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During a within a bank robbery in North Hollywood, two armed bandits strike nine policemen and two civilians in a battle that has forever changed the police in Los Angeles.
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed conflict that occurred in Los Angeles February 28, 1997 between a pair of robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and employees of the Los Angeles Police Department including SWAT teams.
During their escape after a robbery at a branch of Bank of America, the two robbers opened fire on police officers intervened to stop them. Ten officers and seven civilians were injured during the shooting that ended with the killing of one of the robbers and the arrest of the second, later died from his injuries before the ambulance. Phillips and Matasareanu had already attacked several armored vehicles before the robbery in North Hollywood, and were known for their heavy armament, which included some automatic rifles.
Police officers at the time were normally fitted with 9 mm pistols and .38 Special, and only some had the shotguns on board their car. The robbers were armed with automatic rifles instead of AK-47 ammunition capable of penetrating guards, officials and police cars, and were in turn protected by body armor. Since the ammunition of the police were unable to penetrate the protective armor of the robbers, all efforts of patrol officers is irrelevant. Were decisive action by the SWAT Squad and the use of several rifles AR-15 requirements by staff at a gun shop near the site of the shooting.
of LAPD patrol cars are now equipped with AR-15 rifles and protected by Kevlar inserts in the doors.
This shooting is told in the movie 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003) directed by Yves Simoneau with Michael Madsen.
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