1995 Miami school-bus hijacking - WPLG clips - 1 of 2
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:02] Slow speed chases are nothing new to us,
[0:04] but from the start, this one was
[0:06] difficult to watch, knowing that on
[0:08] board this school bus were children,
[0:10] frightened children. The routine trip to
[0:12] school now a scary spectacle as a man
[0:14] claiming to have a bomb takes them on a
[0:16] strange ride. After leading a pack of 50
[0:19] or more police cars across the MacArthur
[0:21] Causeway, some units blocking off
[0:22] streets, others leading the way, the bus
[0:25] winds through South Beach.
[0:29] Eventually turning right on Ocean Drive,
[0:31] heading toward the suspect's
[0:32] destination, Joe's.
[0:36] It is there that everything changes. The
[0:38] tense procession grinds to a halt. The
[0:40] bus, too large to navigate the narrow
[0:42] turn from Biscane Street to Washington
[0:43] Avenue smoothly, just creeps along. And
[0:46] then, as you'll see in just a moment,
[0:48] the bus will come to a stop.
[0:53] It became clear the hijacking was close
[0:55] to an end when officers moved up and
[0:57] hunkered down behind a nearby car. You
[0:59] can see that in the upper left of the
[1:00] screen and then moments later as a
[1:02] police helicopter circles above. It
[1:04] ends.
[1:08] Officers charge the bus. One jumps on
[1:11] board. Shots are then fired.
[1:14] In a matter of seconds, the hijacker,
[1:16] Nick Sang, is dragged out and o