and take care of business.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: About that time the canine shows up and the canine is there, the dog's on lead, and about that time the guy from inside comes running out.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: We're not ready for him yet, but he comes running out the front door and charges at us.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Now, we're only about 50 feet away, 30 feet away, and he charges at us and he comes around the passenger side of that SUV and he climbs right into the back of the SUV where all of our gear is.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Well, the dog gets a bite and we're trying to get him out and people are trying to tase this guy and we're trying to fight him and it's hands on and all of a sudden we get this guy take him into custody and, uh, he, we pull him out of the back of our.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Sudden we get this guy take him into custody and we pull him out of the back of our SUV and we get him in handcuffs and he goes off to jail.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Long story short, he was a mental guy.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: He was not committing an armed robbery, but he was in there just being an absolute menace to society, spraying these fire extinguishers around, scaring everybody, yelling and screaming.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: We were able to go in, get the lady out of the bathroom, tell her she's okay, bring her out and kind of bring order back to that really chaotic situation.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: So why does this stick out in my head?
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I had a sergeant at the time and that sergeant um, great guy, love him to death.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: But that sergeant, well, he maybe got excited about things and he came and yelled at me.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: He's like I heard you screaming on the radio like a little girl.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: He's like a cop with so much experience.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd have more composure than that and I remember thinking what the hell are you talking about?
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: I had all kinds of composure.
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  Speaker 1: I brought the people in.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: I put resources where we needed them.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: I told you what weapons we needed.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: I told you where to bring the dog.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: I said you know in my mind, but he's one of those guys you can't argue with.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's just having a bad day and he took a shit out on me, but that is Joe's deli and it was things like that that made the job fun.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Over the last year and a half or year I've spoke about a lot of things that brought the job down.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: It was calls like that that absolutely kept us going, kept us engaged, kept us excited, and all that testosterone.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: It gave us an outlet for it.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: So that's Joe's Deli.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: That is a Murders to Music Snapshot and that is the end of the story.