"(theme music playing) -¶ Bad boys ¶" "¶ Whatcha want, whatcha want ¶" "¶ Whatcha gonna do ¶" "¶ When the Sheriff John Brown come for you?" "¶" "Officer:" "You better stop!" "¶ Bad boys, bad boys ¶" "¶ Whatcha gonna do ¶" "¶ Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" "¶" "Hands behind your back!" "¶ Bad boys, bad boys ¶" "¶ Whatcha gonna do ¶" "¶ Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" "¶" "Announcer:" ""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." "Officer Gentry:" "My dad and I have started getting real serious into cooking barbecue and entering into competitions." "He's perfected his ribs and all that stuff and I help him prepare it and mostly sit around and eat all the good stuff." "I act like I'm working and get to eat a lot of good food." "It's a lot of fun to do that with my dad." "(police radio chatter)" "We're going to a domestic violence call." "There's a guy on scene who's throwing things around." "There's a couple deputies already there." "They're asking for another deputy to come 10-18, so we need to expedite our response, get there as safe as we can." "22595." "Where are they at?" "I had interference with the radio." "Uh..." "Where's he at?" "He's in the back." "He's, like, crazy as hell." "(people shouting)" "We're begging him to stop." "We don't know." "(people shouting)" "Officer:" "Robert, sit down." "Robert:" "Why, man?" "Just stay down!" "Rob, take the cactus out of your hand!" "How can I relax?" "Where's Leanne?" "She got my blood?" "Relax, Rob." "Come on, big guy." "We're on your side!" "Robert!" "Robert, get your hand off the wire!" "Ain't no wire to go." "You son-of-a-bitches!" "Robert, I'm on your side." "I don't give a (bleep)." "(bleep) tase me now!" "I'm low to ground." "Look, we're not gonna tase you." "We're not gonna tase you, Rob." "You wanna hear the crackle!" "We're not gonna tase you." "No, (bleep) that!" "Listen to me." "Look" "Drop it, Rob!" "I am a creature." "Hey, listen." "(indistinct) that pipe." "Drop it now!" "Put it down now or you're gonna get tased!" "Robert!" "No!" "Calm down, Rob!" "Put it down!" "Drop it, Rob!" "Taser." "(groans)" "Don't move, Robert!" "Put your hands behind your back." "Turn over!" "Turn over, Rob!" "Turn over!" "Ow!" "There you go." "Calm down, Rob!" "I've got a wire on my head." "Hey, I'm gonna get-- I'm gonna get him again." "Watch out." "Robert, you're gonna get it again." "Double cuff." "Double cuff." "Stop resisting!" "Stop resisting!" "(groans)" "Slow everyone down." "We're 10-15." "10-15." "Rob, calm down." "You wanna get him up?" "Hey, y'all hit me with electricity." "Why are you grabbin' stuff, man?" "If they ain't hear me by now, they'll never hear me." "Hey, guy, man, I would like your story, man." "You were doing good." "But we're listening to you, man." "Tell me about your sister, Big Rob." "We're listening to you." "She's beautiful." "She's beautiful?" "Yeah, that's awesome." "Yeah." "I one time" "Where she at?" "How old is she, Rob?" "(sobs) You all think I'm crazy." "No, no, I'm with you, Rob." "I'm with you." "I don't want to do that." "He picked up that cinder block and started slamming it on the ground." "I told him to put it down, he didn't, so we're here." "Robert, when I count to three, we're gonna lift you up, okay?" "And you're gonna go that way, all right?" "Straight, Rob." "Well, hang on, you ain't gonna let me up." "Yep, we're gonna lift you up." "Help me up." "We're gonna help you up." "Ready?" "One" "Hang on." "Watch that cactus." "We got you, big guy." "Y'all gonna drop me on it?" "Officers:" "No." "You promise?" "Robert, I promise you." "You ready?" "Please don't drop me on it." "One-- one, two, three." "There you go, Rob." "Walk straight." "There you go." "There you go." "See?" "We didn't drop you on it." "Come on." "You got his waistband in the front?" "Yeah." "Here, let me pull it up." "Whoa, whoa, stop, Rob." "Let me just ask him again." "Hey, I'ma pull these prongs out, okay?" "I already don't like cops." "All right?" "It's gonna sting a little bit, all right?" "All right, we're done." "No!" "Don't take me, officers!" "Please don't take me out of this fence!" "Come on, come on." "(mumbles)" "Come on." "We're going right there." "(indistinct) son-of-a-bitch!" "We're going right there." "Come on." "We're just gonna walk out and get you checked out by an ambulance, all right?" "You don't want me to leave this body." "No, we don't want..." "I'm just sayin'." "I'm an actor." "I'm a poet." "Yep, and you're a good rhymer." "I'm Shakespeare." "You didn't know it." "Shakespeare." "Yeah, and you rap real good too." "I shake the air!" "D-E-S-pair." "I swear." "Can everybody do a little better?" "Tear off the pairs!" "Yeah, you beat Lil Wayne, you told me." "Fire truck's right here." "They're gonna check you out and check your vitals, okay?" "That's all that I gotta say." "Hold on." "I'll see what they wanna do with him." "I've been here for a while." "I ain't going away." "Put-- Just put" "Stay here with him." "I'm gonna get-- make sure they're good." "I'm gonna let them know what's goin' on." "(bleep) eclipse." "I ain't (bleep) playing'." "I ain't Lil Wayne." "He's off the chain right now." "Eatin' a cactus." "A spice thing?" "It could be." "It could be spice." "Yeah, absolutely it could be." "We haven't" " I haven't debriefed the family yet, so I don't know what he's taken, and... but it very well could be spice." "Rob, Rob, just relax." "I'll feel bad for y'all, I swear, when I go to jail." "Relax, big guy." "Robert" "I ain't real mad." "I'm mad with the quill." "Hey, Robert, you do any drugs tonight?" "Yeah." "Methamphetamine." "You smoke it?" "Shot it up. 20." "All right." "Cool." "But you know what?" "Anything else?" "I tried to drink beer with my uncle." "I tried to smoke a bubble with him." "I wasn't gonna do a needle and I know he gets on it." "Yeah?" "And I said, "Let's do it." I smoked some and he said no." "He wasn't doing it." "And I went in there for spite 'cause he wasn't gonna smoke with me (bleep) tonight 'cause we always know that's (indistinct)" "K.A.K. mother-(bleep)." "I got y'all." "What the heck happened?" "Do a quick run down on what you all got." "Uh, when we first arrived on scene, the uncle met us at the front door sayin' his nephew was in the backyard basically nude and screaming at stuff." "When we got into the backyard, he was already dressed." "(sobbing)" "He started grabbing objects, wouldn't let us get close to him, threw a knife, threw a machete, he got a wire wrapped on his wrists." "I really thought he was gonna slit his wrists or choke himself with it, but as you saw, he started unwrapping them near the end." "Right, right." "That's when he grabbed the pipe and started swinging." "Yeah, well, I saw him grab that, so I just, you know, deployed and lucky I got a hit." "I'm just glad you got here because one of us wouldn't take him down by ourself." "He was" "Especially with that stick." "He was not going to get close." "He was ready to go when I got here for sure." "Well, I'm just glad we got him." "To be honest with you..." "Yeah?" "he's been rapping for like 30 minutes." "He's been doing it since I got here, too." "Yeah, he's been rapping and rhymes, and... just kept sayin' Lil Wayne ain't got nothin' on him." "That's what he kept sayin'." "John, what happened tonight?" "(stammering) He just, he flips out like that, man." "Well, he told us he took methamphetamine." "Is that true?" "Well, I don't know nothin' about that." "You didn't see him take it?" "No." "They was cuttin' two trees down," "I took my girlfriend over to where he is" "Who?" "He was?" "Yeah." "They were cuttin' up two pines in the front." "Him and three or four other guys." "Okay." "I mean" "It went from zero to 60 like that?" "That's how he is." "I mean, that's just how he is." "What was he in jail for last time?" "'Cause he went-- he" "Him and his sister." "Okay." "You know what I'm sayin'?" "I mean, I wasn't there for all of it..." "Okay." "but that's what it boils down to." "You know, he gets like this, but I mean, he-- he... he's a teddy bear, but I mean, he just gets-- he-- he-- he needs meds, man." "Is he diagnosed with anything?" "Is he prescribed anything?" "I don't think so, man." "I mean, I tried last time when they come out here and got him." "He was just like that." "I said, "He won't need to go to jail." "He needs to be diagnosed."" "Okay." "He needs to be sent to Grace Point." "I know all of 'em 'cause I got a girlfriend." "He's got cuts all over him." "Where did those come from?" "Just out in the yard beating' on-- beating' on (bleep)" "But he's a good man." "He just needs help, guys." "Okay." "Well, we're gonna get him some help, then." "I mean, for real." "We are." "We're not gonna arrest him tonight." "We're gonna take him to the hospital to get him the help he needs." "Corporal Shanks:" "So being from California, at least where I grew up, we're not big on barbecue, and coming to Lubbock, Texas, everybody's into barbecue and I just can't get enough of it." "What I cook the most has gotta be brisket." "That's number one." "That's my favorite thing now." "And I even went out and bought, you know, a nice smoker so I can do that myself 'cause that's" " I love it." "I could eat it all day if I could." "I'm gonna do a traffic stop on this vehicle for a traffic violation." "(police radio chatter)" "31-81, traffic." "Stay in the vehicle." "Huh?" "Stay in the vehicle." "(door squeaks)" "Go in the vehicle." "No, stay in it." "Okay." "Roll down your window." "Where you heading?" "Right here." "Oh, really?" "Yeah." "Why'd you circle around the block then?" "Uh, I'm just comin' right here." "You're just comin' right here so you circled around the block?" "Yeah." "Okay." "You have a driver's license and insurance?" "The reason for the stop is you failed to signal your turn right there." "All right." "Can I see your driver's license and insurance?" "Um, I don't have it." "You don't have it?" "Have you ever been issued a driver's license?" "Uh, yes, I have." "Okay." "You just don't have it with you?" "Yeah." "Why?" "Because-- Is it valid still?" "Uh... should be." "Should be?" "Okay." "There's nothing wrong with it?" "No." "You just don't have it?" "Okay." "Do you have anything in the vehicle I need to know about?" "Weapons?" "Huh?" "No." "Okay." "You sure?" "You were a little hesitant on that." "No." "Okay." "Anything else I need to know about?" "Alcohol or something like that?" "I can smell alcohol coming out of the car right here as I stand here." "So what, you got alcohol in there?" "You been drinking or what?" "Yes, sir." "Yes to which one?" "Well, I'm not gonna lie to you." "Yeah." "Well, I mean, I can smell it, so that's why I'm" "I'm not lying to you." "I'm joking" " I'm not joking with you." "So you drinkin' or you have alcohol open in the vehicle?" "Oh, no." "I see you have a cooler over there." "Yeah." "Is there alcohol in it?" "Yes, sir." "Is it open?" "No." "Were you drinkin' while you were driving?" "No, sir." "Okay." "And this is your house?" "Friend of mine that I'm just coming over here to see" "What's your friend's name?" "Bolina." "I was just comin' by to see if she's here." "Okay, so she's not expecting you?" "Uh, no." "No?" "Yeah." "Do you think she'll" "I stay here every once in a while 'cause I really don't have a place to stay, so." "Okay." "All right, stay in the vehicle." "Don't get out of the vehicle, okay?" "Okay." "Man on radio:" "22-67, traffic." "70600 University." "(indistinct chatter)" "(clattering)" "He's throwing something." "Why you throwing beer cans out?" "Sir." "Why you throwing beer cans out?" "No, I didn't." "Hey, what are you talking about, no, you didn't?" "There's one right there." "There's something that looks like..." "Jesus." "Keep your hands on the steering wheel." "Is that your gun that you just threw out?" "No." "(turns on radio) 31-81." "Change my 20 to 1,500-27." "Huh?" "No." "No?" "Get out of the vehicle." "Keep your hands up where I can see 'em." "Get up." "Get your hands up." "Put 'em on the car." "Put your hands behind your back." "You think you can just throw stuff out there like that and I'm not gonna notice?" "No, that's..." "Really?" "There's a gun right here." "That's-- that's not mine." "Huh?" "That's not mine." "That's not yours?" "No." "None of this is yours?" "No, sir." "Yeah, that wasn't there when I walked up." "That is not mine." "Okay." "Are you a felon?" "You ever been convicted of a felony?" "No." "No." "Have a seat right here." "Sit down." "Extend your legs and cross 'em." "Cross 'em." "(clattering)" "It's a Smith  Wesson 9mm." "I'll check the area once I get my backup over here." "(sighs)" "I wonder why he threw the gun." "There's a magazine on the side of it." "And it has rounds." "And now I'm gonna run the gun and him and see if the gun comes back stolen... or if he's a convicted felon." "He'll be in possession of a firearm and we'll go from there." "(radio beeps) -31-81." "Can you check a 9mm handgun for stolen?" "It's Romeo, Bravo, 5-9." "Woman on radio:" "Okay." "(kittens meowing)" "Clark, can you knock on the door and see if you can get her to come out here?" "I want to verify this story." "Officer:" "That's not your gun?" "Man:" "Uh, no." "Whose gun is it?" "You want to distance yourself from the gun that you tossed out the vehicle, so I'm wondering why." "You ever been arrested for burglary or theft or anything like that?" "No, sir." "No?" "No." "I was-- that's-- that's" " I didn't" "You can see why I'm thinking that." "Does that make sense?" "I don't even know why..." "I mean, I don't know who lives right there." "I mean, I" "Try the truth." "I... (mumbles)" "I don't" " I don't-- I mean, you know what?" "If you look at my cooler, I don't drink Bud Light." "I don't know what you were drinking." "The Bud Light was there" "But I don't drink Bud Light." "No-- -(police radio chatter)" "10-4." "Thank you." "Oh, no wonder." "Okay, well, you're under arrest for a felony possession of a firearm." "Just happens to be a convicted felon." "No wonder you're trying to ditch the firearm." "Let's go." "Get up." "Ready?" "One, two, three, stand up." "All right, have a seat, man." "Now it's all said and done, do you wanna tell me anything?" "What else can I tell you?" "I mean, you can tell me the truth." "It's not my pistol, bro." "It's not." "Have you ever exited a vehicle and seen a gun on the ground?" "There's no way you're telling me the truth at all because listen, first of all, you said you were comin' here." "You're going eastbound, okay?" "I got behind you, you circled all the way back and then you pull in to this house saying that you knew somebody, and that somebody was here and was gonna let you in." "Yeah." "So you come here and we knock on the door and no one's here to let you in." "Then I ask if you have open containers in the vehicle, you say no." "Okay?" "Then I ask if you have any weapons in the vehicle, and then you say no." "I step away from the vehicle for two seconds, and there's a gun there." "Okay, well, you're under arrest for a felony possession of a firearm plus driver's license invalid and you had an open container in the vehicle, okay?" "(door closes)" "Corporal Franks:" "I've always enjoyed coming down to Florida." "As a kid, I came down to visit Palm Beach County." "My grandparents lived down here." "So, I always had ties with the area and as I grew older and decided that law enforcement was what I wanted to get into for a professional career, there was no better place than coming to West Palm Beach." "We're gonna go check out the car." "It was going about two miles an hour in the lane of traffic." "There's a bunch of cars stopping and slamming on their brakes, and there's actually people waving us down." "Something might be wrong." "I don't know if the driver is passed out behind the wheel." "(siren blares)" "Forest Hill west behind East of Haverhill." "Silver Ford." "(radio beeps)" "Looks like a medical emergency." "Can you roll EMS?" "Vehicle is just strolling about two miles an hour." "Hey, no, no, no!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "What's up?" "He's not okay." "He's out." "He's out." "He is out!" "1, bravo, 2, 2, the vehicle is going into the westbound lanes." "He is out!" "He's not okay!" "Woman:" "He is out!" "I don't know if he's dead or not." "Sheriff's office." "Show me your hands." "Show us your hands." "Show us your hands." "Put your hands up." "Hands up." "You can do it." "1, bravo, 2-2, we got a vehicle stop." "We're on the median." "Put your foot on the brake." "What happened?" "Well, I just fell asleep." "I'm just tired." "Long day at work." "Okay." "Well, we were concerned." "You were starting to run off in the wrong way of traffic, man." "Go ahead and keep your hands out of your pockets." "Hey, just get him out for me." "Step out for me." "Here, I'll put that on top." "Officer:" "Hey, you know him?" "Man:" "No, he was just..." "Step on out for me." "How you feelin' right now?" "You all right?" "Yeah, I'm good." "I just got off work, man." "Step back here." "What's goin' on, partner?" "I'm on my way home." "Do you have any medical issues?" "I'm just tired." "I'm sorry?" "No." "Do you feel like you need the medics right now?" "No." "Route 2-2, cancel EMS." "Have a seat right here." "All right." "I'm sorry about that, man." "I'm beat, man." "I'm really tired." "You got some I.D. on you?" "No, I don't." "Is this your car?" "This is a rental car." "Rental car?" "How much you had to drink tonight?" "I went to a bar and probably had like two beers." "Sir, do you realize you were doing two miles an hour?" "No, I didn't." "I was just trying to make it home safe, man." "Okay." "You're gonna run my license, right?" "Yeah, I'm going to." "Is there something I need to know about?" "What?" "What is that?" "Yes." "It's suspended." "For what?" "Unpaid tickets." "Unpaid tickets?" "Yeah." "Okay." "I just wanna make it home, man." "I have two kids." "Okay." "Do you have any weapons in the car?" "No, sir." "Any drugs in the car?" "No, sir." "Okay." "Stay right there for me." "Okay." "Right now we're just gonna search the car." "As you can see, we got some... looks like we got some marijuana right here in plain view in this box we have here." "What had started out was the vehicle was just traveling about two miles an hour." "He ended up here on top of the median." "When we made contact with him, he was pretty unaware of what just transpired." "We made contact with him." "It's possible that he's under the influence of maybe drugs or alcohol right now." "We're gonna have a DUI unit come speak to him briefly." "Well, it's" " I'm-- I'mma be honest with you." "It was my birthday." "My office is down the street on 10th Avenue." "Today is your birthday?" "On the 17th." "I'm a family man." "I'm trying to make it home to my two kids and my girl and be able to take them to school in the morning." "Do you remember traveling in the car tonight?" "Traveling?" "Yeah, you remember driving?" "Yeah, I do." "I" " I" " Yeah." "You remember traveling two miles an hour?" "Well, of course, because I want to make sure I get home safe." "Okay." "Do you know what the speed limit is around here?" "Yeah, I do, but it's better safe than sorry, you know?" "2-2." "If I'm driving two miles per hour," "I mean, I feel like I can make it home safe." "How did your car wind up here, stopped in the middle of the median?" "I'm not sure." "But I might have pulled over after the sirens." "So they turned on the lights and sirens, and you pulled over and stopped right here in the median?" "I don't know what happened." "Huh?" "Yeah." "I have some tasks I'd like you to do to help me determine if you're safe to drive." "Go ahead and stand up for me." "If you can just put your left foot on that yellow line and then your right foot in front with the heel and toe touching just like this." "And then if you can put your hands flat at your sides and just stay like that until I tell you." "I've never been good at this, but..." "All right." "All right, stay like that until I tell you." "Now, when I tell you" "Oh!" "I'm not good at-- with the balance." "Let's step-- step over this way." "You're gonna skip that." "We're gonna skip that one." "I don't want you to fall." "Just stand right there for me." "Face my car." "Point your toe so that your foot's parallel to the ground." "Count out loud." "1,001, 1,002, 1,003, until I tell you to stop." "You may begin whenever you're ready." "(mumbles)" "If you understand the instructions, go ahead and begin whenever you're ready." "Should I switch legs or?" "Let's try this." "What I'd like for you to do is stay there." "Face the car for me." "Feet together." "I want you to lean forward at the waist, put your hands behind you like that, close your eyes and say the alphabet for me one more time, please." "A, B, C, D, E, F" "All right, sir, you're under arrest for DUI." "Driving that vehicle under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled substances to the point that your normal faculties are impaired." "Oh, my god, officer." "I just want to make it home to my kids, man." "I understand that, sir." "You don't understand." "I had a long day-- a long day at work." "I'm just on my way home and I'm tired." "Okay, sir," "I'm not here to lecture you, but you're putting yourself and everybody else on the road in a great deal of danger, all right?" "Everybody else out here wants to make it home, too." "Watch your head and have a seat for me." "Watch your head going in." "On my birthday?" "(indistinct)" "On my birthday, man?" "Yes, sir." "Hey, Emanuel, this is what I need you to understand." "All right?" "You were traveling two miles an hour on this roadway, all right?" "God forbid something happen to you or your family," "I might be knocking on their door saying they need to go to the hospital, okay?" "I understand it's your birthday, but you gotta make better decisions, you know, man?" "No, I understand, man." "I was just trying to make-- I live around the corner." "I was just trying to make it home, boss." "Like, come on, man." "You should have just called a cab, you know?" "But I'm not perfect, boss." "I'm not here to judge you." "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint." "Dispatcher:" "Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is code three." "(overlapping police radio chatter)"