Narrator: Viewer discretion is advised.
[theme music] bad boys, what you--
Ma'am, stand up.
Get on the ground.
[yells]
Stop, stop.
[tires squealing]
When an officer tells you to stop, you have to stop.
(singing) bad boys, bad boys.
Let me see your hands.
[yells]
Stop.
(singing) bad boys, bad boys.
Male officer: Stop the bike now.
[sirens]
Male officer: Hands up.
(singing) --come for you?
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.
Sam angstadt: I was born and raised here in wichita.
I've got a whole bunch of really close family friends
That were in law enforcement.
I originally thought I wanted to be a firefighter,
But I got on with the city in a non-commissioned position
Working for the police department
And fell in love with the people I worked with.
And ultimately, just decided to pursue
Being a commissioned police officer,
And I've never looked back.
Emily hoover: We have an individual up here
On a bicycle.
He does not have a bike light, so we're
Going to go ahead and stop him for that infraction.
[beep]
1300 south bluffview.
We're going to be 45.
We've got an individual on a bike.
[beep]
White male, black jacket, black backpack, and jeans.
[radio chatter]
Sam angstadt: Yeah, man.
You got to have a bike light.
You got any id on you or anything like that?
Josh: I don't, man. That's my bad.
Sam angstadt: Where are you coming from?
Just right at my mother-in-law's right
Up here in hilltop.
Ok.
What's your first name?
Josh: Josh.
Sam angstadt: Josh?
Man, this bike is pretty sweet. - Yeah.
Margaritaville.
It's actually my girl's man.
It's my wife's bike actually.
Sam angstadt: Oh, it's your wife's bike?
Yeah. Sam angstadt: Hey, man.
I like the pineapple. Sam angstadt: You're rocking it.
I like it. - I mean, it's a fast bike.
It's nice, but--
Sam angstadt: Yeah.
I know it don't have the lights and I know.
I shouldn't be rolling without them, man.
I know.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that, guys, but--
It's joshua?
Yeah, josh.
Joshua.
Sorry about that, guys.
Have you been arrested in wichita before?
- No. - You haven't?
No.
I'm actually from iowa. - Ok.
How long have you been here?
About six years.
Emily hoover: Ok.
Am I going to get a ticket for the lights, man?
Sam angstadt: No, man. Ok?
You ain't got no-- if you ain't got
No crazy warrants or nothing, man, we'll
Just kick you out of here.
I'm never in trouble.
Sam angstadt: I thought that was a big old light, man.
Oh, this? Sam angstadt: Yeah.
Yeah. Sam angstadt: What is it?
It's just a pineapple.
It's just a cup holder.
- Oh. - [laughs]
Well, it's turning the wrong way, man.
You can't keep a drink in like that.
Josh: I know.
My knee kept hitting the damn thing, but--
Yeah.
Josh: It's just a cup holder, man.
Emily hoover: What state's the dl?
What state's your id through? Emily hoover: Or id.
Josh: Iowa.
Where in iowa?
Josh: Marshalltown. - Where?
Josh: Marshalltown.
Where's that near?
Josh: About 45 minutes from des moines, south of des moines.
Ok.
[beep]
Emily hoover: Can you please try to locate this individual
Possibly through iowa?
First is joshua, common spelling.
Officer (on radio): You said iowa?
Is that right?
Yeah, possibly iowa if you can't find kansas.
We have no record of him in our system.
Claims he's been living here for over six years.
Doesn't have a license, or an id, or in our system
At all by any of this information he provided.
I'm starting to think that's not the correct information.
Sam angstadt: Hey, man.
Come back.
Get on the ground.
Josh: What are you doing?
What do you got-- what are you tripping for, man?
Get on the ground, bro.
Why are you guys trampling on me?
Put your hands behind your back.
I didn't do a god damn thing.
Put your hands behind your back.
I didn't do anything, man.
Put your hands behind your back.
Hey, get us here. Fighting one.
Stop it, man.
Put your hands behind your back.
Dude, I am.
I didn't do [bleep], man.
You guys-- what is going on?
What the heck's going on? - 271.
We're fighting one. - Bro.
- Taking him into custody. - Relax your arm.
You guys are scaring the [bleep] out of me.
Relax your arm right now or you're going to get tased,
Do you understand me?
I am relaxing it.
- No, you're not. - I am.
You're still tensing up against me, bro.
It's limp.
[sirens]
You guys are scaring me, man.
Bro, I was cool with you the whole time.
I know.
And I knew you lied to me about your name, bro.
Emily hoover: It's not necessary right now.
Josh: What is this?
Emily hoover: You can shut them down.
I got one in custody.
Sam angstadt: Why'd you do that, bro?
You guys are scaring me.
Bro, I was so cool with you.
Man.
I even--
I even told you that we wasn't going
To give you a ticket if you--
You said that there was nothing going on with it.
I said who-- what-- what is going on?
Why is it-- nobody wants to tell me anything, talk to me
Or anything. Sam angstadt: Yeah, bro.
Just--
Sam angstadt: I told you it was fine.
I'm nervous.
You got to relax though.
Do you have id on you or no? Josh: No, I don't.
Sam angstadt: Ok, so what's your real name?
Josh: That's it.
Sam angstadt: No, it's not.
So what you got warrants for, man?
Huh?
What you got warrants for?
Lean back towards me, ready? One--
I can't
--Two, three.
There you go.
Stand up.
Make sure my bike tire has--
You really don't have any sort of identification on you?
I don't know.
Emily hoover: You're going to be stacking
Charges, man, so what's your-- what's your real name?
I'm going to you my real--
I'm going to tell you my name, and I got a warrant
For failure to appear.
That's it.
There you go, and what is it?
My first name is right.
Riot?
No, my first name is my real first--
- Joshua? - My first name is josh, yeah.
- Ok. - Yeah.
Come over here to this car.
[radio chatter]
Hey, gunny.
G. Adams: Yeah.
Can you come--
We're going to take his backpack off right quick.
Lean up against the car for me.
[radio chatter]
All right.
I'm going to let you hang out for a little while.
Josh: Ok.
Other side of it.
Huh?
The bank parking lot.
The police are here with the bike.
Just my-- just my stuff I had.
- Your backpack. - My backpack.
- Your bag of-- - cigarettes.
--Miscellaneous.
And the stuff in my pockets.
Ok, thank you.
G. Adams: Do you need to talk to him?
I'll talk to him real fast.
G. Adams: Ok.
His stuff is right here.
We're waiting for mom.
All right.
All right, josh.
I just confirmed it again, so just the little bitty city
Bench warrant.
And then the other one's not even a bookable one,
So get it taken care of.
Yeah.
Emily hoover: Sorry you had to go through--
I'm sorry about that.
[bleep] it was stupid.
Just [bleep] to do that.
I was scared, and--
Emily hoover: Yeah.
See, this-- this ass-ass-[bleep] came over
To my house in a stolen car.
I didn't know it was stolen, and we go to leave,
And he says, here, I'm tired.
You want to drive?
I said, yeah, I'll drive.
We're just going down the block. Emily hoover: Mhm.
We went down the block to dollar general,
And they pulled us over in the parking lot.
He says it's my car and they charged me with a--
Emily hoover: Deprivation?
But misdemeanor.
Emily hoover: Yeah.
And-- and I thought the court was on the 25th, but it
Was actually on the 20th.
Hmm.
And so I missed court for that.
That's what-- did I pick up anything else?
Whatever you have tonight, they'll just misdemeanor.
- Ok. - So.
All right.
Thank you. - Absolutely.
Sorry about that.
No, you're fine.
Good luck to you, man.
[car door slam]
Ian paparro: This is something I've always wanted to do
Ever since I was a little kid.
I'm the first one in my family to be in law enforcement.
It's definitely not the traditional filipino thing
To do.
My parents' house when I was growing up,
A lot of their neighbors were cops.
So we had an lapd swat guy who lived across the street, la
County sheriffs who lived next door, so it's kind of something
That's kind of stuck with me.
[radio chatter]
We're catching up to a pursuit that one of our detectives
Just initiated.
As of right now, it's just a reckless driver
And a possible gta.
There's the suspect vehicle.
Yeah, it's a silver chevy colorado.
[sirens]
So right now, I believe we have three
Vehicles plus a supervisor.
And the person who initiated it, he was a--
He's one of our detectives, so he was in an undercover unit.
It looks like he's yielding, so I'll be doing a high risk stop.
Put your hands out the window.
Turn the car off.
Put your hands out the window.
Hey, anyone got a less lethal?
I got it, bro.
Got it?
Yeah.
Hey, take the keys, throw them out the window.
This is the west covina police department.
You need to exit the vehicle with your hands up.
What if we do passenger first?
Yeah, get her out, dude.
That's good.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Passenger.
Female inside the vehicle.
Hey, be ready.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Exit the vehicle,
Put your hands on top of your head.
Because if she gets out, he might bounce.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Have the passengers
Step out the passenger side door with her hands
On top of her head.
Can you exit the vehicle?
Can you open the door?
Are you going to shoot? Officer (on loudspeaker): No.
All right.
Then I'm going to do it.
My right hand is going to open the door.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Ok. Go ahead.
My right hand.
Ian paparro: Make sure his hand's on top of his head.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Exit the vehicle.
Go ahead, open the door.
I can't. I'm too short.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Ok.
With your right hand, open it from the inside.
From the inside. All right.
Step out, keep your hands on top of your head.
Good.
Step out slowly, keep your hands on top of your head.
Keep your hands on top of your head.
Stop moving around.
Keep your hands on top of your head.
Hands on top of the head hurts.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Listen to me.
Stop talking.
Ok.
Officer (on loudspeaker): I need you to slowly back up.
She's going to pass out. Please somebody get over there.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Ok.
As soon as we get you to slowly back up,
Back up, back up, stop.
Stop right there. - No.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Step to the left.
To your left, to your left, to your left.
There you go.
Keep coming to your left. Stop.
- You're going to make--
Drop down to your knees.
Hands up here.
Why are you guys all the way from west covina
Coming to san bernardino?
Put your hands behind your back.
- Why y'all being so aggressive? - Stand up.
Can I be in--
Hey, what's her name?
Her name is renee.
She's going to be-- - renee.
Let's go.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Walks backwards to the sound
Of my voice.
Just like that.
Slowly walk backwards.
Side step to the left.
Officer (on loudspeaker): Side step to your left.
Keep going.
Keep walking, keep walking, sidestep to the left.
All right, get on your knees right there.
Back her up.
Can you step over there?
Make more announcements, dude.
[heavy breathing]
Ian paparro: What'd you have?
It was a 23103 reckless driver.
So as I'm on the--
Going home, going eastbound the 10.
Ian paparro: Oh, ok.
Yeah.
He almost tcs into like five different cars,
Just weaving in and out of traffic,
In and out of the carpool lane.
Got you.
So people had to slam on the brakes.
As soon as I get behind him, light him up, he takes off.
Goes 100, 120 miles an hour, weaves in and out of traffic.
He's doing evasive maneuvers, tries to exit the freeway,
And then jumps back on the freeway.
So he knew I was following him.
Hey, so what-- why'd you run?
I didn't run.
Who am I running from that I know
That is not a police officer?
Ian paparro: Yeah, one of our police cars
Was behind you trying to stop you.
Who?
He said you were driving crazy.
Who?
It was an undercover car.
An undercover can pull somebody on a highway over?
Well, there's lights on it, no?
Yeah, but--
What are you supposed to do when
There's blue and red lights? - No.
When I see white and black and red and blue,
That's when I pull over for them, because who the hell
Pulls over a damn undercover?
I don't know who they are.
That's really untrustworthy, because there's people
Out here does that for real.
And I'm not going to sit here and stop.
Because the last time I did that,
They over here almost getting--
I getting threatened by that.
I'm not doing that.
I haven't done anything really wrong,
But go ahead and go check.
Right now you're being charged with evading.
- Debating? - Evading.
I'm not evading no one though.
Ian paparro: Yeah, no. - Who?
Who am I evading?
Ian paparro: He was trying to stop
You all the way by west covina.
Who? Who?
Ian paparro: One of our police officers.
Yeah. I don't see no white and black.
Who? - All right.
All right, man. We'll see you.
See, you can't even answer that.
Are you renee?
Yeah.
All right, is that-- is that your boyfriend?
Yeah.
Ian paparro: Yeah?
What?
Why was he running from the police?
I don't know.
You don't know?
Did he say anything?
Did you-- did you know the police was behind you?
You didn't know?
You didn't hear the lights and sirens?
You didn't see the red and blue lights behind you?
I can't see at night.
You can't see at night?
Can you see these lights right now?
Renee: Yeah, but far away, I can't see.
Are you on probation or parole?
No. Ian paparro: No?
You ever been arrested before?
No.
Ian paparro: No?
All right, so yeah.
We're going to impound his car, but we're
Going to take you-- we're going to let you loose, ok?
I got to get that stuff out.
I can't go-- I can't let that stuff--
I have important documents in there.
All right.
We'll make sure to give everything back to you,
All right?
John vega: So did you think I was a police?
Man: No, honestly.
John vega: Did you call 911?
Man: I was going to, and then until I
See these black and whites, the actual black and whites,
Then I pulled over, sir.
And I wasn't evading.
I was pulling you over from west covina, man.
I didn't--
John vega: That's when I first pulled you over.
I didn't know.
And you almost hit like five, ten different cars, man.
Going in and out of traffic.
Man: I didn't know who you was.
I am not going to sit here and pull over for somebody who's--
Ok.
If you didn't think I was the police, then
You should have called 911. - I was going to.
Trust me. - But you didn't.
I was on the phone.
No, I was on the phone.
We went a long ways, man.
I was like, no.
He's-- he's got to be either somebody
Fake or somebody who's going to be trying to scam me.
I would have stopped if I would have
Seen a black white with this.
Ok.
And I'm telling you the dead truth.
John vega: Ok, these cars have red and blue lights for
A reason, brother, all right?
Man: I've been in that same situation in chino.
John vega: But the situation's real now.
And then it's west covina too?
You guys are chasing from west covina?
That's when I got kind of scared.
I see a red blue from a vehicle that's random.
All right, man. Well--
Man: Otherwise--
Unfortunately, because you didn't
Pull over for the police, you got to go to jail though.
All right?
[car door slam]
Edward lajoie: I've been on metro department for about
Three years now, and I'm on the star squad
Here, which is like a proactive unit on the strip.
There's a lot of people out having fun.
They're drinking, but sometimes when alcohol is involved,
People can't really control themselves.
And that's why we're out here to make sure everything's
Calm and safe.
All right, so we have a male subject walking
On the side of the road here.
Looks like he's acting pretty erratic,
But he's on the street where there's a sidewalk provided,
So we'll see if we can't go out on him.
Hey, hey.
You ok, man?
Bohdan garcia: Hey, man.
Come over here.
Where are you going?
Come over here. Come over here.
Where are you going?
Relax. Relax.
Right in front of the car.
You're good.
Don't-- don't pull away.
In front of the car.
You just pulled in.
You got to stop for real, sir.
Just in front of the car, put your hands behind your back.
Relax, man.
You're good.
Relax, relax.
Stop tensing up, man.
I'm not tripping.
You're tripping.
Just breathe, bro.
No, of course.
You're not breathing though.
You're going to the next burger.
Here, can you move your arm?
I'm not breathing well.
No, I'm breathing very well, so there's no--
Hey, man.
Just relax, bro.
What are you doing?
Breathe yourself.
Come over here.
All right, listen.
The reason we're stopping you is because you're
In and out of the roadway, man.
Man: I'm dancing and you're dancing with me for no reason.
Edward lajoie: What's your first name, man?
K as in kris, r as in right, I as in illustrate, s as in stop,
T as in todd, h as in her, e as in excellent, r as in right.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold up.
Is your name kristher?
Kristopher: Kristhopher with a k.
Christ-to-pher?
Kristopher: Well, however you want to say it.
Let me try to spell this out.
You tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Yes, sir. K-r-I--
S.
Edward lajoie: --S-t-o-p-e-h-e-r?
Kristopeher?
No.
Chris with am e-h-e-r. Christopher,
However you spell it.
Does that make sense?
No.
No, it don't make sense.
Kristopher: Dollars don't make sense if it's not kristopher.
What's on your legal birth certificate?
Ok, chris t-o-p-h-e-r.
Edward lajoie: Chris t-o-p-h-e-r. The normal way?
Nothing else is like right.
Yes, sir.
Ok.
How does this look?
Is this accurate?
Uh, yes.
Edward lajoie: All right, man. Sit tight.
Bohdan garcia: If you know we were going to stop you,
Why run?
He was walking in the middle of the street,
Walking adjacent to the sidewalk.
We pull him over.
We call him out, call his name.
He starts walking towards that alley over--
He says his name is christopher, but he
Doesn't know how to spell it.
Now we're just trying to identify him.
Yeah, I've never seen him before.
He's not a regular.
He says he lives in las vegas, so--
Someone's wife?
Damn, so you assault and kidnap?
No, I kidnapped somebody from taking me
And I took him for kidnap.
Bohdan garcia: Ok.
And his wife came with me.
Bohdan garcia: Ok.
We're going to have to take him to--
Kristopher: For what?
Well, because-- once I activated my lights and sirens.
I didn't arrest no--
I didn't run from you, because there's no crime.
Bohdan garcia: You were walking away from us.
Not at all, because I'm right here with no crime.
Bohdan garcia: The problem was you were walking on the street
When there's a sidewalk provided.
Everybody was.
You were the only one.
No, sir. You're lying.
That's why I stopped you.
You're lying.
I came right.
Ok, confirm with me, deny.
I'll accept nothing, and I'll take no rambling from there.
And I get a meal and a bed.
Like, no. It's wrong.
But I saw you doing something wrong.
Ok, no you didn't.
Everybody's running.
Then that's where we disagree, ok?
Ok. Disagree.
We agree to disagree. Bohdan garcia: There you go.
I didn't get hurt.
Bohdan garcia: Yeah, good.
No. Nobody did.
Bohdan garcia: I hope you didn't get hurt.
And six individuals ran after me.
What does that mean?
I was rightfully not resisting, sir.
Ok, so let me ask you, why did you walk that way
When we tried to talk to you? - Because I was scared.
Someone was threatening me.
Edward lajoie: Who was threatening you?
Who was running behind me.
Edward lajoie: There was nobody running
Behind you except for us. - You guys.
Edward lajoie: We said, hey, metro police.
How do you know that?
I went in the casino.
I ran from five other casinos.
On my cell, you can check my location.
Why were you running from the casinos?
Kristopher: I don't know.
Why did you pull your arm away when I was trying to bring you?
Because I didn't know if you guys were cops.
Edward lajoie: Ok, get the key rolling.
- Yeah. - You're not yelling.
Edward lajoie: You saw the police car with the lights on.
You saw the-- - I didn't see now one--
Bohdan garcia: --Police officers.
--Besides yellow.
You saw the police officers.
Kristopher: No.
I didn't know you guys yelled--
Yellow, red yellow.
We didn't yell yellow.
I didn't know.
I thought you sell yellow and yell red and black.
Edward lajoie: Ok.
Well, here's the deal, man.
So today, you're going to be going
To jail, because you obstructed our investigation, all right?
You could be charged with resisting,
But I'm not going to do that tonight, ok?
Kristopher: I'm ready to be charged with resisting arrest
With a gun.
You don't have anything in your pockets?
No.
Liquor or anything like that, right?
Can I get searched and maybe let go?
Are you consenting to a search?
Yes.
Ok.
Well, that's up to them.
Ok.
Spread your feet.
What's in your right pocket?
My file for my--
I file my nails.
- Ok. - Take a step up.
Yes, sir. It's right there.
Do you have anything on you we need to know about, man?
No, I swallowed into it.
Like, all right?
You swallowed it in through what?
Nothing, because I don't know better.
You have that on you.
No, no.
Literally, that's my-- I'm legally diabetic.
This is why we're asking you--
Kristopher: Ok, but I'm diabetic.
Bohdan garcia: --If there's anything that could stick,
Poke, or hurt us.
There's some brown residue in there.
Kristopher: That's not a charge.
Edward lajoie: You're diabetic?
Yes and my friend--
Edward lajoie: What color is insulin?
Insulin is not just white and gray.
My friends-- and literally, I hold
My friend's stuff, because he doesn't
Know how to draw his stuff up.
So wrong we say now is right and right there's
No drugs that will never be found on me,
Because I don't do drugs.
Edward lajoie: Ok.
Let me ask you, and be honest, ok?
Do you use any drugs?
No. At all, sir.
I drink.
That's all.
No drugs ever?
Kristopher: No.
They never did or said anything.
Ok.
Never in your life, you've never done drugs?
Kristopher: On my soul, there's never been caught with me,
And I've been in prison twice.
Edward lajoie: It's never been caught with you, but have you
Ever used them? - No.
I hate drugs. Edward lajoie: You hate drugs?
Yes, sir.
Edward lajoie: Ok.
All right.
And I didn't run from you guys.
You seen that.
I would have hocked all of you all down
And jumped that fence faster than you.
You're not going to like me. - Stop moving around.
No, if you're going to say that.
Stop moving around.
- Hey, what are you doing, man? - What are doing, dude?
Let's not act stupid.
That's fine right there, right?
Right? - Let's not act stupid.
You better not. Yeah.
- Let's not act stupid. - That was right in my hand.
I don't want to have to use force against you, but I will.
Ok, whatever, dude.
Hog tie your bitch.
When you don't understand how to cooperate.
No, no.
Put your wife like like that too, right?
Whatever.
No.
Take a seat.
No, your wife's going to take a seat later too, right?
Ah.
All right, watch your foot, because I'm closing the door.
So here in the state of nevada,
A hypodermic needle alone is not considered drug paraphernalia.
However, you can see inside that there's a brown residue, which
Looks like it's going to be--
Which looks like it's going to be used.
He says that he's diabetic.
However, that doesn't look like insulin to me.
Officer 1 (on radio): 132 and bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Officer 2 (on radio): Ok, gunpoint.
132 and bush.
Coverage code three.
Officer 1 (on radio): Hang ten.
Officer 2 (on radio): 2514 can transmit on text.
Two--
Officer 3 (on radio): 2447, 2447, kansas 4368.
Officer 2 (on radio): Ok, we'll still send a code three.
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