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Narrator: 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.
I've been with the department for about two years now.
Before this, I actually worked on the ambulance
For about six years.
I really just enjoy being out in the public,
And helping people, and trying to make a difference.
So we're going to a guy that started out as a check
Well-being of a male banging on a door
At a business with a knife.
Officers tried to contact him, and he took off on foot.
So we're trying to come from the south
And cut him off, and check on him, and see what's going on
And why he's acting erratic.
I'm clear.
All right.
So we're going to be out with a male right here.
What's going on today?
Why don't you just come here and talk to us?
You're not in trouble.
[indistinct]
Listen, man.
I'm just trying to check on you and make sure you're all right.
No, you're not.
I told you.
I've told three other law enforcement today.
[vehicle driving]
We just need to check on you and make sure you're ok.
I'm perfectly fine!
Sounds like I'm talking loud enough to the world!
I am, but you haven't stopped--
[indistinct]
And listened to us.
Come here.
I'm fine.
What am I doing? - No, no, no.
We have charges.
[indistinct]
We're just here to check on you.
I'm not [bleep].
You guys are threatening my life.
We're here to help protect you.
No, you're not.
I told you I'm fine.
How many times do I got to say I'm fine?
What's your name?
Just stop and talk to us.
- [indistinct] - ok?
Ok?
[indistinct conversation]
As long as you stop and talk to us--
Stay right there.
Then we can go away.
[indistinct]
[vehicles driving]
[footsteps]
Roll your window up.
Get out the way.
You guys [indistinct].
[truck driving]
210 still doesn't have anything as far as charge yet,
Right?
[indistinct]
Huh?
[indistinct]
210.
So those units, we have unlawful use.
He was waving the knife around.
- Ok. - Hey.
Get on your knees.
Get on your--
[footsteps running]
[engine revving]
[footsteps running]
Get on the ground!
Ah!
[taser sounds]
[growling sounds]
Stay on the ground. Stay on the ground!
Stay on the ground!
- Ah! - [indistinct]
Ow! Ok.
Stop. Get on your--
- You guys-- - get on your stomach.
Hey, I'm not resisting. Go ahead.
- Get on your stomach! - Go ahead.
Go ahead.
[radio cahtter]
Now, what have I done, sir?
Unlawful use of a weapon.
I have not--
I've not used a weapon.
A knife is a weapon.
I've not used it.
You telling me I can't have a knife or a tool.
Well, you can't wave it.
You cannot wave it around. No.
I did not wave it. I promise you.
I did not wave it.
I asked that man five times.
They have to check that camera, before this happened.
Channel was released.
I begged him to get a sergeant.
I begged him to let me stand my ground.
This is a stand your ground law.
And then, I went through--
[indistinct]
Because he charged me because he kept repeating
The same thing over and over.
Are you fine, sir?
I can't [indistinct].
And he was not listening to me.
Well, he's a police officer.
So he has the right not to listen to me?
You need to listen to him and us.
Isn't it his job to be sworn and uphold his duty?
He was doing his duty.
If he's going to charge people of stuff,
He should check the charge.
Ok.
Before he goes assuming and checking a charge.
- Got any id on you, buddy? - Yeah.
What's your name?
And if it was done in the proper manner and respect.
Hey, ok. Come on.
Roll over.
Over on your butt.
- Can you all get this off? - All right.
Listen.
This thing on my butt?
You want to sit up, and we can get them out.
Ok?
I mean I could have got back up earlier.
I'm not-- - we're going to sit up.
There you go.
I'm trying to prove to y'all that
I'm not trying to resist you guys because now I'm bleeding.
You drew blood.
Well, that's because you hit the ground.
Yeah, absolutely.
You guys hit me with the big one.
Well, that kind of happens when you don't stop
And we tell you to stop.
I'd stand right back up, but I'm
Not trying to get shot today.
You guys were worried about my knife and I was getting--
- Well, we were. - We were.
I was trying to get rid of that before you guys got there.
Sit it on the ground.
That's why I took it off my belt,
And I was trying to explain that to the officer
Ok.
Well, when officers--
Before he hit me in the spirit and made me fall.
When officers tell you to stop.
Well, when somebody assaults me in the spirit with a demon.
Ok, well, I can't do anything about assault with a demon.
I have a problem with that because I
Haven't done anything, and I haven't
Been charged with anything.
But when an officer tells you to stop, you have to stop.
What's your name, partner?
And I did stop, ma'am.
You did not.
I did stop.
What's your name?
Was you there at first, ma'am?
No.
I just got here.
You have to identify yourself, or you're going to be
Charged with another charge.
[indistinct] michael.
Michael?
He was at an establishment here around the corner.
He went in for a coffee but didn't have enough money
Or along those lines.
Started getting upset with the staff.
Sat down.
Started waving the knife.
Started talking to himself.
Started yelling at everybody that was walking around,
Waving the knife around while we were sitting down.
And they were able to get him out of the store
And shut the door on him, lock him out,
And then we made contact with him.
And were finally able to get him close enough that we could
Tase him and go from there.
So this was in his left pocket.
So I'm going to go to the restaurant.
See if they have any video or anything like that too.
Gotcha.
Because I think that they should.
They should.
I'll take that.
If nothing else, I'll get with downtown guys
And see if we can get any video from the downtown.
Ok.
So then charges will have unlawful use for the knife.
Resisting.
State charges on both.
Ok.
[vehicles driving]
So we take him to jail, put him on the 24.
24. Perfect.
Sounds good.
You're under arrest for unlawful use of a weapon.
Ok?
So you'll be going to the greene county jail.
Unlawful use of a weapon.
And how did I unlawfully use a weapon?
Did I present, or threaten you, or even
Touch or reach for my weapon?
Well, that's something the investigation showed.
No.
You're the one arresting me.
I asked you, sir.
Do you think I pulled a weapon or reached for a weapon today?
Did I use a weapon?
That's what some of the witnesses are saying, so.
What witnesses?
You have to talk to them. Not me.
I'd like to file a habeas corpus.
Come on.
All right.
We can do that.
It's harassment.
I've been at the fontana police department
Now for about eight years.
For the majority of my career, I've worked graveyard.
I enjoy graveyard.
It's kind of difficult sometimes staying up at night,
But the different clientele and people out at night
Keeps the job interesting.
Ok.
Right now we're responding to assist
Another officer who's in pursuit of a vehicle that
Took off from him.
So it should be heading right our way up here at this light.
[sirens] here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
[radio chatter]
West bound valley.
[sirens]
[indistinct] by one time hma.
[indistinct] 20s, 30s.
Long hair.
Coming up [indistinct] at cherry.
Quarter one.
I can call it southbound cherry coming up to the 10.
[sirens]
All right.
Tc just southbound in the chevron.
Tc southbound to chevron.
[sirens]
Put your hands up!
You got enough if you want to get him out.
Open the door! Come out slowly!
Keep your hands up!
Face away from me!
[radio chatter]
Walk back slowly to the sound of my voice.
[sirens]
Keep walking.
[sirens]
- Keep walking. - Stop!
Stop! Stop!
Get on your knees!
Lay down.
Think he's the only one?
Get up.
Good.
Face the car, dude.
Let me pat him down.
I can't stand up.
Dude, stop.
Why are you-- stop moving.
I can't stand up.
Like, can I stand up--
Stop moving, dude.
I can't stand up.
Relax.
I am.
Well, stop trying to pull away.
Stand up and cooperate.
You understand?
Yeah.
Get up.
[whistle]
[indistinct shouting]
[vehicles driving]
Sit in there.
What happened?
So this vehicle was coming southbound cherry
From san bernardino in the number two lane.
And then, I saw him smash into the back of a car.
Oh, shoot.
And then, I went to go light it up.
And as I lit it up, he took off.
So hit a dead end.
Act like he was going to get out of the car, like, give up.
And then, he just backed up, almost hit my car,
And then spun around.
Went back redwood southbound and tc'd right here.
All right.
Yep.
Right on.
I don't know why my first impulse
Was to run from you guys.
Dude, what happened tonight, man?
I got scared.
I saw you guys light me up, and because I
Was driving on a suspended license, I decided to flee.
But like, that wasn't the bright idea.
I mean, I don't think I was driving bad.
Not driving bad?
You hit a poor lady.
Crashed into the back of her.
When?
Right before I pulled you over or tried to.
Nah because I had just gotten off work right there,
And I was going to come to pick up my id right here
On fontana and banana.
Ok.
And when I seen you guys lit me
Up after I had picked up my id.
And that's when I was like, no, I
Can't get it lit up because I was on a suspended license.
But where did the crash happen?
Before or after that?
Well, I don't remember a crash after that.
I mean, before that.
I didn't crash anytime before that.
You don't remember crashing into the lady?
No, the only crash that had happened--
Your tires were screeching for, like, 50 yards before you
Smashed into the car.
And then, I turned on my lights, and all I see is
Your bright eyes just take off.
Deer in the headlights.
Pretty sure you said, what's up to me as you drove past me.
No?
Nah.
See, now I feel like you're going to take me to jail
Because I don't know that.
Well, I mean, you endangered a lot of lives today,
And you hit somebody.
That's not cool.
I don't want that.
Like, I thought I just told you.
We don't want that either.
That's why you're where you're at.
I just got off work.
Like, I really don't want this.
I'm sure the lady you hit was just
Getting off work too, dude.
See what I'm saying?
And I have the money to pay for her.
I have the money to pay.
Like, I'll do it.
Yeah, but you got to pull over.
And I know.
I know. It was just--
You for sure gotta pull over for the police
When they put on a bunch of-- - I know
--Sirens and start chasing you down streets.
And believe me.
Like, I would have.
I would have.
But because I'm on a suspended license,
I don't know what came over me.
But I was scared, and I said, you know what, no.
Run for it.
What else was going through your head?
Nothing.
Nothing?
Like, dead ass nothing.
Suspended license and [indistinct]..
I just didn't want to get caught because the fact
That I've been through this before.
I know what it's like, and I know how it hurts my family.
I don't want to hurt my family.
I slipped up, and I had a mistake on Saturday.
Slipped up on your gas pedal?
Just-- I had a slip up.
And I'll explain it to them when I show up whenever I show up.
I [bleep] up.
I know that.
And again, I told you, like, I'm willing to pay.
I have 100% the financial stability to pay for it.
I can.
You put the community and everyone else
At risk when you were driving the way that you were.
You can suspend my license.
And I'll pay.
It's already suspended.
That's why you said you ran.
I know.
But like, I don't have a car anymore.
So it's like I'm forced to take the bus
And city transportation.
Because you crashed into somebody
And because you were trying to take off the way that you were,
And the lives you endangered tonight, dude,
You're going to be going to jail for felony evading.
Ok?
And also felony hit and run for crashing into that lady.
All right?
All right.
Our partner was in pursuit of him already.
So we were able to jump in, kind of, when it first /began.
And so as soon as we saw him, he was swerving all over the road.
He made a pretty high speed turn over here.
But it looks like he took the turn too fast,
Came up on the curb, and then totaled the front of his car.
So thankfully, no one was in that crosswalk
Because this could have really hurt somebody.
I've been working for the greene county sheriff's office
For about eight years now.
I found that you build a lot of relationships
With the guys you're working with to the point
That, even off duty, we're spending time together.
We're at the gym together.
Eating together.
Barbecues.
That kind of thing, which builds a tighter
Relationship and safer work environment while you're here.
You enjoy what you're doing a lot more.
Find a vehicle that doesn't have any license plates on it.
We're going to talk to the driver.
Kind of see what's going on with his registration.
Hello. Deputy dilday.
Green county.
Stopping you for no plates.
It's not our car.
Yeah, it's my buddy's car.
I have my license.
I'm actually taking it just due
To the fact that I went to go get
A fender for it from a buddy's.
Ok.
So that I could paint it and just
Refig because his girlfriend comes back on Saturday.
So it's my birthday gift to her.
- Ok. - All right.
Do you have your driver's license on you, bud?
- Uh, I do not. - Yeah, I see you've got yours.
I'll go ahead and take it.
Do you have a driver's license? - Yes.
He does. It's in his car.
Just don't have it with you.
I will say, I do have a warrant.
But I have a paper for it.
I don't have it on me because it's in my car.
Ok. All right.
Stay in the vehicle for me.
I'll be right back with you.
Shut that off, if you don't mind, while we're waiting.
So the driver of this vehicle seems to have an active warrant
Out of springfield.
We're going to wait on that to confirm.
His license is also suspended.
And his passenger is valid.
Hey, nick, hop out for me, man, real quick.
Don't take off on me or nothing.
We're just going to stand here and have a conversation.
You don't have any weapons on you.
Do you? - No.
Ok.
I'm going to pat you down real quick.
Just face the car for me.
Do you want me to take everything out of my pockets?
Yeah. Just face the car.
I'm just going to pat you down.
I'm just checking for weapons right now.
Ok?
What is that?
- It is a vape. - A vape?
Ok. All right, man.
You can turn around. Just relax on your bumper here.
So how long ago was the trespassing incident?
What happened with that?
I was going to the street races.
I don't any more.
Ok.
I didn't even have my car there.
I just went with a buddy.
And I was looking at the car.
A cop pulled in.
She wrote me a trespassing ticket,
And they sent me a paper in the mail, and I didn't get it.
Went to court.
Gave me a recall near springfield police department.
And then, told me that they were going to get my driver's
License fixed because I do know it's probably
Still showing suspended.
Yeah, your license, it's suspended, as well.
That's the next conversation we're going to have,
Yeah, I was going to say, I'm probably-
What was it suspended for?
For the tickets? - Yeah.
It was just suspended for the tickets.
Ok. All right, man.
So why are you driving?
Her license is valid.
So if you don't know if yours is suspended or not--
I mean, I can have her drive out of here.
But I'm saying, like, that's a little late for that now.
I'm just saying, if you think yours might be suspended
And hers is valid, why not let her drive?
With his car, he asked me specifically
To drive because she had totaled her car not that long ago.
Why couldn't your buddy go with you to get whatever parts
Or whatever? - He's at work.
Ok. All right, man.
Well, right now I'm going to detain
You real quick just until we figure out on the warrant.
We'll figure out exactly what's going on.
We'll look up the rest of that information.
[handcuff closing] all right, man.
You can just lean back and have a seat against this bumper.
I'm not going to put you in the car yet.
We'll give that a minute.
What's up, man?
Speeding stuff, man.
Just tickets.
Race car, huh.
Then, the trespassing, but also from race related stuff.
So what do you drive normally, man?
- 350z. - 350z.
What year? - 2005.
What color?
Uh, couldn't tell you.
You don't know what color your car is?
It changes colors.
Oh, ok.
Is it wrapped?
I painted it.
I do all my own paint stuff and bodywork and mechanical work.
I don't hate on the car community.
It's not that.
You got to have a valid license if we're going to be driving.
That's the big thing.
Yeah.
Hang out with him for just a second.
Ok.
So were you aware that his license is suspended?
I mean, he admitted that to me.
His license shouldn't have been suspended still.
We were told in court that the suspension was lifted.
Ok.
I don't see anything about a warrant recall.
And it's physically still in file,
So that's why he is going to go to jail on the warrant.
I'm not going to charge him for the driving on suspended
Because I do see there's showings on the court site
Where he is doing different things to try
To get that taken care of.
Is that the owner of the car?
Levi, his name is on the bill of sale.
Ok. Levi.
Yeah.
What's going on with that vehicle?
Did you loan him the vehicle?
How did he get in your car?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
He was supposed to paint it today.
Ok.
Like, it was supposed to get a paint job.
So he told me he was going to use it to go
Wash it before he painted it.
Ok.
And then, he went and got a fender and a bumper for it.
Somebody's calling me now.
Yes?
Let me call you back.
I'm talking to him.
Yeah, no [bleep].
Ok. Love you.
Bye.
I will call you back.
Is that mom?
Yes.
Ok.
So he was supposed to wash it.
Did you know his license was suspended?
- No, I didn't. - Ok.
I was in court with him that day
Because I had a court date the same day
And, like, the same time.
So like, I heard all his stuff.
His excuse was because she's valid,
His excuse was that you told him only he could drive it.
That she couldn't. - Yeah.
So that's--
Because she like just wrecked her car,
And I'm not trying to fix-- - ok.
Because I'm fixing her car right now too.
And I'm not trying to fix that one too.
All right, man.
Well, I think your dad's in or out with a trailer because
With no insurance, no registration, man,
I can't let it drive on the roadway
Because if you get in an accident,
That puts you in liability. - Yeah.
We'll let you guys get it loaded up.
I appreciate you, man.
Thanks, man.
Hey, man, you can hop out and talk to her real quick
If you want to.
You've been cool with me.
[indistinct].
You can give him a a hug if you want to.
It's up to you.
No.
You asked, so.
I saw hers.
You guys have matching tattoos.
And which wrist is yours on?
Yup.
That's on the left side.
Yours isn't filled in.
Is there a reason?
Is that, like, specific? - Similar.
Not matching.
Yeah, they're supposed to be similar.
Not matching. - I got you.
Ok. Very cool.
What is it?
What kind of [bleep] do you want to know?
He's pissed off at you.
I'm pissed at cas.
[indistinct]
Good luck.
You have to deal with her on that one.
I have fluids for my car now.
How is she going to get there?
I have fluids for my car!
Exactly.
You're stuck with her until I'm out.
No I'm not.
All right, brother.
Let's get back in there.
We're going to get you on your way
So we can get this process moving along.
Don't forget.
I'll see you in two hours.
Mm hmm.
We got to deal with my parents tomorrow night.
Sounds like a deal.
She bails you out.
You go to dinner with her parents.
A little family reunion.
All right, brother.
Hop in the car for me. - All right.
I love you.
I love you too, lilly.
Hey, where are the races now?
Uh.
It was worth a shot. All right.
I was just trying, man. I'm just curious.
I can tell you.
They get busted every week.
I know.
It's a lot.
Good looking out, man.
[car door closing]
132 and bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Ok. Gunpoint.
132 and bush.
Coverage code three.
[radio chatter]
[radio static]
[radio chatter]
2047.
[radio chatter]
Ok.
We'll still send a code three.
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