25: Part 1: Rick Massa and the LAPD North Hollywood Bank Shootout
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Rick Massa was a member of LAPD SWAT, some of the most elite operators in law enforcement. All of their training would be put to the test on February 28, 1997. For two years the High Incident Bandits had robbed armored cars and Bank of America branches. This duo was heavily armed with body armor and automatic weapons. They were the first bank robbers known to use armored-piercing ammunition. This was a nightmare scenario for law enforcement.
Two LAPD officer headed to another call did a double-take when they spotted the dangerous pair walking into a Bank of America. The resulting gun fight was the biggest in US law enforcement history. This is a story of uncommon valor against the most dangerous of odds.
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| 0:00.0 | Former LAPD SWAT Officer Rick Masa talks about responding to the North Hollywood |
| 0:18.6 | Bank's shootout. |
| 0:20.2 | We're traveling a high-rated speed bumper to bumper traffic, going our 18 miles from |
| 0:26.4 | the Academy to the bank. |
| 0:30.1 | And our sergeant gets on the air and he says, the shooting is at a bank of America. |
| 0:36.5 | These are the suspects we were looking for. |
| 0:38.9 | They're heavily armed. |
| 0:40.2 | They have body armor on. |
| 0:42.2 | And the one thing that he said that I'll always remember, and that's, as police officers, |
| 0:48.0 | we don't like to hear, we don't like to hear that there's an officer down. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't care if it's a motor officer that dropped his bike or what it is. |
| 0:56.3 | We don't like hearing about a motor officer down, or an off-duty officer that gets in |
| 1:00.7 | an accident or anything like that. |
| 1:03.3 | And he put out that these are the officers, these are the bad guys that we're looking for, |
| 1:08.8 | and there are five to seven officers down. |
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