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♪ 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 have been on the Omaha Police Department for almost seven years now.
My sister, my sister-in-law, and my husband are all
on the Omaha Police Department as well.
In fact, I met my husband on the job.
It's nice to have somebody to go home to vent to after a particularly hard day.
Somebody that gets it.
Somebody that knows what we deal with out here on the street.
We're en route to a call right now
where a passerby called
and said there was a male on the corner attempting to commit suicide.
He apparently slit his wrists and there's blood everywhere.
We have a squad en route.
Several other officers on scene also.
Got the knife in his hand.
White male, blue shirt, blue jeans.
Behind you, blue.
I'm going taser.
Put it down.
He's got a box cutter.
Put it down, bud.
You're not in trouble.
But we gotta get you help before you bleed out.
Okay, walk towards us.
Please?
He dropped it.
Come on, you gotta step away from it.
Why don't you walk away?
Jackie.
Keep your hand out of the bag, man.
- I want my beers. - Get your hands out of the bag.
- I'm getting my beer. - Put your hands in the air.
I want my beers.
Put your hands straight up in the air.
- I want my beer! - Put your hands in the air!
Get on the ground!
- Get on the ground. - I'm not getting on the ground.
Put your hands in the air.
- No. - Put your hands in the air.
I'll let you shoot me.
- Taser, taser, taser. - Put your hands in the air.
Get it behind your back,
get it behind your back or you'll get zapped again.
****** , I never felt that before.
Baker 26, taking one into custody.
Wow, that hurt.
Baker 26, we're 88, party in custody.
- I'm gonna roll you over on your butt, okay? - Get off!
- I'm good, I got-- - Hang on.
I got zapped one time. I'm not getting zapped again. That hurt.
You're on the curb, I don't want you to fall off, all right?
That's fine. That's fine, I got my leg up.
That hurt, ****** !
Please.
All my shit I been through, I've never been zapped.
Hold on for a second.
Hey, man, what's your name?
What's that?
You hiding something anywhere else?
- No. - No?
You trying to kill yourself?
- Yes. - All right.
You tried that before?
- Very much. - Guys, I'm gonna go inside.
I've had quite a few.
I didn't think nobody knew.
I was just trying to ****** around before I dug deeper.
Well, you dug pretty deep, buddy.
All right, tell you what, let's roll back over.
- Okay. - You're not going to give us any trouble, are you?
No, I'm not.
- That taser sucks, huh? - Yeah, that sucks, man.
We're going to take him to the hospital right now, get him treatment.
He has a pretty good gash on his forearm.
****** , that hurt.
He had a razor blade in his hand when we got here, and he didn't want to drop it.
The officer tried to have him drop the razor blade, but he wouldn't.
So, when he approached him, he tried to reach his hand in the bag there,
and we weren't sure what was inside the bag.
Um, so I had to pull out my taser
because he wasn't complying with commands to take his hand out of the bag.
So, for his safety, that's the best route, was just to tase him,
and he complied once he was tased.
So, this is the razor blade he was holding up when you showed up on scene?
That's right.
Was he-- Did he have it up to his arm, or did he...
He was seated here and he just had it in his hand,
and you could see blood dripping from his arms.
So, obviously quite a bit of blood here on the ground.
- I'll ride with the squad. Do a manual. - Okay. Okay.
I pulled up behind the engine, so I was the first officer here.
He was sitting here the whole time with the razor blade in his hand.
And then I was waiting for backup while I had lethal cover on him,
trying to get him to drop the razor blade.
Obviously, he didn't want to do that.
He was yelling back at us.
I really couldn't hear what he was yelling over
the engine noise of the rig, but...
obviously, I knew I wasn't going to go anywhere near him
until we had enough people to take care of it.
Well, when we showed up, we heard you tell him to drop the razor blade,
and he flat out said no.
- Yeah. - Not going to do it.
He definitely had no intention of doing that voluntarily.
Um, so...
- Hold on. - Man, get out of here.
- Hey, listen. - Man, I don't want-- You got me ****** up.
You tased me.
There ain't... Nothing else I can do.
Well, I just want to come up here, make sure you're doing all right,
which it seems like you are, better than the position you were in, right?
No. I can't believe y'all tased me.
I should've got up and ran at you, so you'd shoot me, man.
Um, are you ready to take off?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Um, he's still extremely agitated.
He doesn't want to speak to me because I'm the one who tased him.
He wants no part of what I have to tell him right now.
Definitely a win for the taser in this instance.
The less lethal option.
The paramedics couldn't get any closer to help him out,
and they obviously could see he was bleeding.
But they couldn't get closer to him because he still had the weapon.
Ordered him to drop it several times.
He finally did drop it.
But once he started rummaging through his bag again,
we just-- we couldn't take any chances, so...
they deployed the taser and it was very effective.
Immediately gave up after that and...
that was it. Luckily he'll go to the hospital, get checked out.
And then, obviously, talk to somebody about why he wanted to hurt himself.
I've been fortunate enough to be assigned
as a neighborhood resource officer
to a proactive unit for about the past three years.
Working in a small, private unit has its advantages.
You're working with the same guys every day.
Get into bigger investigations involving either narcotics or firearms.
Makes putting cases together easier and safer.
That kid's wanted.
We're heading up here to back up Officer Shaw.
He just saw a subject he believes has a warrant.
He's going to try to get out and chat with him, see if he's still wanted.
He's taking off, he's running.
Northbound and Postbrook.
He'll be coming out to 42nd by the Jordan's Fish And Chicken.
Black male, black t-shirt, black shorts. Right there.
Get on the ground!
Get on the ground.
Hands behind your back.
Go kill your siren, I got him.
Apprehension at 9100 Saratoga.
I ain't even do nothing.
All right.
Think you got a warrant, man.
I ain't got no warrant.
Why'd you run if you didn't do nothing?
You stopped me for nothing.
Stand up.
He got anything on him?
Haven't got that far yet.
Why'd you run, David?
'Cause you always stopping me for nothing.
- You got warrants. - I ain't got no warrant.
Okay.
He ain't had no reason to stop me.
You have your warrants, or no?
No, I ain't have no warrant.
When did you get them taken care of?
Like, a month and a half ago.
I just ran you, like, two weeks ago.
All we want to do was chat, and you took off running.
Anything on you that's gonna get you in trouble?
- No. - Okay.
If I walk back down towards the creek
and around those buildings,
there's not gonna be anything laying out there, is there?
Nope.
This ain't his first time pulling me over for nothing.
'Cause you had warrants the last time I checked you.
I ain't got no warrants.
But I couldn't even talk to you
'cause you took off running.
I knew he had a of couple warrants
last week or two weeks ago.
So I was gonna stop and check with him.
He turned around and saw me and he took off running.
So we'll figure that out.
Did you see him drop anything when he took off from you guys?
I didn't see him drop anything
but he had his hand down by his waistband.
I don't know if he's trying to hold his pants up or
trying to get whatever he had in his pocket and get it out.
Officer Brezik's gonna go backtrack and make sure
he didn't throw anything in the creek or in the weeds
back there, so...
He's negative, he doesn't have any warrants, so...
we're just making sure he didn't throw anything down.
Weapons or narcotics or a reason he would have run.
This corner's really the only place it could've been.
Oh.
There's a good amount of pre-packaged marijuana back here.
Looks like when he threw it the big bag opened up.
There's several small baggies
laying around in this bush.
So see if we can collect all those up.
Need me to bring anything?
We're good, I think I found what he threw back here.
Right when he ran to this corner.
All right.
So I'm guessing this is why he ran.
He wanted to try to get out of sight and get rid of this.
That's a fairly large amount of marijuana.
It's all pre-packaged the same size.
It's indicative of sales instead of use,
so the weight alone should be enough to enhance it
to a felony offense, but with his prior conviction,
it's a felony for him to possess marijuana.
Can I go, please?
This is all for nothing.
- Well, you ran-- - I mean, I just feel like
it's fair because it's all for nothing.
You ran from the police.
You was basically stopping me
'cause you thought I had warrants
that I don't have, as you see.
So why I gotta still go to jail?
'Cause I ran?
You ran from the police after we told you to stop.
I wanted to talk to you and make sure you cleared up
your warrants, and then you turned around and saw me
and you took off running.
Then this officer finds marijuana.
There's one spot in this whole complex
where I couldn't see you.
In that one bush that I looked in
I find this. See what I'm saying?
It ain't mine.
So I'm going to jail for something.
You're going to jail for fleeing and for possession
and dealing marijuana.
And like I said, that's up for the court to decide.
Why am I going to jail for possession and dealing
something that's not mine?
It's called constructive possession, all right?
What's constructive possession?
That ain't mine.
Ask your attorney, man.
- That's not mine, bro. - Okay.
I'm not gonna argue with you about it.
But it's not mine, bro.
- Relax. - Okay.
So basically, I'm coming from the gas station just now
from buying a juice,
walking down the street,
and I'm getting stopped for nothing.
Okay.
There's no probable cause,
I didn't do nothing wrong.
Nobody called on me.
I'm just walking down the street,
coming from getting a juice
and I'm being stopped.
So when you saw Officer Shaw, what did you do?
He pulled the car over and ran,
and started running toward me.
He yell at you or say anything?
Yeah, he said, "Stop, sir."
- I mean... - Okay.
Yeah, but by that time I was running, so...
So you just kept running?
- Okay. - Yeah.
You took off running.
You initiated that part of that.
Okay, I-- okay.
He was gonna have a conversation with you.
Okay, I can deal with it.
I ran, I'll deal with that.
I did do that, yeah. But I'm saying
what for, though?
All he wanted to do was have consensual conversation with you.
You say, "Hey, Officer Shaw, I'm not ready to talk.
I got to go. I got things to do.
I'm picking up some juice." Whatever it is.
You would have been solid.
You took off running from him, you gave him a reason
to start chasing you.
And then all this stuff gets found in your path of flight,
kind of tough to make up.
That's not mine.
Okay, I doubt there are too many other people
in this very unoccupied apartment complex
that were dumping that amount of marijuana just out
for no reason.
- That's not mine. - Okay.
I didn't have nothing, bro.
This is crazy.
Like I tried to tell you earlier, man.
Just, if you didn't take off running,
this could have all been avoided, all right?
This harassment, man.
Okay, good luck, man.
I grew up in Omaha
and came back after getting out of the army.
Joined the police department.
One of the more unusual stops I've had is
when I backed up another officer on a traffic stop
and the driver of the vehicle
was the son of my neighbor.
He had a warrant, we had to take him to jail.
Mowing the lawn was a little awkward
for the next couple weeks,
but everything turned out okay.
We're going to a burglary,
potential burglary in progress.
We're gonna be arriving here in just a moment.
There he is.
Come out here, man. Get out here.
Hey, he's hiding something. He's hiding something.
Sir, I didn't do nothing, sir.
Don't-- Do not do that.
I did not drop that right there.
- He's got a knife. - That is not mine!
I just picked it up off the porch, I swear!
Sir, I swear. I'm not even doing--
Get down! Stop resisting!
- Stop fighting us! - I'm not!
Stop fighting right now!
- I'm not fighting nobody! - Stop fighting!
- I'm not! - Stop fighting!
I swear, I didn't have nothing.
He's got a big knife on his back.
Don't you reach for that again!
Stop reaching for your knife!
I'm not reaching for anything, sir.
- Put your hands down. - 27, on call right now.
Sir, I swear I didn't do anything, sir.
- Sir, I didn't do... - Take your hand off of your other hand right now.
Sir, I'm not even resisting, sir.
- You were resisting. - No, I was not.
- Yes, you were. - I swear!
When my partner called you out,
and you went back inside the porch, that was a problem.
I was trying to put the cigarette down, man.
- Was it? - I didn't ask you to put the cigarette down.
- Okay, go ahead. - Officer...
Officer, I just found this on this porch, I swear.
It was just sitting on the rail.
- Oh! - Ready?
You all right?
- We'll take him up. - Officer...
I was knocking on this door, Officer.
I-- Can you hand me my phone, please?
- We'll get your phone, go. - Can you grab the phone, please?
- We'll get your phone, go. - Come out here.
Officer, I don't know why I'm even being--
- First, of all-- - Do you live here?
- My dad used to live here. - So you don't live here?
- Officer, my dad used to-- - You don't live here then.
My father used to live here.
You got anything on you that can stick me or poke me?
- Uh, no, I do not, Officer. - You don't live here then?
No, I do not.
My father used to live here.
- How long ago? - He just moved out, uh...
He got half of his stuff out, some of his stuff's still in here.
I swear. I'm not even lying.
- His name's Richard. - It's condemned.
It's con-- It's condemned?
Well, what do you think those yellow stickers are for?
I have nothing illegal on me, Officer.
- I just grabbed-- - Except for that big knife?
I grabbed the knife off of the front porch.
I swear.
You have any warrants, Richard?
No, I do not.
I grabbed these...
That wrench, cutters and I grabbed, uh...
the knife right on the side of the deck.
I'm gonna write his name real quick.
Officers, nothing illegal I have on me, I swear.
Remember, didn't we get him for probative person before?
- I think so. - No.
Yeah, we did. We got you--
- Off of Williams Street? - Yeah.
He lied about his name, and then we got him with...
with a stun gun, yeah. Stun knuckles.
Yeah. You're right, Officer.
Yeah, that was you, man. This was tucked
in the back of his pants,
as though he'd been carrying it around with him.
Which is not uncommon for this guy.
We're familiar with him. So...
Obviously an illegal knife that you can't have.
And especially when you're a convicted felon,
you can't carry it around with you.
Officer, I was not burglarizing anything.
The big problem we have with you right now is
you're a convicted felon and you've got a knife this long on you.
When we get close to you, you start reaching for it.
Even when you went to the ground in there,
and we're wrestling with you, you're still reaching back here
- for that knife. Okay? - Officer, I was not trying
to pull that knife on you guys, I swear.
You guys are just showing force and that was all,
and I was just-- just reacting to it.
- Okay. - And I apologize.
Well, I appreciate the apology,
but that doesn't change the fact that you're a convicted felon.
You shouldn't have had the knife to begin with.
His reason for being on the porch is
there was a female voice he heard.
And she said, "I'm not letting you in."
Oh, so you knocked on the door and she said, "I'm not letting you in"?
Yes! Yes!
That was probably the lady that lives there, inside.
Jen. I know her.
So if she said, "I'm not letting you in,"
why'd you stick around?
I wasn't sticking around.
I was like, "Where's my dad at?"
So you were sticking around to ask more questions?
No, no, no, no, no, no. No, sir.
I said, "Where's my dad at?"
And then she wouldn't answer me.
I thought he still lives here.
Officer, I know the lady. I know the lady inside.
- I know her. - Okay.
So when she said-- She stopped answering you,
then you turned to leave and you...
- Yes. - ...walked off the porch.
Yes! I was like, "Where's my dad at?"
And then what happened when my partner said, "Come here"?
And then I turned around and I flicked out a cigarette.
Okay.
Hello? Police.
I knocked on the door. No one answered.
Huh?
No one answered when I knocked on the door.
She's not gonna answer.
'Cause she's not supposed to be there.
I'm just letting you know that I heard a voice.
- That you know to be Jen's voice? - Yes.
- Okay. - Yes, sir.
I thought my dad still lives here.
So was it him scratching the "Condemned" stickers
- off the windows? - I don't know who did that.
I mean, come on.
How long has it been since you talked to him?
It's been like three weeks, almost four--
- almost close to a month. - You said you talked to him here three weeks ago,
but some of those stickers have been on longer than that.
- Those "Condemned" stickers. - Right.
- They've been scratched off. - Right.
So he's been living here illegally.
I don't think he's been living here.
He could have been staying here.
I'm not sure, Officer. Like I said, we don't talk that much.
Why didn't you come out when I yelled at you to come out?
I was just trying to turn around and flick out the cigarette.
- And that was it, Officer. - Why would you flick out a cigarette
on a porch full of stuff that can light on fire?
I-- Officer...
I was trying to, uh...
turn around and flick out the cigarette and then come out.
And that was it, Officer.
What were you gonna do with the knife you said?
I was gonna bring it down to you guys.
I mean-- Or take it over to the fire station.
I mean, I already know I'm a felon.
I'm not supposed to have these weapons.
I'm not trying to get into trouble for no reason, you know what I'm saying?
I've been trying to stay out of trouble ever since that incident we had
with that, uh, that knuckle taser thing.
Yeah, why would you even touch it, though,
if you knew you weren't supposed to have it?
Well, I mean, come on, there's kids around.
It was just right on the ledge,
right by the mailbox, like right behind it on the ledge.
- Okay. - Know what I'm saying?
It's like, you'll never know.
- I mean, kids... - Right.
There are a lot of kids around here,
so you were just gonna pick it up and walk it down
- to the police precinct? - Exactly.
All right, right now you're gonna be arrested for
resisting arrest and for probative person
and possession of a deadly weapon, okay?
We're checking on these houses, seeing if it's still
closed property or not, okay?
But right now those are the two charges you're looking at, all right?
- Okay? - We're trying to get a hold of Code Enforcement
to make sure that this is still a condemned structure.
If that is the case, then we'll get him for unlawful occupancy,
in addition to resisting
and the felony possession of a deadly weapon.