COPS (1989) s24e10 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.
Corporal Scott Sitton: Yeah, recently, my son has decided that, through what he's seen over the years that he wants to get involved in law enforcement.
I'm kind of proud of him for making that decision, and wanting to go out, try and help the community and do something positive with his life.
We're responding now to a report of somebody that wouldn't leave, and security approached him and the guy pulled a knife on him.
So we're gonna pull in here and see if we can find this guy that's got the knife that was threatening the security guard.
And I think that is him.
Hi, guys.
Come here.
Stand in front of the car.
Come here and stand in front of the car.
Come on up, all the way up, and grab ahold of the push bumper.
I need to see your hands.
Right there.
Bring your feet back.
You guys got anything on you you're not supposed to have? No.
Sitton: What are you out doing today? (Man speaks indistinctly) Okay.
Put your hands on top of your head.
Interlace your fingers.
Deputy kirk beasley: Bring your hands behind your back.
Somebody called in about, uh, somebody being in a Walmart with a knife on him and then they left, okay, and the guy's supposed to have on shorts like what you're wearing.
Okay, were you just in Walmart, or what? - No, I just got here about ten minutes Sitton: - Okay.
You got some ID for me? Just turn around and have a seat on the bumper.
Do you have ID on you today? - No, actually I don't.
I Sitton: - Okay, just have a seat right there on the bumper.
- I mean, I got a I Sitton: - We responded here about a person that was asleep outside of a local store and then when security confronted him, he pulled out a a pocket knife.
They got a picture of him here, and I'm thinking that we've got the guy right here.
Sure it matches the description, sure looks like him, so Beasley: Okay? The camera tells no lie.
You know what my old football coach used to say? - He used to say that the eye - I ain't done nothin'.
Beasley: Listen to me.
He used to say that the eye in the sky tells no lies.
Sitton: He doesn't have any ID on him to prove who he is, so I'm using our system to pull up his mug shot.
And it looks like he probably has a warrant for false imprisonment, which is basically what he was close to doing over at the convenience store.
Beasley: Okay, you didn't have words with the security guard over there? So when he calls and he says a man with a camouflage hat, wearing blue shorts with yellow stripes on the bottom and a dark-colored shirt and he Describes you to a t, says that he had a little confrontation with you over there, so he's a flat-out liar.
He just wanted to call the Hillsborough County sheriff's office just because that's what he felt like doing for the day? I didn't have nothing to do with that.
Beasley: And he said you had a little pocketknife just like this.
But nothing happened, you didn't talk to anybody over there.
- No.
I went Beasley: - Okay.
Okay.
Sitton: Robert, turn around here.
Turn around, face the car.
Beasley: Turn around and put your hands behind your back.
Sitton: I got it.
Yeah.
Bobby, you got a warrant for your arrest.
Okay? Plus, we need to figure out what's going on with you over there at the convenience store.
I know.
I know, but can we call my girl, that's coming? She's coming to get me.
Sitton: Okay, let's go over here and have a seat in the car.
Just stay right there.
- But-but can we talk to her? Sitton: - Yeah.
Hang on.
- Her name is Debbie Sitton: - Have a seat for me, okay? Can we do that? Sitton: Have a seat.
- Debbie Debbie Sitton: - Have a seat.
Okay.
Have a seat.
I'm gonna explain to you what's going on here in just a second.
I think we might have who you were talking about.
What do you recognize him from? Uh, Walmart.
Sitton: What happened over there? Uh, he he asked me for some change, and I told him he couldn't solicitate here.
And He had a knife in his hand.
So, and then he came in my store, so I went and called you guys.
Sitton: Okay, do you remember what the knife looked like? It's black.
Sitton: It's black? Okay.
- It's about that long.
Sitton: - Come on over here.
That's it there? How did you interpret his actions of pulling that out? It made me nervous.
Sitton: He made you nervous by pulling it out? Yeah.
Sitton: What do you think his intention was? Probably to use it.
Sitton: Probably to use it? Okay.
All right.
(Thumping) Debbie! Sitton: That's it.
Out.
Out.
Yeah.
Sitton: Come on.
Out.
Out.
Debbie.
Sitton: Lay down.
Look, lay down right on the ground.
Lay down.
Lay down.
Lay down.
Lay down.
I was just laying down, you (Bleep)! Sitton: Lay down.
Okay, now, okay, big guy, big shot.
Debbie! Sitton: Look, you dictated this, all right, by trying to kick out the windows.
Bobby, just do what they say.
Debbie! Tommy! Oh (Bleep)! Oh, Debbie! What? (Laughs): I love you.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Well, at least you could say the same.
Couldn't you? Beasley: Try to lay him on his back, or on his side Sitton: Up on his side.
Up on his side.
Beasley: Y'all ready? Sitton: Yeah.
Ow! Oh! Ah! Sitton: You ready? Beasley: Yep.
Oh (Bleep)! Sitton: Go in feet first.
(Grunting) Sitton: Hand me that mask down there, too.
No, you made (Bleep).
You're killing my hands.
Debbie! (Spits) Beasley: Don't spit, dude, 'cause if you hit me Hey, did you get my glasses? Did you get my glasses? Beasley: Yeah, they're on your head.
(Spits) Debbie! Sitton: Does he always act like that? One other time I've seen him that way.
I think he's been drinking all day.
Sitton: You realize why we took him out and did that, right? Did you see him kicking the window? Did you see it almost go? Oh, yeah.
Sitton: Okay.
Robert.
I see you.
I-I'm cool.
Sitton: Okay.
And I appreciate that, and I'm gonna take your word as a man that you're done and no more of that, okay? Because when you get down to jail, if you act like that it's not gonna be a good day for you.
I know.
I promise.
Sitton: Okay.
I want to explain to you what you're being charged with so you know, all right? I know what I'm being charged with.
Sitton: What are you being charged with? Violation of probation.
Sitton: You spit, and.
You almost hit the deputy.
And you tried to knock these windows out.
- But I didn't Sitton: - Okay, I understand that.
Okay? But by doing that, you picked up some new charges.
All right, whatever, man.
Sitton: Okay? We're gonna send you down now, all right? We've got an aggravated assault for pulling a knife on the security guard.
Beasley: Correct.
Sitton: And then you're charging him with assault on a lieu for spitting at you.
Beasley: Correct.
Sitton: - And also Beasley: - Obstruction.
Sitton: Obstruction, or resist without For trying to kick out the back windows and fighting us, I'm trying to get him in the car.
Obviously got some kind of issues that he needs to get sorted out.
Corporal Fred Payne: I've been on the force for about 5 1/2 years.
One of the-- couple of the hotels in the area we are assigned to, and what we do is, we come to the hotels and make sure that some of the clerks and the customers over here are okay, they're not having any problems, checking the vehicles, making sure that the vehicles are not being burglarized.
(Tires screeching) Okay, let's see what we got here.
Looked like a guy just now spun out.
We're gonna make contact with him and see what's his deal, what's his-- What he's got going on.
Yeah, we already stopped this car right here once.
(Garbled radio transmission) Passenger, stay in.
Driver, exit the vehicle.
Made contact with this guy speeding in the parking lot.
How you doing, my man? Sir, we slipped by that little water.
- They got some water Payne: - Where you going? I'm over here, big dawg, come here.
Huh? Payne: All right, stand right here, man.
Officer Payne with the Lafayette city police department, all right? - Yeah, they Payne: - You got your driving license? I don't have anything on me.
Payne: You don't have anything on you? I just took me and my, my baby mama and my newborn son to the store.
Payne: Okay, here's what I need to do.
Put your hands right here, okay? This is what I'm gonna do.
I'm checking you for weapons, all right? Oh, I ain't got no weapons.
I got a room he-- I work here.
Payne: I understand.
Is there anything on you gonna stick, stab, or poke me, man? Nothing, nothing.
Payne: All right.
This is your room key or something? That's my room key.
Payne: All right.
Where you from? I'm from here, sir.
Payne: Where's here? I-I stay here.
I've been here for six years.
Payne: I know, where's here? Where are you from? Oh, uh, I'm from Baton Rouge.
Payne: You're from Baton Rouge? But I've been here for six years.
Payne: All right, I need you to lean right here.
Stay here, okay? All right.
Payne: What's his name? Desmond.
Payne: He's got ID in that room? Walk with her.
What's your name, man? Desmond.
Payne: Desmond what? Desmond (Blip).
Payne: And where are you originally from? I'm originally from Mississippi.
Officer Channing Credeur: What's your date of birth? Payne: Well, you just told me somewhere else.
You told me you was originally from Baton Rouge.
My boo is from Baton Rouge.
Officer Channing Credeur: What's your date of birth, man? Sir? Payne: This is what's happening, your baby mama is going to the room to get your wallet so we can see who you are.
Okay.
Payne: You don't have a driving license? I don't have-- No, sir.
Payne: So you're driving a car with no driving license? Uh, yeah.
Payne: Okay.
Officer Channing Credeur: You realize, in the state of Louisiana, it is against the law not to present an id to a police officer when he's lawfully asking you for one, right? Well, yeah, yes, sir.
Credeur: And I'm running you through a nationwide system - that says you're the only Desmond - I ain't never been in trouble before, that's what I'm telling you.
Credeur: Okay, well, you don't have to be in trouble to exist.
Yeah, I ain't never been stopped.
I'm a maintenance man here.
Credeur: You ever had a driver's license? No.
Payne: Can you come over here and hold the baby? Jessica, where she comes in the picture at? How he know her? Who? That's my friend.
Payne: Real girlfriend? Yeah, sometimes.
Payne: Sometimes that's your real girlfriend? (Indistinct) Payne: And what about him? He's your boyfriend? So you mean to tell me you got a girlfriend and a boyfriend? Yeah.
Payne: So you're balling like that.
(Laughs) Credeur: Hey, hey, Fred.
Payne: Whoo, all right.
Credeur: He said his ID may be in his other car-- The Roadmaster; He just has to go look for it.
Payne: Okay.
He has to go look for it? Okay.
(Indistinct chatter) What you been arrested before for? Be honest with me.
Nothing-- I mean, I've been arrested in Baton Rouge, but out here, nothing.
Payne: For what in Baton Rouge? Payne: Come on now, be honest with me.
I don't want to talk about it.
Payne: Huh? - If the "X" could be on the, like, um Payne: - Prostitution? Yeah.
Payne: All right, that's it? Let me show you a credit card.
Payne: Prostitution? Yeah, that's fine.
Payne: Okay, then, y'all have a good one.
Y'all be careful out here, okay? You, too, officer.
Payne: All right.
They, uh-- We located a Roadmaster that belongs to him that has crack in it.
They're gonna go in and get it, and he's gonna be charged with it as soon as we find out who he is.
(Garbled radio transmission) All right, hold your name.
Let me ask you a question, man.
Okay, this is what I'm trying to find out.
- Right Payne: - Okay, let's stay inside.
I know, stay, stay inside.
- Okay, listen, the girl Jessica is saying - That's my baby mama.
Payne: That's your baby mama? Now, the white girl is? I sleep with whatever one of 'em I want to.
Payne: Okay, you don't, you don't pimp 'em out? - Oh, hell, no, man Payne: - This is what I'm saying.
I-I'm gonna tell you what I-I've noticed, dude.
Right.
Payne: In my years of police work, I've known what prostitute clothes look like, and each girl have prostitution clothes.
The white girl was arrested for prostitution at one time.
Okay? I don't blame 'em.
Payne: So I'm just saying I can tell.
Jessica has prostitution clothes, attire.
You see what I'm saying? So is Jessica prostituting, too? - Uh Payne: - That's your Roadmaster? Yes, sir.
Payne: That's your Roadmaster? Okay, you drove it here, you parked it back there, and everything? No, it broke down there.
Payne: Okay, how long it been parked there? About a month.
Payne: All right, that's your All right, I'm just making sure that's your Roadmaster.
You can look at the title and all that Payne: So I can go in and get everything? Yeah, you can look in and all that.
Payne: Okay, thank you very much.
Credeur: Claims this buick Roadmaster to be his, and apparently there is a significant amount of crack cocaine in plain view, which corporal Payne is recovering right about now.
Payne: Channing, what we did was-- the crack was in plain view, removed the crack.
He indicated it was his car, he parked it here, it comes back to him, so we're gonna-- He's gonna be charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine once we find out who in the world he is.
Credeur: Find out who he is.
Payne: Let's go check into AFIS and get him printed.
Credeur: All right.
Payne: And what we're doing, sarge, we're gonna take the other guy, take him to AFIS, find out who he is, charge him with his crack, and we're gonna be done.
We'll go ahead to AFIS, sarge.
(Garbled radio transmission) It's a national database for fingerprinting.
It doesn't matter if he's been arrested in Wyoming, Baton Rouge, New Orleans-- It's gonna pop up with a picture of him and it's gonna tell you exactly what's his name.
Credeur: He's coming up under two names in the computer.
We found him under the other name, too.
That's him.
Oh, no.
Credeur: AFIS has confirmed his identity, and it is not the name he's been giving us.
Payne: Listen.
Yes.
Payne: You gave us permission to go in the vehicle and get this stuff out the vehicle.
Right, right.
Payne: Okay, as we're going into the vehicle, in plain view in the vehicle in the armrest was about four or five pieces of crack cocaine.
Okay, so you're getting arrested for crack cocaine and marijuana.
No, sir.
But that truck is not mine.
It's, it's not in my name.
Payne: We're going to let him talk to the judge and see what the judge thinks about some of these stories he's telling us.
Deputy Nikki Smith: Hillsborough County is one of the largest agencies in the state of Florida.
We cover a huge area, so a lot of times, when we're out patrolling, it's about being in the right place at the right time.
Right now we're on our way to a shots fired to assist another agency with four subjects.
We don't have very many details besides that at this point.
(Garbled radio transmission) Lieutenant Jon Dobbs: Okay, we're 10-4.
Smith: What do we got here? Dobbs: We just had this subject-- This man right here-- come up to me on a bicycle.
I was working off duty right here, and he said that he had been shot at by some subjects.
As he was describing the vehicle to me, I was calling it in to the dispatch and he says, "there it is, it just went by.
" Smith: Okay.
Dobbs: So I pulled in behind it and, and pulled 'em off-- he, he said that they had shot at him, so I asked if they had any weapons, they said no.
Come around the vehicle to this side and here-- What do we have right here underneath the, underneath the car.
So there you go.
Smith: Okay, all right.
Dobbs: He said, when he was describing him, he said a black male with a white t-shirt on, so I'm assuming this, this fellow - right here Smith: - 4290.
All right, where was he at in the vehicle? Dobbs: He was on the passenger side.
He was the one right here.
Smith: In the front? Dobbs: Yes.
Smith: - And then he was Dobbs: - And he was the driver right there.
Smith: This is the driver? Dobbs: This guy was the driver and this guy was in the backseat.
Smith: Okay.
Sir, what exactly happened this evening? I just got off work right by bayou crossing.
Smith: Okay.
So as I'm going by bayou crossing, they pull out, they come out the driveway, and take a right.
Now, I'm on the sidewalk and they're riding alongside Smith: From the apartment complex there? Yeah, they come out the apartment complex and I'm riding down the sidewalk and they ride beside me.
Said, "hey don't I know you?" I said, "no, you don't know me.
" I said, "man, I just got off work.
" He said, "no, you owe me some money.
" I said, "I don't owe you a (Bleep) thing.
" Then all I seen was pow! I heard the squeeze and the firing, that's it.
Smith: Okay, do you know which individual fired the shot? The one right here he's touching right now, the one he's putting his hand on right now.
Smith: With the black hat on that's backwards? Have you ever seen him before? No, I just got-- I don't know nobody around here.
I just got off work.
I don't know nobody around here.
Smith: Okay, so he just said, "you owe me money," and then popped off one shot? One shot, yes, one shot.
Smith: What direction was the gun aimed whenever he? You know, you know what? It was just like this here.
Smith: Was it pointed at you? Yes, it was pointed at me, yes, ma'am, it was pointed at me.
Smith: And you actually saw-- what color was the gun that you saw? I couldn't see the gun.
All I seen was the fire from it, that's it.
Smith: Okay, do you know what hand he was holding the firearm in? No, I don't know what hand-- It was dark.
All I seen was the firing.
Smith: Okay, sir.
Yes, ma'am.
Roll the right side.
Roll the right side.
I can't get up.
Get up.
Smith: Are you willing to answer questions or make a statement without an attorney being present? Okay, is that a yes? Okay, so you don't want to tell me anything that happened tonight? No.
Smith: Okay.
Have a seat in the car here.
All right.
I guess he doesn't want to make a statement about the incident, so We don't have his side of the story to go on for tonight.
It's just going to be the victim's word against his, so Deputy James Dismukes: All right.
Smith: We'll interview the driver.
What happened this evening? - I was just driving, and Smith: - Tell me what happened.
Ma'am, we was just driving.
We was going to get something to drink.
And then and then he like, "yo," he like, "yo, stop.
" I'm like, "what you mean?" He like, "just chill.
" "I don't know what you mean.
" He like And I seen the dude on the bike.
Smith: Who's he? The black dude.
And I seen the dude on the bike, so I stopped in the middle of the road.
But, like, again I didn't think nothing of it.
He's like, "what you got?" I thought he knew the dude.
He like, "what you got?" And then all of a sudden, he shot.
And I was like Like that brought me back to reality, you know what I'm saying? Smith: Right.
I was-- I was like, I was just chillin', 'cause we was having a good time, you know what I'm saying.
I was just chillin' and then all of a sudden, pop.
I'm like, "yo, what just happened?" Smith: Did he say that he knew the male? Huh? Yeah, he like No, he didn't say he knew him.
He like, pulled, like, he was like, just acting like he knew him, you know.
So I assumed he knew him.
Smith: So what happened after you heard the pop? What could I do, you know what I'm saying? He wanted me to take him home.
He was like, "come on.
" What am I going to do? He got a gun, you know, so what am I going to do? Smith: Did you know he had a gun prior to him doing that? I didn't, no.
- Like, he just - You'd never seen a gun before on him? Yeah, I seen He had a gun before.
Smith: Okay.
But I didn't know he had it on him at that time, and then Smith: - Okay, so you didn't know - And I didn't know he was going to, like, like, to be honest, like, I just didn't know, you know what I'm saying? Like, it was all unexpected.
Like, we was just chillin'.
I was having a good time, you know what I'm saying? Smith: Okay.
All right, this is here is going to be the gun that was located that, uh, was used in the shooting.
Um, also this is a bag of marijuana that was also located underneath the vehicle along with where the gun was located under the passenger side of the vehicle.
The victim was drenched in sweat from riding that bike.
He had ridden as fast as he could from the convenience store up to me up here.
Smith: Right.
And when he rolled up, man, he was scared.
And he, you know, he was Sweat was pouring off of him.
He was tired, he was out of breath.
And he was trying to tell me the story.
And I was calling it in to dispatch, you know.
Smith: Okay.
The description and everything.
And no sooner did it get it called in, immediately he's just, "there's the car! There's the car!" And as soon as they stopped, everybody put their hands out the windows.
Smith: Okay.
And did you see any of them put anything underneath the car, or? I was on the driver's side with my gun drawn on the passenger as he came out on the ground, and I had I told everybody to get down onto the ground.
Smith: Okay.
And I couldn't see the passenger as he come out of the vehicle, 'cause I was on this side.
I was on the left side.
Smith: Okay.
It was only when I went around to that side, I could see the firearm and the bag of dope underneath the car.
Corporal Billy Williams: We'll go with the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Was they selling marijuana? That just depends on how much we have.
We're going to use him as a witness? Smith: Yeah.
- If we can get a written statement from him - Do it.
Let's do that.
Smith: We'll do that.
All right.
Williams: Let's get it done.
Smith: All right.
The officer said that you were pretty shaken up whenever you notified him.
Yeah, I was.
Smith: Well, like I say, the shooter's going to be going to jail tonight for the aggravated assault.
Yes, ma'am.
Smith: And we recovered a firearm also.
Yes, ma'am.
Smith: At least you'll be safer tonight, and the shooter goes to jail.
Yes, ma'am.
Officer (Over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.
Dispatcher: At gunpoint, 132 and bush.
Cover is code three.