"(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." "Deputy Jonathan Rogers:" "We are essentially the boundary or the barrier between the good and the evil of the citizens of Escambia County." "We're the frontline defense." "You have to be willin' at the start of your day, knowin' that it could be the day you make the ultimate sacrifice." "I pray that it never happens, but when we sign up for this job that's what we're here to do." "Another deputy just spotted this car, rolled through a stop sign, going through the back way of Montclair, which is common for individuals tryin' to skirt out to the main highway, which is a known drug area back in this neighborhood," "We're gonna get out with him before he can get out and see what he's got going." "(dog barking)" "(police radio chatters)" "How you doin'?" "Deputy Rogers, Sheriff's Office." "Stop sign back there, you didn't come to a complete stop." "All right." "Got a driver's license on you?" "Got any ID on you, sir?" "I'm gettin' it right now." "Okay." "Is this your car?" "My grandma's car..." "Your grandma's car?" "Okay." "Where y'all headed?" "I'm goin' to pick my grandma up." "I'm just goin' to pick my grandma up after this." "Okay." "Anything illegal in the car?" "No, sir." "Would you have a problem if I searched the car?" "The car, uh, oh, go ahead." "No, it's up to you." "I mean..." "(mutters)..." "No." "You don't want me to?" "Okay, fair enough." "What's your name?" "Me?" "He got it." "Okay, I'm askin' your name." "He got my ID." "Okay, I just asked for your name." "We can go that route, too." "What route?" "Just got a hit." "Let me get you to step out of the car?" "Leave him in." "One at a time." "Step out of the car." "What am I gettin' out for?" "'Cause I can smell the odor of marijuana comin' from the vehicle." "There's no marijuana in this vehicle, sir." "Okay, I can smell it, so it's either on you-- Turn around." "Step back off the car." "Spread your legs." "Don't... don't move." "You hear me?" "Anything?" "Zero." "Don't let him out." "He's gonna try to get out." "Three-eight, give me traffic, one more unit." "Brown:" "Stay in the car." "(police radio chatters)" "Put your hands behind your back." "Do not reach around." "Hey!" "Put your hands on the dash!" "Put your hands on the dash." "You understand me?" "Three-eight, have 'em step it up." "I'm tellin' you right now, if you take your hands off the dash- 'Cause you got a gun in your waistband, your partner's in there reaching' around." "I'm gonna stay alive today, do you understand?" "Hey, I'm not even resisting', why you gotta go so high with it?" "That way in case you wanna get silly." "Sir, don't-- it'd be in your best interests not to be pullin' your hands off that dash." "You understand?" "Deputy Brown:" "I'm tellin' you, I'm watchin' you." "Three-eight, one detained." "You got him?" "Back up and lay on your face." "Back up and lay on your face." "I get arrested, too?" "No, you're goin' in custody until we figure out what else we got here." "You got anything on you?" "No, sir." "Pulled a car over that rolled a stop sign back here on Clifton." "Um, driver's extremely nervous." "I'm gettin' the smell, odor of marijuana comin' from the vehicle." "Pulled the driver out, and immediately noticed this tucked in his waistband in the small of his back." "(indistinct)" "Turn this way." "What have you got in your pants?" "He's got weed." "(police radio chatters)" "Due to the quantity of narcotics, we'll be seizing' the money." "I didn't even run no stop sign." "You did." "I made a right." "You ran a stop sign." "No, I didn't." "Turn around." "That's the least of your worries, okay?" "I pull you out, you're a little fidgety, kind of nervous." "By the way you pulled me out of the car." "You jacked me up, like..." "You had a gun." "If I want" " What was I was gonna do with it?" "You seen-- you had" "I don't know." "I don't know." "Listen..." "Did you feel a threat?" "Was there a capability?" "Was there intent?" "Yeah." "You had the ability." "That's a deadly force triangle, you know what that is?" "What's that?" "A deadly force triangle, you know what that is?" "What's a deadly" "Capability, intent, opportunity, did I have any of that?" "I had the capability, but di-- but, but, but did I intend to?" "I don't know your intentions, so I can't say you-- whether you did or you didn't." "I have no clue of your intentions." "Did you know my intentions?" "No, 'cause I ain't do nothin'." "So, if you don't know mine, how am I supposed to know yours?" "Right?" "I was bein' cooperative." "But you had a gun in your waistband." "For my safety, for real." "Okay." "Mine's for my safety, but I don't know your intentions." "So I have to take all precautions, to make sure I stay alive." "All right." "Agree?" "I agree with that." "I wanna go home to my family just like you do, brother." "Okay?" "Fair enough." "All right." "Josh, right?" "I, I, I w-wish I could, so I could tell y'all, so he could go to prison for life." "He's-- he killed my homeboy." "Yes, sir, that's me." "Okay, I didn't see your glasses." "Turn and talk to me for a second." "You understand your rights, sir, I read you your rights?" "Yes, sir." "What's goin' on with your homeboy?" "I don't know." "Did you know he had the weed in the car?" "You couldn't smell it?" "I wouldn't know..." "I, my nose's stopped up," "I got a" " I just really gettin' over a cold." "Okay." "What about the gun?" "I didn't know nothin' about the gun." "Like I say, he just picked me up." "Okay." "Are you a convicted felon?" "I'm on probation." "For what?" "For marijuana possession." "Under or over?" "Over." "Oh, okay." "So you know being' in the presence of all this could..." "Yes, sir, I know." "...possibly violate..." "That's why I said-- I'm lettin' you know I didn't know it was there." "All right, well, sit tight, and once we get things sorted out, we'll get you cut loose." "All right." "All right?" "Damian, why do you have the gun?" "For safety, too many people are gettin' killed." "I can... completely agree with you on that." "Are you a convicted felon?" "No, I'm not, I'm none of that." "Where'd you get the gun?" "I bought that." "And how much did you pay for it?" "200." "200?" "Yeah." "It's a pretty nice gun." "Taurus was a-- was like a PT-111?" "Yeah." "Pretty nice gun." "Got one myself." "You think $200 is a reasonable price for that?" "Knowin' they're probably more than that?" "I mean..." "Pretty cheap." "Yeah." "I know they're like 699 for it." "Yeah, so if somebody come and offer me a PT-111 for $200, and-- like they did you, what, what was, probably the first thing that popped into your head?" "Be honest." "I need it." "And what?" "Probably stolen." "For 200 bucks, it is what it is." "Right." "You know what I mean?" "Yeah." "It probably crossed your mind." "He had a box and everything with it." "Okay." "Well, the gun's stolen." "Is it?" "It is." "So, possession of a stolen firearm during the commission of a felony." "Marijuana's a felony amount." "Okay?" "Were you fixin' to go get rid of that weed, or..." "Yeah, I was gonna pick up my grandma, actually." "Okay... and then go, try to make a couple dollars?" "Right." "Okay." "Well, sit tight for me, give me just a second." "I'll be right back over here." "All right." "The driver admitted it was stolen." "He said it's his, and he bought it for $200." "Said he wanted it for protection." "Well... around here you need it, but..." "Yeah." "I know, that being said, he" "Gotta do it the right way." "Yeah, he takes the ride, and a successful-- stolen gun taken off the streets." "I love my job." "I love comin' to work, I love gettin' to serve the community and, and interact with different people, and the aspect of never knowing what's gonna happen next." "But it's definitely nice when I'm able to go home." "I've got my wife and my kids there, and I like to spend a lot of time with them, and have as much fun as we can, and, and leave work at work." "Got a vehicle rollin' through the neighborhood, stayin' off the main streets, that didn't use its blinker." "We're gonna pull him over and talk to him for a second." "(siren)" "(indistinct) 451, Code 58." "(radio) 451, go ahead." "Maroon Camaro." "(radio chatter) -(indistinct)" "Reason I was stoppin' you is 'cause you didn't use your blinker back there." "I just live right here." "I understand that, but when the police start pullin' you over, you pull over, you don't keep drivin' home." "Do you have warrants or somethin'?" "No..." "Is there somethin' goin' on of why you wouldn't-- why you wouldn't pull over?" "I don't have insurance." "Okay, well, whether you pull over here or pull over there, you still don't have insurance, so go ahead and pull over, okay?" "All right, let me get your license and insurance, okay?" "Or your license." "I don't have a license." "You don't have any kind of-- do you have any kind of Texas ID on you?" "I'm fightin' with my-- with my fiancé..." "Is he here?" "Yes." "Go ahead and step out for me." "Is this car registered to you, ma'am?" "Yes." "Okay." "Go ahead and step back here in front of my car." "In front of your car." "Yeah, just right here." "You have anything on you that I need to know about?" "John:" "Thank you." "We're done." "Are you happy?" "Is this your boyfriend back here?" "I work at Denny's." "Hey, sir, go ahead and wait inside for me, okay?" "You don't need to come over here." "You got it." "He's just been really bad, disrespecting me, and I work graveyards at Denny's." "Mm-hm." "And tomorrow's Mother's Day, so I met my, my daughter, and we were... we'd already been fighting, so that's why I left." "He told me to go get some sleep, and he started calling me a stupid bitch." "And he stuck a White Castle scorching hot hamburger in my mouth while I was laying in the bed." "And I told him I didn't want it, because I had this cut on my lip." "And he did it anyway, and he just" "He constantly disagrees with me and makes me do things that I don't want to." "So I just" "So... what's his issue with doing stuff like that?" "Kind of irrational." "Is he" " Is he on drugs?" "No, he's just been trying to control me." "This is your house, correct?" "Yes." "And you don't have access to get into the house if it's locked?" "But I have money, I could go to a hotel." "Well, and here's the thing, we'll get to all that in a minute." "We would like to talk to him and make sure of what's going on, and then go from there." "(knocking)" "Come open the door, talk to us." "We're just wanting to make sure that all it was was an argument, but I need to talk to you, too." "I have warrants out for my arrest." "You gonna arrest me?" "Okay, well we're gonna have to get that figured out." "That's a possibility, but I need to talk to you, and she needs access to her house." "I'll give her access, but do we have to be arrested today?" "Uh, let me call my boss." "Let me get some bondsman worked up." "Okay." "Come out here and talk to us, and we can figure all that out." "I got a seatbelt problem." "Thank you, Carrie." "Thank you." "(dog barking)" "Come here." "Okay." "Go ahead and step out here for us." "You're not gonna arrest me like" "Come out here and talk to us." "You're not gonna put, like, handcuffs on me." "Step out here, John." "Yes." "That's what arrest is, okay?" "Come here, John." "I have a dislocated shoulder." "Okay." "That's fine." "Thank you, Carrie." "John, step out here for us." "Thank you, Carrie." "Sir." "I didn't do anything." "We are here to make sure there are no more disputes, not to keep having a further one." "So step out here." "Set that down right here for us." "Okay." "Get your hand out of your pocket, and step out here." "Come out here right now." "Okay" "You can step out here, or we're gonna have" "Carrie:" "No, babe!" "Come out here." "Don't hurt me." "I'm not here to hurt you." "I got a dislocated shoulder." "But we need you to listen and do what you're told." "Okay?" "Don't do this one." "I have to do this one." "I need you to relax, 'cause then that's what will make it okay." "Carrie." "Carrie." "Carrie." "You're doing this." "You did this." "Why don't you quit drinking?" "Please sleep." "I'm gonna sleep tonight." "I'm glad you're proud." "I'm glad you're proud, girl." "Hey, hey." "Listen" " Listen to me." "We're not getting married." "John, listen to me." "Stop." "You blew it!" "You blew it!" "Stop." "Okay, let's go to the car." "Yeah, it's over." "All the money that I paid..." "It ain't about money, Carrie." "It is, 'cause I worked my ass off!" "You can have it all!" "We're done!" "Thank you!" "Hey, stop!" "She didn't call us." "She made a traffic violation over here, and I pulled her over, and she drove the car home before she pulled over, because she didn't-- if she was gonna end up..." "Okay." "for some reason going to jail, she didn't want the car to get impounded." "The last 20 hours, she's been up." "She works at Denny's at night..." "Right." "...on the graveyard shift." "Mm-hmm." "She comes home, and she drinks a little bit, and then she started driving, and I got upset." "Okay." "So I followed her, got her to the bar, and she wanted to keep on going." "I asked her, "Let me drive you," and she drove." "And I said, "Just drive to the house." -(clears throat)" "And she went to the house, and then she came back, you guys are out front." "Well, like I said, that's just" "And now you know as much as I do." "But let me tell you this." "I knew I was gonna get arrested eventually." "I talked to my boss just a minute ago." "He's gonna bail me out, so let's just get this over with." "Okay." "And like I said, we're not trying to prolong this any more than we have to." "And, no." "She got-- She won." "You won!" "Hey, that's not what this is about." "It's over." "Stop." "She didn't want us here any more than you did." "I don't wanna look at her anymore." "Then quit lookin' at her!" "Thanks, Carrie!" "Listen to me, sir." "We're not doing that." "You don't need to talk to her anymore." "No, we're done, guys." "Hey, just listen to me." "I'm going back to Nebraska!" "That's fine." "Sit down." "(police radio chatter)" "I'm not gonna listen to you stand out here and yell and scream at her anymore." "I'm tired of listening to it." "The reason you're going to jail is because of a warrant that you got by not wearing a seatbelt." "So you yelling at her about her causing this isn't helping anything, because she didn't cause this." "Oh, she just finished it." "It's just the chance of the fact that we ended up here, and you had a warrant." "Come on." "We're done." "You're fact is over, man." "You're not gonna convince me of nothing." "I'm not trying to convince you." "I'm just letting you know this is on you, not her." "Then, then, stop." "We're done." "It's over." "So take some responsibility for what you've done, okay?" "Responsible." "Yeah." "Close the door and we'll be responsible." "Okay, thank you." "Carrie, you won!" "Are you happy?" "Here's what we've got, okay?" "Is he okay?" "He's fine." "He's" "He's upset, and he's trying to blame everybody but himself and cause a scene." "So..." "Here's what we've got, okay?" "Two warnings." "One for not using your signal, and one for not having your driver's license on you, okay?" "Just hang tight for me for a second." "Hey, sir?" "Stop." "We having fun yet?" "Yep." "We'll put this on your head now." "You're in a helmet, 'cause you kept banging your head, and we can't having you do that." "This just ruined John's world." "Thanks, Carrie!" "Why are you doing this to this lady?" "Because she deserves it." "She doesn't deserve this." "Well, John" "You're an idiot." "I'm sorry you feel the way that you do about all this." "Hope you have a better night, okay?" "I was headed to work one night about three years ago when my daughter was three years old, and she gave me a little stuffed giraffe and a hair clip that she told me she wanted me to keep" "so that the bad guys didn't get me." "I keep my giraffe in my bag and keep my hair clip in my pocket, and I've had it with me ever since." "And that's part of what keeps you going some nights whenever the stresses start getting to you." "Right now we're trying to catch up to a vehicle that has made a few traffic violations, and they're driving a little crazy, so... we're gonna see if we can't find out what's going on with him." "First and Bryan." "442 We'll be out." "Texas George Young Brian Six at southwest First and Bryan." "(radio static)" "(radio chatter)" "Hi." "How you doing?" "Good." "How are you?" "Pretty good." "(music playing from radio)" "I'm Officer McFarland." "You have your license and insurance with you?" "The reason you're being pulled over is, there's a few things." "Okay." "You didn't change la" "You didn't use your signal when you changed lanes." "You kind of rolled the stop sign as it was turning red, the light back there." "That sucks." "All kinds of stuff." "You in a hurry or what?" "No, sir." "Just write my tickets." "I apologize, sincerely." "Okay." "I'm not here to necessarily write you tickets." "I'm just trying to figure out if you're in a hurry or what's going on." "Oh, no, actually, um, I mean." "You know what, dude?" "I'm gonna be honest with you." "I just got out of a four-year relationship." "Mm-hmm." "Um..." "I met the girl while I was at Neal Unit Prison." "I just got out June 26th of last year." "Um..." "I didn't-- I didn't, uh..." "Man, I took advantage of this girl." "I didn't" " I didn't hold her hand in public, this and that." "And, uh, there's just so much more to it." "Um, dude," "I don't even know who I just bought this beer for." "But, like, lately, I'm just trying to, like, help out any kind of person possible, because I feel wrong for the things that I've done, and I just wanna make up for it." "You must have done her real bad, man." "It's got" "I really did, because this girl just let her kids get, uh, CPS took her kids." "Mmm." "Uh, no (bleep), man." "Um" "Okay." "Man, I'm gonna be honest with you." "I don't have insurance." "If you wanna write me a ticket, you can." "Okay." "I'm actually dropping this beer off to this woman." "But you don't know who you bought it for?" "No, sir." "Hey, as sad as this sounds, and I might look like a bitch, dude, and you might think I'm weak." "Nah." "Like, ever since this past two weeks since I broke up with this girl, man, I've been-- Like, I'll stop at a store, and I'll just look around, or I'm just looking around while I'm driving" "just to see if anybody needs some kind of help, dude, because, like, I've been selfish, and... and, uh, man." "Nothing wrong with helping people, man." "And, hey, look, I'm probably, like, uh, contributing to this woman's addiction or whatever, but I just wanna make up for things I've paid." "Is there anything in the car we need to know about?" "Uh, there's a beer." "Well, I'm not worried." "It's closed, man." "You already showed me that part." "I'm not worried about that." "But you can come search the car." "I'll get out, dude." "I don't have anything to hide." "Okay." "Go ahead and step out for me, then, if you don't mind us searching it." "And I'll have you stand back here with my partner for just a second, okay?" "That's fine." "You don't have any warrants or nothing?" "No, dude." "Haven't caught any other charges since you got out?" "No, man, I'm worki" "Step right back here." "I'm, like, just trying to change my life, dude." "Just stand right here in front of the car." "If you could put your hands up on the hood for just a second, okay?" "You got anything on you?" "No, sir." "Can I search you?" "Yeah, that's fine, dude." "You said, "no" on warrants, huh?" "No, sir." "What were you in for, if you don't mind me asking?" "Aggravated assault on a public servant." "Well, there you go." "I was young, I was 21." "Hey, we all make mistakes, bud." "Hang tight with my partner for just a second, okay?" "You can smoke your cigarette or whatever." "So what's the deal with your girl?" "Oh, she's not my girlfriend." "I mean," "I met her while I was at Neal Unit." "I was in prison, and we have a wonderful story." "Because, like, you don't see nothing like that." "There's so much stuff I regret with this girl, but I wasn't the perfect boyfriend or any of that." "Have you had anything to drink today?" "Uh, way earlier this morning, but I've been asleep." "Way earlier?" "Yeah." "Okay." "I can still smell the alcohol on you." "Did you spill some on your clothes?" "Um, maybe in the process." "I don't know." "Oh, okay." "I've changed clothes since I drank earlier today." "Oh, okay." "Have you ever done a field sobriety test before?" "Yes, sir." "Okay." "Keep your feet together and your hands by your side." "Just put them by your side, not behind your back." "and just follow my finger with your eyes and your eyes only, okay?" "Yes, sir." "Perfect." "Thank you." "You're good." "You can lean back." "Well, we pulled this guy over for the way he was driving." "He seemed like he was in a hurry, or... just something didn't seem quite right." "He was making a lot of traffic violations, so we... stopped him, and then he just... keeps talking and talking like he's real nervous or, like, something else was going on." "So he told us we could search the car." "I'm not finding anything so far, but... maybe he just has a lot to say." "...going to work, because" "Yes, sir." "Hey, man, I know y'all meet so many different personalities." "Every time I go to the store, dude," "I see all these weird-ass people, and they're always asking for money." "And, uh, lately, I've been giving it to them, dude." "(chuckles)" "Just because, man, I'm just kind of trying... make up for all the things that I've just done in my past." "Sure." "Let me talk to my partner real quick." "Give me one second." "Okay." "Not enough to go with." "Yeah." "So you think it could be, like, full on DUI?" "Work it, or..." "Yeah." "Well, uh, talking to him, he's repeated the same story three times." "Oh, I figured." "The way he was talking" "He, uh... his pupils are, like, the size of a pin." "And then he smells of alcohol." "Nothing to arrest him on." "Wonder if he has anybody that could give him a ride." "I know he's got a phone to call for somebody, 'cause I saw it in the car." "You want me to ask him?" "Yeah, let's talk to him and see." "(clears throat)" "I'm under arrest, right?" "No." "Oh, okay." "Do you have anybody you could call for a ride?" "No, sir." "Ah, man, I just" "From what he's saying, you smell a little bit more like alcohol than what you're saying, and you're being cool." "You're being cooperative, so if you have somebody that you could call, that would be the best bet." "Can I just park my car and just walk to my friend's house?" "I mean, it's properly parked." "I mean, if you want to leave it there, but" "Okay." "Hey, man, I really appreciate y'all not being a dick." "You know, everybody presumes, like, police officers are out to get you, and it's not, you know." "Y'all are out here to do y'all's job." "Dude, I've spent my whole life going against everybody, and going that bad route, man." "And, uh, the charge that I had, it was, uh, it was just a (bleep) up situation, and I" " Excuse my language." "Sure." "Here's what we've got going." "A warning for the fail to signal intent, but a ticket for the no insurance, okay?" "Cool." "And you can call that number if you would rather do that instead of go up there." "I'll shake your hand, man." "All right." "You seem like a cool dude, man." "I wish I could have met you on a different note." "Have a better night, okay?" "You, too." "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint." "Dispatcher:" "Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is code three." "(overlapping police radio chatter)"