"(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." "Man:" "I was a troubled kid." "Uh, you know, I had anger issues, and my uncle, a retired sheriff's sergeant from this department, kinda help mentor me." "Watching him being a cop," "I knew that's what I wanted to do ever since I was about five years old." "Thank goodness for him being a good role model, 'cause he's helped set me up for success, even though he doesn't know it." "So we just ran a license plate, and it came back lost or stolen, so we're gonna try and catch up to it, and do a vehicle stop." "(siren)" "Oh, yeah." "And Main 15 X-ray in pursuit, eastbound past Fulton." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "So this is a stolen license plate, but they're not stopping..." "(siren)" "and it could have a good chance of it being a stolen car." "(siren)" "Looks like an Explorer with two, has a luggage rack on top, speeds are only 40." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "M 15 X-ray, I was just wondering if, Sam, you have moderate rate, if we have permission to PIT or not?" "(over radio) 23 Sam." "If the conditions and speeds permit, you can PIT." "M 15 X-ray, he's in the southbound lane" "Oh, I'm sorry." "Northbound lane, he's driving south." "(over radio) Southbound Sunrise is a mess." "Uh, we do have a good (indistinct), but now he's heading eastbound Wildridge." "Speeds are approximately 65, uh, no traffic and no pedestrians on the side of the road." "If we have an air available." "He ran a stop sign at Morse." "Since there's still a little bit of distance, I'll continue to call it." "We're gonna be southbound, Ridgevale." "We're gonna be eastbound, Ridgemont." "Dead end, there might be a foot pursuit." "(sirens)" "Put your hands up!" "Driver!" "Stick your hands out the window now, sir!" "On your right!" "On your right!" "Stick your hands out!" "Driver, open up the car door, sir!" "Open up the door, keep your hands where I can see 'em when you step out." "(dog barking)" "Okay." "Keep your hands up!" "Put your hands behind your head!" "Walk back to the sound of my voice." "Walk back, walk back." "Keep walking back, sir." "Stop." "(barking continuing)" "Is there anyone else in there?" "Anyone else, come on out!" "You're gonna get bit if you don't come out!" "Main 15 X-ray, car's clear, go and resume." "Anyone not 97 can Code 4, please." "Hey, I'm gonna take a statement from him..." "All right." "...since he was evading." "What's your name, sir?" "Austin." "Austin, what's your last name?" "I wanna ask you some questions about stuff that went on tonight." "Why did you decide to run?" "'Cause I'm on parole." "Do you have a warrant out?" "Nah, no." "I just got out, I did two and a half years." "Okay." "But, you know, people are on parole all the time, and get contact." "All we do is say, "Hi." "How ya doin'?"" "So why would you run and cause, potentially, a risk to the public?" "Right?" "I mean, you were drivi" the wrong way, sir." "Cars were comin' at you." "All right, let me ask you this:" "How did you come in possession of that car, sir?" "It was..." "What's that?" "Through like a... a friend." "How long have you had it?" "I just-- (mumbling)" "I'm sorry, what was that?" "A day maybe, I don't..." "A day?" "Did you get the key from somebody?" "Who'd you get the key from?" "I don't-- (mumbling)" "Can you tell me where you picked up the car at, what neighborhood?" "It-- No, I'm not sayin' no more." "I'm-- I'm ready to go to jail." "Okay, sir." "There's a small amount of weed in the grand scheme of life, but... if he doesn't have a medical marijuana card, he's gonna probably get charged with that." "It's a misdemeanor to have it in your vehicle." "Uh, the knife was actually found in between the center console and driver's seat, so he had that next to him." "So I don't know if he's usin' that as protection." "There's a lot of property in here." "We don't know if it's his, if someone was a victim of a property crime." "There's some IDs of people." "We need to make sure they're not victims." "He came back as Austin, but there's a Jacob one, and then there's a passport for a different person in there." "Someone's passports were taken in a vehicle burg this morning..." "Mm-hm." "...in North Highland, so..." "I don't remember the name, but let's make sure" "Let's run him, see where he might live, or any contacts." "Part of a (indistinct) event or something like that." "And see if maybe he's a victim." "Yeah." "If we get a phone number, let's contact him and get a statement." "Okay." "Um, and see if he knows this guy." "All right." "So Tim, did you get any update on that VIN?" "Yeah, we ran it backwards and it turns out that it came back stolen." "All right." "Thank you." "Okay, Austin." "So, um... right now, we found out the car was reported stolen a couple weeks ago, okay?" "So you're gonna be goin' to jail for, uh, the stolen vehicle, possession of the stolen property, the felony evading, driving recklessly, and parole violation." "And you understand you put a lot of people's lives in danger, right, not only law enforcement, but the citizen, cars, pedestrians, you understand that?" "I don't know, man, (bleep) happens." "Okay." "Anything else you wanna tell me?" "No?" "Okay." "I'm just glad he didn't hurt anybody through the whole process." "Woman:" "My boyfriend is also a deputy, so on my last shift, I actually got engaged." "My zone partner asked me to come search a female for him, and I was ready to go home, so I didn't wanna do it, but I went there, and my fiance surprised me at the end of my shift." "All of a sudden, all of our family and friends came out, out of nowhere, and he got down on one knee and proposed to me, and now I'm engaged!" "(indistinct radio transmission)" "Um, we're going on a domestic in progress." "Apparently, the boyfriend and girlfriend got into it." "Boyfriend broke girlfriend's car window and is supposed to have a handgun." "So... we're gonna see what's goin' on." "Where's he at?" "He's sittin' on the bed tryin' to act like he not doin' nothin' 'cause y'all are showin' up." "What's his name?" "Michael." "Hang on, stay out." "Michael!" "Hey, come here and let me see your hands." "Come here and let me see your hands, let's go." "Both your hands." "Hands!" "Stand up." "Michael:" "You can't come in." "No, we're gonna come in." "Turn around." "75 Hillsborough." "Yeah, my gun is" "Hey!" "Don't reach for anything, because I'll" " Don't do it." "You understand me?" "Yes." "Where's this alleged gun?" "It's in my-- right here." "Stop!" "I'm showin' him where it's at." "If you reach for it one more time" " Ah-ah-ah!" "Don't play with me." "Do you understand me?" "I was only" " It's in front-- It's in front of me." "It's in front of me, sir." "I'll tell you where it's at." "Take-- Stop." "You're not being arrested or anything, it's just for for our safety, okay?" "I'm tellin' you the gun is in front of me." "All right, listen, next time you have a gun on you, do not point to it, do not reach to it, do not anything, because I'm tellin' you right now, I do not play." "Where our mind goes first is that you're pullin' it out for a reason." "You feel me?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Right there." "Right there." "The gun was not pulled, though." "Do you have your concealed weapon permit?" "Yes." "And she has my other gun, my .380." "(woman speaks indistinctly)" "She has that." "Woman:" "It's in the car in my protection." "Corso:" "Where is that?" "Woman:" "It's in the car, in the glove compartment." "You don't have it on you?" "I don't have it on me." "All right." "Man:" "That's it." "That's all." "Do you live here?" "Man:" "Yes." "Does she live here?" "Yes." "Have a seat right here." "Right here." "What's goin' on?" "What happened is, she didn't come home," "So I go by the house that she was cheatin' on me with." "I'm like, "What you doin' here?"" "So you found her at her..." "At the dude she was cheatin' on me house." "Okay, you found her there tonight." "Yes." "Okay." "So, we had got into it." "After we got into it" "What do you mean by you got into it?" "I was like, "What you doin' here?"" "She's like, "I'm not doin'--"" "Just arguing'?" "Yeah, just arguing'." "Okay." "Okay." "She left, I left." "We went two different ways." "I came home." "When I came home, she said her family not lettin' me in the house" "And you live here?" "I stay here." "How long have you" "How long have you lived here?" "Since January." "Okay." "You have a key?" "Yes." "Okay." "So, after that, I was like..." "The uncle, he asked me, he's like" "Is that her uncle?" "Yes." "Okay." "He's like, "Well, you gotta stay outside till she get here."" "I'm like, "Bro, I'm gonna lay down in my bed."" "Okay." "And she walked in the house and started throwin' all my stuff." "She yelled at them for lettin' me in the house" "The mom did?" "No, the daughter." "She yelled at them." "She yelled at them for lettin' me in the house." "Then she came in the house, started snatching' my stuff in the hall, tellin' me," ""You gotta get outta here tonight," stuff like that." ""You gonna leave here one way or the other." "You gettin' outta here tonight."" "Did it ever get physical between the two of you?" "No." "I sitting' on the edge of the bed, uncle was standing there next to me..." "So you never put your hands on her?" "No." "The uncle" "Okay, what about the" "The uncle was tryin' to get me to leave." "What's this deal with the gun?" "Did you show the gun?" "No." "She just knows that you keep a gun on you." "She knows I keep my gun on me." "Okay." "I think." "Because..." "You have a concealed weapons permit?" "Yes, I have a concealed weapons" " She has one, too." "Okay." "Like that." "And like I said, she has my .380, and I have a nine." "That's how she knew it was a nine." "She couldn't describe it 'cause I never pulled it." "So you never pulled a gun." "What's she gonna tell me?" "Is she gonna tell me that you pulled a gun on her?" "Is she gonna tell me that you punched her in the face, that you spit on her?" "No." "What-- Okay, did you bash in a car window?" "Broke a window to the car." "I think." "That's it." "Okay." "That's the-- that's the mostest thing she can say is I" "I hit the window of the car." "And..." "Was she in the car when you did that?" "She was-- she was gettin' in the car." "She was gettin' in it, and you punched it." "Or you hit it with something." "No." "I hit it with my hand." "It was-- it was-- You know how you get in the heat of the moment, it was either, I can hit you, I can hit somethin' else." "Okay." "Yeah." "All right." "Sit tight for just a second." "Ma'am, can you come here real quick?" "Okay, what happened between you guys?" "I left my cousin's house." "I went to a friend's house who I had relations with before, but we're just friends, we always been friends before anything." "So I'm over there, and I believe he has some type of tracking' device on me, or he's been stalkin' me because he always find me." "Okay." "So he comes over there, and he's like, "What you doing, cheating on me?"" "And I'm like, "No, I'm just chillin', you're trippin'."" "And so, that's when he, "Oh, I should kill you,"" "like he drawed his hand up, "Oh, I should kill you--"" "And this was at the friend's house?" "That was at the friend's house." "And then, that's when, um, I was like, "Do it!" "Do it!"" "And then-- and then he like, grabbed me 'round my neck, like this, and then, um, I pushed him away, and then that's when he put his hand like this, he just said," ""I ought to kill you, I'll kill you."" "And I was like, "What you gonna do, take me from my kids?"" "And he was like, "Yeah."" "I was tryin' to get in my car to leave the situation and all that, and he punched my window." "Mm-hm." "He did not break it, so then that's when he grabbed his gun, and he hit it." "Okay, so you're backing up..." "Mm-hm." "...and he punches it..." "Uh-huh." "...and it didn't do anything to the window when he punched it," "No." "And then he got his gun out and hit it with the butt of the gun?" "Yup." "Okay." "Just give me one second." "So I'm gettin' arrested?" "Hold on one second." "I didn't do nothing." "You-- If you go in the house and look, only my stuff has been moved." "I haven't moved nothin'." "Just have a seat right there." "You're goin' to jail today for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon" "What I did?" "I didn't pull no weapon." "Are you gonna let me finish talking?" "Okay." "Okay, and you're also goin' to jail today for simple battery." "Um, let-- let me-- let me explain somethin' to you, it's domestic violence." "You guys live together as a family." "She's makin' these allegations against you, therefore, we don't have a choice" "She did stuff to me, but, I'm like..." "I'm not gonna argue, I'm gonna sit right here." "So for sitting right here, I'm still gettin' screwed." "This is what she's alleging..." "I-- I would've came out better defending' myself." "But I set right there and let her hit me" "Corso:" "Well, don't make it worse for yourself." "But I'm sayin', I let her hit me" "Well, Michael, at first you told me that it wasn't physical between you guys." "It wasn't." "But if she was hitting you, it was physical." "She always throws stuff." "That's her." "Remember when I showed you-- I showed you on the wall." "I said, "Look, see this red thing right here?"" "She hit me in my elbow with it, and threw it at me, and it hit the wall?" "I told you that." "Okay." "But" "Well, listen, you're gonna have-- y'all are gonna have your day in court, okay?" "And-- and it's gonna get figured out from there." "But hopefully this is an eye-opener for you." "Maybe you should probably think about dating someone else." "So I've been workin' at Southeast for about a year now." "I moved here when I became an FTO." "I love workin' at this job." "Gives me a good opportunity to train the new guys and teach 'em how to be a good cop and do all the right things." "It's always rewarding when the lightbulb clicks in their mind, and they can actually, you know, start to really see how the job operates." "So we're en route to a family disturbance here." "There's about four or five subjects that are fighting and arguing outside of a restaurant." "It appears that there's one male that's being the agitator." "We should be gettin' there any second." "(over radio):" "Car 17 John-One." "41-63 Balboa Avenue." "Male..." "What's up, man?" "Come over here and talk to me." "Me and one of these guys over here, we get into it." "Younger guy, you know, we start goin' at it." "He drops his pants, puts his ass in my face." "And I was like, no, we can go outside." "Me and my mom packed her stuff up." "We're sittin' right here waitin' on the bus, here they come walkin' up." "So, all those people, you don't know them?" "They're just homeless people who live around you guys?" "No, no, they live right there in the apartment." "They're all high on drugs." "But they're not related to you in any way?" "No, no, they're related to the one lady and the sister." "They're all junkies." "Okay." "So they're all gonna lie, and they're gonna tell you," ""Oh, we don't know this one, we don't know this one."" "I told them this morning, "You know what?" ""I got a two-year-old and a six-month-old in here," ""and you guys are smokin' crystal meth." "I'm gonna call CPS, solve the problem right there."" "Okay." "Uh, they caused a huge fit over that." ""Well, you come around here, we'll (bleep) kill you." "We'll kill you." "You call CPS..." he goes on and on and on." "All right, so we and my mom's been sittin' outside all day." "I'm sittin' right over here, waitin' for the bus to come." "Okay." "They come walkin' up." "Here comes five of 'em." "Me and my mom's tryin' to walk away, he keeps comin', keeps comin'." "He goes up to my mom, so naturally I jumped up..." "What did he-- Did he hit your mom?" "Yeah, he broke her jaw." "She's sittin' right down there." "She don't wanna talk." "Okay." "So you're Mom?" "I don't know if it's broken." "I mean, it jarred the whole side of my head over here." "Okay." "So, what-- Who's the one who hit you, initially?" "The..." "Man:" "Mike, the one with the hat." "Mikey, the one with the hat." "Let her answer." "The older one." "Okay." "The older one." "Okay, so was he wearin' a black jacket or not wearin' a black jacket?" "I can't remember." "He's the oldest one." "The oldest one?" "Yeah." "And he hit you straight in the jaw?" "Yes, he did." "Okay." "I'll talk to them, and then we'll figure out what's goin' on here in a second." "Can you come over here and tell me what's goin' on?" "I'm gonna have you stand in front of my car." "I'm gonna talk to you real quick, okay?" "So can you explain to me what happened today?" "I was told that my boy disrespected the house accidentally." "His mom is on life support, and he's not thinkin' right." "And he came in the front of the-- from the bedroom to the livin' room to get his phone, and his button unpopped accidentally..." "Okay." "...and his pants fell to the back, and" "That was yesterday." "Right." "Okay." "So the bigger gentleman went face-to-face and threatened him, saying, lift your pants or respect the house." "You know, the bigger gentleman in the back there." "So you tried to confront him about it?" "Right." "Did you ever at any point in time punch the female?" "Yes, sir, I did." "You did." "Yes, sir." "You punched her square in her jaw?" "Yeah, I was goin' for him, though." "You was goin' for him." "Goin' for him." "And you punched her square in her jaw." "Yes, sir." "Here's what happened, God's honest truth." "I didn't know this." "Okay." "My boy says and they sayin' that she's comin' with a knife." "Okay." "To help out her boy." "Okay." "Meanwhile, my boy, while I'm watchin', 'cause he knocked me down once already." "Okay." "As I'm gettin' up, I'm goin' to get-- I see my boy get hit." "So I wanna show him what it feels like." "So when I go in..." "Okay." "...she's already here." "She's already there." "And you just clocked her in the face." "And it went right in, up or I think I got her up-- goin' upward." "I was aimin' up." "Okay." "So like an uppercut." "Not an uppercut, but I was goin' up." "Okay." "I wanted to go under like my son got it." "Okay." "Stay right there." "I'm gonna get the son, and I'm gonna bring him over here." "Yes, sir." "We'll figure out what's goin' on." "My son is no big grown man, either." "Believe me, you don't know these people." "Okay." "Brian, I know what your dad told me already." "I just wanna hear the whole story from your point of view." "The problem that I had with them earlier is that I didn't pull up my pants." "Okay, so you didn't pull up your pants." "Yeah, and then he threatened me to uh... beat me up, and then we seen him over there, so we went to go talk to him and then what he did was... throw a punch, knocked me down." "Who was the first one that threw the first punch?" "Him." "He threw a first punch?" "Yes." "Okay." "And it wasn't a first punch, it was a first punch, second punch, third punch" "Okay, so once he started punching you, you guys just kinda went back at him, defending yourself." "Exactly." "Okay." "Well, this is the thing, okay?" "Nobody else was involved in the fight but you two and those two, right?" "Like, none of the girls over here were involved?" "Right." "All three of us punched together, in other words." "Okay, hold on." "Woman:" "I got pushed." "Okay." "Can you stay over there for me for now?" "As of right now, it's gonna be just a battery charge." "I'm gonna go and talk to them, and if they don't wanna press charges, then, do you guys wanna press charges?" "If I know my son could walk the streets, and he could go to the store safely, come home safely, and nothin' will happen to him, from that particular individual, then I will have no problems whatsoever." "Squashin' everything." "Squashed." "Okay." "Well, I will talk to him, and I will see what he wants to say about it." "Okay?" "So, just give me a second, I want both of you guys to stay right here for me?" "Okay?" "Don't leave yet." "So, you had an incident with the son." "Dad said," ""Hey, I want to confront him about being mean to my son."" "That's..." "Somehow, words got exchanged, a fight ensued between you and-- you-- you two and them two." "Yeah." "But because there's no domestic relationship between you two and them two, it's gonna be a simple battery." "Yeah." "Okay?" "So, if you wanna press charges against them, we can do that." "Okay?" "But at the same time, they can press charges against you, and he said he was tryin' to get you, and he accidentally hit Mom." "It is what it is." "We can just call it a wash and try to break everything up." "I get hit by 300-pound man, I'm used to it." "I mean, that-- (laughs)" "Yeah, but I need you guys to at least go down there, and just fist bump 'em, tell 'em everything's good to go." "Yeah." "All right, come and let's do it real quick." "Here we go." "So this is the thing." "Everything from tonight is squashed." "Fist bump, shake hands." "Sorry." "I don't fist bump, I shake." "Sorry." "I'm sorry." "Garcia:" "Partners of the community here." "You know, it could've been a lot worse, but everybody's gonna be good from tonight on, so... have a good night." "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint." "Dispatcher:" "Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is code three." "(overlapping police radio chatter)"