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Shooting Update: Video Captures Frenzied Evacuation of Arizona Mall

Jan. 5, 2011 5:49pm Meredith Jessup

As shots erupted at the Chandler Mall in an exchange between wanted fugitive Daniel Perez and undercover police, alarms rang out inside the Arizona mall, warning shoppers to evacuate the premises.

Footage submitted to CNN captured the moments of panic at the scene as eyewitness Scott Cahill describes what happened:

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229Mick
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:50pm
Yea, doesn’t look frenzied to me. Looks like a rational exit.

Though the comment that ‘it didn’t look like anyone was shooting because people weren’t running’ is kind of silly. Look at the shooting at the school board meeting a few weeks ago. Everybody sat calmly in denial of what they were seeing as a guy spray painted a big V on the wall and THEN drew a gun. If people didn’t lock up and pretend it wasn’t happening, they could have taken him down before he even got the gun out.

Moral of the story? Treat crazies like crazies.

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Sutter Buttes
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:12pm
I have a CCW Permit and I don’t carry in Federal Buildings or any Courthouse. Other Gun Free Zones don’t exist as far as I’m concerned. I have taken numerous courses in the use of deadly force in the course of obtaining and renewing my Permit. I’ve been shooting for 60+ years and am a Vietnam Veteran. I know how to use firearms safely and legally. For me not to carry in a ripe terrorist target like a shopping mall would be worse than irresponsible.

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lana720
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:03pm
My girlfriend was in the Mall with her two little girls – had an accident on the way home, too. Not a good day!
Always, Carry!

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TheMarine
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:14pm
I am a law-abiding citizen, but I forget to remove my firearm 100% of the time while in firearm-free zones. Oops.

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- lana720
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:04pm
  I sometimes do the same – like only going thru the door that doesn’t have the sign with the red line thru the life-saving implement!
  
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benrush
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:17am
Look out people —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxkcHkWPWg

the revolutionaries are here

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LadyIzShy
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:28am
gonna get my carry permit. but was gonna get it anyway..this just makes me double down on my efforts to save the money

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davethe10r
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:15am
My brother-in-law was the officer who traded gunfire with this scumbag. Since he’s an undercover officer, he wasn’t wearing his vest at the time. We’re just glad he’s safe tonight…

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SilentReader
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:28pm
After the shooting in a mall just 40 miles from where I live I’m always a little on edge when I go into a mall these days. They had extra security in the malls shortly after the incident however it didn’t make me feel any safer because often you’d see security eating at the food court.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251864,00.html

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TheBees
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:27pm
@IRONMAN, The Better to be judged philosophy is what I live by also! When someone asks me why I carry a gun, I simply reply “because a cop’s too heavy”!

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Ken
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:26pm
The left is beginning their war to take over by force.

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d35player
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:44pm
Chaos????

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flagbearer
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:31pm
My husband and I took a firemarms class this past fall. I’ve always hated guns, but I really enjoyed the class and learned a lot. I hope all patriots take one like it. We have a certificate to get a license to carry a concealed weapon. We haven’t purchased the licenses yet, but plan to do so soon. I doubt if we ever carry a gun, but in case we decide to do so, we’ll be “legit.” Stay safe, patriots, and if you haven’t taken a gun class, please do so.

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Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:32pm
This iReporter idea of running to safety is getting himself locked into a Fredericks of Hollywood lingerie store. Every femme fatale knows there’s arsonal in there. Smart reporter.

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HWWolf
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:18pm
I stopped going to shops that are firearm free zones and have left notes for the managers/owners why i will never put my life in their stupid signs hands oh wait signs don’t have hands

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- NE Cowboy
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:30pm
  I too have done the same thing. Believe it or not, they don’t care as they think theres going to be someone else walking in behind you. That’s fine with me. If you don’t care about your customers safety by disarming them, you DON’T need my money!!!
  
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turgon
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:06pm
Who knew Malls had alarm systems like that. Learn something new everyday. I guess the fact that we don’t know about them is a good thing, they rarely get used.

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mrmikejohnson
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:21pm
They just passed a law in Arizona last year where you don’t even need a permit or classes to have a concealed gun. I’m surprised a regular citizen didn’t blast this Mexican.

I wish Glenn would cover more of the problems with illegal immigrants. It’s an issue that’s totally ignore or spun by the mainstream media. In the last year, I’ve been robbed by illegal immigrants and had them fill up an American flag with trash and throw it on my property. The media won’t report on any story that portrays illegals as anyone other than nice people who are just coming here for work and opportunity. Completely ignored is the fact that 2/3′s of the Mexican people don’t even acknowledge the United States’ right to exist.

Glenn, if you want to lead, you need to step up your focus on the problem of illegal immigration. IT’S A BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA’S FUTURE THAN PROGRESSIVES OR THE DEBT!!!

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psycodad36
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:13pm
@first last
no ,i was playing on the guest before me.don’t really care.he should be dead.legal or not

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OreSota
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:02pm
How can you say that evacuation did not look frenzied!?!?!
Some of those people were moving quite briskly!!

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- Eblaze44
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:26pm
  briskly doesn’t equal “frenzied”.
  
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- OreSota
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:54pm
  Exactly my point EBLAZE44!
  Just more media hype!
  
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poverty.sucks
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:44pm
January 4, 2011 Nancy Pelosi endorsed violence.

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- PatriotDaze
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:52pm
  doesn’t everyone. I mean, if students in NE and shoppers in AZ only had access to rocket launchers, violent criminals and illegals alike would think twice…n’est-ce pas?
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:58pm
  @daze. I’d like to strap you to a rocket launcher, and launch your progressive ass into space!
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:01pm
  …of course I am not serious about that, no sir, you have a right to your opinion, just like I do I guess! It just irks me a bit to see how progressives want to strip us of rights in the name of safety…there is a good ‘ol saying…”
  
  To the safety NAZI’s, your right to control my safety, ends at your front door”.
  
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sWampy
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:32pm
We really need to do something about the devaluation of human life that the left has promoted through public schools for the last 50 years, or this will be as common in the US as it is in the Mideast.

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- firstlast
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:54pm
  I had no idea that was being promoted in public schools
  
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- PatriotDaze
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:55pm
  The left? I think the right has certainly devalued plenty of human lives in Iraq (x2) and Afghanistan. Not to mention, of course, that all of those valueless public school progeny have access to virtually any firearm of their choosing…just short of an M-60. Yeah…..it’s the lefties. ALWAYS the lefties.
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:51pm
  @daze still in the haze, yeah we started the wars in the middle east [sarc], ya the right has devalued our morals, you know we support abortion [sarc], and most conservatives have a bong attached to us permanently too [sarc]. You are too much my friend, too much! When are you gonna take the blinders off and stop chugging the kool-aid?
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:55pm
  As to public schools, yep the left has certainly devalued our education with revisionist history, and the plan is to dumb down our society, so we become more dependent on our dear benevolent leaders. Just read and do research on the beginnings of the Dept of Education and the Rockerfeller’s, Carneage’s, it’s all documented for you to see, if you so choose! Hell, why do you think a bunch of our teens wear Che Guavera T-shirts, because the liberal communist left promotes them in class, and people in the White House, “…”look to Chairman Mao and Mother Theresa for inspiration..”, I kinda want to vomit now, excuse me.
  
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Rn mom
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:12pm
That evacuation did not look frenzied.

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- chfields62
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:39pm
  Looked pretty calm to me……Time to get a carry permit………………..
  
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- AZBabe
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:01pm
  Of course it wasn’t frenzied…all of us here have firearms and know how to use them. We no longer need a permit to carry concealed either…
  
  This was nothing more than a spin being put on this story by CNN. The suspect is in custody and no one was hurt.
  
  All is well in Arizona tonight.
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:47pm
  LOL and he hid behind a wall [such balls], and to think the paper mache walls would protect him from any bullets, a moron to boot!
  
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psycodad36
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:09pm
make firearms illegal,and only illegals will have them

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- firstlast
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:51pm
  really? now all criminals in America are “illegals”? Thats the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. Im no illegal but i would definately be illegally possessing a firearm! So I guess that makes me an illegal afterall…
  
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- snuss
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:09pm
  Wetbacks get all the guns they want imported from Germany to Mexican police that sell them to drug cartels that also made up of Mexican police.
  
  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14742625,00.html&
  
  Luckily Arizona is a free state where citizens can LEGALLY carry concealed firearms.
  
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- NE Cowboy
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:44pm
  Is that you Mayor Daley!!???? If you even had a CLUE, you would know the states with the toughest gun laws(read restrictions) have the HIGHEST CRIME levels, and that’s a FACT loser.
  
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- Jedi Master
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:33pm
  He didn’t mean illegal as in illegal aliens. He meant that if you disarm everyone, then (by definition) you would be carrying a gun illegally.
  
  There is an old saying, “I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.”
  
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BringbackCoolidge
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:07pm
@IRONMAN,

It certainly does. These days, this kind of thing can happen anywhere.

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mcpbob
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:05pm
Illegal alien i would bet

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- firstlast
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:44pm
  Of course… because most illegal immigrants want to draw attention to themselves.
  
  I’m from San Diego where illegal Mexican immigrants HIDE, unless they’re cleaning houses, landscaping, selling produce on the corner, or going to Mass on Sundays. They were never people we FEARED growing up; the media does that all on its own.
  
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- walkwithme1966
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:49pm
  I sort of hope not – there is so much unrest with that problem – we don’t need anymore to set off a powder key! http://wp.me/pYLB7-uK
  
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- greeneyesx
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:54pm
  I wonder how it is that there is such a huge illegal population in our prison system if they are all so busy hiding. Are they able to comit crimes from the holes they are hiding in?
  
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Ironmaan
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:05pm
This video makes a great case for carrying a firearm, which I do virtually everywhere I go these days.
http://guerillatics.com

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- AZBabe
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:02pm
  We all carry firearms here and know how to use them…the evacuation was not frenzied and the suspect was caught. This is nothing more than spin from CNN.
  
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- GEW
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:21pm
  Ah come on would you of watched video had it said “Captures Calm Evacuation of Arizona Mall”
  Makes a case for women to realize they need to learn how to shoot and they also should carry firearm. My husband carries, and I am going to get license too.
  
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- NE Cowboy
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:31pm
  The only problem is MOST malls have a NO FIREARMS policy! That’s why they call them “killing zones” in LEO circles. Ever notice where MOST shootings take place? Schools, Malls, and Post Offices are known “Firearm Free” zones where someone who is actually legally LICENSED to carry a firearm, can’t!! I carry everywhere I go as me and my family are NOT going to be a victims. Until we change the laws, the bad guys will no where to go to kill the maximum amount of victims!
  
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- mrprof
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:44pm
  NE Cowboy, you’re right. Firearm free zones are a menace to peaceable folks (think Ft. Hood shooting) and the bad guys take advantage of this. That’s why I like the phrase: where one is not allowed to be armed, is is best to be armed. ;-)
  
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- No1YaKnow
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:55pm
  We do carry them here. We hope we never have to use them, but we know how to use them.
  
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- Ironmaan
  Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:44pm
  Yes most malls and many other places have no carry policies, but policies are not laws. Even if they were laws, it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
  http://guerillatics.com
  
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- Wiz001
  Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:10am
  I agreetoo am in Az. and my Glock has a new motto stolen from American Express, “Never Leave Home Without IT!!” I ALWAYS recommends that ANYONE who thinks they want to carry MUST take the training class.. If nothing else for your own protection on what the laws will allow. And yes the little sign at the door is a personal establishment policy (and can be enforced if they want) and I believe it is more for Lawsuites than anything. If you are a civil person and do not flash it around how do they know you are carring or not? I NEVER give my hold card away. Most people would never guess and I will not tell them.
  an armed society is a polite society
  
  God Bless Our Troops
  
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