Mike Colón Media

When retired NYPD Emergency Service Unit Officer Carl Russo picked up an animal job in Brooklyn, he didn’t expect to walk into a scene out of a horror movie — blood on the walls, a man cornered with a steak knife, and a 15-foot Burmese python lunging to attack.

With his ESU partners Kenny Richardson and Chris Ryan, Russo jumped into action. The massive snake wrapped itself around one officer’s leg before Russo made a split-second decision — grabbing an axe and ending the threat to save the man’s life.

Only afterward did they learn the unbelievable backstory: the snake had turned on its owner during feeding time. It took two garbage pails to remove the animal from the scene.

This unforgettable story, told in Volume [insert number if you wish] of The E-Men: Inside the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit on Mic’d In New Haven, captures the chaos, danger, and unpredictability that ESU officers face on any given day.

Outro Song: Metallica – King Nothing (1996)

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