"♪ Whatcha gonna do ♪" "♪ When Sheriff John Brown ♪" "♪ Come for you?" "♪" "♪ 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?" "♪" "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 ERIC MORGAN:" "Yeah, in Springfield we got a minor- league baseball team." "And it's kind of a big baseball fan." "It's pretty interesting to go and watch some of these games and see the young prospects and the guys you're gonna see in the big leagues and on TV." "It's pretty neat to see the people that are gonna turn into the future stars and people you're gonna be watching in the big leagues one day." "Our sergeant is trying to stop a motorcycle, and he says that it's running away from him, so we're gonna try to get caught up to it here real quick and see if we can help him out if it stops." "The sergeant's just a few blocks ahead of us here going south on Broadway trying to stop this motorcycle." "So we're gonna see if we can get caught up to him." "(over radio):" "Channel one is secure." "Channel one is secure." "MORGAN:" "Northbound on Weaver." "(over radio):" "Okay, northbound on Weaver." "(Taser zapping, man groaning)" "SERGEANT SCOTT UMBARGER:" "Don't move!" "Do not move!" "(small dog barking)" "Don't move!" "MORGAN:" "Roll over!" "Get your hand out of your your pocket!" "Put your hand behind your back." "he was starting to get up and run again." "I was able to deploy my Taser, and it was effective enough for you to get him in handcuffs." "MORGAN:" "You want to tell 'em we're good?" "(small dog barking)" "Get your hand out of your your pocket!" "I'm not!" "(indistinct radio transmission)" "(over radio):" "Go ahead and check it, 740, 742." "Ow!" "MORGAN: 742, we're stable if we can just make sure both vehicles get secured." "Let's try and look and see if it was stuck anywhere." "UMBARGER:" "It should be right in the middle of his back." "MORGAN:" "Is it?" "Oh, man." "UMBARGER:" "I didn't see the probe unless it fell out." "Oh, there it is." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "MORGAN:" "Watch that right there." "UMBARGER:" "Okay, we're good." "MORGAN:" "Could we get a car back here to the alley if anybody know where we're at?" "Sit up, cross your feet." "Partner, we're gonna stand up and we're gonna get out in the front of the house so we know where we're at, all right?" "Don't do anything stupid." "Stand up." "(suspect groans)" "Walk over here." "Oh, man." "(barking continues)" "(multiple dogs barking)" "Sit right there on that ledge." "Is it stolen?" "Do you have dope on you?" "You got warrants?" "Steve, which one is it, man?" "When a police car comes up behind you with lights on, usually, most people stop." "I was scared, dude." "It didn't look like a cop car." "MORGAN:" "Look in his wallet." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "Looks like a cellophane wrapper with some type of unknown pills in it." "Generally, it's probably a prescription..." "or controlled substance, medication of some sort." "We'll have to figure out what that is." "It's not your wallet even though I took it out of your back pocket?" "Borrowing it." "MORGAN:" "You're borrowing it?" "Yeah." "MORGAN:" "But your I.D. was in it?" "Oh, no." "UMBARGER:" "What's that?" "MORGAN:" "Looks like a debit card or credit card of a female and a I.D. belonging to the same female." "Obviously not this subject." "Possibly stolen." "We'll have to check on that." "That's not stole." "MORGAN:" "Who does it belong to then?" " The person..." "UMBARGER:" " Huh?" "The person over..." "MORGAN:" "What person?" "It's not mine." "MORGAN:" "Well, it's obvious it's not yours." "You're not a female, best I can tell." "That was clearly a female on that I.D." "But it's in the wallet with your I.D. and everything else so, it's kinda hard to pass that off as not being in your possession, partner." "So, Steve, why we running, man?" "At least tell me that." "What, running?" "MORGAN:" "Yeah, why were you running?" "I don't know." "MORGAN:" "You don't know?" "Stupid." "MORGAN:" "Well, yeah, you're right, it's stupid, but there's gotta be a reason." "I mean, we don't run just for the sake of running, most time." "Like he said, you got warrants out?" "UMBARGER:" "You got warrants out?" "MORGAN:" "Because you had those pills in your pocket?" "You know, is the motorcycle your own?" "Was it stolen?" "Anything?" " You weren't running just because..." "UMBARGER:" " I guess this is not yours either." "You don't know whether or not it's stolen?" "Is that what you're trying to tell me?" "What?" "I don't know." "(over radio): 740." "Someone let me use that." "That's all I know." "MORGAN:" "What's your date of birth, partner?" "What's your birthday?" "I'm sure you're old enough to know your own date of birth, aren't you?" "You guys got it right there." "My I.D., man." "Stop it." "MORGAN:" "Oh, I know." "He's not gonna..." "We'll just go fingerprint him." "UMBARGER:" "That's fine." "I'd rather you not tell me 'cause you'll sit in jail and have to tell the judge." "It's up to you." "It's up to you." "Do you want to tell me and take care of your warrants now, or you want to wait and sit and have to see the judge?" "MORGAN:" "And take an extra charge for lying about it?" "UMBARGER:" "Yeah." "It's up to you." "I don't care either way." "You're gonna sit in jail longer if you don't tell me." "Okay, fair enough." "You can sit in jail." "You got a cigarette?" "MORGAN:" "Nope." "You don't want to tell us anything, we're not gonna help you out." "UMBARGER:" "Why would be nice to you when don't even want to tell us who you are?" "Give me a cigarette." "UMBARGER:" "No, that isn't the way this game's played." "And you been around the block a time or two to know that isn't the way this game's played." "You want something from me, you can go ahead and be honest." "So whatever you've got hanging over your head: parole violation, probation warrant, whatever it is, you know you're going back, and that's the reason you want to play this game." "That's fine, but you're just gonna sit in jail even longer and you're gonna rack up more charges." "All you gotta do is come clean and tell us who you are." "Why, so you can rack a bunch more charges on me?" "MORGAN:" "You're gonna catch charges for your lying right now." "UMBARGER:" "Yeah." "Right now you're catching charges for lying about your name." "MORGAN:" "It's like he said, it's just the inevitable 'cause obviously, when you get to jail they're gonna fingerprint you." "All right, then rack it up good." "I ain't gonna tell ya." "MORGAN:" "That's fine." "That's your choice." "Just remember you had that option and you chose not to take it, okay?" "Damn!" "MORGAN:" "You're looking at a tampering charge 'cause it's a stolen bike." "You got a possession charge, referenced to the drugs in the wallet, and the resisting and fleeing from us." "Whatever." "Rack 'em up." "OFFICER KAMIL KUCZEK:" "Been a police officer for a little bit over two years." "Task force work" " I got into it about a year ago." "The main focus is on street-level narcotics and street-level guns." "We try to hit this area a lot every night, try and see if we can get anybody doing anything out of the ordinary." "Most of the time, they run on us." "So we try to get up quick and see what's going on." "Oh, we got one trying to get away from us right now." "Trying to walk away." "Let's talk to him real quick." "What's going on?" "Put your hands on the car." "You got anything on you?" "No, sir." "KUCZEK:" "You got an ID on you?" "Yes, sir." "I might have a warrant for traffic or something out there." " But that's the only thing..." "KUCZEK:" " Okay, don't worry about..." " Yeah, yeah, yeah." " All right." "KUCZEK:" "Keep your hands on the car." "You can take my shoes off, too." "KUCZEK:" "No, no, no." "Where's your ID at?" "It's in my pocket right here, sir." "My front pocket." "KUCZEK:" "How much cash you got on you, bro?" "Huh?" "KUCZEK:" "You going to the strip club?" "Yeah." "(Kuczek laughs)" "KUCZEK:" "Who's staying right here?" "My neighbor." "KUCZEK:" "What's..." "what's your neighbor's friend?" "Huh?" "What's your neighbor's friend?" "Who?" "OFFICER EDWIN COOPER:" "You stay right here...?" "Huh?" "COOPER:" "You stay right here?" "No." "My neighbor stay there." "(Cooper speaks indistinctly)" "Yeah." "(woman talking)" "COOPER:" "Where you stay at?" "I stay right down the street." "KUCZEK:" "You want to drink that?" "Look inside." "(man speaks indistinctly)" "COOPER:" "Oh!" "Let me see." "Oh, snap, son." "COOPER:" "You have the right to remain silent." "Okay." "KUCZEK:" "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "COOPER: 30 pieces of crack cocaine." "KUCZEK:" "You have a right to an attorney." "If you can't afford one, the State of Louisiana will provide one for you." "Free of charge." "Do you understand your rights?" "Yes, sir." "KUCZEK:" "You ever been arrested before?" "Yes, sir." "KUCZEK:" "What for?" "Uh, traffic." "KUCZEK:" "Anything else?" "No, sir." "KUCZEK:" "Not for..." "That's cocaine, sir." "KUCZEK:" "All right." "That's cocaine." "OFFICER JAMES TERRELL:" "That's rocks, dude." "COOPER:" "How much money do you have on you?" "KUCZEK:" "He said he was going to the strip club." "COOPER:" "Oh, yeah." " Um..." "KUCZEK:" " Hold, hold on." "My own cut." "TERRELL: 37 rocks, uh, crack cocaine." "Decent." "Decent for, uh, street-level." "KUCZEK:" "James, I'll put him in your car?" "All right, come on." "See, I'm gone, dawg." "I'm gone, ya hear me?" "I picked up the wrong cup, brah." "That's what's in that man's cup..." "Had all them rocks in that cup, man." "Oh, man." "Wrong cup, brah." "Say, brah, tell that man, see if he can come find me out, brah." "KUCZEK:" "Relax, dude, relax." "All right, have a seat." "Wrong old cup, man." "Man... (Kuczek talking softly)" "KUCZEK: $113." "COOPER: $113?" "KUCZEK:" "Yeah." "COOPER: 13 pieces of rock..." "crack cocaine." "Thirty-seven?" "KUCZEK: 37, yeah." "37 and a $113." "Excuse me, sir?" "KUCZEK:" "Yeah?" "Man, I picked up the wrong jug." "I could show you who that's for." "I could show you who that's for, sir." "KUCZEK:" "Yeah?" "I could show you exactly who that's for." "KUCZEK:" "No, that's..." "That's not mine, sir." "I picked up the wrong cup." "We had four cups on a tray." "KUCZEK:" "Okay." "If I'd've known that, I'd've never been... come on, man." "KUCZEK:" "Okay." "Not mine, sir." "KUCZEK:" "All right, I understand, man." "I promise, sir." "I promise you." "It's not mine." "KUCZEK:" "Mm-hmm." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "KUCZEK:" "Is this yours?" "That is not mine." "That money is mine." "KUCZEK:" "The money is yours, but this ain't yours?" "No, that's not mine, sir." "KUCZEK:" "You had no idea." "TERRELL:" "He said he picked up the wrong cup." "(laughs)" "I picked up the wrong cup, sir." "KUCZEK:" "And they let you walk away with the wrong cup?" "Everybody was getting out the car." "KUCZEK:" "When we first rolled by, there was a bunch of them sitting back there." "Then the second time around, he appeared out of nowhere, and then just jumped on the porch as soon as we approached and started ringing the doorbell for whatever reason." "Supposedly neighbor's house, huh?" "It's your neighbor's house, huh?" "Yes, sir." "What's... what are the names?" "His name is Duke." "KUCZEK:" "Is Duke?" "Yeah, Duke." "KUCZEK:" "How long you know him for?" "I been knowing him since I been staying on this block." "TERRELL:" "My man, that's an elderly lady that lives there." "That's a old lady in the apartment of a old man, sir." "KUCZEK:" "Well, what were you going to talk to him about?" "About the situation we supposed to be setting up the Neighborhood Watch." "KUCZEK:" "You were supposed to set up Neighborhood Watch?" "Yeah." "KUCZEK:" "With who?" "With my neighbors right here." "She stayed next door and he stayed next door." "KUCZEK:" "What would you be watching out for, the police?" "Huh?" "KUCZEK:" "What you been watching out for?" "No, look, I listen to them, like, um, I'm a son to them." "KUCZEK:" "Okay." "That's the only way I..." "I reason and listen to them people." "Like a neighbor, like a good neighbor, a son." "KUCZEK:" "Mm-hmm." "I don't do nothing wrong." "They..." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "If they see my face right now, they could see I don't do nothing wrong." "That's my neighbor right there." "She could tell you that." "TERRELL:" "Hey, my man." "Yes, sir?" "TERRELL:" "You on paper?" "Yes, sir." "TERRELL:" "For what?" "I'm on parole." "KUCZEK:" "For what?" "I just come from doing time." "TERRELL:" "He's been arrested for armed robbery, weed, ephedrine, cocaine, marijuana with intent to distribute." "KUCZEK:" "Coke." "I used to smoke cocaine." "KUCZEK:" "Oh, you forgot all those crack charges, huh?" " No, I smoked..." "TERRELL:" " All right, probation dates, uh, possession of crack, three years, DOC, suspended sentence, three years active probation." "He's already on paper for possession of crack cocaine." "He'll go back to jail." "KUCZEK:" "All right." "Let's head back to the station." "Tells me he's going to a strip club right around the corner from here, which..." "TERRELL:" "There's no strip club." "KUCZEK:" "You know, there's no strip club, no nothing." "I think he just started walking around, trying to sell it." "The whole idea of him picking up the wrong cup and walking away with 37 rocks of crack cocaine is slim to none." "SENIOR OFFICER MIKE WERTANEN:" "Out here in South Texas, we're in the early part of the summer months." "It's just starting to heat up." "And over the next couple of months it's going to get really hot and really sticky." "It's my opinion that the hotter it gets, the more humid it gets, people tend to act a little crazier." "And that's when you see some of your most bizarre things." "We got a call at one of the city bus stops here." "Apparently there are two males arguing on the bus." "Yeah, 646, that's it." "How y'all doing?" "WERTANEN:" "How are you doing?" "All right." "I called the police." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." "I called 'em." "WERTANEN:" "What's going on?" "This is my little son Andrew." "He's 12 years old." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." "Have a seat." "This guy right here-- he was on the bus yelling racial slangs, slurs to me, like, "We got a messenger, a mother..."" "And I just looked at him." "I didn't say nothing, 'cause I was helping the kids." "WERTANEN:" "Uh-huh." "So we walked away, walked away, walked away to catch this bus." "And he started saying-- he said, uh, he said, "I'm sorry to tell"" "you, man, I'm racist."" "That's what he said." "He said he can fix that problem, 'cause he's been racist all his life." "I said, "No problem."" "I gave him a hug." "That's what I did." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." "I hugged him." "He said, "Okay, let me let you know, man, I'm tired of being a racist."" "He said, "I'm tired of being a racist."" "I said, "Don't worry about it."" "God is good."" "I said, "Man, you need to stop being racist."" "This is my 12-year-old son."" "I said, "You can't be disrespecting a kid."" "He was disrespecting the kids." "I said, "You can't do that, man."" "You're going to get yourself in trouble." ""You might get in a fight with somebody-- an altercation."" "But why me?" "I don't even know him." "So he took his hat off and said, "Nobody gonna do me nothing."" "I said, "Nobody's trying to not trying to do you nothing."" "But when we got here to get on the bus, this bus right here, he took a deep breath." "WERTANEN:" "Mm-hmm." "And I see him, I backed up." "This is where I be." "I do..." "I got out the way, I backed up." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." "He was, like, man, for what, I don't even know, and I had hugged him." "And you could see the expression on his face." "WERTANEN:" "I'm gonna talk to this man here and get his end of it." "You do me a favor, you just stick around, okay?" "Yeah, I'll be here." "WERTANEN:" "What's your name, sir?" "Larry." "WERTANEN:" "Larry." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Okay, what's going on with you and this gentleman?" "Well, we had, um... we had some kind of row, uh..." "What it was, I had a conversation with, uh..." "some other black people, uh, in another place, and I just told them, I said, "Look, I am racist."" "I said, "That's just the way I am."" "And that's it, you know." "And when I said that, it..." "He-He just..." "he just went ballistic after that." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." "'Cause I said I was racist, and I am, I'm racist." "And I'm white, and that's the way I like it." "And..." "I don't care to mingle with people like that, and..." "WERTANEN:" "Well, what...?" "I didn't say nothing like that." "It's racist, and that's it." "WERTANEN:" "Well, why would you even feel the need to blurt that out?" "I mean, you know that's gonna get a reaction from people, right?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "You know, I mean, if you are, it's your business, you know, but... might be best just to keep that stuff to yourself, you know?" "Yeah, I notice here you got a Texas offender card." "Man, you been to prison?" "Yes, sir, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon." "WERTANEN:" "How long did you go in prison?" "Did three years." "Flat." "WERTANEN:" "Okay, three years straight time?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Are you on parole?" "No, sir, I have no parole, nothing." "WERTANEN:" "How long have you been out of prison?" "Um... a week and a half." "WERTANEN:" "You only been out a week and a half?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Was that your only stretch in prison, or have you been to prison before?" "Uh, Louisiana, yeah." "WERTANEN:" "So you've been to prison for something else?" "Yes, sir, for burning a church." "WERTANEN:" "For burning a church?" "Burning a church, yeah." "WERTANEN:" "How long did you get for that?" "Five." "WERTANEN:" "Five years?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "How much have you had to drink tonight, Larry?" "A little bit, sir." " You know, if you're gonna arrest me..." "WERTANEN:" " Larry, right now you're under arrest for public intoxication, all right?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "I think you've had just enough to drink to impair your judgment to make you a danger to yourself and others, okay?" "'Cause like I said, man, I don't understand why you felt the need to blurt that out, man." "You're not in prison anymore, bro." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Yo, Larry, just 'cause you're going to jail doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person, okay?" "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "I think you got some problems, okay?" "I think maybe be locked up has something to do with it, but I think that drinking has something to do with it, so before we take you away, man, I'm gonna leave it up to you." "If you want to apologize to this man, you can." "No, I don't." "WERTANEN:" "Why not?" "'Cause dude put out a weapon, and he ain't admitting it." "WERTANEN:" "Okay." " He pulled out a strap, and he wouldn't..." "WERTANEN:" " Okay, well, Larry," "Larry, the man called the police, and he stuck around to talk to us, okay?" "And I've heard both sides of the story, Larry." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "And I think the bottom line is, you've had too much to drink." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Yeah, yeah, you're right." " I mean, I..." " And that combined with your views makes you just a danger to yourself and others, okay, so, let's go, Larry." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Let me ask you this, Larry, man." "When you burned that church, had you been drinking a little bit then, too?" "Pissed." "WERTANEN:" "Been drinking a little bit, though, too, when you burned that church?" "It didn't even take that to do that." "All it took was anger." "WERTANEN:" "So you got a lot of anger issues?" "Uh." "WERTANEN:" "You're not carrying anything on you, are you, Larry?" "Guns, knives-- we're gonna check." "You don't have any drugs or anything?" "No, sir." "You can check me all you want." "WERTANEN:" "So, this last stretch, you went there for what again-- aggravated assault, you said, with a deadly weapon?" "Deadly weapon, yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "What kind of weapon did you use?" "Uh, I cut somebody's throat." "WERTANEN:" "Cut their throat." "Did they live?" "Ah, a little bit." "WERTANEN:" "Well, I'm assuming they lived, because you didn't get charged with murder, right?" "Just aggravated assault?" "Exactly." "WERTANEN:" "Let me ask you a question, Larry." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "The person whose throat you cut-- what race were they?" "You guess." "WERTANEN:" "Were they black?" "(Larry laughs)" "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Would it be safe to say you got a little problem in this area?" " I hate..." " You got to get over that, bro." "(Larry scoffs)" "Have a seat, man, watch your head." "Yes, sir." "WERTANEN:" "Let me tell you something, Larry." "If those are your views, I don't think I can probably do anything to change your mind, okay, but I'll tell you one thing." "If you continue to do things like you did tonight, where you alarmed the general public out here by voicing those views, and the police get called, you're gonna be sitting in the backseat of a lot more patrol cars." "(Larry chuckles)" "All right, Larry, enjoy ride, man." "At first, when I talked to Joseph, it sounded fairly mundane, but the more I talked to him, the more obvious it became to me, you know, not only was he intoxicated." "He was definitely a danger to himself and others." "You know, his views are his views, but man, I just can't..." "I can't believe him being that blatant." "I have a feeling we'll be dealing with Larry some more." "Yeah, I'm sure we will." "WERTANEN:" "Yeah." "OFFICER (over radio):" "132 and Bush." "I've got him at gunpoint." "DISPATCHER:" "At gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is Code Three."