COPS (1989) s23e12 Episode Script

Bad boys whatcha want, whatcha want? 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.
Deputy Scott Puller: I've been an officer or approximately 14 years and I've worked for three different agencies.
I've had my most fun and the best place to work has been with Sacramento County.
Brant and I were partners for about two years on the SWAT team.
It was probably the highlight of my career.
Done various other jobs which are all opportunities I attribute to being at this department.
(Siren wailing) Deputy Brant Santin: 24 x ray: Pursuit.
We're, uh, westbound Orange Grove from Watt.
It's a white sedan.
Trying to catch up to it.
- Puller: Speed.
- Santin: Speed at this point.
We just, uh, northbound Roosevelt Road.
We're in the area where's there's a lot of stolen cars that are dumped here, and so we, we just had a car pass us and it's taken off on us at a high rate of speed, so we're gonna try to catch up to it.
Okay, 24 x ray, speeds are about 80.
He's passing vehicles on the shoulder.
(Over radio): 10-4.
Keep the air clear, and I'll send all three units unless you want to try it yourself.
Santin: It's actually a silver sedan.
We haven't been close enough yet to catch a plate.
Just past Myrtle.
Still northbound approaching Watt.
(Over radio): Copy northbound.
Copy approaching Watt.
Approach.
Santin: Right shoulder.
Okay, we're gonna go southbound Watt.
(Indistinct radio transmission) Okay, approaching Myrtle.
Light's red.
It's gonna be passing on the right.
(Sirens approaching) Get your hands up! Puller: Okay, hands up! Santin: Get your hands up! Puller: I want you to pop the door from the outside with your left hand! Keep your other hand up! Step out! Look at me! Pull your shirt up! (Dog barking) Turn around! Keep turning! Stop! Back up towards my voice.
Keep backing, keep backing.
Stop.
Take a step to your left.
Hands behind your head! Deputy Brian Templeton: Do you have anybody else in the car? No, just me.
He crashed into my car! Templeton: K-9, do you want to clear the car? (Dog barks) - Clear? - Puller: Yeah.
Was anybody hurt? - She's got kids in the car.
- Puller: Okay, all right.
We got, we got a ambulance coming just to check your kids, okay? Okay.
You okay, sweetie? You okay? Puller: You okay, buddy? - Yeah.
- Puller: All right.
Hey, ma'am, come back over here with your children, okay? Are you okay? (Sniffling, sobbing) Yeah.
I flew forward.
I'm okay.
Puller: Okay, come back over here.
I got, what I got is I got the medics are coming just as a precaution, check your kids out, okay? - What's your name? - Tara.
Puller: Tara, you okay? Mom, this guy was, like, in a high-speed chase and he slammed in the back of us just now! This guy slammed in the back of us.
Yeah, but I, like, flew forwards, I had my seatbelt on.
Puller: You okay, sweetie? What's your name? - Kristin.
- Puller: You're a cutie.
And it, like, choked me.
Let me see.
Watt Avenue.
- Puller: Okay, you all right? - Yeah, I'm fine.
Puller: Okay.
If, if you want, we can take your children over here in the shade on the lawn if you like.
- Yeah.
- Puller: You want to do that? The baby girl's screaming.
Puller: He tried to evade us until we got on this very busy street here.
No one's hurt.
Hey, what's your name, man? Preston.
- Puller: Say again.
- Preston.
- Puller: Preston, are you on parole? - Yeah.
Puller: Okay.
You wanted right now? Are you at large? Yeah, I would have been this week.
Puller: Okay, you ain't got to answer no questions if you don't want to, but I just want to ask you something here 'cause we, I mean, we were going pretty fast around these corners, you know, and, uh, why were you running? Was it just 'cause you were at large or The needles? I mean, you look a little strung out to me, but Yeah, I been up, I been awake eight days Puller: What are you shooting with the needles, meth or? - Yeah, meth.
- Puller: Yeah.
I tell ya, that car, it might not be stolen yet, but it would have been tonight.
Puller: Okay.
So how long you had that car? I seen it, I been seeing it sit there about four days, so I just took it.
Puller: You took it today.
You've been driving it all day long? Damn near all day.
Puller: All day? And then, I mean, what were you doing in this neighborhood, man? Were you gonna go steal another car? What were you gonna do? Man, I was gonna go do me a shot of crack.
Puller: Oh, you had them needles loaded up, huh? One of 'em was.
Puller: Where were you gonna do that at? Right there in the back corner of Puller: Oh, okay, gotcha.
Just pull over right there and whoo.
Puller: You just changed your mind when you saw the cop car or what? (Bleep) right! The gap looked bigger, man, but it seemed like the cars were - Puller: Yeah.
No, I hear you, man.
- Fuzzy or something.
But you understand, I mean, I know you're motivated.
You don't want to go to jail and all that stuff, but, but check it out, man.
You can't pick a busier street.
I know.
I still got morals.
- Puller: There were three - In my hear, bro, but Did you see the people in the car, you know? Or were you just looking at the car or what? Just looking at the gap there? - When? - Puller: When you hit that car.
You were just looking at the gap, huh? Man, homie, my eyes, everything looks fuzzy, dawg.
I didn't know.
Puller: Yeah.
There were three little kids in that car.
Yeah, I know.
Puller: I mean, the parents, man, they're just, they're crying.
I mean, everybody's concerned over there, but you know, we got the medics here.
Everything, hopefully, will turn out okay.
How you feel about that? Well, I feel like (bleep), bro, but I mean, what can I say? I did what I did.
I can say sorry a million times, ain't gonna change what's been done, it's not.
This could have been a lot worse.
Puller: Okay, you're not injured at all, huh? No.
Puller: Okay.
You got cute kids.
- Very beautiful.
- Thank you.
(Sniffling) - Puller: You all right? - Yeah.
No, I'm fine.
Puller: Okay.
(Voice breaking): I just think if I would have lost them Puller: No, yeah.
Santin: That was a good spot, man, 'cause that's a Parolee who's been in and out of prison forever.
Puller: Oh, he's a career criminal.
He told me that GTA is what he does.
He was bragging about his pocketful of shaved keys, and that grand theft auto is his thing I'm just glad that nobody got hurt.
It could have been a lot worse.
I'm glad it turned out that way.
Officer J.
T.
Hodges: The PD here is really good to work for.
The training is very extensive.
They definitely get you with enough knowledge that you need to be able to come out and do your job effectively.
They try and keep everybody in enough training throughout the year so that way you never really kinda slack off.
You always have something new, something different that's gonna come out that's gonna be beneficial to your job.
Right now we're going to one of our local hotels.
Front desk employees called in saying that there's a drunk belligerent guy hanging around the front atrium.
One of the front desk employees say that he was getting in a little bit of an argument with the guy, so They say that he's not a guest at the hotel.
He's not really supposed to be there once he's been told to leave.
- Running! - I'm not running! Officer Wesley Brown: He hopped the fence, buddy! I'm not running.
I'm not running.
Hodges: Get down on the ground.
Brown: Get on the ground.
I'm down! Why y'all freaking out?! I'm down.
Hodges: You're not running, but you're trying to jump the fence.
I did.
(Handcuffs rasping) Listen, I'm the guy y'all are looking for.
Brown: Yeah, we know.
Hodges: That's why we have people pointing at you.
- I was just walking.
- Brown: You just walking? - Hodges: You're just walking, but - Dude, I ain't got nothing on me, I promise.
Hodges: But whenever you see us, you decide that you want to try - and run and jump the fence? - It's cause I'm pi, dude.
I'm drunk.
I ain't got nothing on me.
Hodges: So you're gonna run just for that sole fact without even just talking to us first? - Just being stupid, dude.
- Brown: How old are you? Brown: So what you do? Nothing.
It was dumb of me over at the motel.
Brown: Roll over.
I do not have nothing, I swear.
- Brown: Stand up.
- All right.
I don't have nothing, dude, I swear.
- Brown: Come back over here.
- All right.
Brown: How much have you had to drink? - Couple of beers.
- Brown: Couple of beers? Was I being stupid? Brown: Spread your feet apart.
We stiffed out because I was scared of getting pi, dude, really.
Brown: Guess what you're pi.
Have a seat.
Hodges: Why don't you talk to us first instead of just running off? I mean, how hard would it be to say, "Hey, I'm the guy y'all are looking for".
- Here's what's going on"? - 'Cause y'all are gonna take me for pi.
Hodges: How are we gonna take you for pi if we haven't even got your side of the story? You all of a sudden, all we get from you is you take off running.
You see how that doesn't look good on your part? I know it doesn't.
And I try to be cool with that guy over there.
I tried to settle it down with him.
Hodges: Okay, well, we could have just easily have worked that out and find you a ride.
But we just, we left is the thing, is we left when we heard you was on the way.
We wasn't, okay, we wasn't Hodges: I mean, it's just as easy to sit here and talk to us.
Yeah, it is, it is, man.
(Bleep) Hodges: And then you try and run and jump the fence.
I stopped.
I knew when y'all were coming, man.
I stopped.
I know better than to evade over some stupid-ass bar fight.
I mean, I know that.
I know it's (bleep).
I tried to talk to this guy over here and tried to calm him down, but he wasn't having none of it.
He just didn't want to come down and I just don't want to go to jail.
- Hodges: Well that's why.
- I don't want to go.
Hodges: That was not the brightest idea.
You don't want to go to jail, so you run? Just give me a break on this one, dude.
I didn't run from y'all Hodges: The break would have been sit here and talk to us.
Running, all breaks are off.
Okay, I didn't run until he told me the law was on the way.
- Brown: Until he saw us.
Like - No, not until I saw y'all.
When I saw y'all, I stopped and put my hands up.
Hodges: You were sneaking right behind that red pickup.
It's how I saw ya.
I was sneaking to get away from this guy.
Hodges: Yeah, you were sneaking, yeah.
Listen, come here.
I'm not stupid.
I'm not gonna run on some - Brown: Watch your knee.
- Yes, sir.
All right, y'all take me in.
Brown: Okay.
Hodges: What was going on here originally? What started this whole deal? He was playing his music, and singing real loud.
And we have guests that called and asked to have him stop.
And when I went and asked him nicely, he had a, he had a a bunch of people around, and he got to clowning.
Once I was talking to him, he was playing his music while I was talking.
Hodges: So he was just sitting in the atrium playing by himself? Yeah.
No, well, he had people watching him, you know? - I guess his friends.
- Hodges: Okay.
So he's playing for his friends.
They were throwing him money or whatever.
I asked him nicely to stop.
He played while I was talking to him.
- Hodges: While you were talking to him.
- So I told him, you know, "if you want to be disrespectful, "I'm not gonna put up with it.
You can just leave.
" - Hodges: Yeah.
- He said he wasn't a guest, - so you really gotta go, okay? - Hodges: Yeah.
We got people that paid a $100 to stay in these rooms.
We're sold out.
So I asked him politely to leave.
He didn't want to leave, so you guys came.
Hodges: Okay, pretty much where we're at right now, he's definitely going to jail.
He'll be gone for the night, so you won't have to worry - about him coming back.
- He made threats to me, too.
- Hodges: What was he saying? - He told me that he was gonna come and (bleep) me up, he told me that if he caught me off, or coming to work or getting off work, that he was gonna kick my ass, whatever.
Hodges: He ever comes back, you see him, just give us a us a call.
Don't even let him know you're calling us.
I mean, you can just make a - You know, call.
- Okay.
Hodges: He's not paying attention, give us a shout, say, "he's here.
" Say he's got a trespass warning.
We'll come snag him up, and he'll go straight to jail.
All right.
- Brown: Okay? - I'm sorry.
Brown: What do you need? Any way I can get out of this, dude? - Hodges: Running? No.
- Like, no, I wasn't running.
You saw me put my hands up.
I came over the fence to see y'all.
- Like, I would not run.
- Hodges: Running, not running.
Dude, this is stupid.
I would not run on some stupid-ass pi! Are you for real? Hodges: Not running would not be hiding behind a pickup.
- If you had walked up to us, - Here is the thing.
- You'd have been like, "hey.
" - Listen, okay, it's the drunk guy against the guy that owns a hotel.
I came over here with some friends at a party.
Hodges: All he said was you wouldn't leave.
I would leave.
I went over and talked to him.
Ask him if I didn't go over there and try to reason with him.
Hodges: Okay, he told you The only thing he told us that he needed you to leave, you started getting belligerent with him.
He never said that, man.
Ask the people I was with.
Man, I just need a break, man.
Come on, man.
- Brown: I can't, man.
I can't let you go.
- Please don't get me with evading, man.
I cannot get another (bleep).
Brown: We're not getting you with evading.
We're getting you with public intoxication.
Just public intoxication? I will go quietly for public intoxication.
Brown: All right, well, hop out.
You're gonna go in this car over here.
Yes, sir, absolutely.
Brown: It's got more room in the back seat.
Yes, sir, you don't have to do nothing else to me.
I will go quietly.
I thank you.
- Brown: Watch your head, Lee.
- I appreciate you, - to not charge me with evading.
- Brown: All right, have a seat.
Watch your head.
We're gonna go get your hat in just a second.
It's on the other side of the fence.
Hodges: He was standing right by this, I caught his feet right behind this red dodge.
Brown: I saw him trying to run over and jump up the fence.
Hodges: Yeah.
Brown: It's kind of a weak attempt at a jump.
Hodges: Yeah, it was very weak.
Now he wants us to cut him a break, so that way he can go home for the night.
Brown: Happy enough to go for pi.
Deputy Tyrell Patt: Been with the sheriff's office for about three years now.
Started in Pennsylvania as a police officer when I was 19 years old.
Worked there for several years.
Started looking for better opportunities.
The Palm Beach county sheriff's office is a huge sheriff's office, and I really like working here.
Been here for about three years, and I have no intentions of going anyplace else.
(Garbled radio transmission) And I'm responding to a possible domestic.
Apparently, a neighbor called in some Saw some sort of a commotion, not real sure what.
We have our helicopter, the eagle, on scene right now, saying they see something going on in the street.
(Over radio): He just cut through and he's on a street to the south.
(Helicopter passing overhead) What's going on? Do me a favor, stand up.
Put that phone down.
Turn away from me.
Turn around.
Put your hands on top of your head.
Right now I'm patting you down.
This is for my safety, okay? Nothing gonna poke me, stick me? No Patt: What's your first name? Corey.
C-o-r-e-y.
Patt: All right.
Sit down.
What's going on here? All right.
I called my old lady Asking her where she at.
She's telling me her house.
Like, past four nights, like, (bleep) been kind of funny, so I just come walking around here, I was just right here.
I see homeboy pull up.
I know she chill with his brother all the time, so I'm like, hey, let's go inside, see him grillin' her.
I go in there, she chillin', she chillin' with some other dude I don't like.
So I take out, and I walk to her house right there.
And she-she go to carrying on, "ah" Her dad come out.
Her dad's like, "man, listen to him, go the house.
" And she yelling at her dad, all this (bleep), carrying on.
And they finally get in the house, and that's about it.
Patt: So was there anything physical between the two of you? No.
Patt: What's her name? Kim.
Kimberly.
Patt: I don't know what's going on.
I just talked to him.
He just basically said they he walked in, saw his girl with another guy, he became upset.
He doesn't like the guy.
And that's that.
And I'll go over and try to get the other side of this.
Don't give her any problems.
- I'm not.
- Patt: Okay? Where's Kimberly at? I'll get her.
Kimberly.
- What? - Come on.
- Patt: Kimberly? - Yes.
Patt: Deputy Patt with the sheriff's office.
What's going on? Um, I was at my friend's house, and, um, he came over - Patt: Corey? - Yeah.
He came in and started all this stuff in In, um, my friend's house and just basically started going crazy.
Patt: Okay.
So he acts crazy and then how Where does it go from there? Now he's just, like, in sitting in the house, and he's like, "come on, come on, now.
" Patt: Okay, and where was that at? On walking onto my street.
Patt: Okay.
Was there anything physical? It's fine, it's fine.
Everything's fine.
Patt: Okay, was there anything physical between the two of you? No.
It's fine.
All right? Patt: Do me a favor, hold your arms out.
Flip them over.
This ain't my first rodeo.
I know that you're not telling me the truth, from the beginning.
- No, this is the truth.
- Patt: Okay.
I was sitting at my friend's house; we were all gonna get ready to go to Cityplace.
And his brother came in the house, and his brother, like, is said exactly, quote-unquote, "yo, Corey's outside.
" And I said, "what? Don't bring him in here.
" Next thing you know, Corey storms in that house It's not even his and says, "get up.
" And I'm like, "just leave me alone, leave me alone," and actually yelling, "just leave me alone.
" And then I guess my dad walks over there, and I didn't even notice it was my dad.
And he's all yelling at me.
Both of them are yelling at me and I didn't do a thing.
Patt: Okay.
So then what happened? Mom, go inside.
We're talking.
No, you need to start telling the truth.
Patt: Thank you, ma'am.
Okay.
So he was grabbing my arm and forcing me to go home.
- Patt: Okay.
- And I kept just saying, "get off of me.
" And he kept shoving me to the floor.
In front of my dad.
Patt: He kept pushing you to the floor? Yes.
Like, grabNo, he kept grabbing my arm.
Patt: And did this cause you to fall all the way to the ground? Yes, it caused me to trip over my shoes, which are in the bush.
- Patt: Okay.
- On the mulch.
Patt: So, when you were on the ground, then what happened? Did he picking you back up? Was he He was like, "come on, get up, get up, get up," pulling me up.
And I'm just like, "leave me alone, just get away from me.
" Patt: So you told him several times to leave you alone, he continued pulling you, dragging you? He didn't drag me, he was like, "get up, get up.
" - I watched it.
- Patt: Hey, sir, come on.
Deputy Brittany Samples: Sir, we're gonna handle this situation, okay? - Please.
- I can assure you of that.
And I was telling him, "just leave me alone.
I can get up on my own, I can go inside.
" Both of them were yelling at me.
And I was like, "just get away.
" I just kept taking off, away from both of them.
Patt: And then he kept running after you? - Yes.
- Patt: Okay.
You-you need to be honest with this.
Whether you believe it or not, we're here to help you.
Um, this deputy's gonna get some information from you, and then we're gonna go from there, okay? Just hang tight right there.
So it sounds like we do have dating violence, so we'll just go ahead and take him into custody.
Samples: Corey, why don't you stand up on your feet.
Put your phone down.
- Turn around.
- Patt: Turn around.
What happened? What happened? Patt: Turn around, don't look at me.
Samples: Don't look at us.
What happened, sir? Samples: You're being placed under arrest for battery, domestic dating violence.
I didn't do anything, sir.
- Patt: Come on.
- Please, sir, I'm about to go to jail.
Please, gonna violate my probation.
Please.
Patt: Okay, well, you're not allowed to grab ahold, so.
.
I'm sorry, I-I didn't Please.
Please, can I please talk to somebody, please? - Samples: Watch your head.
- Please.
Can I please talk to please.
Samples: You'll have enough time to talk to people, trust me, just not tonight, all right? Put your feet in.
It's gonna my probation.
I can't.
Please, can I talk to somebody, please? Samples: Corey, listen, you need to think about these things, calm down.
Patt: Listen to me, okay? Tonight, you got yourself in trouble.
You took it too far, okay? If she says "no," no means no.
No does not mean "yes, keep coming with me.
" When she says, "I don't want to go," she's not going.
Sir, I had stopped grabbing on her.
I had let her go.
- I had grabbed her by her arm - Patt: Hold on one second.
We're gonna back up.
You said you had stopped grabbing on her, right? - I had held her by the arm.
Patt: - Very good.
That's all it takes.
- That's battery right there.
- She said, "let me go.
" I I promise you, I let the girl go.
Patt: You know that the state of Florida takes domestic violence very serious? At this point in time, if she Just listen to me if she does not want to be the victim of a crime, which commonly does happen, at that point in time, the state of Florida becomes the victim.
She has no choice or say, okay? You're gonna take the ride tonight.
You're going down to gun club, okay? (Door closes) That's pretty sad for such young kids, but hopefully it's a learning experience for both of them.
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