[narrator] A man with an ominous weapon...
[officer speaking]
This situation's about to get really bad.
[narrator] ...has an officer fighting for his life.
Airplane passengers dangerously out of control...
A wild scene on a plane.
[child screaming]
Like watching a horror movie.
[man speaking]
Knocking out two of her teeth.
He's out of control.
[shouting]
[narrator] ...and an unlikely hero...
This white bunny comes in to save the day.
[man speaking]
[narrator]...with dark secrets.
Accused of, well, being a bad bunny.
Is he a hero or did he actually turn out to be a bad guy?
[man speaking]
[theme music playing]
[man] A chilling attack.
This video is horrific.
This is a matter of life and death.
[man] Cameras right here catch every terrifying moment.
You know the situation's about to get really bad.
[intense music playing]
[tape rewinding]
[narrator] October 15th, 2020, Seattle, Washington.
Police get a call about a violent man making threats
with a hammer at a homeless camp.
Officer Caleb Pomazon is first on the scene,
but the man is already on the run...
This officer is communicating over the radio
that there's an individual maybe about 100 feet ahead.
[narrator] ...and now he's wielding a different
and dangerous weapon.
This suspect is being defiant, he's non-compliant.
[Sigona] You can see that this suspect is not listening,
has no intentions of stopping at this point.
When the officer starts to engage with him,
the offender turns his sights on the police officer himself.
Once he makes a beeline for the officer's vehicle,
you know the situation's about to get really bad.
There is absolutely nothing stopping this officer from
getting burned because the driver's side window is down.
There probably wasn't one second where this officer
thought that this individual was going to turn around
and throw this flaming piece of wood inside the patrol vehicle.
[narrator] Horrifyingly, the flaming weapon hits the officer
in the thigh.
Terrified he will be burned alive, the officer backs up
with the flaming stick still in his car and opens fire.
[gunshots]
This officer absolutely had the right to use lethal force
in this situation.
There's no doubt that that piece of firewood could have
seriously injured or even killed this officer.
[narrator] The gunshots miss the suspect, and he quickly disappears.
As his burning patrol car rolls backwards, the officer manages
to escape out the passenger door and frantically plead
for help.
This officer escaped just in time.
Thankfully, he was able to make it out alive.
And in a situation like this, seconds can be the difference
between life and death.
[narrator] When other officers arrive, they chase the suspect into
a nearby parking garage, using a taser to arrest him.
The patrol car goes up in flames and is a complete loss.
[narrator] The fiery encounter tops the news.
The moment when a man attacked a Seattle police officer.
[distant siren wail]
This Seattle police car torched and completely destroyed.
[narrator] The officer's body cam video goes viral,
with more than a million views.
[Sigona] I cannot imagine being in a situation like that,
and anyone listening to the radio that day,
I can only imagine that their hearts may have dropped
when they heard this.
This could have been a horrific situation.
[narrator] The suspect is identified as 37-year-old Brian Joseph Leil.
He pleads guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and arson.
He is sentenced to six years in prison.
We later learned that this individual stated
he wanted to die at the hands of the officers, a suicide by cop.
[narrator] Officer Pomazon suffers non-life-threatening burns to
his leg and both hands, but he's grateful he survived.
This could have been a lot worse.
If he got stuck in that vehicle,
he could have lost his life.
[Sigona] Having a piece of lumber that's on fire coming at you
is not something you hear about every day.
This is one brave officer.
[narrator] Something else you don't hear about every day
is the wildly out-of-control airplane rage
in these next viral videos.
[shouting]
It's just so gruesome.
[tape rewinding]
[narrator] With smaller seats and fewer amenities,
airplane meltdowns are increasingly common,
and in the air, rage can boil over in an instant.
[woman] No!
Hey, no!
You just don't know what's going to happen.
[narrator] On this flight to San Diego, in the midst of the pandemic,
everyone is on edge.
The plane is descending when a passenger refuses
to buckle her seat belt or secure her mask.
Sit down! Don't you dare!
You don't really expect what happens next.
We are gonna sue you.
[narrator] The woman violently punches a flight attendant,
drawing blood.
[punch lands]
[passengers exclaiming]
Almost is like watching a horror movie
where it's fake blood, but this is real life.
[narrator] Another passenger jumps in to calm things down.
[man] Don't you dare touch her!
Don't you dare touch a flight attendant like that.
[woman] ...hit me, dude.
-She came at her first. -You hit me!
She came at her first. She came at her first.
-Sit down. -She came at her first.
Sit down.
This male passenger jumped immediately into action
and was able to deescalate the situation, which really
shocked me in a good way.
[narrator] When the plane lands, 29-year-old Vyvianna Quinonez is
arrested for interfering with flight attendant directions.
The traumatized attendant is badly bruised
and requires stitches.
Video of the attack in the air makes news...
A woman from Sacramento was accused of punching a flight
attendant in the face, knocking out two of her teeth.
[narrator] ...and a viral splash.
Quinonez is sentenced to 15 months and ordered to pay more
than $30,000 in fines and restitution.
We are gonna sue you! No!
Hey!
[narrator] And coming up, you won't believe
the radical measures it takes
to contain this unruly passenger.
[narrator] You never know who is going to lose their cool
when you're in the air.
[woman] Hey, no, hey!
[tape reversing]
[narrator] On this flight to Miami,
an inebriated young man comes unhinged.
A lot of people have their cell phones out.
They're recording him.
[narrator] The man yells at other passengers.
He is literally the really annoying, obnoxious drunk guy
on the plane.
[narrator] And he has already groped two female flight attendants.
He's touched one of the flight attendants' backsides,
which is a big no-no.
And when told "Back off,"
he kind of doesn't do that at all.
Things are only getting more and more extreme.
[woman] Hey, no, hey!
[narrator] When a flight attendant tries to intervene,
the situation explodes.
You're violating...
[narrator] But this quick-thinking employee finds a creative way
to get control.
Now, the man is literally duct taped to his seat.
Help!
There's a lot of duct tape in this situation.
Help!
Wrapped from head to toe, looking like a mummy, unable to
even so much as lift a pinky finger.
The goal is to get on the ground as safely as you can
without anyone being injured,
Help!
including this person.
[narrator] When the plane lands, 22-year-old Maxwell Berry is
arrested on charges of assault.
Video of the duct tape ordeal quickly goes viral
and hits the news.
[reporter] In this wild video, an unruly passenger
throwing punches. -Help!
[narrator] And the flight attendant tells reporters...
-Help! -...he's glad
the tape restraint worked.
It worked perfectly, and no one got hurt because of how we did
what we did.
[narrator] Barry is sentenced to 60 days, ordered to pay $4,000 in fines,
and gets one year of supervised release.
[woman] Hey, no, hey! No!
[narrator] But his drunk rant is tame compared to the terror another
airline passenger unleashes in this next viral video.
Where's Homeland Security? Pull the gun.
A wild scene on a plane.
This situation takes a terrifying turn.
[tape rewinding]
[narrator] March 23rd, 2023, a passenger on a flight
from L.A. to Boston makes terrifying threats.
Lisa Olsen is traveling home with her husband and daughter.
We were about 45 minutes from landing, and we heard this guy
in back of us talking loudly.
His voice was just getting louder and louder.
Lisa and her husband pull out their phones to start recording.
No one knows what this man is capable of because he's making
threats that are life or death.
He was screaming, saying,
"I'm going to kill every man on the plane."
A lot of the other people around him were kind of just
trying to be invisible.
So at this point, my daughter's crying.
She's sitting next to the window and just sobbing.
She thought we were going down.
[narrator] When a flight attendant tries
to reason with the man,
he only gets more agitated.
Is he really trying to take this plane down right now?
[narrator] The flight attendants try to come up with a game plan.
They were trying to prevent, you know, anything from getting
down to the cockpit.
You can tell that they were panicked.
They don't have control over the situation.
This situation takes a terrifying turn.
[narrator] The man is brandishing a sharp object.
Yeah, this -- he can't get by that.
[narrator] And now, he's trying to hurt people.
[flight attendant] Now, I just need you to grab him down.
Grab him down!
Multiple men jumped up from their seats, a line of people
just chasing him.
He had the weapon and attempted to stab the flight attendant
in the neck three times.
There were probably five men that were holding him down,
because at that point, he was still screaming
and out of control.
[narrator] Someone manages to zip tie him,
but he breaks through one tie after another.
Passengers frantically search for other restraints.
That's not enough.
When they ran out of zip ties, people were passing
their belts up.
[narrator] The chaotic scene goes on for 30 excruciating minutes
until the plane lands in Boston.
Massachusetts State Police
arrest 33-year-old Francisco Torres
and charge him with attempted interference with
flight crew members using a dangerous weapon.
When they're safely on the ground,
Lisa learns something horrifying.
The man also tried to open one of the plane's doors.
Now who knows what would have happened if he was able to get
the door open.
[narrator] Lisa shares her video with the news.
Wild scene on a plane heading to Boston.
Massachusetts man goes on a rampage
during a cross country flight.
[narrator] And the story goes viral overnight.
My phone was just blowing up.
I had the FBI calling me,
and the news stations were in my driveway.
[narrator] It turns out
that Torres has a disturbing history of violence.
A judge later deems him not competent to stand trial
and orders him to undergo mental health treatment.
Lisa and her family are traumatized.
Because it was surreal during the whole thing,
and then you're like, oh, wait, did this really happen?
And I think that's just the emotional part.
[narrator] But they're determined not to let the ordeal change them.
My husband got on a flight the next morning.
My daughter went to school the next morning.
And I went to work the next morning.
[narrator] And Lisa is grateful to all the passengers who stepped in
to avert disaster.
People getting up and doing something about the situation,
it was amazing.
[narrator] Coming up next, a crime-fighting superhero
unlike any you've seen before.
But is he the real deal?
Cell phone video capturing a brawl.
Why is this Easter Bunny wailing on people?
Man dressed in the furry costume hopping into action
to break up a fight.
You can't believe what you're seeing.
[tape rewinding]
[narrator] April 21st, 2019,
Orlando, Florida.
A man goes all out to celebrate Easter.
[Campo] He thought it would be fun to get dressed up
as an Easter Bunny on Easter weekend and go bar hopping.
[narrator] And in his mind,
a bunny is some kind of superhero.
[man] Beat his ass!
[Monique] We see a woman and a man in a fight,
and then all of a sudden out of nowhere,
this white bunny comes in to save the day.
He got in there, and he started throwing punches.
[Monique] We have a hero bunny
coming to save the damsel in distress.
We wanna know who is in the bunny costume.
[narrator] Whoever he is, when police arrive,
they want the crime-fighting bunny to step aside.
[Campo] They pull up on the scene, and they see the Easter bunny
in a fight with two people.
They warn him that if they saw him doing something like this
again, he would get arrested.
[narrator] The bunny doesn't seem too bothered.
He's too busy posing for pictures.
Yo, yo, Easter Bunny!
Because, you know, how often do you get to be a hero?
[narrator] Video of the bunny
saving the day quickly goes viral.
This is one of those videos that goes viral for all
the right reasons. -Hey, Easter Bunny!
It's shocking, it's funny, you can't believe what
you're seeing.
[narrator] And the Orlando Easter bunny wastes no time capitalizing on
his 15 minutes of fame.
It seems that this bunny really, really liked
the attention because right after this goes viral,
he wants to keep the momentum going.
He creates a social media account as the Bunny,
showing what the Bunny is up to.
[narrator] The man behind the suit turns out to be 20-year-old
Antoine McDonald.
He nicknames himself Bad Bunny and is soon all over the news.
[reporter] His paws of fury.
The man dressed in the furry costume hopping into action to
break up a fight.
He starts doing interviews, showing his real face.
With me trying to break up the fight, it led him to get on
top of her and hit her.
So then I had to try different methods, basically, to break
up the fight,
which actually worked.
[narrator] But for Bad Bunny, the publicity is not
a wise move.
A lot of people were watching,
including some in law enforcement
who had been looking for him.
It turns out that he was wanted in multiple states for
a variety of offenses.
[narrator] He's a person of interest in Florida
for a 2019 carjacking
and two armed robberies.
He also has an outstanding warrant in New Jersey for
car burglary.
If you did something and the police issue a warrant for your
arrest, just because it was a few years ago, it doesn't,
like, expire.
They're still looking for you, and that's exactly what
happened here.
[narrator] Some of Bad Bunny's fans argue that his past shouldn't matter
because now he's a hero.
Others blast him for hiding from the law.
There are people who are asking, is he a hero or did
he actually turn out to be a bad guy?
He stepped in to protect a woman.
That is a great thing.
[narrator] Realizing he has dug himself into a precarious hole,
McDonald goes on the lam.
It works for nine months until police...
Holly Bristow joining us live here.
[narrator] ...and the news catch up to him in January, 2020.
Bad Bunny was arrested, accused of, well,
being a bad bunny
for leaving the scene of a crash.
[narrator] It happens near Orlando,
after McDonald loses control of a motorcycle, slams into
someone's carport, then flees.
Police find him less than a mile away, still dressed in
his favorite outfit, which they promptly order him
to take off.
[reporter] As he stands up, his bunny suit falls down,
and there's Antoine McDonald, in his underwear.
Not only now has the law caught up with him, but he also has to
shed his bunny identity that he has clung to
for all this time.
He's forced to take off the bunny costume and to leave
the bunny behind forever.
[narrator] Once in custody, McDonald seems annoyed that the officers
don't know who he is.
Clearly this bunny is delusional.
He thinks he's famous.
He thinks he is untouchable because he intervened in
one fight.
[narrator] He's currently behind bars in Florida awaiting sentencing,
and given that his bunny antics landed him in jail,
his heroics backfired badly.
[Campo] Knowing that police are looking for him.
Maybe he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
-Hey, he's funny. -I got it all.