North Hollywood bank robbery - PART 1/4 - Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu

Police radio audio of the north hollywood bank robbery.(( ALL DEAD SPOTS AND NON-TRANSMITION PARTS WERE CUT OUT TO SAVE SPACE, COMPLETE AUDIO )).

The shootout:

Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu engaged LAPD officers in a firefight after robbing a branch of Bank of America.Phillips and Matasareanu arrived at the Bank of America branch office at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Blvd. and Archwood St. in North Hollywood around 9:17 a.m., and set their watch alarms for 8 minutes, which was the amount of time they estimated it would take for law enforcement officials to respond. (Phillips had been using a radio scanner to listen to police transmissions.) As they walked into the bank, however, dressed in dark clothes from head to toe and armed with an assault rifle each, a patrol car of the LAPD was driving down Laurel Canyon—and the officers in the car radioed in a possible 211, code for an armed robbery. Inside the bank, Phillips and Matasareanu forced the assistant manager to open the vault; they fired at least 100 rounds to scare those inside the bank so that there would be no resistance. They were able to get just over $300,000, since that day's money delivery had not yet arrived. At 9:38 a.m., Phillips exited the bank through its north doorway, Matasareanu exited through its south doorway, and they encountered dozens of LAPD patrol officers who had arrived after the first-responding officers radioed a "shots fired" call.

Phillips and Matasareanu engaged the officers in a firefight, spraying armor-piercing rounds into the patrol cars that had been positioned on Laurel Canyon in front of the bank. The patrol officers were armed with standard Beretta 92-type 9 mm pistols and .38 caliber revolvers, and some also carried 12-gauge pump-action shotguns, but the body armor worn by Phillips and Matasareanu was strong enough to withstand them. Multiple officers and civilians were wounded in the 7 minutes between when the shooting began and Matasareanu entered their white sedan to make a getaway; Phillips remained outside of the vehicle and continued firing upon the police. A TAC (tactical) alert was issued, and 18 minutes after the shooting had begun, a SWAT team—armed with automatic weapons—arrived in response to the alert and engaged Phillips and Matasareanu; they also commandeered an armored truck which they used to extract wounded civilians and officers who were pinned down. A nearby gun shop provided patrol officers with semi-automatic rifles, including Colt AR-15s, the civilian version of the American M-16 rifle.


Map of the area around the Bank of America (blue) and events during the shootout. A red "X" marks the spot where Phillips and Matasareanu were shot down.At 9:51 a.m., Phillips, who had been using the getaway vehicle as cover, split up from Matasareanu, turned east on Archwood St., and continued to fire at the police with his AKM. He reloaded the assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine shortly before he was shot in the left thumb, which may have prevented him from removing the shell that caused a stovepipe malfunction in his AKM. He set it down, pulled out a Beretta pistol, and continued firing at the police with his unwounded right hand. He dropped the pistol and picked it up, and shortly thereafter, Phillips placed the muzzle of his pistol under his chin and apparently shot himself while a round from a police sniper's rifle simultaneously severed his spine. The question remains as to whether Phillips intentionally committed suicide or accidentally squeezed the trigger when his spine was severed while attempting to reload his weapon one-handed.

Matasareanu's vehicle was rendered nearly inoperable after its tires were blown out. At 9:56 a.m., he commandeered a pickup truck on Archwood, three blocks east of where Phillips was shot down, and transferred all of his weapons and ammunition from the getaway car to the truck. However, Matasareanu was unable to start the truck since its owner had taken the keys with him when he fled. A patrol car driven by SWAT officers quickly arrived—Matasareanu left the truck, took cover behind the original getaway car, and engaged them immediately. At least one SWAT officer fired his M16 rifle below the cars and wounded Matasareanu in his unprotected lower legs, and he soon surrendered. The police radioed for an ambulance, but Matasareanu succumbed to his wounds by the time the ambulance had reached the scene.

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[valleyfever]

I'm not a huge fan of cops. But I will say one thing: it takes one hell of a lot of balls to do what they do! My hats off to these officers that risk their lives for our safety.

[reefpirate]

The rifles these two gunmen used were illegal and illegally modified... so gun control or not, they would have had them.

[ak470010]

Shiiiid who down wit me to kill some cops

[NEVADAUNDERGROUND]

people that dont like cops are cowards...

[conejo74xr7]

stupid video

[HappyHooker83]

They need to arrest the bankers themselves instead of arresting these two guys. Problem is, the cops are owned by the bankers. That is what I was told and - just look at the evidence around you - that is a fact!

[HappyHooker83]

@caldispatcher they fire you..or worse. Just ask former Lt Burwell of the LASD who ended up in a witness protection program for speaking out against the murder of Deandre Brunston!

[HappyHooker83]

@bigman10239 These cops just take advantage of these people, often justifying the right to use force against them! Now, if you want to argue that not all cops are the same, well, anytime you work in an uniform industry that prides itself on wearing uniforms, eradicating individuality, and taking on a hive mind consciousness while governing themselves, you are going to have problems! The blue wall of silence runs deep. Look at Serpico. When you are A GOOD COP who speaks out against your own

[HappyHooker83]

@bigman10239 Shut up! I see these cops for the most part commit rapes against sex workers, murder people, etc. I don't know what color you are, but the experience between cops and ppl of color is very different! Yeah, they may do their JOB here to protect and serve, BUT THIS IS OCCASIONAL as opposed to the constant raiding and theft of ppl for committing survival crimes ie sex work, selling/doing drugs and making life miserable for ppl whose lives are already impoverished!

[911wuzjews]

@valleyfever That's the thing. They didn't do this for your safety. They did this to protect the loot the swindling bankers stole from you and everyone else. Their job is to protect the corporation that owns you. They don't care about you. Ignore their authority and they'll taze you to death or beat the tar out of you until you comply. Period. SubvertedNation (dot net)

[dopetoker1990]

@CAoutlaw559 dude id fuckin do it with you i live in california im down to kill cops

[CAoutlaw559]

Had those cops shittin. Lol. To bad they didn't get away. I wanna go out just like them. Heros. Fuck those cops