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On April 11, 1986 in Miami, Florida a FBI Unit 55 is sitting across from a bank on South Dixie Highway, FBI agents Jake Hanlon and Ed Mireles are drinking coffee and shooting the breeze. Nothing different from hundreds of other stakeouts. “Attention All Units!” breaks out over the radio. The ensuing gunfight between 8 FBI agents and 2 heavily armed and military trained robbery suspects would dramatically change, not only the FBI, but all of law enforcement.

Ed Mireles joins the show to share his story from this historical date.

Resources Discussed: 

• Mireles, Edmundo and Elizabeth, FBI Miami Firefight: Five Minutes that Changed the Bureau, Edmundo Mireles, 2018
• Guinn, Jeff, Going Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, Simon and Schuster, 2009
• https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst
• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-north-hollywood-shootout-revisited-20170223-htmlstory.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html
  
  

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