Uploaded by minigun664 on Oct 4, 2009
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. It happened when responding patrol officers engaged Phillips, 26 and Matasareanu, 30 leaving a bank which the two men had just robbed. Ten officers and seven civilians sustained injuries before both robbers were killed. Phillips and Matasareanu had robbed several armored vehicles prior to their attempt in North Hollywood and were notorious for their heavy armament, which included automatic rifles.
Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with a 9 mm or .38 Special pistols on their person, with some having a 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars. Phillips and Matasareanu carried fully automatic rifles, with ammunition capable of penetrating police body armor, and wore body armor of their own. Since the police handguns could not penetrate the bank robbers' body armor, the patrol officers' efforts were ineffective. SWAT eventually arrived with weapons that could penetrate and they also appropriated several semi-automatic rifles from a nearby firearms dealer. The incident sparked debate on the appropriate firepower for patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.
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The manly way of robbing a bank.
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@UpTheIrons93100 44 Minutes. Yeah, great job Davy, your creativity just blows our minds. No shit, that's the name of the movie, and Dave Mustaine couldn't come up with another title to make it a little less obvious that that's what the song was about.
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@jbposerslayer Name of the movie?
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@addamangelsfan its hard to shoot 2 guys in the head from the distance the cops were from them not including the fully automatic ak 47's being fired at them along with the armor piercing rounds
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why didint they just shoot them in the head
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@line6shadowdikk usually the way it goes
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@jbposerslayer ugh....lame
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Why do people think these guys had some deep motive? They were pro-bank robbers, they had enough money to buy huge amounts of ammo and body armor and they were weightlifters, thats not the picture of poor and downtrodden. They werent high moraled they just liked guns and thrills.
jacksonshred12345 5 months ago 19
@RavenIsland85 these guys wernt as desperate as you think, they had robbed several other places before they tried this and had plenty of money, they just got greedy and paid the price.
FFFSilencer 6 months ago 11