"(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." "I've been with Lubbock PD for just a little over 10 years." "I'm a detective with their Crime Suppression Unit." "The squad I'm on deals with kind of, uh, a little bit of everything." "Uh... it's been a pretty amazing ride, to tell you the truth." "Um... it's not something I initially thought myself as doing, but I can't" " I mean I go to work every day and I can't believe that I get paid to do this job." "Man on radio:" "Hey, let me know 'cause I got a violation." "All right, I'm two cars behind you here." "Go ahead and get behind him." "He's been playin' tricky on me." "(radio beeps)" "Yeah, I see him." "Uh, this car was leavin' a house that we had some interest on just a little while ago." "Um, it's made a couple of evasive actions, not signaling during the lane changes." "He was in the turn lane, he immediately jumped over into the straight lane within 100 feet of the intersection here." "We're gonna go ahead and initiate a traffic stop on the vehicle." "He doesn't want to do that, do he?" "And it looks like he's probably not gonna stop." "Yeah, we're gonna be in pursuit." "(siren blaring)" "(police radio chatter)" "Dubois: 72-55." "Man on radio:" "Southbound on Indiana." "Going 70." "Black truck." "Dubois:" "72-55, I'm with that unit." "I'll be second pursuit." "I'll call." "Woman on radio:" "Okay, Indiana and what?" "33-09. 91st." "He's crashed out." "(sirens blaring)" "Get out of the the car now!" "Get out!" "Get on the ground!" "I'm trying!" "Get on the ground." "He threw dope out at that one sign." "Ohh... oh, God." "Oh..." "Ohh!" "(police radio chatter)" "Start EMS." "Code B injury." "Man on radio:" "You can cancel 10-33." "He's in custody." "Oh!" "Ohh!" "Okay, what's hurting?" "Ooh..." "Tell me what's hurting." "My arm!" "And my leg..." "You wanna sit up?" "You wanna sit up?" "Hold on, please." "Oh, God..." "Tell me what's hurting." "Ohh..." "Why'd you run?" "Ohh..." "I really didn't think you was a cop at first." "What's your-- what's your name?" "Michael." "Michael." "I been" " I been gettin' (bleep) by some Mexican dudes." "Okay." "And that's why you ran?" "At first I thought it was just a black truck, and then I'd already took off." "I kinda panicked." "Okay." "So you just panicked because you didn't think it was a cop?" "Why didn't you stop?" "Why didn't you stop when you saw the lights and the sirens?" "Why didn't you stop?" "I'm sayin' at first I thought that it wasn't a cop." "Oh, God..." "Is there anything in the car that we need to worry about?" "Is there any guns?" "Is there any narcotics, anything like that?" "Okay." "Not anymore?" "I don't have none." "Okay." "I have somethin' in my eye." "Yeah, it's blood." "So how come you didn't stop once you saw it was the police?" "'Cause I had already took off." "I already knew y'all were gonna arrest me." "Well, not if you just stopped." "What made you think we were gonna arrest you?" "If you stopped, why would we have the..." "Because I'm already a villain." "You'll always arrest me, man." "You realize that you have to have committed a crime in order to be arrested, you understand that, right?" "Man, I know I'm goin' to jail." "Well, you are now because you ran from us." "Had you just stopped, you know, the worst you probably would've got was a ticket." "All right." "Is someone gonna call my lawyer?" "Woman on radio:" "12-45." "(grunts)" "Anything else hurtin'?" "(groans)" "Well, Michael, is this gonna teach you from runnin' next time?" "I said I'm sorry." "Okay." "Okay, sit down." "Sit down." "We got you." "We're not gonna let you fall." "I'm sorry." "Sit in the chair, there you go." "Ohh..." "If he doesn't have warrants, there's a reason he ran." "We think that he tossed something out the window." "Um, I don't believe we've found anything as of yet, but..." "Woman on radio:" "51-36." "(police radio chatter)" "Okay, west side of the street?" "Man on radio:" "Yeah, you can't miss us." "All right, I got ya." "Um, we're headin' over here." "There's the light-- the-- the" "They got the lights on the vehicles over here." "He tossed something' at the start of the initial pursuit." "Um... so we kinda reviewed video and were able to determine it was kind of in one of the alleys, and so...they found it." "I'm guessin' it's gonna be narcotics." "I don't know for sure." "You just stepped on it." "Oh, this what he tossed?" "Okay." "We're assuming' it." "So you saw it?" "I didn't even see you, so when we were goin' through the light, I was figurin' you were gonna come in behind me or whatever." "(police radio chatter)" "Uh, we got some baggies used for the selling of narcotics, we got a small amount of what looks to be methamphetamines... uh, in ice version." "We'll test it, make sure it does confirm meth, but just from appearance or whatever, it appears to be methamphetamine." "Did your dog find it?" "Uh-huh." "Oh, your dog found it?" "Okay." "Yeah, we were comin'" "Bad?" "Bad." "We started where the construction guys were." "Yeah?" "And then we just started workin' the area up this way, then we started workin' up here and he put his nose and sat on that." "Okay." "Uh, what we're doin' now is, we're gonna go ahead and, uh, field test the... the substance." "What we normally do is we'll field test it on scene." "We will, uh... at that point, if it tests positive, we'll turn it in to DPS lab for further analysis, um, to just verify from an actual lab." "It'll turn orange upon appearance if it's positive for methamphetamines." "And there's the positive hit." "Don't believe he has any felony warrants." "Just had a little bit of dope that he needed to get rid of." "ole family's from a small town outside of Abilene, Hamlin, Texas." "Real small town." "My parents grew up down the street from each other." "My dad actually went home on the first day of kindergarten and said that he was gonna marry a girl that is now my mom." "So I had a really strong foundation growing' up of what a relationship was supposed to look like, uh, how a marriage was supposed to work." "We're on our way to a domestic, uh..." "RP called in and said that his ex-girlfriend was fightin' with... um, him and another friend." "Eight-two, 10-23." "Male 1:" "You need to go." "Please leave." "Male 2:" "Go!" "What's goin' on?" "He just threw me on the floor." "She just hit me." "No, she's been hitting both of us." "That's all we want her is gone." "Come here." "That's it." "That's all we want." "She was supposed to leave earlier." "Y'all go stand by the car." "Yes, sir." "Okay." "What's goin' on?" "What's goin' on?" "This is my boyfriend..." "Well, was." "Because he has a new bitch in my house, right?" "I've been calling him to let me see my kids." "When I got here, I seen this girl in my boyfriend's car." "And I walked up to her and I said, "Hey, what's your name?" "What are you doing here?" I said, "Who are you here with?" "Are you here with Jaime?"" "She said, "Yeah." I said, "You know, Jaime, Jaime and I are together."" "I said, "He gots a girlfriend." "We're tryin' to work things out."" "So what-- what exactly happened tonight, then?" "Tonight, all I wanted was the truth." "That's all I wanted to talk to him about was the truth." "So how did you end up with grass all over you?" "'Cause he threw me on the floor." "Who threw you on the floor?" "My boyfriend did." "Okay." "Hey, so what's goin' on?" "Earlier today, she came knocking on my door, asking to see the kids, but we been separated." "And, uh, all of a sudden, you know, she's, you know, wanting to see the kids." "so I was like, "Yeah, cool." You know what I mean?" "See the kids." "Whatever." "Well, all of a sudden, she starts trying to argue with me, whatever, she starts trying to get physical." "Well, she breaks my-- my big window in the front." "She throws a wrench through it" "When was this?" "Earlier this morning." "I'd say between 9:00 and 11:00." "So, uh... all she was supposed to do was just get her stuff and leave." "You know what I mean?" "That's what the officers wanted, you know, that's all I wanted." "So" "So we've already been out here once today." "Yeah, this morning!" "So, they told me that if like she comes back, just call us again." "We're separated." "So, you know, I-- I was in the car with another friend, you know what I mean, and then, I just see her, all of a sudden popped up in my passenger door with the other chick." "She, you know, starts tryin' to rush her, so I bring her this way, she slips out of my hand, and she starts swinging on me." "She hits me, and then my brother-in-law comes up, trying to separate us, she hits him." "You know what I mean?" "All I was trying to do was get her to leave." "Where'd she hit you at?" "She hit me in my eye." "In your eye?" "Yeah." "Okay." "So it caused that swelling, is it always swelled up like that?" "No, she just hit me." "All right." "I see you got the swelling." "Sh-- she hit me, and then my brother-in-law came to try to" "She was trying to get away from him, and she threw herself..." "Come here!" "What did you see happen?" "Okay, like I, like I told 'em, I was like, "Tell her to leave,"" "like so he was pushing her away, telling her to leave." "And I was like, "I'm just gonna sit here and watch y'all." A witness or whatever." "And she was pushing her away." "She was fightin' with them and tryin' to like get around 'em, like, "No, (bleep) bitch,"" "Talkin' (bleep) of course, of course." "And so like, in the midst of that, she just like, threw herself, so that's when she fell, like she-- when-- you know, like she told you how she fell or whatever." "That's when she fell, I watched her." "Okay." "She did hit me in the face." "Where'd she hit you at?" "Like my nose." "Up in your nose?" "Yeah, my nose, and like right here." "There." "Like, my nose is hurting." "Okay." "Yeah." "She says that you shoved her to the ground." "No, it's just, you know, like I said, I was just tryin' to keep her from breaking that other chick, and, you know, I-- out of this with it," "I just had her like this, you know..." "Okay." "But I mean, that was it." "You know what I mean?" "Then she slipped out of your arms?" "Yeah." "All I did, man, is just, I wanted her gone, you know what I mean, 'cause..." "Okay." "And she got all of her stuff and left?" "No, she just grabbed a bag and left." "So she still has property in the house?" "Yeah, she still has property in the house." "Okay." "Just hang tight over here." "I lashed out on him a while back." "I'm on probation..." "yeah, of course." "Been on it for 10 years." "Still got five more years to go." "When you were over here earlier today..." "Yeah, I was over- and you threw the wrench through the window..." "Yeah." "did they tell you you weren't supposed to come back over here anymore?" "No, they-- he just said that I just needed to leave, that's all he said." "Okay." "I have a one-year-old and a two-year-old that I'm tryin' to do my best to be in their lives, but with them in my house, I cannot do it." "You know what I mean?" "That's all I want." "What's your name, ma'am?" "Rosita." "Just put your hands behind your back, okay?" "Why do I gotta go to jail?" "'Cause you assaulted your boyfriend." "And he's" " Jaime!" "No." "Do not start yelling." "We're not doin' that." "For real, Jaime?" "They were holding me, and I-- and I-- and I tried to go like this, so" "Well, it sounds like your boyfriend was holding you to keep you from assaulting anybody else, 'cause you had already tried to assault this other girl and already hit your boyfriend." "Mm-hmm." "So, it sounds like they were just trying to keep you from assaulting people." "All right." "Let's go." "But I, I try" " I tried, to like, you know, tried to communicate with him." "Babe!" "Please!" "Can she see her son?" "Can I" " Huh?" "Can she see her son!" "No." "I just wanted to talk to you." "Sit down." "(sighs)" "Can I talk to him, please?" "No." "He doesn't want to come over here." "I just want to talk to him, please." "He said he doesn't want to come over here." "Babe, please!" "Babe, can I talk to you, please, love?" "Babe, can I please talk to you, love?" "Here's the deal." "You're goin' to jail tonight for assault because you punched your boyfriend in the face, and you punched the other guy in the nose." "Please, come talk to me!" "Please, babe, please!" "Babe!" "Cut that out." "Please!" "Babe!" "Please, love!" "Hey." "If you hit your head like that one more time," "I'm gonna bring the paddywagon over here, and I'm gonna surfboard you, and you're gonna be completely immobilized all the way to the county jail." "Do you understand that?" "I just want to talk!" "Okay, he doesn't want to talk to you." "Babe, come here!" "Please!" "Go ahead and roll." "Uh, it's pretty clear that they're trying to restrain her and get her to leave the property." "She's the primary aggressor, so she's gonna end up goin' to jail tonight for domestic assault." "We here out at District 3, we-- we've experienced loss personally to us with the death of Deputy Jesse Valdez." "Unfortunately, he was on his way to a call and a woman that was high on methamphetamine crossed over into his lane, striking him head on, and he ended up losing his life for it." "So... as a tribute to Jesse, I" " I try to get out there and get as much drugs off the street as possible." "This car, it failed to signal when it made the left turn on this street up here, and..." "and it looks like it's backing' up and tryin' to make a weird three-point turn, and we're gonna stop it here." "(siren blares)" "All right..." "let's get 'em." "Hey, deputy with Harris County Sheriffs Office." "What's goin' on, bud?" "Nothin', I was meetin' my aunt." "She's about to turn around right here." "Yeah?" "All right, you didn't t-- use your turn signal whenever you turned on the street back there, and you got a brake light out." "Did you know that?" "I do?" "Mm-hmm." "Is there anything illegal in this car?" "No, sir." "Is there any weed in this car?" "No, sir." "I was just smokin' it right there at my house." "All right. 'Cause I'm smellin' it, I'm gonna have you step out, all right?" "All right, sir." "Hey, step out." "Come back here." "Got anything on you that's gonna poke, stick or hurt?" "Put your hands on the car." "Put your hands on the car." "I was just smokin' before you" "All right, put your hands down here, bud." "You're not under arrest, you're bein' detained, you understand?" "I know." "14-21." "I have one detained, I'm under control." "Come back here, bud." "Yes, sir." "Whatcha doin' out here?" "Sir?" "Whatcha doin' out here?" "My sister staying right here on Waco Street, sir." "Yeah?" "Stand against the car." "Am I gonna find anything in that car?" "No, you can search it." "Tear that bitch up." "Okay." "Your sister stays on Waco?" "Yes, right here." "Okay." "All right, do me a favor, put your butt on that push bumper?" "All right, I'm gonna make sure you ain't got nothin' illegal." "Do you have a driver's license?" "Yes, it's in there." "I got I.D." "Okay." "You got insurance on that car?" "Yeah." "Okay." "My question was, do you have a driver's license, not an I.D." "Yeah, I got a driver's license." "Is it good?" "Uh..." "I'm just paying surcharges on it." "Okay." "Hang tight, bud." "Made the traffic stop and I immediately smelled burnt marijuana, so..." "I got consent to search anyways." "Did he just throw somethin'?" "What'd you throw, dude?" "Sir?" "What'd you throw?" "What I throw?" "What did you throw?" "I pulled up my pants." "That's what I did, right here, look." "All right, look here, 'kay?" "Did you throw somethin' over there?" "This what I" "You g" " Hey... you gonna waste my time, make me get a narcotics dog out here?" "I'm not-- -'Cause if I find somethin over there," "I'm gonna charge you with it, man." "I'm not wasting your time, sir." "Okay." "Is there anything over there?" "I'm tellin' you what I did, I did like this." "I pulled up my pants..." "(indistinct)" "I did like this." "When I got out of the car, I did just like this." "You stupid, dude." "Seriously?" "You just turned a misdemeanor..." "You just" "Listen." "You just-- you just searched me..." "Listen to me..." "You just searched me, sir." "No, I patted you down for weapons is what I did, I didn't search you." "I didn't have (bleep) on me." "Listen." "You just turned a misdemeanor, possession of marijuana, into a felony, tampering wi." "Man, you gotta be-- can't be serious." "He said I threw some" " I pulled up my goddamn pants like this." "What's that?" "Look like weed." "Yeah." "Dude, how am I gonna throw anything off me though?" "Bro, I'm" " I'm tellin' you the honest to God truth." "No, you're not." "Check right there." "You see that red light right there?" "That's called a dash camera." "All right." "They-- they don't lie." "You just turned a misdemeanor that I probably would've had you-- just wrote you a ticket for..." "Man, I don't- into a felony." "Sir, I'm just trying to get to my house." "All right." "Over some weed?" "Yep." "Damn, man." "(bleep)..." "Man, my mama is gonna be pissed." "All right, now that-- Hey, listen to me." "Now that that's over with..." "Hey, look at me." "Can't you let me just call my mama and tell it to her?" "That's all, man." "Listen to me, okay?" "I haven't made no decision yet." "Okay?" "Listen to me, I haven't made a decision yet, okay?" "Now I need to know from you, is there anything else in that car?" "Ain't nothin' in that truck," "I promise." "Honest to truth..." "Okay." "Are we done?" "Are we done playing games?" "I'm through." "I ain't-- Don't need to lie to you." "Man, I'm sorry for even lying' to you." "Okay." "Officer, didn't-- I ain't..." "Okay." "(bleep)" "So..." "I mean, this ain't my first day on the job, okay?" "I understand." "Okay." "I don't sell drugs, though." "I didn't say you sold." "I don't do none of that." "I didn't say you sold drugs." "You can search that, you can tear that bitch up." "You just smoked a little weed?" "Yeah, I was just smokin' it right here and that truck there" "Hey, turn around, I'm gonna tighten" "I'm gonna double lock those cuffs so they don't tighten up on you, all right?" "That truck there that was passin' in front of me?" "Mm-hmm." "She was just about to bag up and come meet me." "Mm-hmm." "That's my little-- my little bitch." "I ain't gonna even lie to you." "Were you gonna give her a little bit of it?" "I was about to" " No," "I was about to smoke it myself." "She don't smoke." "Okay." "I about to knock the hoe down right here." "I ain't gonna lie to you, man." "All right." "You ain't gonna find nothin' in the truck, though, my damn wife's truck." "She gonna be so mother" "All right, hang tight for me, I'll talk to you in a second." "All right." "Uh, I'm pretty sure once I play this dash cam back" "I'm gonna be able to, uh, see him, tossing a little plastic bag of marijuana." "This is the video." "At one point, he actually turns around and looks at the dash cam right before he throws the bag of marijuana." "You know, the amount of marijuana he had was a misdemeanor, and by him throwing it and trying to conceal it, that's a felony." "It's a tampering with evidence charge." "He threw it just then." "All right, you're under arrest for felony tampering with evidence, okay?" "All right." "Dude, what were you thinking?" "At one point, you looked back and saw the dash cam." "You saw the red light." "I-- just wanted to go home, man." "Did you know that red light was the camera?" "Yeah." "Is that why you scooted over a little bit?" "Yeah." "All right, bud, we gotta go." "(car door slams shut)" "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint." "Dispatcher:" "Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is code three." "(overlapping police radio chatter)"