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Theme song: Huh!
Bad boys!
What you want--
Ma'am, stand up.
Get on the ground.
Stop.
Stop!
When an officer tells you to stop, you have to stop.
Theme song: Bad boys, bad boys.
What you--
Let me see your hands!
Uh!
Stop!
Theme song: Bad boys, bad boys.
Police officer: Stop the bike now!
Theme song: What you gonna do--
Hands up!
Theme song: --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.
Bradley winger: We come to work to do a job.
That's a job that we enjoy, and it's
A job that's very rewarding.
That's really important that we make sure that we
Carry ourselves in a good way.
We are representing just ourselves but our department
And our city.
It's important that people see that
This isn't-- this is a good place to be,
A good place to live.
62, we're trying to catch up to one.
It's a 60 day tag.
It looks like a green honda.
Suspicious vehicle in the area of skinner and broadway.
[radio communication]
We're going to be going northbound, larkin.
And he's hit the curb, but he's going to keep going.
[radio communication]
Police officer: Speeds are 30.
He's having car trouble, it looks like.
It's having trouble getting above 40.
Continuing eastbound, his tire's flat.
He's running on a rim right now.
Munger and--
He's bailing.
Stay in the car!
Give me your-- show me your hands.
Show me your hands.
Step out of the car.
Put your hands behind your back.
Going to get tased!
Get on the ground!
[scream]
Don't move!
Get over.
All right.
Get over.
I'm all right.
I said all right.
Put your hands behind your back.
I said all right!
Put your hands behind your back, bro!
Get these behind your back.
These off.
Get the hand behind your back.
61, we're taking into custody.
Hey.
[indistinct speech]
[radio chatter]
Ah, you mother [bleep].
What the [bleep]?
Dude!
Bah, what the [bleep]?
Don't move.
Your mother [bleep], dude.
Don't move.
All right.
Not even resisting, dude.
I'm not even resisting.
Don't try ever tase me.
Dude!
Calm down, man.
Calm down.
Roll over to the other side, bud.
And don't even try to pin some [bleep] on me either, [bleep]..
Dude, I'm not resisting.
Stop pressing your weight on me.
--Dude.
Suspect: What the [bleep] is your issue?
Sit up on your butt.
No [bleep].
There you go.
Don't you ever [bleep].
Brian!
What happened, dude?
Second car chase.
Third-- sorry, third car chase--
In a week and a half?
I thought you said you were going to do better.
That's not trying, dude.
Especially when you try to fight us after you get--
Yeah.
That was dumb.
That was really dumb.
Well, I was just trying to shake.
No, no, bro.
No, you're getting hit with--
Today, buddy.
I watched you throw a punch, bro.
So we went from misdemeanor to felony real quick.
- --Not throw no punch. - Oh yeah.
You threw a punch at me. - --Move.
- You threw a punch at him. - You threw a punch at me.
--Punch of that sheriff's deputy that just left.
- Yeah. - Yeah, dude.
You're done tonight. - I'll move.
Get in the car.
- In the car.
Let's go.
Police officer (radio): Upper 30s.
Passenger will be--
Watch your foot.
Police officer: Dude, the wheel was gone.
Police officer: He wasn't going nowhere.
Police officer: Where'd you guys pick him up at?
Police officer: Skinner and broadway.
He pulled into a little gas station
And then flipped back around as soon as we
Tried to pull in behind him and took
Off through the neighborhoods.
I caught west side's chase.
Did you?
Yeah.
It's his third one in a week and a half.
We'll call a tow.
Suspect: She got my id.
Call her over here.
That's who I want to talk to.
Hey, paul.
I'm not playing anymore--
Listen.
Have a conversation with me, and I can work with you.
Let me step out.
But if you're not going to have a--
A conversation about what?
The [bleep]. - Just tell me what happened--
I don't know what the [bleep] happened.
You mother [bleep] was controlling the car.
That's it.
Ok.
And I didn't commit any crime.
Ok.
Because who was driving?
Brian was driving.
I don't know no brian.
I ain't got no warrants.
I got no arrest warrants, no affidavits against me, no--
I'm trying to give you the opportunity
To tell your side of the story.
--Driving the car.
Y'all have that [bleep] in the bait car.
- A bait car? - Yeah.
Bye.
That's brian's car.
- Bye. - Ok.
So you don't want to talk to me no more?
I don't know who the [bleep] is brian either.
The guy driving the car.
He wasn't driving either.
You were.
How were we driving?
What-- I just [bleep] got done telling you with the bait car.
Bait car.
Ok.
The thing for the bait car, jackass.
Don't be a smart ass.
I'm not being a smart ass.
You mother [bleep] know what you're doing.
Let me out. - Ok.
And let him go too because we didn't commit any crimes.
He ran from the police.
No, you did.
Ok.
Well, hang tight.
I'll be back.
Bait car.
Yeah.
He said that we were controlling the car.
We're the ones who ran from him.
Yes.
So--
He said it was something with the controls, that--
- Yeah. - --We were--
We were driving the car while they were in it.
So, he also says he doesn't know the driver.
So-- I don't know.
This is a weird one.
Police officer: What do you have charge-wise with this guy?
With him, it's just going to be obstruct.
Ok.
He wouldn't get out of the car when winger
Was trying to get him out.
So, resist, obstruct for him.
That's it.
Police officer: I'm going to get mr. Happy to jail.
So--
Brian, are you ok?
Suspect: I'm all right, man.
All right.
I'm ok too.
Everybody's safe.
Nobody got hurt, all right?
If you don't want to answer my questions,
That's absolutely fine.
You don't have to, all right?
But I'm going to tell you what your charges are tonight, ok?
You're going to have felony flee and elude, resist obstruct,
And then you're going to have two counts of assault leo
And one count of battery leo, all right?
Do you have any questions for me?
I didn't even try to hit you guys and none of that.
I just try to--
When you're kind of like swinging your arms around,
Man, and officers are ducking and diving your punches-- huh?
- I was running. - I know.
My arms were moving.
I fell, and I got up real quick.
You ended up kicking officer angstadt when
You were on the ground, ok?
Listen, I don't think that you meant to do it.
I think it was on accident.
But it still happened, right?
All right.
Suspect: All right.
Police officer: Hang tight, brian.
James maddrey: Before I joined the sheriff's office,
I started my career as a firefighter.
There's a lot of people that actually
Became great cooks in this country and around the world.
I'm sure they were firemen.
You know, you get a lot of downtime.
For me personally, I always wanted to, I guess,
Outdo mom's chicken and dumplings, which I never could.
But that was always the meal I went to when it was my turn
To cook at the fire station.
This car drove by me with his hazards on.
You can't drive through this with your hazards on.
He's got no tail lights on his tag.
So we're going to stop him and see what's going on.
Took that down, sir.
It don't work.
Ok.
Just to make sure I see your hands, man.
What are you digging for down there in the middle?
Nothing.
I saw you digging down there in the middle a minute ago.
What were y'all digging for?
Ok, you got your license, registration,
Proof of insurance?
You ain't got no reason to pull me over, sir.
Well, I'll get to that in a second.
Do you have your driver's license?
You ain't got a reason to pull me over.
Well, I do have a reason to pull you over.
No, sir, you don't.
Are you not going to give me your driver's license?
No, sir.
I have no reason to.
James maddrey: Car 382, I'm going to need another.
All right.
Sir, I'm going to ask you one more time.
Suspect: You don't have to-- - listen to me.
Suspect: --Pull me over, sir. - Listen to me.
I'm going to ask you one more time,
And then I'm going to stop being nice.
Suspect: You don't have no reason--
Are you not going to give me your driver's license?
You don't have no reason to pull me.
Undo your seatbelt.
I don't have to, sir.
Sir, under your belt.
I don't have to--
Sir, undo your seatbelt.
I don't have to.
What's the reason?
Car 382--
Why is the reason for you messing with me, sir?
I'm telling you right now you're going to go to jail.
For what?
Because you're refusing to identify yourself--
My name is daniel--
No, sir.
I'm past that.
You're going to jail.
Undo your seatbelt. - I don't want to.
Now!
I'm telling you. - I don't have to--
Sir, if you don't get out of this vehicle,
I'm going to throw you out of this vehicle.
Well, what reason, sir?
Because you're not complying to my lawful orders.
Now get out of the vehicle.
--Reason to pull me over, sir.
You have no reason to pull me over, sir.
Get out of the vehicle.
You have no reason to pull me--
- Get out of the vehicle. - You have no reason--
Get out of the vehicle now.
--Reason to--
Get out of the vehicle.
I have-- you have no--
Get out--
Get out of the vehicle.
Put your arms behind your back.
You have no reason to.
I'm telling you right now to put your arms behind your back.
--Reason to mess with me, sir.
I have not done nothing wrong.
I haven't done nothing wrong.
I have not done nothing wrong, sir.
What is your reason for pulling me over, sir?
What is your reason for--
Car 382, one detained.
You have no reason for pulling me over, sir.
Ma'am-- do for anything in the middle.
Ok, there's nothing in the middle, sir.
James maddrey: Come over here.
What is your reason for messing with me, sir?
We'll go over that in a minute because you're
Going to get a ticket for.
This is bull [bleep], bud.
I ain't done nothing wrong, bud.
This is bull [bleep].
I ain't done a goddamn thing.
James maddrey: Ma'am, what's your name, ma'am?
Suspect: Janet.
Janet.
Ok.
How do you know this man right here?
He's my roommate.
Y'all live together? Ok.
--Roommate, yeah.
How long have you known him?
About two years.
About two years? Ok.
Are y'all romantically involved?
Like a boyfriend girlfriend?
Something like that.
James maddrey: Ok, for a couple of years?
- Yeah. - I got you.
Do you know if he has a driver's license or not?
Yeah, he does have one.
He lost it.
How did he-- like, lost it as in like,
I can't find it anymore, or lost it as in suspended?
He couldn't find-- he told me he couldn't find it.
Police officer: I got you.
Is there anything on your person that could
Cause you to get in trouble? Janet: No.
Ok.
No, I have no criminal record.
I got you.
I did see them reaching in the middle of the center console
When I pulled him over.
Is that a flare gun?
No, it's a zip tie.
It's got a zip tie around it.
All right, considered a concealed weapon.
Well, it depends what's in it.
If he's got to convert it to shoot a 12 gauge--
You know what I mean?
And then there's a couple rounds of ammo
Right here in this pocket.
So-- I don't know why he'd be reaching towards the middle.
There's a knife there too.
Yeah.
Found a flare gun.
It's got a weird zip tie around it, a 12 gauge
Shotgun round, which, if he is a convicted felon,
Is against the law.
I'm not quite sure that that flare gun hasn't been converted
To shoot something like that, which would
Make it a concealed weapon.
All right, so the reason I pulled you over is you
Do not have any lights around your license plate.
And florida state statute requires
You to have illumination.
You know, I found out you probably have
A suspended driver's license.
I'd have probably just gave you a verbal warning for both,
Maybe try to find someone to come drive your truck.
But you took it to a whole 'nother level.
You resisted.
And tonight, for that, the consequence
Is you're going to go to jail.
And I'm going to charge you with resisting without violence,
And I'm going to charge you with driving on a suspended license,
All of which could have been avoided had you just complied
And just listened to what I had to tell you.
Now, can you tell me why you acted like you
Did when I pulled you over?
--You had no reason to pull me over.
James maddrey: I just explained to you,
Sir, why I pulled you over.
Can you explain to me what's going on with that flare gun,
Why it's got a zip tie on it?
No, that's the way I found that, man.
All that [bleep],, I found just like that.
James maddrey: Ok, what about the shotgun?
It doesn't shoot shotgun shells or nothing like that?
No, no, it's a flare pistol.
And who is this young lady that was with you?
Suspect: That's my wife.
Y'all are married? Suspect: Yes, sir.
Ok.
She had a different story than that.
She said y'all were together, but you--
We've been together for a while.
So are you legally married or just boyfriend, girlfriend?
Pretty much common law marriage.
Oh, common law marriage.
Ok.
Just hang tight for me.
All right, let me go check that flare gun,
And then we'll get out of here.
He said y'all were married.
Well, he calls it that.
Ok, have y'all been together-- y'all are so close,
Y'all consider being married?
He does, I don't.
You don't?
Ok.
But I mean, I know he's my roommate, but--
Police officer: Ok
--What did you find?
Now I'm going to charge him with the driving
On a suspended driver's license, all of which
Could have been avoided had he just identified himself,
Told me up front his license was suspended.
I probably would have just swapped you guys around
In the vehicle and let you--
Janet: Can't give him another chance?
No, ma'am.
I gave him-- you heard me give him several chances.
I've asked him, and I told him, and then I had to make him.
He was embarrassed he lost his license.
That's what it was.
James maddrey: You don't need to be embarrassed about losing
Your license.
Can I have a cigarette, please?
James maddrey: No, sir.
If you'd have cooperated, you could have been smoking
A cigarette at home right now.
You could learn a thing or two from your wife here, sir.
Janet: If think I--
Ok, yes.
Aw, that's sweet.
James maddrey: Ma'am, you are free to go,
And I appreciate your cooperation, ok?
Brandon bradley: Wichita is a fairly big city
Surrounded by a lot of country.
I'm fortunate enough my family owns a little bit of land east
Of wichita.
So I'm a big hunter and big fisher.
And so on the weekends, we'll go out there
And hang out with the kids.
So it's a great way to decompress after working
A long week and just go out and have fun and not
Have to worry about anything.
We're got a gas station where we have a lot of drug activity.
We saw a car that was leaving the gas station.
They didn't stop.
They kind of cut some cars off.
So we're going to stop the car and see what's going on.
Hello. Driver: Hello.
Hi, I'm officer bradley with the wichita police department.
The reason we stopped you, nothing major.
We were over at the gas station.
When you pulled out, you failed to stop before exiting
A private drive, ok?
Oh.
Do you have your driver's license, proof of insurance?
My bad, I'm sorry.
It's ok.
Here.
Can I just put this out? - What are you doing?
- Just-- - yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry. I don't have an ashtray.
Is this your vehicle?
Yeah, it's mine.
Yeah?
Here's my driver's license.
And then--
Is there any weapons or anything in the car
We need to be aware of? - No.
Do you remember me?
I've stopped you before.
Uh, possibly, I think.
- A couple of months back. - Yeah.
Probably, yeah.
Yeah, ok.
Nothing in the car tonight? - No.
Ok.
Just do me a favor. Hang tight.
I'll be right back with you, ok?
Ok, thank you.
Are you watching a movie on your phone?
No, it's on music.
It's on a playlist.
It's like, watching a movie while you're
Driving around town, or what?
No, no, no, no.
I wouldn't do that, no.
What was I pulled over for?
Bradley winger: When you left the gas station,
You're required to come to a complete stop
Suspect: Oh, I didn't?
Hey, emily?
Now I remember I know you from.
Do you remember when you had--
In the car with you?
Oh, yeah.
And he had that gun on him, and the cocaine was between you
Guys and all that good stuff? Ok.
I left him.
Brandon bradley: You did leave him?
That's good.
Yeah.
I haven't spoke with him since I--
Brandon bradley: That's good.
So, you're not in any trouble, anything like that.
But I'm just going to have you step back here.
I have a couple more questions for you, ok?
You're not in any trouble.
Just go ahead and step on out and step back here.
No, thank you.
Do what?
You can ask me the questions.
No, because I see an open container in your car.
So I'm going to have you step out,
And then we're going to go from there, ok?
Just go ahead and step back here to my partner.
I didn't give you any--
I don't-- again, we've talked about this, and we've discussed
This last time.
I see an open container. - Step over here with me.
Brandon bradley: So I'm going to make sure that's what it is.
Suspect: Ok.
Sorry. Brandon bradley: That's ok.
It just looks like there's a-- so, there's a bottle
In the back that looks like it's an open container of alcohol.
Suspect: Oh, ok.
Yeah, I must have left that in there then.
I'm sorry.
Bradley winger: Ok.
I wasn't drinking and driving.
I swear.
Ok, that's fine.
So, it's illegal to have it in the car.
You can't have an open container.
Suspect: I thought since it was empty.
My bad. I thought--
Brandon bradley: Winger, 15.
We'll talk about it here in a second, ok?
All right, let me walk over here.
I'm just going to--
I'm going to help you sit down on the curb, ok.
What's that?
--Sit?
Yep, just go and sit down.
Brandon bradley: So far, we've got some m-30 pills.
Looks like we got a straw, got a little baggie of weed.
Suspect: I had taken some stuff from my sister, and I--
I don't know what it is.
Brandon bradley: Hey, emily.
Just go and step over here.
I'm just going to have you sit here
With your kind of your legs kicked out and just face me,
Ok?
And you can sit back in there.
How old are you, emily?
- 22. - 22?
Ok.
So, I found this pink purse, pink zip-up pouch
That's next to you.
Is that your pouch?
Well, it was my sister's.
She had given it to me.
Also inside of there, there's quite a few--
Suspect: She had given them to me.
I don't even do them, man.
You don't do them?
No, not like that.
I tried it twice now.
She's given me to try them because she said
She thought it would helped me.
Take a deep breath.
That's ok.
Listen, it's all right. It's all right.
I don't even-- go home like that.
I really don't even do them like that.
Brandon bradley: So, the pills-- do you know what they are?
She told me they were percocets.
Brandon bradley: Oh, percocets?
Did she have a prescription for them, or--
She does, yeah.
Brandon bradley: Ok.
Do you know on the streets right now, people are faking
Those m-30 pills, and they're making them out
Of fentanyl, which is highly addictive and highly dangerous?
Yeah, so, she gave-- how many did she give you total
When she gave them to you?
I think-- I think probably five of them.
Five?
Because there's 4 and 1/2 in there, ok?
So, did you just try a half?
Ok.
How did you take it?
Did you swallow it?
She told me to snort it.
Brandon bradley: To snort it?
Ok.
When did you do that?
Last night.
Brandon bradley: Last night?
Did you forget they were in the car, or--
Yeah.
Yeah, I left them in the car because I did it before I went
To get my dad's last night. Brandon bradley: Ok.
You're struggling with a little bit of addiction
It kind of feels like.
Is that just residual?
Residual.
I wouldn't-- she thought it would help
Me because I get so depressed.
It's not like an everyday thing?
It's just, like, kind of when you're feeling down
Or depressed?
Ok.
Does it help?
No.
What about therapy, counseling?
Does that stuff help?
It helps me a little bit, but I'm
Still depressed all the time.
Yeah?
Listen.
First of all, I want to say this.
I want to say I'm rooting for you, ok?
I really am.
But it sounds like you got some good help at home.
Your dad's trying to help you out.
[sobbing]
Brandon bradley: And addiction is very hard, right?
We do offer services for that.
But here's the thing.
This is the second time I've ran into you.
And each time, you've had some pretty
Serious stuff in your car.
Ok?
So I don't feel like last time, you understood, you know--
I swear. I swear.
Because I gave you a warning, essentially.
I swear to god, I do not.
I swear.
Well, that's the problem, though.
This is the second strike, right?
Suspect: Please.
So I can't--
Suspect: It wasn't my-- - I'm doing--
Suspect: --Stuff last time.
But listen, listen.
I feel like I'd be doing you a disservice
At this point, right?
Because-- - this is--
--Because you didn't learn from the first time.
I did.
Brandon bradley: You said you used them last night, right?
Suspect: I used a half of one because she was with me.
I didn't even want to.
I haven't touched him since.
I understand that, and I understand you're
Battling something right now. - Yes.
I do.
This is going to [bleep] up my life so bad.
It's going to ruin my life.
- I'm not messing up your life. - I know.
I know. Not you.
This is going to ruin my life, and I know it is--
You made this decision, right?
Yes, but I was going to throw them away.
I wasn't even going to do anymore.
I swear to god.
I understand that, but you still have them.
Watch your feet.
Police officer (radio): 132 and bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
--At gunpoint.
132 and bush.
Coverage code 3.
Police officer (radio): Since 10.
[police radio dispatch]
Police officer (radio): 10814, 10814.
4368.
Police officer (radio): Ok, we'll still send a code three.
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