Mexican Raid on el Chapo --raid video

VMI77 · #1

Worth noting:

Helmet cam appears to be on El Jefe.
We don’t actually see the narcos; we just hear them firing.
This video gives the layman some idea of the chaos, sound and fury, smoke, fog and confusion that’s attendant on CQB, and just how destructive it is of the property.
The Mexican Naval SOF team moves methodically and deliberately. They’re not going for speed, surprise and violence of action. (At the door, maybe: “¡Vamos, vamos, vamos! ¡Arriba!” but later you can hea El Jefe telling them to take it easy. At several points they ask the narcos for surrender; this is at first met with fusillades.
It looks like they hit from multiple entrances at once.
Explosive breaching would have gotten them in faster.
They’re generally well-equipped and professional. Although firing through curtains at, what exactly? didn’t strike us as prudent.
Medics get the wounded out of the line of fire and begin treating them immediately. Hmm, wonder if any of those wounded were friendly fire? None, maybe; the hostiles were certainly shooting enough.
At the end, a woman inside the target building says that there are 6 persons inside (“Seis hombres.” She’s very insistent, and the naval personnel keep asking. This is probably because their total bag was five persons: two men, unhurt; two women, unhurt; and one man, stone cold graveyard dead.