Sync and corrections by n17t01 www.addic7ed.com
♪ bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha want, whatcha want... ♪ - Stop!
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ when Sheriff John Brown come for you? ♪
- Good boy! Good boy! - All right!
Let me see your hands.
♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
♪ bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
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 was an officer in Florida for about six years
before coming up here. The crime's pretty much the same.
We were a very busy city. We were very busy down south.
Mainly the weather changes are different.
In Florida I can't remember wearing
a long-sleeve police shirt on duty.
And here last winter it was -20 below
a couple times and it was cold.
And I was not used to it.
203, I'm out at Boonville and Olive.
Possible disturbance between
a male dressed as a female in a wheelchair
and a shirtless male.
And then some other people around. We don't know if it's physical yet.
We got it.
I told him you get to stepping
or I was going to defend myself
in a proper manner.
- Sit down. Stay. - No.
Sit down, partner, sit down.
Sit down please.
Do not stand up again. Do you understand me?
Do you live in the towers?
That's right. You dyed your hair. I didn't recognize you.
- Yeah, I got it bleached. And had it done. - All right.
- But no, he was told-- - Do you know this guy?
Ask these people back here. He was told several times by me
to move on down the road. He stepped toward me several times.
- For what? - I told him-- Huh?
- What's he trying to do? - He just kept...
- Get up on you? - ...getting in my personal space.
I told him to move on down the road
or I was going to seriously do some bodily harm to him
because he was in my private space.
I am not going to be physically attacked by him or anybody else.
- Okay. - I'm going to protect myself.
Okay? And he kept approaching me
so I took him down. When he turned around--
spun around this way
and was trying to attack-- verbally attack another...
- Do you know him? - I don't know him.
- Oh, okay. - A yellow cab
dropped him off. He was cussing out the cab driver.
Apparently he was, like, yelling,
"Oh, I'm just looking for some meth" and this and that.
And I'm like, "We don't need that!"
So what do you got to say, partner, about--?
You've obviously heard these allegations.
- What's up? - Posturing, like he was going--
I thought my girlfriend was in the-- Over there.
Uh-huh, so what happened?
What about the rest of it though that she's saying?
Uh, I have my ID on me. Do you want that?
No. I'm asking you what do you have to say about it?
You just sat here and heard everything that he--
- He? - She's--
- Yeah, he. - I don't know what the ***** you're talking about, bro.
She said-- You just heard all of that.
- What are your thoughts? - I came walking down from Harbells.
- Yeah? - Harbells, right? You know where Harbells is?
- Yes. - Right, where's it at?
Now you're quizzing me or something like that?
I'm asking you your side of the story, man.
- What's going on with you? - I'm right down the street. I'm walking down there, man.
I asked them for-- for a light.
- You know what I mean? - How'd you get that lighter right there?
- What? - There's a lighter right there.
- Right here. - Oh-- I can't touch it.
Did you get thrown down by her?
Pushed me the ***** down, yes sir.
You fell down.
Did she get up out of the chair?
I'm not pressing any charges.
Know what I mean? She-- she-- she did throw me
the ***** down, dude. Like...
Like, I-- What the ***** you gonna do, man?
The wheelchair was like pushing--
Do you use drugs, man? You're-- Have you used drugs tonight?
- Cigarettes. - Cigarettes? Those are your drugs?
- What? - Well, she said you were mentioning something about meth.
Asking her for meth or something.
I smoke cigarettes. Get me out of here.
Dog...
Aye aye!
Aye!
- You all right? - I'm done with this shit, dude.
- What is this? No. - Can I stand up?
- Why? - Because we've instructed you to sit down.
I'm in America. All right.
- Sit down, partner. Sit down. - Sit down.
- Why are we fighting?
- Put your hands behind your back. - Fine, fine, fine.
- So I can handcuff them. - What the ***** ? What, what?
- Compliance was earlier. You had a chance for it. - No, no, no!
Compliance was you should have sat down when you were told to.
Come on, I made a mistake.
Fine, fine, fine, I'll sit down.
Trying to get your side of the story and all you can do
is yell and do some kind of weird hand gestures.
Everybody over there has the same story about
him getting in the gal in the wheelchair's face.
- And then she finally... - No, no, no.
...just took him down when he wouldn't leave her alone.
They also all had the same story that he comes up offering everybody meth,
wanting to know if they wanted any meth.
And he asked for the one gal's lighter.
Takes her lighter and just wanders off,
but didn't ask for a cigarette and didn't light a cigarette.
I guess he got in a confrontation with a taxicab driver.
They just-- just-- ***** me good.
- Book me for whatever the ***** -- - Book you for what?
Exactly!
What did you do that we need to book you for?
Exactly.
Quit wasting my ***** time!
I wanna go home, bro.
No, you're coming with us. You're gonna get medically evaluated.
Okay? One, two, three, buddy.
What are you doing with your foot? What are you doing?
- Don't ball you up. - I just wanna go home.
You're not going home. You're going to jail.
- For what? - For common assault.
It's a municipal violation in Springfield.
Get in the car.
- All right. - Put your butt down first.
He's on some type of drugs.
We could've just run him to Cox North or Mercy.
We'll get him the help he needs.
More than one time I said, "Look,
you do not want to ***** with me."
Okay.
I am somebody you do not want to mess with.
- All right. - I will hurt you.
And I will drop you dead if I have to.
- He'll still stay with it. - He started posturing
against my friend and I felt that my friend was in danger.
- And I grabbed him and I went-- Take him down. - Sounds good.
Straight down. And I'm like-- I grabbed him.
I put a...
Yeah, you can probably get rid of that.
I-- I put some...
mojo on him, basically.
- Pressure points... - Okay.
...to basically paralyze him in place,
- where he couldn't really move. - Mm-hmm.
And I'm like, "Look, I'm going to let you go,
but you are going to start stepping away from us."
Okay. All right. He's basically gonna get a ticket,
but he's also going to the hospital. He's on something
and we gotta get him calmed down because he won't calm down.
Thanks, guys. Appreciate the cooperation.
I try to take the cool approach.
I don't like to come up and really get in anyone's face.
Get buddy-buddy. If you're cool enough,
they'll sit there and talk to you for as long as you want.
We're going to a family disturbance right now.
A third party's calling in
saying there's two family members fighting with each other
and throwing furniture around.
So we're just about to arrive and we'll see what's going on.
So they're still up in the room?
No, they're slamming each other around.
These are the other two roommates? So Betty and...?
- Francis. - Betty and Francis?
You can still hear the thumping and the banging.
- How old are we talking? How old are they? - 20 and 22.
Oh. Is this your house? You say you're roommates with them?
- Yeah, it's my house. - All right.
Yeah, roommates with them.
I'm not gonna stay out all night now.
- Let go. - All right, let go of each other.
- Stand up. - My God!
You stand up for me.
Get up.
- Get up. - Get up!
Get her.
- He wouldn't get off. - Get some clothes on.
- C'mere. - Get some clothes on.
He got any injuries on him?
- Throw something over you. - Need medical?
- Um, I have a dress around here somewhere. - I bit my lip.
Just your lip? Who was this in here on the floor?
- It's my fiancee. - How old are you?
- Your fiancee? - Yeah.
- Do you live here with her? - 20-what?
Let's have a seat in this chair right here, okay?
Just your lip hurts, right?
Yeah.
All right, what's your name?
Francis.
That's your fiancee. How long you guys been dating?
About a year and a half.
- You guys stay in the same room, right? - Yeah.
In here or does he live with you yet?
- No, he stays here. - All right.
What's going on?
Somehow he got really jealous about me.
He heard I was with a bunch of chicks at Rite-Aid.
And ever since he came home
he was really hostile.
And I tried to clear the situation,
but he just wanted to make it worse.
What was I hearing downstairs?
That you guys just tussling or just throwing furniture or what?
That was-- that was me. That was me yelling for my roommate Marty.
'Cause Francis was like slapping me around
- and holding me down by my neck. - Okay.
Holding you by your neck, you said?
- Okay. - Yeah.
I saw he was on top of you when we got in here.
- Yeah. - Was that what all the rug burns--?
Let me see your arms. That's all the rug burns are on your arms and elbows?
- Yeah. - How long you guys been fighting?
Like physically fighting tonight other than just arguing?
Physically fighting? It could be a half hour to an hour.
Just...
- Mano a mano, huh? - Yeah.
- Was he biting you? - Yeah, that was a bite mark.
Pull your hair back for me a little bit.
It feels like I have something on my arm.
- Is that biting? Is that-- - It's biting.
You say he grabbed you around the neck. Was he squeezing your neck?
Could you breathe? Or were you losing your breath?
- I was losing my breath. - Is it hard to swallow right now?
No, it's okay for now.
How long have you guys been affianced?
You've been dating for a year and a half, right?
We've been dating for quite a long time, but he just recently proposed.
All right, just sit tight here for a second.
- I'm gonna go talk to my partner, all right? - Okay.
All right.
Hey, I didn't get your story, man, about what happened.
We got into a conversa-- a confrontation
about how she was holding the landlord's hand
instead of mine, because we're engaged and everything.
- Gotcha. - I got upset and every time I tried to hold her hand
she pushed me away. And when we got home,
I confronted her about it.
- So she dated... - Marty, years ago.
- Oh, years ago. - Before we even met.
- Which one's Marty? - The one with the curly hair. Downstairs.
Okay, I gotcha, gotcha. When we got in there, you were on top of her.
How did you end up on top of her?
It started out just-- I don't know why,
but it all got hostile, then we both bit each other.
My lip and there, and then I bit her arm.
I left to cool down, came back. She was in her room.
I tried to talk to her and things escalated.
Okay.
I'm gonna ask you just a couple of quick questions.
Did you date Betty at all?
- Nope. - Were you guys dating, like, years ago?
No. And that's why they were fighting was because
he was, like, all insecure 'cause me and Betty have a connection.
She's got, like-- she's got a 130 IQ
and I've got a 145 IQ. So as far as like communicating,
we can communicate on a level and Francis can't
catch the level that we're communicating on.
- He can't keep up, right? - No, he can't keep up.
- Gotcha. - And so that creates more insecurity,
and more, like, inferiority.
But they're-- you know.
They're a nightmare for each other.
And I told her that it doesn't matter how much you love somebody
or how great the sex is,
if you're insecure it'll destroy the relationship.
- Yeah. - But they didn't want to listen or hear that.
- Yeah. - You know.
- Thanks, man. - Thank you.
All right, Francis, this is what's going on, okay?
What you said, what she said,
you guys both battered each other, you both pushed each other,
bit each other and so on.
But it sounds like you kind of pushed the confrontation.
All right? So based on that,
we believe you're the primary physical aggressor,
so you're going to be placed under arrest tonight for domestic battery.
Here, let me explain to you what's going on real quick
and then I'll have you finish that, okay?
He's going to jail for domestic battery.
- I really don't want to press charges. - That's fine.
- He had warrants too, by the way. So not the biggest deal. - Yes, I know about that.
He has speeding tickets because he used to have a bike.
So hey, you told--
Or who told me? He told me that you're dating--
that you've dated the homeowner?
- Way before your boyfriend? - Marty? No, no, him and I have never been together.
- Nothing, huh? - No.
- Why would he say that? - Um, probably because he's like--
- He has so many insecurities. - I know you don't want to press charges...
- I don't. - Well, here's the good news. He's gonna be out of the house
and gone tonight because this would have kept
going and going until someone got real hurt. Don't you think?
I'll be out there in a second and get that statement from you.
- I thank you guys though. - All right.
All right, Francis. I let her know that you're going to jail
and what for-- you got bench warrants and all that,
and then the domestic battery, okay?
She told me she didn't want to press charges.
But I explained to her that it's the state kind of pressing charges.
All right? What are you gonna do now, after you get out of jail?
You gonna-- you guys gonna stay together?
I want to, yeah. I love her.
You gonna make up? Rekindle the passion?
- If I can. - Okay.
- Think she's gonna take you back? - I don't know.
So this isn't over, right? You guys still gonna get married?
- I hope so. - All right.
I love being a police officer.
I've wanted to be a police officer my whole life.
I've been a police officer for about three years.
I worked for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in Vegas
and now I've been out here in Pahrump. I love it.
Love working here.
It's a great city to work in.
Did you see it-- Aw.
This guy just pulled out in front of me and almost
caused me to crash. We're gonna try to attempt to locate him
to conduct a traffic stop on him.
103, a clear arrest site.
- Hey, how you doing? Can I talk to you real quick? - All right.
- What? - You step in front of my car?
Sure. Because I turned in front of you?
- Is that what this is? - Can you keep your hands out of your pockets for me?
I'll be out with a Hispanic male
- in the Wal-Mart parking lot. - I'm not Hispanic.
I'll copy the plate. 444... can you roll me another unit?
How you doing?
Eh, obviously you're making a point so how could I help you today, sir?
- Copy. 64 en route. - What's with the attitude?
- I have no attitude. - You need to calm down.
Am I talking in a bad tone? Am I coming at you?
So far you've called me a Mexican gentleman.
Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back, you're being detained.
How am I being resistful in any way?
You called me a Mexican for no reason.
- 103, one detained. - I have not questioned him.
- How you doing? - I was better till you pulled me over.
- Are you done? - You're not treating me like a human being.
How am I not treating you like a human being?
I don't know, man. How have you treated me since you pulled up?
I've approached you in a nice demeanor, I put my hands upon your hood.
- You've called me a Mexican. - You've approached me--
I pulled you over because you pulled in front of me.
- You were-- - You almost made me-- cause me to crash.
Why don't you calm down, stay in front of the car?
- Right in front of the-- - Don't put your hands on me, dude.
- I can put my hands on you. - Why? What gives you the right?
Calm down.
Well, you're upsetting me now. You're touching me, you're--
- How you doing? - You doing?
He pulled out in front of me, I pulled back around to get him
and I stopped him, say, "Hey, can I talk to you for a minute?"
He starts yelling, screaming. And he's in handcuffs because he's not cooperative.
Why do you have me in handcuffs over a traffic citation? This is bullshit!
- Look how you're acting. - Look how you ***** are treating me!
- Dude, you need to calm down. - Calm down.
- This is bullshit. - Sir, stay in front of the car.
- Where's your ID at, sir? - It's in my right pocket. Grab it, bitch!
- Can I grab it? - Grab it! It's in my right pocket.
- You need to calm down. - No, I'm pissed! This is a violation of rights.
How is it a violation of your rights?
Really? This is how you treat everybody?
You call them a-- "I'm detaining a Hispanic male."
You profile me, okay?
You don't know who I am. You tell me, "I'm detaining a Hispanic male."
You don't even know who I am. You haven't asked for my ID.
- Stop screaming. - Listen.
- All right. - Can you-- You want to talk to me?
- What-- Listen, what did I do to you? - You did nothing, man.
Okay, can you talk to me like a reasonable person?
- Can you talk to me? - Can we give it a couple minutes?
I am bipolar. I'm already upset.
- Okay, relax. - You got me in ***** handcuffs.
- Shut up, dude. - Dude, stop.
- I'll be glad to tell this one. - Look, listen.
Hey, don't tell me to shut up. Calm down!
Why would I be-- Why wouldn't I be upset?
- I don't know. - If I treated you like you're treating me,
locked up like a ***** animal,
- why wouldn't you be upset?! - How did I treat you?
- You're going in back of the car. - No!
Go in the back of the car.
- Why? Why? - 103, one resisting!
- Why? Why? Why? Why? - 'Cause you can't calm down.
I'm not throwing-- I didn't do anything!
- Why are you arresting me? - Get in the car.
- Why are you arresting me?
I didn't say you were under arrest. I said you're going in the car.
- Get in the car. - Then hand me my ***** keys, man.
Get in the car. Sit down.
I can't, you got my ***** knee jammed!
- Back up! Back up! - Sit down.
- Back up and I will comply! - Calm down.
Back up and I will comply!
What does that even mean?
If you back up I can stand back and get my knee unfolded.
Can you relax?
Stop pushing on my ***** knee!
- Just move please! - Nobody's pushing your knee.
And I'm not letting you kick me. It's an officer safety issue.
- You sit down in the car. - I'm not gonna kick you, I only want to hit you.
I want to know why you're pulling on my handcuffs,
- shoving me in the back seat of a car. - You won't sit down in the car.
- Because you ***** - - There you go.
- Move your knee.
- What was he driving?
He's driving that blue Buick right there.
- Okay. - He might be under the influence of something.
He hasn't stopped-- you know, he hasn't stopped screaming and yelling
- and calling me names and stuff. - With that behavior, definitely.
Yeah, with that going on.
Okay.
- Charles. - Yes.
- Let's start over. - Okay, I'd like to speak...
- I'm Deputy Cox. - ...to the other officer.
- That's me. - The other officer please.
- You want to speak to another officer? - Yeah.
- You're gonna speak to me. - Why is that, sir?
- Because it's my traffic stop and you're gonna talk to me. - Okay. Sure.
We can agree to disagree, but you committed
a violation on the street. So I have a reason to stop you.
So write my ticket, sir, and I'd like it.
- Well, are you gonna calm down? - Yes, I'm calm.
Or would you like to go to jail?
No, I don't want to go to jail. Nobody wants to go to jail.
Correct. So what do you say I take you out,
I take those handcuffs off you and we talk like adults?
- Sure. - Is that cool? All right.
Come on. I'm just gonna help you out.
Here, come over here. Right here, right here.
- We'll go right here. - Where would you like me to stand?
Just right here. Right here. Relax, relax.
Like I said, let's talk like normal adults.
There's nothing normal about this situation.
This is full-blown felony stop.
Put this hand on your head. Felony stop is when
we take out a firearm and point a firearm at you and prone you out on the street
then we handcuff you. Was that done to you?
No, you were handcuffed for yelling and screaming at me.
No, I wasn't at gunpoint, no.
What's going on today? Are you okay?
- I'm fine. I have-- - Okay, are you under the influence of anything?
- No? Okay. - I have extreme, uh...
What do they call that disorder? For people with--
- Authority? - Yes.
Authority, you have problems with authority.
- It's been that way since I was in Special Ed. - Okay, fair enough.
So you guys come in here, storming all your badges.
I'm-- Literally, I'm still talking to you in the same tone.
I haven't raised my voice one time to you.
Understand you're talking to me in a government authoritive tone
like a psychologist and I find it extremely ***** offensive
because it's monotone, okay? It is a manipulative way to talk to people
and I don't like it, so I just--
- I get why-- - I become a different breed of person.
I apologize for rubbing you wrong. And you're okay.
- Did you have anything against Mexicans or something or other? - No.
- No? Okay. - I'm Mexican, Irish, German, Scottish, Dutch.
- There you go. So we're in the same-- - It doesn't matter.
Brother, we're in the same boat, so.
Okay, so what are you gonna do? Are you just gonna write him...
I'm gonna give you a ticket and not take you to jail.
I'm sorry if I got agitated, but this isn't a normal traffic stop.
And nothing's routine. Nothing's routine in our line of work.
It's just basically an improper turn.
It's not an admission of guilt. Just a promise to appear.
If you've got any questions, just give us a call, okay?
- Thank you. - Have a good one, guys.
You too.
132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.
Sync and corrections by n17t01 www.addic7ed.com