Epic Vigilantes vs. Crime – Fights, Camera, Action – S01 EP08 – Action Documentary

Dive into the adrenaline-pumping world of confrontations in this episode of Fights Camera Action! From fearless vigilantes taking on criminals to unexpected heroes in the midst of chaos, wild and dramatic clashes unfold. Explore incidents from around the world, including brave pensioners, a cycling vigilante, and even shopkeepers fighting back against armed robbers. Experience the raw reality as bystanders and law enforcement deal with situations ranging from bizarre encounters to intense street fights. Brace yourself for shocking actions, foul language, and the inside stories of those who step up when things get out of control!

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Welcome to fight Camera Action where  we show you wild dramatic and crazy   confrontations in the raw from the people  who were right there [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]   thank you in this episode of fights Camera Action  we’re focusing on the people who try and   stop fights breaking out and then have to pick  up the pieces when things get out of control   normally that job falls to the police but when  they’re not around or can’t get there quickly  

Enough members of the public sometimes decide to  take matters into their own hands as Vigilantes   expect some shocking and brutal action plus  plenty of seriously foul language with clips   from the UK and around the world plus we’ll  meet some of the people who are in the heart of  

It all to get the Inside Story coming up actually  scared me he’s touched my leg he touched my winky what would you do if you witness a crime  taking place and nobody was doing anything  

About it would you walk on by or would you  get stuck in and try and stop it up next   we celebrate The Bravery of a rather  surprising group of have a go Heroes a gang of Thieves on mopeds are attempting  to break into this Northampton Jewelers shop  

Using sledgehammers this isn’t a situation  you would try and Tackle single-handedly   unless you happen to be this red-coated  crusader [Music] who runs half the length   of the High Street to take on the Gang  armed with a very dangerous looking handbag

She not only scares most of the  gang away but also stops one of   them from escaping until passes by pin him down a real life super Grand what is it about pensioners that makes them  such willing have a go Heroes this is a bank  

Being robbed it’s a very calm and relaxed  robbery but nevertheless it is a robbery   the cashiers are handing over the money when  a gray-haired man arrives on the scene [Music] after struggling to negotiate the ropes  he launches himself at the robber [Music]

Sparking a very excitable reaction  from the woman at the desk [Music]   the robber a kick for good measure when it’s your   livelihood that’s being threatened  you don’t always think about Danger five-year-old grandmother of  eight wasn’t about to let this   hooded hoodlum take her till without  giving him a few whacks with a stick

The thief takes the till but is rugby tackled  To The Ground by another have a go oap hero he gets away empty-handed but let’s have another look  at that takedown [Music]   Johnny Wilkinson would have been  proud of that [Applause] [Music] um

Sometimes you’re driving along and you suddenly  come across the worst driver you’ve ever seen oh in Houston Texas this driver spots another  car weaving and steering erratically [Music]   unlike most bystanders this driver decides  to get involved hey hey what’s up man   stop it stop it come on and stop man stop [Music]  

It man he doesn’t want to let the suspected  drink driver back on the road [Music] the police arrive and take the  suspect away at least nobody was   hurt and even his car escaped unscathed [Music] oh coming up we meet a man known as the cycling  vigilante he’s also been labeled Britain’s  

Most hated cyclist and he’s been called  a lot worse than that by some motorists   oh you’re gonna be Republican I’ve  not met many solicitors or barristers   who can now get a toss over video  evidence also there’s this [Music] look at this look at it

Now obviously the police can’t be around every  time there’s trouble and that’s inspired some   people to take matters upon themselves by becoming  vigilantes just like the cyclist we saw earlier   who was getting an ear full of abuse so now it’s  time to meet Dave Sherry the cycle vigilante

Dave has been waging a one-man Road Safety  campaign from the saddle of his bike   but he’s also been described  as Britain’s most hated cyclist thanks Dave Sherry some people call me a cycling  vigilante I believe in respect and sharing the  

Road full Road users I generally do what I do to  make the road to save a better place for us all   what started this off was a couple of  years ago I was taking my baby boy to  

Nursery and some geez uh came at us nearly  at the back of the bike and the kid there’s   my word against Sears so Incorporated video  evidence it’s worked well for me in the past   so I Incorporated it on my bike and ever since  then never looked back and I’ve been nailing  

Bear drivers for various defenses and mobile  phone careless Reckless thing just driving thank you you’re going to be careless  driving hopefully I’ll give way to the right   Dave now records all his journeys on  his specially rigged bike gpso time  

Date location for the instance side view camera  for the closed pulses he’s even got an air horn [Music]   come down here you know what a section 5 is all right  you’re going to kill someone yeah [ __ ] off well Dave’s right that he’s holding  something but we don’t know that it was a phone  

The motorcycle on an average day was cycling  down near the M11 slow moving traffic and it   appeared that every car was passing either  the drivers we’re overtakes they make up   him or eating at the will so that worked out  about 25 in the space of 200 yards [Music]  

Dave is a master collection of  around 900 videos of Motoring mishaps what the [ __ ] are you doing man here  it’s the clips and adds his own captions   to highlight the alleged infringement  and occasionally adds a touch of Comedy

Oh Well Done big boy well done when I have an  instant I’m starting to stop it on the GoPro   make a mental note in my head and then I make  my way to the computer put the video evidence  

Together I can do all that without seeing the  police officer even visiting the police station   it’s all online I generally do it by email  sometimes they want to argue it and cook so   far I’ve not met many solicitors or barristers who  can all get a toss over video evidence it’s great  

In this incident Dave thinks he’s seen  this silver car jumping a red light when he catches up with the car he  confronts them and gets a volley of abuse determined to film The culprits he approaches them   again and this time it’s more than  just insults that are held his way you on camera

[ __ ] camera Google Dave’s Shooting yeah consequences for the drugs involved with  values from a driving awareness course six   points 400 pound fine or a Dane cool  and it could be six to nine points a   thousand pound fine and a discretionary  disqualification [Applause] [Music]   camera YouTube image what you doing come over here

Majority of drivers who I interact with   um generally hands up sorry girl but then you’ve  got the passive aggressives what public ity I might be doing me when he’s coming up on This  Hood I didn’t actually see you so uh apologize  

But I apologize I don’t [ __ ] have a heart attack  on my window passive aggressive say sorry and then   I kick off a little bit get back in there little  10 bucks and it’s all good what I’m saying is I  

Didn’t knock you off he’s still on the bike and  that is it yeah all right mate of course there   are those motorists who take exception to being  filmed and take the law into their own hands saw room on a mobile phone driving in traffic  

Let my lap told him to put the phone down it  ain’t worth it was six points to 100 points no foreign camera it’s not worth it put the phone  down why are you threatening me   why are you threatening me I’ll get back in here why are you threatening me

Steals my camera then he comes back  in the salt smoke as you can see   but he didn’t realize was there’s a second camera  on the bike and caught it and it’s all glory [Music]   and basically that nail just coughing  for the police action later on  

The man made a full admission to the  police and was cautioned for assault no [Music] I’ve been the victim of various  assaults and injuries to understand what could   go wrong and I understand that what I’m doing out  there is just me and my cameras as a result of the  

Attacks he’s experience Dave now takes a few more  precautions including wearing a protective vest   this is just for additional safety measures on  top of me helmet and reflectors and lights this is   um for them untoward incidences where  people of Apple Mac torches and knives so  

A little bit of preemptiveness if it’s good  enough for the old wheeler It’s gotta be good   people say why don’t you join the police do it  for a job but then they’re governed by red tape  

Too much PC on the Own Boss I do what I do in  my own time I do it for passion look for money   Dave has made it his mission to fight  bad practice on the roads but at home   even he can’t always get his own kids to behave

Right whoever’s touching this door stop it do  you understand me last one all right perfect   shut up [Music] a police officer’s lock is not always a happy one  and it can be dangerous a recent survey revealed   that in England and Wales a police officer is  assaulted every four minutes but it’s not just  

Here all over the world the police have to deal  with life-threatening situations on a daily basis foreign Take this traffic cop who tries to stop  the driver of this car in twanjo China he looks remarkably calm  considering his precarious situation in the Russian Republic of bashkartistan this  policeman has pulled over a car when one of the  

Passengers staggers over for a chat starts off  amicably enough but quickly turns sour [Music] cops have to deal with everything  from the downright dumb like this   guy who walks into a police station and  starts smashing the place up [Applause] to the seriously dangerous  like this incident where a  

Murder suspect tries to grab an officer’s  gun as his handcuffs are being removed here he checks out the cog’s  firearm before making his move fortunately backup is close at hand three cops and two tasers get him under control

Being a copper is a stressful job at the best  of times so when things aren’t going well it’s   perhaps not surprising that occasionally  they’ll lose their call okay arrested me some people just have a knack  for winding up cops yeah

You are watching you in my pocket that’s causing  me harm okay this man has been detained by police   after they initially stopped him and he ran away  he’s touched my leg he touched my winky he’s just  

Touching me he just touched my dick it’s on the  side I got a nine in chat he’s just touched my   [ __ ] how do I stop sexually harassing  me get out the [ __ ] trousers all right  

My leg what else is in there my dick do you  want my dick to hang out get off my trousers I am gonna make sure you know   he’s not the worstest earache you’re gonna you  probably get a suspension for this I’m telling  

You having found nothing suspicious on the  man the police uncuff him but the Chatty Man   from Birmingham hasn’t finished in fact he’s  only just getting started your public servant   now get here okay yeah yeah I’m talking to you  hello he gives the two cops a roasting you’re  

A public servant do you understand then tries  to have a chat with the sergeant over the radio he did not   stay who he was what station he was from and  ask me my name this articide does not always citizen I pay tax fighting with the cops is never a great idea

But this guy makes things even worse as you’ll  see in a minute [Music] it all kicks off when   the police try to confiscate some tables and  chairs from outside his restaurant [Music]   having reclaimed a couple  of stalls he then puckers up   plants one right on the officer’s lit bad move

At least the cops issued a  receipt for the tables and chairs   of you know what I mean sometimes making  an arrest is only half the battle for the   police they still got to get the suspect into  the car not easy well he’s got super strength Look at it [Music] in an attempted robbery the element of  surprise is usually on the side of the   criminal but in these next clips these would-be  thieves get more than they bargained for here’s a car thief checking out potential  Targets in a multi-story car park  

Having chosen a car he gets  to work there’s a brief pause   when somebody walks past and the  thief pretends to be on his mobile Assumes the break-in but he’s in for a shock  because he’s been spotted by this guy who looks   like he’s just been to the gym and he has an  extra workout pinning the thief to the ground   it was a Nimble Bit of footwork  that brought the thief Crashing Down This drunk looking man tries to rob an off license but gets a sore head in more ways than one first  he’s surprised by this woman with a bottle of wine   then the cashier hits him with  a bottle of whiskey [Music] it’s a potent combination [Music]

At Robert clearly can’t multitask during a  hold up he puts his gun down on the counter   bad move the shopkeeper snatches the gun and  then chases the man out of the shop with it the old man had let go of his gun in  order to rob the customer stood next  

To him as well he got too greedy  and ended up with nothing [Music] coming up we’ll get the background story on a  New Year’s Eve night in Manchester that went a   bit off the rails from a photographer who captured  a stunning street scene of police bystanders and a  

Man on the floor reaching for his beer the photo  was so captivating it went viral on social media   on that night it was everywhere just boom boom   boom incident after incident  and we’ll also have this [Applause] I promised you a spectacular photo taken during  

A wild night on New Year’s Eve in  Manchester and the story behind it   well we caught up with the man who captured  that image to find out just how it came about there’s one night of the year when  police forces everywhere go on high alert  

New Year’s Eve [Applause] with celebrations  going on into the early hours all over the   country the police are kept busy all  night long when the New Year arrives Not long ago a Manchester News photographer  captured the chaos of New Year’s turning it   into a work of art that captured the  imagination and lit up the internet Joel Goodman has been documenting life  on the streets of Manchester since 2011.  

With the street stuff it’s the randomness like  you don’t know what’s going to happen next so   when something astonishing or remarkable  or even mundane occurs but that makes a   photograph that’s when you spring into action  obviously that’s the moment you’re waiting for

It’s been a tradition for me to go out and  photograph revelers on New Year’s night you   might have a really quiet night or you might find  hundreds of things just everywhere you look and   it just so happened that on that night it was  everywhere it was really busy there was a large  

Crowd out and just boom boom boom incident  after incident as Joel was about to discover   this New Year’s morning we’re presenting  with the opportunity of a lifetime [Music]   I knew there was a fight about to unfold  so I mean I was here anyway and I sort of  

Waited here because you could see what was  happening across the street you could see   what’s happening here and there was something  brewing and it just sort of it started across   the street a little bit of a scuffle with the  police and one of the people pictured in the  

Middle of the road and then as things sort of  unfolded in front of me because there were so   many crowns I had to sort of push forward  a bit and switch to a wider lens just so I  

Could get the scene and I came to about this  spot and this scene just sort of opened up the picture all the beauty and pathos of random  strangers gathered to celebrate the new year   to over celebrate it might be said and the  police who were trying to keep a lid on it all  

You have a man who is being detained by  police there are I think three police   officers sort of pinning the man down right  on the double yellow lines as well sort of   perfect sort of symmetry and next to them  a woman pleading with the police pleading  

With a man basically not happy about the  scenario that has unfolded and expressing it you have a woman walking across sort of in the  mid background across the street there who’s   this head is just sort of drawn by the scene  but is effectively carrying on on her route  

The mini cab just coming through just like this  car is now sort of lighting scene beautifully   from the background along with obviously the  overhead lights a crowd in the background just   sort of having their chips and kebabs and just  sort of watching it sort of Street Theater I  

Guess and then perfectly placed and timed  a man in a sort of quite bright blue suit   um sort of lying on the in the middle of the  road here and he’s managed having collapsed   quite elegantly to keep his beer bottle intact  and he’s now sort of on the ground stretched out  

With a beer bottle just Out Of Reach just sort  of reaching out for it perfect frame and it just   happened to come together beautifully just in a  split second took the picture and everyone got on   with their evening really so perfect photo taken  Joe called it a night I found the pictures as  

Normal sent them off to the papers went to bed  about sort of 8 A.M and then a couple of hours   later having thought that I’d get a you know a  good morning sleep um I start hearing my phone  

Pipping on Twitter it kept going and after  a while I thought crikey I’ve done something   terrible something’s gone wrong here I better have  a look a chap called roller shoes from the BBC   had tweeted about it and another chap called Tom  Phillips from BuzzFeed had also tweeted about the  

Gallery in general and from there lots of people  started sort of commenting on the composition and   on elements within it and really getting into it  it was nice that people were sort of appreciating   it not just for the content of it but they were  also commenting on on the actual photo itself and  

Discussing photography and composition that was  a bit that I sort of really appreciated about it   because obviously you know photographers get  very precious about that sort of thing and   so it’s nice when other people sort of latch  onto that and sort of can appreciate that too

And then the internet turned  this striking image into one   of the greatest virals of our time [Music] and the photo lives on its subjects  have become local celebrities [Music]   and people still come to this spot in Manchester  City Center to try and relive the magic  

I went to the cinema here a few weeks  after I met up with some friends and as   I came around here there was someone  posing on the floor like the man in   blue while his mate took a picture on his  mobile phone which is quite sweet [Music]  

Yeah in 2003 the introduction of tasers  changed the way the police in the UK dealt   with violent incidents although not without  their controversies tasers can provide an   effective means of incapacitating aggressive  or armed suspects some of the scenes in these   next clips are shocking and some  people may find them distressing [Music]  

On the floor tasers are stun guns that deliver  high voltage electric shocks [Music] overloading the body’s nervous system  and causing temporary loss of muscle control his knife-wielding man outside Buckingham Palace  caused serious alarm to unlooking tourists [Music] before a taser gun brought  him under control [Music]   let’s go there we go

This Infamous footage shows Leighton Stone knife   attacker muadine myri attempting to  slash passes by in a tube station okay [Music] get down go go go go the first two attempts to taser him fail a police report found that officer’s injuries  were reduced by 76 percent when tasers were used  

And it’s only when reinforcements arrived  that he’s finally brought under control [Applause] tasers were first developed in the states one of their advantages is that they enable  policemen to catch more Nimble suspects [Applause] I’m not doing anything  

This clip starts off with a street fight  ER it’s all about to go a bit crazy [Music]   someone getting hit by the car as it pulled  away come on the cops arrived to break it up then this woman in Gray gets tasered  and goes down hitting the floor hard ER [Music] in this confrontation  in the hotel lobby in Virginia   the man has been tasered but  remains standing down [Music]   it keeps insisting he’s  down yet he’s still standing [Music]   turns into a rather odd standoff [Music] until the backup arrives and  things get serious get down again Another standoff this time in Canada you can see why the cops are looking  a bit nervous he’s a big fella [Applause] But some cops want to sort matters out fast faced   with a woman wielding a knife this cop  takes a more direct approach foreign These two fishermen are minding their own business  when they’re subjected to a vicious verbal assault   by these vegan vigilantes you guys just gonna  let this fish die like this you know what if  

What if what if this was a dog and I hooked the  dog through the mouth and threw her in the water   how would you guys feel about that we don’t need  any animals because all animals have the same  

Ability to feel love and pain just like we do  would you guys agree with that what if this was   a human child but what if it was they have the  same ability and same emotions as a human child  

That’s not my opinion that’s facts sir would  you hook your child sir this is horribly wrong why don’t you eat human beings sir because  it’s wrong and because you understand that   it’s wrong to eat a human being what  if this was a dog or a cat or a human  

I’m thinking they’re coming back in the  water no you’re not okay I’m not gonna   touch this fish that’s dying property  is he your problem is he your property   no he’s not don’t step on that [ __ ] how  about that how about that call the police having thrown their fish back into the water the  

Vegan Vigilantes bite the Anglers  with this catchy charms [Music] coming up we’ll be calling for backup as  things get a little out of control [Music] [Applause] [Music] now there’s a group of people who often  find themselves on the front line in the  

Fight against Crime and that’s shopkeepers small  stores in particular are often targeted because   they’re taking within 80 reach of any would-be  robbers and they rarely have much security   but just because they’re small it doesn’t make  them a soft touch as we’ll see these shopkeepers  

Fight back when these two men attempt to Rob  this shop in Finsbury Park the owner and his   son don’t hesitate to fight back despite one  of the robbers brandishing a pistol [Music] the father’s hit with a gun a few times whilst  the other robber tries to stab him [Music] everybody [Music]

Thieves are eventually scared off luckily both  Father and Son survived with only minor injuries [Music]   we say you should never judge a book by  its cover but this guy in the red coat   doesn’t look like he’s about to try  and Rob this Doncaster Cafe does he  

However having asked a man behind the  counter for a glass of water [Music]   the so-called customer grabs a  till and tries to make off with it   didn’t reckon on the quick reactions of the worker  who grabs a bat and sends this nervous looking  

Robber packing with his tail between his legs a  man wearing a crash helmet and a high-vis jacket   has just threatened staff at this news agent in  Norwich with what appears to be a sawn-off shotgun the Raider threatens one of the customers  she runs for the door and escapes

Now on his own in the shop the robber starts  helping himself to the takings in the till   when all of a sudden the Cavalry  arrived the woman who escaped   went to find her husband who was  getting a Chinese Takeaway nearby  

Our hero gets the hive his hijacker in a headlock  and stops him having a takeaway of his own In this clip an armed robber is holding up this  newsagent but a great bit of teamwork from the   shopkeeper and a customer gets the thief nicked  at first the shopkeeper plays along with the  

Robber he goes to the till and starts to take  the money out and then he makes a grab for the   gun as he does so the customer makes a grab for  the robber and wrestles him to the ground [Music] let’s see that team play again  the timing is absolutely spot on

The cops arrived to take the thief away and it  slaps on the back for our Intrepid vigilante   Duo [Music] we’ve seen how violent incidents can  quickly escalate out of control sometimes there’s   just too much going on for the police at the scene  to deal with and that’s when they call for backup

Attending a street fraccar  these police call for backup   and here it comes now [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think that’s what they call a rapid  response unit let’s see that again in slow-mo he’s been watching too many repeats of  Starsky and Hutch the nice bit [Music]

Watch what you’re doing here your camera just to  let you know watch what you’re doing watch what   you do step back in this arrest the police  could have done with a few more officers   you’re done hitting people yet you don’t hit  enough suspect who’s had a package confiscated  

Is surrounded by cops but watch the guy  in the gray tracksuit trousers [Music] he snatches the package off  the police and escapes [Music] even when you’ve got a suspect cuffed  you need to keep an eye on them nice bit of escapology he gets away but what’s he  

Gonna do now with his hands cuffed  behind his back [Applause] [Music] thank you this Nairobi policeman probably  wishes he had some backup or a taser   having stopped a truck in the middle of a  busy road things soon start to turn ugly it’s the start of a running  battle between cop and Driver [Music]  

The man keeps trying to get back in his truck  to drive away but is prevented from doing so then he picks up a couple of bricks  from the roadside and resumes his attack the man gets back in his truck and drives off

When the police backup eventually catches up  with him the result isn’t good for the driver but the police do sometimes show their warm  sensitive side take traffic cop Mark James   who sets off in pursuit of a speeding motorist  only to have the chase brought to a halt by   a family of ducks

Worried for their safety he blocks the traffic   and ushers The Feathered Friends  to the side of the road [Music] We’ve seen some impressively heroic  police and civilians in this episode   but let’s face it many of these Sterling  Deeds are only necessary because someone   got overly aggressive or violent or  committed a crime or assaulted someone fighting has consequences  and not just the human damage

It also places an unnecessary burden  on the police and Medical Services so if you want to show your appreciation  for the people you’ve seen in this program   I’m talking about the nice ones  obviously then just calm down

Anyway that’s it for this edition of fights Camera  Action join us again next time bye for now [Music] [Music]   foreign