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♪ whatcha want, whatcha want
-Sheriff's office, stop! -♪ whatcha gonna do
-Come on, man. We gotta go.
-♪ when sheriff john brown come for you ♪
-Honestly, whose dope was it? -Not mine.
-♪ bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do ♪
-Don't do it!
♪ bad boys, bad boys
-What am I going to jail for?
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
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All suspects are innocent until proven guilty
In a court of law.
-So when I retired outta the air force,
I found one of the most difficult things to do
Was hang up the uniform for the last time.
So I wanted to continue my service in some way.
And I grew up here. My kids grew up here.
I met my wife here, 'cause this is my home.
So I'm really invested in it.
And I kind of look at it as a way as,
What better way to give back to community than
Law enforcement where you live and work.
The car in front of us
Just exited the service station parking lot without
Making a complete stop before it entered the roadway.
We're gonna stop it and find out what's going on with it.
Hello. -Woman: Hello.
-I stopped your vehicle since you exited
The tom thumb parking lot, you didn't come a complete stop
Before you went on to east bay boulevard.
Do you have your license, registration, proof of insurance for me?
-This is ridiculous, I don't know what this is about.
No, officer--
-Officer: Hey listen, do you guys have any
Marijuana, hemp in the vehicle?
-L-y-n-n, lynn. -I do not, no sir.
-Okay, no hemp in the vehicle?
-Gas, bro. -It's not.
-Medical marijuana? -No hemp in the vehicle?
-It's gas, you don't smell the gas in here?
We're mowing grass.
-No, I smell marijuana.
-Oh, I don't smell no marijuana.
-This would be for jessica's.
-Okay, who's miss jessica to you?
-She's just a friend of mine. -Okay, she's a friend of yours?
-Yeah.
-And she just let you borrow the vehicle?
-Yes, sir, I use it on saturdays to do my lawns.
-Okay, all right, so you do lawn care?
-Yes, sir. -Outta the vehicle, okay.
-Man: My dad said no. -What's that?
-Man: Not without jessica here.
You gotta get jessica here to search the vehicle.
-I'm gonna search in just a moment, as soon as my partner gets here.
'cause I smell, plain smell of marijuana,
And you told me there's no marijuana hemp in the vehicle.
-There's probably marijuana in here,
She has a medical card.
-Officer: And that's why I'm gonna search it.
-That's what I'm saying--
-Officer: Do you have a medical card?
-Do I? -Do you have a medical card?
-I'm not smoking marijuana.
-Okay, well, guess what, I smell it, so we're searching it.
Go ahead. -Man, (beep) you, dude.
-Just calm down.
-Nah, this is bull(beep), dude.
I'm (beep) tired of these (beep), dude.
Being (beep) harassed by (beep) county (beep) jail.
-Hey, stay in the vehicle!
-Come on, boy, come on, boy.
-215, gimme traffic, got one running.
Stop resisting.
-I'm not resisting, sir.
-Stop resisting!
-Stop pulling my hands back.
My hands are behind my back.
My hands are behind in my back!
-Cuff him up, here, cuff him.
-There's no weed in the car, sir.
-Give me your other hand!
-You knew I had weed, dude.
You already got a call in.
-Don't keep spitting.
-Dude, you already got the call, man.
You're choking me, sir.
I think you broke my arm, sir.
-If you can feel your fingers it's-
-No, I can't feel them.
-Is this the only person?
-No, there's a driver.
-There is a driver still with the vehicle?
-Yeah.
-Well, what are you doing?
-I have a warrant outta holmes county.
-Okay.
-You already know who I am, 'cause you got the call, dude.
-I don't know who you are. -You set us up.
You just set us up.
-All right, stand up.
Watch out when you stand up, though, a limb above you.
-We'll get him secured in my car.
-Let me holler at you.
-Walk out here, we'll talk.
-She's pulling me one way, you're pulling me another way.
-I'm taking you this way.
-In this direction, so you don't fall, okay?
-Man: You're pulling me down.
-There's a puddle, sorry about this.
He got us dirty running into the woods so,
We ain't too concerned about that.
-Do you mind driving him back over here?
-Yeah, I'm gonna put all his stuff in a bag.
-Okay.
He ran, that was fun.
Okay, now, he's already told me over there
There's marijuana in the vehicle.
Do you know where it's at, in the vehicle?
-I have, no idea, sir.
-Okay, well he's, we're gonna search the vehicle.
-Okay.
As far as I, no, yes, that's a,
Go ahead, 'cause as far as I know,
There's nothing in that vehicle that I'm aware of.
-Just hold tight for one second.
Will you watch her real quick, lowell?
So this is the suspect's backpack,
He managed to drop when I tackled him.
So he's going to jail, so we're gonna go ahead
And search his property anyway.
But he kept shouting
That I knew he had marijuana on him,
And that's why he ran.
So, of course, I've never
Met this gentleman before in my life.
So, this is what was inside his backpack, right here.
He's got three decent size ziploc baggies full of marijuana.
I'm assuming that's why he took off running,
And grabbed his bag with him.
-Want to just do a warning with her or-
-Yeah, just, just a traffic warning for failed to stop.
So just give her for opposite direction lane,
And for failed stop. -Okay, I'll do that.
All right, sir, like I said, prior to pulling you over--
-I think you guys set me up, dude.
-Officer: I have no idea who you are, mister.
-I just picked that (beep) up 20 minutes ago.
I'm at the town dump, and you just happened to pull up.
I think I'm set up here, but I'm good, dude.
-Okay, I didn't just pick you out, you know, profile you.
-I didn't know I had a warrant either until just, just.
-Yeah, so, I mean, like I said, why,
Why did you choose to run?
I mean, were you just afraid of the marijuana?
Getting caught with it?
-Yeah, dude, panicked, dude.
-I, I understand. -What do you expect, man?
I'm working, I'm (beep) hot, I panicked, dude.
I just (beep) lost $450 outta this,
And I'm going to jail, dude, I'm, I,
I just ate a lot of (beep) just now, dude.
-Okay, so you, you bought all 450 grams just now from the,
Or $450 worth from tom thumb?
-No, I had a little bit of bag,
I had a little bag on me, sir.
-Okay, you had a little bag on you,
But you said you picked the rest of it up at tom thumb?
-Yeah, I just went in the bathroom,
And got it outta the trash can at the tom thumb.
-Somebody left in the trash can for you?
-Yeah, dude, the money's still up there
Unless they got it already. -Okay.
-She smelled marijuana in my bag.
She asked me if I had anything and I told her, no.
She said, "dude, I smell marijuana."
-Officer: What was your, what was your intentions
With buying that much marijuana?
-I said, I'm gonna get rid of it, dude.
I'm gonna, I mean, I ain't gonna lie to you, I flip it.
-Okay, you gonna break it down to flip it?
-Flip it, yeah. -Okay, all right.
You're gonna go for the possession of marijuana,
Which is a felony, 'cause it's over 20 grams.
Okay, I'm gonna give you the intent to distribute,
Since you told me you plan
On repackaging it and selling it, okay.
And I'm gonna get you for the resistance,
You ran from me, okay?
-Even though I'm being honest with you and I'm not-
-You're being honest with me and cooperative,
But that's why, man, listen.
-Can we, can we get rid of the repackaging, man?
Come on, man.
-So listen, what I'm, what I'm gonna do for you,
Because you're being cooperative with me, okay,
I'm not gonna jack you up and high bond you.
-I don't want a bond.
-Okay, we can talk about that in just a moment, okay?
No other questions for me? -No.
-All right, just hold tight.
All right, just hold tight with me, okay, watch your knee.
Okay, miss, I wanna give you a little piece of advice, okay?
You gotta be careful who you let in your vehicle, okay?
Eric, who you don't know very well,
Had a large amount of narcotics in his backpack, okay?
You could get caught up in something
You don't be caught up in.
And, again, this is just a traffic warning.
-Okay. -All right?
And if you don't have any questions for me,
You're free to go, ma'am, okay?
I appreciate your cooperation today, okay?
-Woman: Okay, thank you. -Officer: Drive safe.
-So I'm currently assigned to the gun crimes unit.
We get to work all kinds of cases.
We'll go to scenes of shootings.
We'll get to follow up on those,
And be part of the arrest when we have developed suspects.
Probably my favorite part of being in this unit is
We get lots of guns off the street.
So we're gonna stop this,
Little gray truck, up here.
It's got a shattered windshield,
Kind of blocking the driver's view.
Will you have a seat in the truck for me, sir?
-What wrong?
-Have a seat, traffic stop,
Have a seat in the truck for me.
-What is wrong?
-It's a traffic stop, sir.
Do you have your license, insurance on you?
-No, sir, I don't have anything on me, I just
Been working on my car.
-Do you have your license?
-Yes, sir.
Yeah, there's no, no problem, officer.
Having problems with my vehicle.
-Gotcha.
-Do you live here?
-My uncle does, I need help with the truck.
-Oh, okay.
-See what I'm working on. -Okay.
The reason I'm stopping you is your windshield.
-Yeah, I remember you pulling me over before.
-Yeah, I think I pulled you over a long time ago.
Maybe a year or so ago.
-Yeah. -Okay.
-I promise I, this is exactly where I'm at.
-No warrants, anything like that, right?
-No, sir, I got an unpaid ticket.
-Is your license valid or suspended.
-I'm not sure.
-Okay.
-It might not be, but I'm not driving it.
The vehicle was just right down there,
And I just got, took it here.
-You pulled in here from the road?
-Yes, sir. -Correct?
-No, from right, I just got it started,
And then drove it right-
-But did you, did you drive it here,
Or did you push it here?
-No, sir, I drove it from right there.
Yes, sir, I understand, yes, yes, I understand.
Yes, sir, I comprehend, I promise.
-So nothing illegal in the car, right?
No guns, knives, drugs, nothing like that?
-No, sir, no, sir.
-Okay, okay.
I'm just gonna run your license.
Just step to the front of my car for me, okay?
-Yes, sir.
No problem, but, what is, what is wrong?
-Just up to the front of my car.
You're not under arrest or anything like that.
I'm just running your license, right now.
It's a traffic stop, just chill out.
-I know, but I'm just saying, I wasn't joy driving,
I was driving from that circle to my uncle's.
-Okay. -And you look him up.
He married his first cousin.
-So, stopped him for his busted windshield.
He said he's got some unpaid tickets.
We're looking to see if his license is suspended.
I think the canine just showed up.
(radio chatter)
Is there anything illegal in the vehicle.
-Officer, there's nothing in there illegal.
-Just step to the front of my truck again for me.
-Why am I even being stopped?
-You're driving a vehicle on the roadway,
And you have a traffic violation.
You're asking why you're being stopped.
Listen, listen to your question, okay?
So, back to my question, is there anything illegal
In the vehicle I need to know about?
Has there been? -Not that-
-Is there any reason why the dog
Would alert on the vehicle?
-I don't know, officer.
-Okay, all right, just a second, okay?
If you'll hang tight with him.
Yeah, the dog alerted on the vehicle.
So there's either
Something in the vehicle illegal,
Like narcotics or has been recently.
So we've got a, looks like a crack pipe and,
And a cigarette pack.
So it looks like a,
A couple pieces of crack cocaine in the passenger seat
Where that cigarette pack with the crack pipe was located.
-What's he got?
-Good, how are you?
-What's he got?
-Officer, can I get my uncle?
-Turn around for me.
Do you have anything illegal on you I need to know about?
-No, sir. -I'm sorry?
-No, sir. -Nothing at all?
-No, sir. -Okay.
So what would I have found inside the vehicle?
-I'm not sure.
-Not sure at all?
It's your vehicle, correct?
-Yes, sir.
-Okay, turn around, face this way.
-Officer, I have nothing in there.
I don't know why I'm handcuffed, I have nothing in there.
I wanna know what you found, what's going on?
-You weren't driving either, were you?
-Yes sir, I was.
I drove from that circle to right here.
But I just picked this vehicle up, man.
-10-15, who would this be, sir?
-Not sure, but it looks like crack.
Looks like drugs, and that, that's not mine.
-Looks a lot like crack.
-Neither one of them are mine.
I promise, I don't use that.
I don't use them. -You smoke cigarettes?
-Yes, sir, yes, sir. -Okay.
Well, that was in, that was in your cigarette pack.
-I smoke 305s, sir.
-Okay. -And I have none.
I have no cigarettes.
-None at all? -I just picked this truck up.
I don't know what they had inside of it.
-Who's they?
-The people, the, where it broke down at,
Right in the next circle.
-Whose truck is it?
-It's mine.
-So it's your truck? -Oh, my god.
-You're driving it.
-Yeah, but I don't-
-Drugs in your seat.
-Yeah, I don't do that, though.
-But you don't know whose they are?
-No, sir, I just picked the vehicle up.
I just got it started.
(radio chatter)
-Okay.
-Okay, well, you, you're, you're thinking I'm lying.
So, it just don't matter.
-I'm just looking at it, if I was,
If I was judge or a jury-
-I understand, I understand.
-How would I, how would I take that story?
-I understand, I just need to call david.
Just let me call david, please, sir.
-Okay, you can call,
You can call him from the jail.
-Yeah, yeah.
-Okay, so I'm just gonna do a preliminary field test
Of the suspected crack cocaine found in his vehicle.
And assuming it has cocaine in it,
This should turn blue in a moment.
And there you go, that means it's
Preliminary positive for crack cocaine.
-You love what you're doing, sir?
-Love what, sir?
-Taking away my freedom.
-Is it, is it illegal?
Is it illegal?
-What? -Crack.
-Dude, I had nothing to do with that, man.
-Okay, have a seat,
I'm gonna come talk to you again in just a second.
-Man, listen, my shoulders will separate.
Please, y'all have to put these in front of me.
Look at them, both my shoulders will separate.
-No, sir, they can't be put in,
They can't be put in front of you.
They gotta be behind you, okay?
-Okay, all right, that's just something else.
That's just something else.
-Okay, we're just gonna go through it
From the beginning, one more time.
I'm just gonna explain to you why we're
Where we are, and where we're going.
-It's because I'm in a black neighborhood, that's why.
That's exactly why, let's be honest.
-No, sir. -Let's be honest.
Let's be honest, because you don't associate
With black people, and that's why.
This, can we just, please, officer, let me go to jail.
-So here's, here's the deal.
You said you weren't driving, you're driving, okay?
-I was driving, I never said I wasn't driving.
Come on, man.
-Your windshield's broken, I pulled you over,
It's your vehicle, there's some drugs in plain view.
Some paraphernalia in plain view.
So that's the facts, that's what's happening.
-I'm just picked the vehicle up.
-So you're getting a warning for the broken windshield,
For possession of drug paraphernalia,
And possession of cocaine, okay?
-Yes, sir, I'm aware.
-There's a lot of social issues that
Kind of hinder law enforcement in today's environment.
But the way I view it is, you know, I just go out there,
Do my job, don't complain.
I give everybody the benefit of the doubt,
And treat 'em as a human being,
Exactly how I would want to be treated.
And I feel like that makes the job a lot easier to do
When you're dealing with people.
So we've got a call that a,
A subject went into a local convenience store,
And stole a whole bunch of merchandise.
So we're just otl, or driving around the area,
Looking for the subject, to see if we could locate him.
The lady said he had red shorts on.
That's him.
-(car beeps) -(sirens blare)
Hey, where are you coming from right now?
-Um, the store.
-You're not in any trouble right now, all right?
I'm gonna talk to you for a couple minutes
About a situation that might have happened, all right?
So you're not in any trouble.
Do me a favor, put your bag on top of the hood.
Do you have any weapons or anything on you?
-No. -Okay.
You don't have anything in your pockets or anything?
-No. -No, okay.
So you said you were just coming from the store?
-Yeah. -Okay.
Did you buy anything over at the store?
-Yeah. -What'd you buy?
-I just, I played, I gambled, and I had coffee.
-Okay, you didn't take anything?
-No. -Okay.
'cause the reason why you're stopped right now is because
One of the workers
Came out and told me that you took
A whole bunch of stuff in there, and it's in your purse.
So you didn't buy anything?
-No, I just gambled. -You just gambled, so...
Can I go through your purse to see if you have any
Items that might have been taken from that store?
-She said they were taken, but I mean, I,
I came in there earlier and I bought them, so I mean I-
-Okay, so you bought 'em earlier?
-Yeah, they're from there, but I gambled there.
I gamble there all the time.
It's an ongoing issue with me and her.
-Okay, so let me, let me get this straight.
So you, you went in to 7/11 earlier,
Bought things,
Left, went back later, gambled,
And didn't buy anything the second time?
-Yeah. -Okay.
Just so we're on the same page here.
-Yeah. -All right.
Is there anything in there?
-From the, from their store?
-Anything illegal, I mean.
You don't have any weapons or anything like that?
-Anything from their store will be the,
The chips and the sandwich.
-Okay, I'm not too concerned.
But no weapons or anything?
Do you mind if I just go through,
Look for weapons or anything?
-Yeah, that's fine.
-Okay, nothing sharp in there?
-No, but I mean, if she wants that back,
She can have them back.
-Have you ever been arrested or cited?
-Yeah.
-Listen,
A bag of chips is not the crime of the century, okay?
I'm not trying to jam you up for chips.
All right, did you win any money gambling?
Did you win any money gambling?
-No. -No?
What's your name?
-I go by diamond. -Diamond?
Do you have an id on you, diamond?
-I don't have my id.
-All right, just hang tight, okay?
-This is not her first time stealing.
-Hi, ma'am.
Talk to me over here.
All right, so, let me get the story, let me-
Diamond, just do me a favor, face the car.
All right so, what happened with her?
-She walked in the store probably, about what?
40 min, 40 minutes ago walked in the store.
My eye intention, 'cause she stole from me two nights ago.
I was on graveyard.
So my eye intention was to keep my eye on her
All the times she comes in the store.
Watched her the whole time, I told my other employee,
I said, "you can get the customers."
I said, "I gotta watch her,"
Since she stole for me two nights.
She walked around the store, stole something,
Went in a purse, whoop.
Went towards the sandwich machine, stole something.
It was a,
It's a, it's either a cake, or something like that.
Poof, put it in her purse.
Came back around on the other aisle,
Stole something else, poof, put it in her purse.
Tried to come up and tell us that she was gambling today.
Tried to get 250 out of us.
We watched it, she, this was her first time in this store,
On our shift, from three to 11.
Did not come in our store, no 250.
Walked out the store with the coffee too.
-Okay.
All right, so-
-Yeah, we wanna press charges,
And we want her 86-ed off the property.
-Okay, so you wanna press charges?
-And 86. -All right, so, what, what,
What that entails is, what I'll need from you is,
I'll need, I'll need you to fill out a voluntary statement.
I'm gonna fill out a citation,
And I need you to sign it as a citizen's arrest, okay?
-Okay.
-Just because the value of the items are so,
They're under grand larceny status.
Which is considered petty larceny.
-Okay, we just want our stuff back.
-So you just want your-
-We, we want our, they, we went,
We want our stuff back too.
'cause there's property loss.
She been stealing for 3, 4 days.
Like I said, this is not her first,
Second, or third time stealing.
We done caught her like four times.
-All right so I'll fill out the citation
And just have you sign it, okay?
-Okay. -All right.
Let me just explain to her what's going on, okay?
Diamond, you're gonna get a citation for petty larceny.
You're not gonna jail, you're just gonna get a citation.
All right, it's for petty larceny.
Not the crime of the century.
Just go to court on it, explain your side of the story.
Just avoid that 7/11, okay?
We don't want any more issues, okay?
-Don't be coming in the store and stealing.
Don't come back in the store at all.
You're 86-ed off the property.
-I gamble, but I mean I-
-Okay, but you're 86-ed off property.
-So, diamond, let me, let me explain.
So you're, you're being trespassed from that specific 7/11.
I don't know if,
If that 7/11 owner, it's a, it's a franchise.
If they own other 7/11s,
You'd be trespassed from those as well.
So it's company-wide.
Now is not the time to argue or debate about it.
You'll have your time in court
To explain your side of the story, okay?
You just want the items back?
-Yeah, we just want our items back.
-There is your stuff.
Diamond, just avoid that 7/11, okay?
We don't want any more issues, okay?
-That's the works of life.
-I tried not to take you.
-I apologize for that, thank you, though.
-You're free to go now.
-What time, what time is the owner coming in the morning?
-Don't worry about it he-
-You're not, you're not allowed
To go back to that property.
-Nothing in there at all.
-Okay.
-We called her like four times for the stuff in her bag.
-I'll be calling and talking to him, I know him.
-So the only, so, here, here, here, here, here's the deal.
The only way for you to be able to go back to that property
Is if the owner of that store lifts,
Lifts the trespassing, right?
Have a good night, I hope your night gets better.
-Thank you. -All right.
-I thought she was cool.
Two weeks ago, my homegirl caught her stealing a donut.
She said, "what you got in your bag?"
She said, "nothing but napkins."
She moved the bag, and there was three donuts in there.
-Okay, if you want to take your property back.
-Yeah.
Thank you so much, officer.
-She seemed like a nice person.
Hopefully you won't be seeing any more of diamond.
-I promise, hopefully not, probably not.
-(over radio): 132 and bush, I've got him at gun point.
-Dispatch: Okay, gunpoint, 132 and bush.
-Cover's code three. -Thanks, 10.
-(indistinct radio chatter)
-Okay, we'll still send a code three.
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