Some battles don’t end when the shooting stops.

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]ended up in a 4-hour shootout. We were doing an operation, federal operation, um, called North Star. Um, it was a nationwide operation put on by the US Marshal Service. Our suspect I'd looked for for probably about a year and a half came on our radar. We know where he's at. He had a violent history of murder.

[00:00:16]He's not, you know, at the Marshals, we're not there to serve misdemeanor traffic warrants. We're going to people that when I we talked about that needle in the haystack, they don't want to be found. And so went and located him that day and ended up in a 4-hour shootout that a couple of my team members were struck. Um, I was a team leader that day and to go through that trauma, not to say that every officer hasn't seen something in their lives, coming up as an officer you're told to suppress it.

[00:00:40]>> [music] >> Mhm. Of all the times I've literally seen people take their own lives in front of me. That was suppressed. And you go home and your family wants to talk about those things, but you have to give them the Disneyland version of it.

[00:00:51]>> it. Yeah. You know.

[00:00:53]>> You're protecting them.

[00:00:54]>> Yeah.