The Wallbanger is a new $1,500 device used by law enforcement officers to breach doors. It also serves as a flash-bang device to distract criminals. It's named after the man who invented it, Sandy Wall.
"This device allows them distance from the door, so they can still get in be effective and accomplish their mission and not be as close to danger," Wall said.
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team is testing the device and could purchase a few if approved by administrators and county commissioners.
Wall worked in law enforcement at the Houston Police Department for years. He remembers a time in the 80s when there wasn't much training for police officers and much less equipment to help them do their job.
Wall said the Wallbanger is safer than using the traditional flash bang grenede.
"What we try to avoid is that distraction device leaving the officers' hands going through a door or through a window and landing somewhere where it's not intended to be and causing either undue danger or harm to someone that's inside the objective," said Wall.
