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♪ bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha want, whatcha want... ♪ - Stop! Get on the ground.
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ when Sheriff John Brown come for you? ♪
Taser! Taser! Taser!
- Ow! Ow! - ♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha gonna do ♪ - They're running.
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
Announcer: Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Radio: Southbound lane headed toward Central.
Headed toward Central.
Radio: Black male, black shirt with blue shorts.
Tattoos on the neck and arms.
We got a... Also on a traffic stop on the interstate,
somebody take off running from them.
They're running southbound on the interstate right now.
He may be in the truck yard right there at forest.
Is that-- Okay, that must have been where he ran.
Truck yard up ahead over the hill.
Responding units, begin forming a perimeter.
Make sure a bill's been notified.
Yup.
Hey, where'd you see him run to, home?
I didn't see him.
Were y'all right behind him?
I just got down here. I went right behind him.
They say he ran back here.
So, he's probably still in the woodland.
Okay.
- On the other side of this fence, right? - He's probably over there.
No, no, no. Where's the last place you saw him?
I didn't see him. Rodney saw him across there.
But on the other side of the fence, not on this side.
They got him, they got him!
He's over here in the back side.
Who's got a taser?
- I got a taser. - I have a taser.
(Officers shouting)
Where is he?
(Glass breaking)
Window's open, we're gonna tase him.
Come out or I'm gonna tase you! Get out or I'm gonna tase you!
- Out now! - Put your hands up!
Unlock it, unlock it!
Get the kid. Get in the door.
All right.
Okay, watch your hand.
Stay down! Stay down!
We're already giving him a traffic.
He had a coat over his head, but I saw his eyeballs sticking out.
You got him?
That's him.
Why'd you run?
- Hmm? - Why'd you run?
- Huh? - Why did you run?
I ran because they started attacking me and I didn't know what to do.
In the car. Put him in the car.
Let's walk. Come on.
Search him good.
- I don't have anything on me. - Yeah, okay.
All this that you've started...
I don't have anything on me.
Okay, that's fine and well, but we're still gonna check.
Why did you run, man?
- Huh? - Why did you run?
Because they started attacking me!
What do you mean they started attacking you?
Yeah, he's got them here, here, here, here.
See? This is what happened. They attacked me.
Who attacked you?
- 'Cause you were resisting arrest. - The two officers--
No, I did not. I did not run
- at first. - Oh, you didn't?
At first, no. I did not run at first.
So, the officers just picked you out and started attacking you?
He threw me on the car and started choking me.
Yeah, okay. You do realize we have cameras, right?
- Yes. - Okay. Just making sure
we're clear on that.
Jaekwon, why did you run?
I ran because when I was getting restrained,
I was asking a question and I started being choked.
Do you know why they stopped you?
They stopped me 'cause they say I was speeding.
Okay.
And why did you-- So, you ran because they started choking you?
Yes. They started choking me
and I was asking why they're choking me,
like, "Why you trying to, like, overly restrain me?"
- Was it because you were trying to get away from them? - I was not moving at first.
So, you ran across six--
- eight lanes on the highway... - Yes.
You jumped over, you ran through the woods...
- Yes. - Jumped over a fence,
you hid in this truck,
did you think you were going to get away?
I wasn't-- I mean, it wasn't the point of getting away.
It was the point of just getting my safety first.
Okay, so when he asked you to get out of the car upon initial traffic stop,
- did you resist to get out of the car? - No...
All right, so you stood out the car,
and he just started choking you for no apparent reason?
No, I got out the car, when I got out the car,
he asked me to come to the vehicle.
Then he came up behind me, and he's like, "You're bring restrained."
And I was like, "Well, what for?"
And that's when I asked, "What for?".
When I asked what for,
they threw me on the car and started choking me.
So, you pulled away from him to ask what for?
No, I didn't really pull away from him. I looked back at them.
I never pulled away from the officer at all
until I started being choked.
- All right. Well, we're gonna go look at the dashcam. - Okay.
Let's take a look.
Pull it up real quick.
Okay.
See the initial traffic stop here.
He doesn't even know his own middle name.
Okay, he begins to resist, not putting his hands behind his back.
Turn around!
- Turn around! - He actually elbows you right here.
- Turn around! - Why y'all choking me?!
Turn around and give me your arms!
Give me your hands! Give me your hands!
Well, I mean, he's resisting the whole way.
So, that's kind of strange that he's saying that you... you guys assaulted him.
Give me your hands! Give it!
- Give it-- Your hands! - Hold on!
You're gonna tase me, sir?
Give me your hands, now!
Give me your hands!
He kicked Officer Brodnik.
He gets tasered again.
I mean, it doesn't look like no police brutality to me right here.
So, thank god that we have these dashcams.
- Brodnik, you the one that stopped him? - Yeah.
I was doing speed enforcement northbound on I-75,
and I checked the speed of this vehicle to be moving at 96 miles an hour.
It's 65 through here.
So, he's going pretty fast.
I get up there, ask for his driver's license,
gives me a paper license.
Look at the picture, it didn't look like him.
At that point, I became convinced that he was not the person on the ID
and at the same time, my partner came to the same exact conclusion.
Tried to get him into custody,
he began to physically resist.
I attempted to tase him twice,
all the darts were ineffective.
He then went across all these lanes of traffic, jumped the median wall,
went across the other five lanes, up the embankment,
and into the truck yard.
So, he's gonna get charged with felony obstruction
on top of the other charges that we got on him for traffic.
And he's got several issues out of Fulton County for domestic violence and whatnot.
- Okay. - Good deal.
I believe staying physically fit helps out quite a bit in this job.
Because it can go from 0 to 60, you know, in just in the snap of a finger.
You want to be in good shape
and be able to do the things that you need to do right then and there.
I'm gonna be doing a traffic stop on this white SUV in front of us.
It doesn't have a rear license plate.
And is actually going to be taking off from us.
Gonna be going northbound on Macrum approaching Columbia Way.
It's a white Expedition, no rear license plate
is what we got now, but he's taking off.
Oh! He just went through the street closing sign.
Columbia Way, now going eastbound on Columbia from Columbia Way.
(Radio chatter)
My speed's up to 80 now.
He's got about a three block head start on me.
So, we got spikes.
We got some spikes on the vehicle.
Sounds like they got a good spike on it.
We got a couple other vehicles still trying to catch up to it.
Person 1 on radio: Let's do Columbia and interstate place.
Let's get that locked down.
Person 2 on radio: Okay, Columbia and interstate, locked down.
We're gonna stop here.
(Train horn blows)
Go ahead and just park right there. Nobody's back there.
He's supposedly in here.
But just to be on the safe side, if there's no car right there, just hang tight there.
- All right. - Thanks, guys.
All right, so we got a perimeter set up.
534, all's I got for a description on the driver
is a white male, about mid 20's, dark hair.
It's actually two people. It's a male and a female.
Come here, ma'am. What are you doing?
Do you live here?
- No. - Okay.
I was-- I was looking for somebody.
Come here.
534, did anybody see the female get out?
'Cause I just had a female walk out behind a house
and says she's just looking for somebody.
- Were you in the white Expedition? Radio: - I'd hold onto her...
- Have a seat. - ...because they're saying that
we got a witness here who thinks he might be able to ID her.
534, I think this is gonna be her.
She's breathing kinda heavy.
Go and have a seat.
- (Text message alert sounds) - Ma'am, get off your phone.
Who's Dekoa? Huh?
I accidentally called him.
- Is that the guy in the white Expedition? Radio: - If you wanna hustle
up here and take a look at this other guy they got and make sure he's your guy...
Copy that. Lewis, make sure she doesn't leave.
And it sounds like they just went in custody with the driver half.
Person 1 on radio: Code Four, you can have the air.
Person 2 on radio: Nothing. No more outstanding.
That's gonna be him.
Hey, what's up?
Uh, do you just wanna tell me what was going on?
Well, my brother was driving it,
and I took off out of the car because I knew I had a warrant.
When did you take off out of the car?
As soon as he pulled over.
- Where at? - Right over there.
Okay. So, you're saying your brother was driving?
Yes, there was three people in the car.
Three people in the car. And what was your brother's name?
I don't know.
- You don't know what your brother's name is? - I know his name,
- but I'm just not gonna say it. - You just don't wanna tell me what it is?
I'm not a snitch, so I'm not gonna say his name.
- Okay, well-- - Pretty sure you guys probably found him already.
Okay. What about the road closure sign? You guys blasted right through that.
What were you telling your brother?
All I know is I fucking grabbed on to the fucking back and I squeezed.
Okay. What did you tell your brother when he kept driving down the road?
Told him "Stop, stop!" Yelling "Stop" the whole time.
He didn't stop the whole time?
Yeah, because I was gonna hop out and run. I'll be honest.
Okay. Go and have a seat for me.
- These double locked and stuff? - Yeah.
- You cool with having him in the back of your car? - Yeah.
Just look away for me.
Get you seatbelted in here.
All right, sit tight.
- I appreciate it. - Yeah, of course, man.
All right, ma'am, how do you know him?
He's my kids' dad. And we're not getting along.
Okay. So then I get behind you because he doesn't have a license plate on his vehicle,
what happens then?
He said that you was getting the car in front,
- and I was like-- - He was what?
He was-- that you were getting the car in the front of us.
And I was like, "Stop." I was like, "He's getting us."
I was like, "You need to stop." And he was like, "No."
And he just took off.
I was like, "No, you need to let me out."
And what was he saying when you said he needed to let you out?
"Shut up, shut up, shut up." I was like, "Let me out."
He was like, "No, you're not getting out of the car."
- And he locked the door. - Where at?
Uh, right when we hit the corner.
- Right at, uh, still in St. Johns? - Mm-hmm.
- Right there at, I believe it was Macrum? - Yeah.
Oh, 'cause he started to slow down in front of the truck, right?
- Yeah. - And you both got out, and he locked the doors.
And he locked the doors and rolled up the windows.
- Okay. - And I was like--
And this whole-- and still during this time it's just you and him driving, right?
You're in the front passenger seat, he's driving, right?
- Yeah. - Okay. And nobody else in the vehicle?
- No. Just two. - Okay.
- Okay. Thank you, ma'am. - Yup.
All right, Tyler, Rita told me that you were the one driving.
It's only been you and her in the Expedition all day.
- What do you got to say for that? - No comment.
I'm not gonna go against her. If that's what she's saying, then that's what she said--
Because that's what happened.
No, because that's my kids' mom. I'm not gonna put her in a situation--
Okay. Well, she had no problem putting you in that situation.
Well, at the end of the day, then,
if that's her business, we're two different people.
Well, this is your chance to talk,
because we're borderline on a kidnap right now.
She's wanting to get out of the car, you're telling her no.
She's then screaming and crying wanting to get out.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Well, you haven't been honest with me yet,
so why would I believe you're gonna be honest with me now?
- I'mma be honest with you. - So, are you really gonna be honest with me?
Or are you gonna continue to lie?
Because you haven't told a single true story since we've been sitting here.
- So, are you gonna tell me the truth? - Yes.
The true story is, is--
Okay, then be honest with me and tell me the truth.
'Cause if you start to lie, I'm gonna shut this door,
and this conversation's over with. Do you understand me?
- Yup. - Okay.
- Truth is is yeah, I was driving. Okay? - Okay.
Okay, she was saying "Stop, stop."
But I did not lock doors, I did not push her behind or whatsoever.
And, uh...
you know, and, um,
maybe she was scared too, because our kids are in DHS.
- Okay. - So, that's why she probably, you know, did what she did.
And honestly, the only reason I ran is because I have a warrant.
- I don't wanna go to jail. - Okay.
So, you got the felony warrant, your parole violation for robbery,
the elude, obviously, 'cause you took off in the car,
criminal mischief 1 for tearing up the ODOT signs,
reckless driving, and then reckless endangerment
because she was in the vehicle with you.
- Yeah. - But I gotta talk to my sergeants
- and some other officers. - Is there any way I could talk to her by any chance?
We have to-- We'll wait on that and we'll see.
- All right? - Okay, thank you.
All right, hang tight.
All right, ma'am.
- You don't wanna talk to him? - No.
No.
- I'm sorry. - No!
- Rita, please. - No.
Stephanie has my money. I'm gonna-- Go collect it. 500 bucks.
(Crying)
I don't want nothing to do with you.
Please, take care of my kids. I'll see you soon.
I love you, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to, Rita.
I said the truth.
All right, partner, she doesn't want to talk to you. Can you blame her?
- No, I can't. - All right.
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(Radio chatter)
We are responding right now to assist an officer who's on scene with a fight
and has probably one male detained.
- Is he the one here? - Yeah, it's the fancy guy that was parked right there.
There was a gentleman getting into it.
He was also pointed out, but I couldn't talk to two people at once.
Okay. Let's find out what's going on here.
So, I'm just explaining this--
You don't have permission to search my vehicle.
Hey, I'm not searching the car. Step back. Step back.
I'm not searching it, I'm looking in it.
- Okay. - And don't try to tell me what I need to do.
- Okay. - Stay right there and don't get up.
23-17, is there a K9 available?
Is there something in the car we need to know about?
No, there's nothing, but he doesn't have permission to search my vehicle.
But I am on probation, it's true.
Okay, how 'bout this, I'm gonna start getting all your info, okay?
All right.
I did see a fight,
but it was not me that was in it.
- I did not assault anybody. - Okay.
I was not drinking any substance-- any alcohol.
- Okay. - I'm not drinking, you can breathalyze me.
- Okay. - I'm-- I am clean.
I am on probation, and I don't wanna get in trouble.
If you had been straight up with me right from the beginning,
been like, "Oh, yeah, I saw a fight and there was this, that, and the other,"
- that would have gone a lot better, right? - Okay.
Right now, you're acting weird.
I'm just being straight with you, man, you're acting weird.
I'm coming up to you, I'm trying to talk to you,
you're telling me, telling us you don't want us looking in your car.
So, we're in a little bit of a pickle here.
Hear what I'm saying?
What's going on with your car?
There's nothing going on, I'm sorry.
I'm just-- I'm very touchative-- touchy to police.
I think you guys show very little restraint
and I don't trust you, I'm sorry.
Too little restraint how?
That's just the truth.
- What have I done to prove to you-- - Because, I mean--
That I'm showing no restraint. I don't even know what that statement means.
I think the police routinely use excessive force.
You've got guns on you. You intend on shooting people?
Of course I have guns, I'm a police officer.
That's the first thing you do is they-- I'm gonna shoot people.
And it's constantly about force.
Where did you come up with that?
Where did I come up with that?
Did I come here and pull my gun on you?
No, but as soon as I go, you know, "Sir, you don't have permission to search,"
"Sit down! I'm doing my job!
Get out of the fucking way, you ignorant--" I'm saying--
Because all you got to do is relax.
You don't have to get this paranoia that we're gonna come here and use weapons on you.
That's ridiculous. If you did nothing wrong, just be chill.
What was the concern when I walked over to the door?
- I don't really know. - You freaked out.
No, you're just trying to gain my confidence
to con me into giving up something,
- but I've got nothing to give up! - Okay.
Sir, I-- How about this,
can I please give you the names of the perpetrators that I saw do it?
Did you see somebody get hurt?
Did you see somebody get punched?
I did see somebody get punched.
I know these-- they're co-workers.
So now it makes a little more sense.
You didn't want to get caught up in the whole thing,
you know these, these are friends of yours.
- I don't want to get involved in this with them. - Okay.
All right. So, I'm gonna ask you the question
because there is a drug dog coming here,
and the dog'll run around this car.
If the dog alerts, that's what I'm concerned about right now.
That's not gonna be an issue, right? That's not gonna happen?
- No, sir. - Okay.
If the dog doesn't alert, we're gonna leave.
It'll be that simple.
Okay?
(Dog barking)
Nathan...
the dog alerted, that gives us probably cause to get in that car.
Just tell me, man.
Is it something small? A little weed?
Is that what it is? Just talk to me.
I don't wanna incriminate myself.
Okay, so you're telling me, just basically what you're saying is
there's either a pipe in there, or there's a little bit of marijuana.
Okay, if you tell me right now, and it's just some personal use,
here's what we'll do with it.
We won't take you to jail.
If you tell me straight up what it is,
then we'll just deal with that.
Which might mean a ticket.
There is a pipe in there.
Is that it?
- That's it. - Where's it gonna be?
It's in my trunk.
- In the very back? - That's right.
- All right. - You guys are real jerks.
I'm not concerned that you like me or not, Nathan,
I'm still being fair to you.
All you had to do was say, "Hey, yeah, I saw a fight, these guys were doing this."
She would've asked you a few questions and probably left.
You went into panic mode.
Just going through the other containers in the vehicle.
Little bit of marijuana.
Paraphernalia, some pipes.
Hey, Nathan?
Okay, so this is the pelican case you were telling me about.
- That's correct. - Okay.
What do you got to say about that?
That looks more like that gets used on a regular basis
to me than just every now and again, is that right?
Um, on weekends.
So, it's a party kit.
- Sort of. - Okay.
Should I just carry it around in a bag instead?
No, a party in a box right there.
I like it.
But I don't like it.
I like the fact that you're organized.
I think you would appreciate the tactical pelican case, but...
(Chuckles) I do like that.
You know, I was raised a redneck, too, you know.
I ain't just a total pussy liberal from Oregon.
You know, I got a .30-06, and I'm--
you know, a man!
I'm a free American!
And you're arresting me for doing something that the founding fathers used to do.
- This is wrong. - Founding fathers were smoking weed?
They were growing weed.
And there's good evidence that Thomas Jefferson did use weed as well.
But, I mean,
the fact is you're taking something that's in there
that doesn't hurt anybody.
I mean, how is this not totalitarianism?
You know?
Nathan...
is marijuana legal in Idaho?
- No, it's not. It should be. - Okay.
Am I upholding the law by taking that away from you?
You're upholding an injust law.
Okay.
All right, we're being cool with you. We're gonna give you a ticket
and you get to go free tonight.
But all that stuff you have right there
is something that you're gonna have to address with your probation officer.
Work it out there.
How is that right? So I have a little bit of fun on the weekends,
and it stays with me forever?
That's not right.
Then don't have fun on the weekends.
Stick with just alcohol.
- Go ahead and stand up. - So, what? I can beat other people up?
- 'Cause alcohol is terrible! - Whoa.
I hope one day I can do what I want to do in my free time
and be within the law too,
and then we can get along.
You know what? I can help you with that.
You're just in the wrong state.
I know I am. I'm trying so hard to get out.
If you wanna smoke weed, you're gonna need to move to a state where it's legal.
I'm trying.
And that's a decision that Idaho has made,
to stand firm on that.
- Whether you like it or not, okay? - All right.
Officer over radio: 132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Dispatcher: Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.
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