COPS (1989) s23e15 Episode Script

Man: 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 Tony Messineo: What I love the most about being a deputy sheriff is being on the streets on patrol.
What I like to look for is drugs and guns.
My background is a methamphetamine investigator in the narcotics unit.
I did that for two years, and I like finding the the drug dealers and especially meth labs, 'cause that just tears our community apart.
We're responding to suicidal threats.
Male caller said he wanted to kill himself and he will kill any law enforcement that shows up on his doorstep.
There are some deputies, uh, in the area, but they're waiting for more units before they try to make contact with this guy.
(Over radio): Yeah, I'll see if I can get eyes on him.
(Over radio): You can kind of set up loosely on him.
Messineo: Sounds like the deputies on the scene are trying to make phone calls in to the subject, try to get him to come out to us.
'Cause, with those threats against law enforcement, we don't want to approach the house or or go in without trying to make contact first.
(Garbled radio transmission) Messineo: The house is on this street right in front of us, to the right.
(Over radio): Front door is closed, and I can see the numbers on the house.
Messineo: No, it should be the South side of the road, so it's on this side of the street.
Yeah.
Todd, who's right there, is Has eyes on him.
Sergeant Mike Blair: Okay.
(Over radio): Do you want to call up, see if he'll, uh, come out? Blair: Yeah, do you have, uh, any numbers on the house? Messineo: Ask him if it's this one.
(Over radio): Yeah, it's this gray house right there on the corner you're looking at it.
The windows are open on all sides.
Blair: Hey, Todd, we're going to send a car up there with a p.
A.
Guy called a hospital and said he wanted to go to detox, and if any cops were to show up to take him to detox, that he'd shoot us, so we're going to send a car up there with a p.
A.
Um, he might be passed out drunk, but we have no reason to force entry on him.
Um, he's made no threats to hurt anybody else, other than he just wants to go to detox, so Send the, uh, p.
A.
Car up there with with cover, because if he does make contact, he'll be, um he'll be eyes on that, 'cause it's the white police car with, uh, the p.
A.
System, so if he does come out, that's where we'll he'll-he'll most likely make contact, um, for us.
(Over p.
A.
): Pierce county sheriff's department.
We need you to come out through the front door.
Come out with your hands up, unarmed, please.
Blair: Tell him we're here to help.
(Over p.
A.
): With your hands up, come on out the door, please.
Blair: Is he coming? Do we have contact? (Over p.
A.
): All right.
There you go.
Keep your hands up where we can see them.
Hands up where we can see them.
Messineo: Taser.
(Indistinct shouting) Get your hand out of your pocket! Messineo: Get down.
Easy, dude.
Messineo: Get down! Just shoot me, please.
(Taser clicking) Get down! Get down! Get down! Get down! Hands out to your side! Hands out to your side! Hands out to your side! Hands out to your side.
Messineo: Hands out to your side you're getting it again.
Hands out to your side.
I just want to go to a treatment center.
Blair: We're here to help you.
You haven't done anything wrong, okay? My family just hurt me.
On your stomach.
Messineo: On your stomach! Get him.
You guys are gonna beat me up.
Messineo: Get down! Get your hands up, bud.
Just get your hands up.
Well, hold on.
Let me lay down.
Messineo: Hands out to your side! No hold a minute.
Dude, I'm sore.
Look at my face, dude.
My family already beat my ass.
Messineo: Hands out to your side or you're going to get tased in the neck.
Out to your sides.
Stay right there with your hands out.
Watch the blood on him.
Got it.
It's clean.
I just want to go to a treatment center, dude.
That's all I want.
Blair: Everybody's safe.
We're going to get everybody help, okay? Anybody want to clear the house with me? There's guns in there.
Messineo: There's guns in there, he said.
I could've dropped you guys, and I didn't.
You guys shouldn't have tased me, though.
Messineo: We told you to stop.
I just wanted you guys to put me in the car.
I can't stop myself.
I wanted you guys to stop me.
I'm here.
Blair: Here's the deal, buddy.
I'm your puppet.
I don't care what deal it is.
Just take me to a treatment center.
Blair: We're going to get you help today.
I'm not going to fight you guys.
Blair: I know you're not.
We're going to get you help today, okay? I got a problem, dude.
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Blair: You want to get to detox? No, no, no, no.
I want to go back to PCN.
Blair: Okay, we'll we'll get you there.
Detox, dude, they let me die.
I died six months ago, and nobody cared.
My own family don't even care to get me out of this.
(Garbled radio transmission) Blair: So we're going to get you help.
I was dead six months ago.
Blair: Listen, partner, we're here to help you.
I'm letting you guys do this.
Blair: You don't come at us like that, okay? I know.
I could've came at you a lot worse I just want you guys to understand that.
I got a bad mind right now.
Blair: Okay, very good.
Just help me, please.
Blair: Okay.
Messineo: Move to the side just a hair.
It hurts, dude.
I'm sore.
Messineo: Okay.
I'm seriously sore, dude.
Look at my face.
Hey, dude, this is what it took.
Could you please sit me up, dude? I'm not going to be violent.
My sister-in-law's old man, too, he just took pop shots at me.
Messineo: Couple nights ago? They're all alcoholics, dude, and I'm in recovery.
That's all I'm trying to do.
I'm here 'cause Just put me on my butt.
Dude, my shoulder is tore back, dude.
Blair: Okay, here we go.
Nice and easy.
I got you.
Go ahead and stand, okay? All right, I'm good, dude.
I'm not going to (Bleep) With you guys, dude.
Blair: You want to sit on the front of the car? Yeah, wherever you guys want me, I'm fine.
I told you.
Blair: Just have a seat.
All I wanted to do, dude, was get treatment.
Messineo: Hey.
Hey.
I'm going to take this out.
I'm drinking again, and I don't want to drink.
Hold on, dude.
Messineo: Well, just hang tight.
There you go.
Means nothing to me, dude.
That wouldn't have stopped me.
It actually did.
Messineo: It did you dropped like a sack of rocks.
I know attaboys.
Blair: You okay? I wanted that.
Look at my face, dude.
I've tried (Bleep) To help, but, dude, all I wanted was my family to have a good time with me, dude.
I'm a recovering alcoholic.
Messineo: People need to stop when we tell them to stop when they're walking at us.
You know, officer safety thing.
But I'm telling you guys, I just want to go to treatment, dude.
I could've I don't want to say it.
Messineo: We'll help you.
We will definitely help you.
I don't want to say it, but I could have put you guys all off, dude.
I'm I'm bad right now.
I don't want that Messineo: What are you suffering from? I'm an alcoholic, dude, and they got me drinking again, dude.
I don't want to drink, dude.
I already died.
Messineo: Your family? You guys don't have a clue.
Messineo: That's why I'm asking, man.
I want you guys to just take me to treatment, not beat me up.
Messineo: Well, we're going to get you treatment.
Blair: We got the medics gonna come take a look at you just to make sure you're good.
I'll do whatever you guys want, dude.
I just want to go to treatment.
That's all I wanted.
Messineo: He disregarded our orders to stop, and he was within probably 20 to 30 feet of two deputies that were pointing guns at him.
And, uh, he would not stop after several commands, so myself and another deputy, to stop him from reaching our other deputies, had no choice but to deploy the taser.
So it worked out good.
He didn't get hurt.
We're not injured, everybody's safe, and he'll get treatment.
Barksdale: All the gangbangers and the drug dealers call our unit the jump-out boys.
The guys are not paying attention they actually have a deal going down we ride up real quick and before they can blink an eye, we're out on 'em.
So that's the advantage that I see us having as far as us using plainclothes and, uh, using these unmarked cars.
Inspector Matt gena: The only disadvantage of that is they actually they know our cars, like, investigator barksdale was saying.
And they know us, they know our cars, they know who we are.
So as soon as we start coming out here and we're out here for more than five or ten minutes, these guys all have nextels and you'll hear the (lmitates phone chirping) They'll be chirping up Barksdale: They'll be chirping everybody else.
Gena: "Hey, the jump-up boys are out the jump-out boys "are out.
" And we'll start hitting the blocks that were completely packed the people are putting the drug dealers are shutting down for a minute.
And then once we leave, they go right back up.
Barksdale: That's exactly right.
Uh, right now, one of our other team members, they're on a stop at 149.
Three occupants in a car.
So we're going to go back them up right now.
(Siren wailing) Think you got a car coming out here.
It's all good.
Gena: Keep your hands right where they're supposed to be.
Slide right back here.
Barksdale: What do we got? Gena: Do you have anything on you you're not supposed to have? No, sir.
Gena: Nothing at all? Okay, no narcotics in the car? No, sir.
Gena: No guns in the car? No, sir.
Barksdale: Whose car is this? It's my car, sir.
Barksdale: Is it registered to you? Yes, sir.
Barksdale: And you say there's nothing in here that we need to be concerned with? No, sir.
Barksdale: So you don't mind us checking it, right? No, sir.
Gena: Where's your I.
D.
At, sir? Uh Gena: How much money do you have on you? A couple of dollars.
Gena: A couple of dollars? That's a hundred dollars.
Barksdale: Is this your weed? Yeah.
Gena: Why wouldn't you just say, "yeah, I got a bag of weed on me"? Why do we got to go to the point? Barksdale: Young man, so let me ask you again this is your car I swear to God, I just picked them up.
I didn't even know, I swear to God.
Barksdale: You just picked them up? From work.
From work.
I didn't know.
I swear to God I didn't know.
Barksdale: Where's your I.
D.
At? Come on, man No, I got his I.
D.
Barksdale: Okay.
What about you, you got I.
D.
? Man, no banging, no nothing.
He just picked us up from work, honest to God.
Barksdale: You say this is your car, right? How'd your windshield get cracked? I bought it like that.
November.
Barksdale: How long have you had the car? Since like November.
Barksdale: Did you ever you ever did you ever think to get the windshield fixed? I mean, I be me, so I had to get some (Bleep) Fixed under the hood.
I just got a new starter, a new battery, got my transmission fixed, had my engine fixed.
Barksdale: Okay.
And the taillight.
Barksdale: Gerald, I thought you told me there wasn't nothing else in the car, Gerald.
What is that? What the hell?! No, man, you can't no! I swear to God, that ain't mine bro.
Hell no, bro.
Barksdale: This vehicle is yours and it is registered to you, right? Yeah, but I put that on everything I love, that's not mine, bro.
Hell no! No, that is not mine, sir.
I swear to God, on everything I love, that is not mine.
Barksdale: Hey, in the backseat.
Gena: Hey, driver, what's your name? Gerald Barksdale: Okay, well That is not mine, bro.
I swear to God! Barksdale: Calm down, calm down.
All right so, let-let-let me let me understand and be clear.
This weed right here that we took out of the backseat, nobody knows who it belongs to? It's not mine.
Bro, I Barksdale: Of the three of you guys, nobody's man enough? You're find all the Barksdale: Can I can I talk or are you going to talk? Of the three of you guys, nobody's man enough to take their way for this weed, is that what you guys? (Muttering) Barksdale: Hello? Is that what you guys are telling me? It's not It's like, this is a bag of weed.
Barksdale: Because this weed that we found inside of this vehicle is in arms length of the three of you guys.
So if nobody's willing to man up and fess up to this one bag of weed, the three of you guys are going to go to jail for a bag of weed.
Man, I That's crazy.
Barksdale: Well, let me rephrase that.
The two of you guys, 'cause he was man enough to give his weed up.
It's not Man, bro.
I'm telling you, bro.
That's not my weed, bro.
I swear to God.
If I knew that was mine, bro, I wouldn't have put that in my backseat.
Barksdale: Can-can you do me a favor and lose the "bro" part? I'm "officer.
" Officer, I'm sorry, officer.
I swear to God, officer, if that was mine, I wouldn't have even put that in my backseat, officer.
I would have put it in my ass somewhere, I swear to God.
Barksdale: How-how-how? You would have put it where? In the crack of my ass or something, bra, I swear to God, bro officer.
I swear on everything I love.
I wouldn't put it in my backseat.
Barksdale: So, do? Now that you mention it No, no, no.
Barksdale: Now that you mention that, do you have anything in your jock right now? No.
You can check me if you want to, officer.
I swear to God, I ain't even know that was in there.
I swear to God, I did not know that was in there.
Barksdale: This is your vehicle? Yes.
Barksdale: And it is registered to you, correct? Yes.
Barksdale: All right, well Got some more cuffs? Cuff him up, too.
Gena: May I have your cuffs right there? Detective Lamar Laster: Cuff-o-matic.
So what if I had said the back weed was mine, then? Y'all still Laster: That's not an option.
Not at this time.
You gonna tow my car, officer? Barksdale: Yes, sir, your car is being towed.
Oh, my God! Barksdale: When I read you your rights I just told you it wasn't even mine! Barksdale: Let me ask you this question for the last and final time.
This is your vehicle, correct? Yes, sir.
Barksdale: The vehicle is registered to you, correct? Yes.
Barksdale: All right.
Do I need to explain to you any further than that? It's not mine, though.
If I'm not the owner, why am I being locked up? That could have Barksdale: That could have what? That could have fell out of You know how much (Bleep) I find in my backseats? How much change and stuff? How many (Bleep) I had in my backseat, man? Laster: You need to keep better company.
Well, can I get the face off my radio, though? Are you not moving? Barksdale: Go over there and have a seat.
You go down that way? Barksdale: No, sir.
What we had here was a traffic stop, and the stop was initially for failure to signal.
And once we stopped the guys, we pulled them out and we had a conversation with them.
And like we say earlier, we investigate all crimes no matter how big, how small, and it turns into something bigger.
Now this started out as a simple traffic stop for a failure to signal, and it turned into the cannabis possessions that we now have.
So all three subjects are going to be taken into our lockup.
We're going to process them and the vehicle itself is going to be towed.
For a $25 crime, they're going to spend at least $750 to get their car back.
Deputy Dan Jones: You know, when I was a kid, we used to watch tv; The good guys wore the white hats and the bad guys wore the black hats.
And I think that kinda carried over for one reason I wanted to work in law enforcement.
It's a good feeling inside to know that you try to help people out, but at the same time you know it's the right thing to do.
There's still a good element to people, and you just gotta sometimes work harder to find it in today's society.
(Siren blips) Got a vehicle in front of us with a nonworking tag light and it also looks like his validation sticker's out of date, so we're fixing to do a traffic stop in it and make contact with the driver.
(Indistinct radio transmission) What am I being pulled over for? Jones: You got no tag lights, sir.
No tag lights? Jones: No tag lights.
My, uh, my tag's expired, sir.
I got a ticket for that just recently.
I can't do nothing about it till Friday when I get paid, and I'm on my way to work.
Jones: Okay, well, we'll get it all worked out in a second.
Let me have your license, registration, proof of insurance, all right? Where do you work at? I work at Jones: Okay.
How come you shaking so much? Uh, got bad nerves.
Jones: Bad nerves? Okay.
Yes, sir.
Jones: You look a little bit nervous.
I know I shouldn't be driving, but I have to go to work.
Jones: I understand that.
When did you get stopped for the tag? I got the ticket.
It's right here with me.
Jones: Okay.
(Indistinct radio transmission) This is the most recent tone.
Jones: Okay, that'll work.
You got that citation you're talking about? Uh, yes, sir.
Hold on.
Jones: You got a bunch of tickets.
Yes, sir.
Jones: Okay.
Well, let's see.
You got pulled over in the city of Tampa.
Yeah, I got a seatbelt violation a while back.
They suspended, the apparently suspended my license.
And the guy, the officer that pulled me over Jones: What'd they suspend your license for? For not paying a seatbelt ticket that I didn't know I had.
I got pulled over in Tampa the other day, and the officer comes back and tells me that my license was suspended.
Jones: Right.
And he pulled me over for my tag being out of date.
Well, I can't get the tag removed until I pay the ticket for the license, but I can't do none of this until I get paid Friday.
And yeah, I'm just kinda caught in a little loop.
Jones: So when did you get pulled over in Tampa? Uh, I don't know what the date on the ticket says.
About four days ago.
Jones: What'd they tell, what did that officer definitely, probably tell you? Not to be driving, sir.
Jones: What are you doing tonight? I'm driving, sir.
Jones: Mm-hmm.
I'm very sorry.
I have to work.
Jones: All right, do me this: We're gonna come over here on this side over here and talk, okay? Just because I don't want to stand here where I'm at.
I don't want to get squooshed, okay? You agree with that? All right.
Jones: All right, come on.
Put your paperwork over here in the passenger's seat.
We'll get all this stuff straightened out, all right? All right.
Jones: Like I said, I just want to talk over here 'cause that way I don't got to worry about getting run over, you you know? I feel ya.
Jones: Just right over here will be fine.
All right, do me a favor, turn around.
I want to make sure you ain't got no bombs, nuclear weapons, hand grenades, nothing like that, all right? Let me drive your hands.
Just be real easy with me, all right? Yeah, you can put them in your pocket.
All right, just let me have hold.
Just relax, okay? Just relax.
All right, just like that officer told you the other day, you ain't supposed to be driving, you know that, right? Yes, sir.
Please do not take me to jail.
I have a daughter and I have child support and I just, I'm really caught in a bad spot.
Jones: All right I'm not gonna find anything inside the car? You might find a roach, maybe.
Jones: Okay, where would that "might" be? It might be in the ashtray.
Jones: All right, well, we'll just see.
Robitussin, or cough syrup.
Jones: You sick or something? I got a bit of a cough.
Jones: You reckon that could be 'cause of cigarettes? So you roll your own cigars? Yes, sir.
Jones: Or do you use that for the weed you're telling me about? That's what they're for, sir.
Jones: Huh? I do smoke pot, sir.
Jones: I'm not saying you're a bad person.
I'm just making an assumption here, and it sound like my assumption was correct.
I'm being completely honest with you.
Jones: I appreciate it.
It's just easier that way, ain't it? Yeah, it's yes.
Jones: It's easier to tell the truth that it is to tell a lie, ain't it? It is much easier, yes.
Jones: Yeah, see? Just like your mama told you and everybody else told ya, "tell the truth 'cause it's easier," and that's what I want to hear anyway, ain't it, okay? Who wants to be, who wants to run around in a lie? Jones: No, 'cause you know what? The bad part about a lie is you had to make it up the first time.
And if you had to make it up You gotta try to keep sticking with it.
Jones: Exactly, exactly.
Yeah.
Jones: Exactly.
Okay.
I'm gonna have another car here in just a second, all right? And I'm gonna put you in the back, and then I'm gonna make sure everything's okay.
Then I'll be back to talk to with you.
Okay.
Jones: I need a place for him to sit down for right now.
Officer Katie gable: Okay.
Jones: So we'll give a quick look around here inside the car, make sure there's nothing else illegal.
He said there might be some marijuana in here.
If not, he's gonna go to jail for driving while license suspended after he's been told that his license is no good.
(Indistinct radio transmission) Well, I don't find much of nothing in the car.
So I believe we're just gonna have to deal with the charge of driving without a good license.
All right, let me, we'll start on the paperwork for him.
We'll get him on his way down to booking.
All right.
Might be quicker just for me to take him.
Jones: Yeah, if you don't mind.
I want to speak with him for a minute.
Jones: All right, the thing of it is is this, okay? You've already been warned and given a break on the citation 'cause the other officer I'm pretty well, told you, okay? If you could follow me to my house, I'll park my car in my driveway, sir, and I'll ask my boss to pick me up if she can.
Jones: Okay, all right, the thing of it is is this, okay? I don't have that luxury right now, okay? So we're gonna have to run you down there.
But I'm gonna be able to work with you, I'm gonna see if you can't get somebody up here and get the car.
And I'm gonna be able to call your boss and stuff like that, let him know that you gonna be late, okay? And then you'll be able to get down there, okay? All right.
Jones: Make sense? Yes, sir.
Jones: I'm gonna work with you as much as I can, but I'm not gonna be able to cut you loose, okay? Yeah, I guess.
Jones: I'm gonna shut the door and let this ac get back to you, okay? (Voice breaking): All right, yeah.
Jones: All right, just hang tight.
I'll be with you in a second, all right? Yeah.
(Sniffling) Jones: Hopefully, he'll get the impression how important it is to pay attention when an officer gives you a ticket less than a month ago for the same charge.
You cannot drive in the state of Florida without having a good license.
Officer ( (Over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.
Dispatcher: At gunpoint, Cover is code three.