COPS (1989) s25e14 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.
OFFICER FRANK VITO: You can pretty much make this job however you want it.
I love to do stuff.
If I'm not doing anything, I'm bored out of my mind.
I like to help out a lot of people, hit all the hot spots of high drug, high crime areas.
You know, foot pursuits, guns, drugs.
I like to be around all that stuff.
Get it off the street.
(siren wailing) OFFICER CLARK CARTER: We're gonna assist an officer in a foot pursuit.
Had a disorderly subject.
Officers arrived (over radio): 10-4, I no longer have sight of the suspect.
(over radio): Supervisor to the scene, taser deployment ineffective.
(over radio): 2130, copy.
CARTER: Now we're just looking for the individual black male.
He, uh, took off running from the officers.
They lost sight of him in the 600 block of 26th Street, uh, 29th Street.
So now we're just riding around, see if we spot him.
One of the officers said that when he approached him, he had a rock in his hand, walked towards one of our officers.
(over radio): All right, I'm going back southbound, going back southbound.
CARTER: 29.
Southbound towards 29.
(siren wails) (over radio): Stop where you are! Go up, uh, 25th Street.
CARTER: - Let's go cut through the grass.
- You got it.
VITO: Where at? (siren blips) CARTER: Watch 'em.
(over radio): That's the location.
(over radio): I'm southbound.
Still southbound.
CARTER: - Southbound behind - You good.
(indistinct radio transmission) There you go, there you go.
(indistinct radio transmission) There you go right here.
Right here.
VITO: Hang on.
I'm trying I don't If he's going back - around, they'll see CARTER: - No, I see him right there.
- He right there.
VITO: - Where? CARTER: Right here behind that house.
Behind that house.
Go to the other side, other side.
(siren blips) Cut right here.
(over radio): Over at 27.
VITO: Yeah.
CARTER: There we go.
- Stop, stop.
VITO: - Hang on.
(tires screech) VITO: Which way? Right here.
We got him.
Hey, stop! You're about to get tased! - Tase him! Tase him! - I can't.
He's coming right to you, Jake! - Get on the ground! - Down, down! Get on the ground! You're gonna get tased! - Hands behind your back! - I got him.
(over radio): All right, we got him.
We got him.
- For what? For what? - You're gonna get tased! Relax! Relax! (indistinct radio transmission) - Cuffs, cuffs, cuffs.
- I can't breathe! Somebody grab cuffs.
I didn't do anything! You got it? For what, man? Relax.
Hey, relax.
Relax! Relax! I just called the police.
I'm tired, man.
For what? I just called the police.
I called the police 'cause somebody was talking in my head.
Now why you chasing me, man, huh? VITO: - Why you running? - Because I called the police! Somebody was talking in my head! And you chased me, man.
You fucking beat me up.
- Hey, relax, relax.
VITO: - Calm down.
I called the police 'cause somebody was talking in my head, man.
- You got any CARTER: - What'd you run for? Because I called the police, and they chased me.
CARTER: Listen to me.
If you called the police, and we're coming to help you, why would you take off running? 'Cause he tried to grab me by my arms when I tried to explain something to him.
Who tried to grab you? I don't know, man.
I called the lady, told the lady to call the police from the 7-Eleven.
Okay, listen, if you called the police and you need help, when we get there, you don't take off running.
We can't help you if we got to chase you, okay? Man, he chased me, though.
I called the police.
SERGEANT W.
J.
ROBBINS: Where was the rock? I dropped it on the ground when the police showed up.
I was trying to explain something till he grabbed me by my hands after I dropped the rock.
I went to call the police.
I didn't know why.
I just dropped the rock that was in my, my hand.
I went to the lady, told her somebody's bothering me, harassing me.
You know who? Does he have a CSP worker there? Hey, why you got me in handcuffs? Just relax.
I called you.
VITO: - You were the one that called? - Yeah.
VITO: What were you calling for? - Did you need our help? - Yeah.
Well, what'd you need? What happened? I wanted to talk to 'em about something.
Somebody was talking in my head.
VITO: Somebody was talking in your head? FTO ERIC CARTER: So how come you walked up to me with a rock in your hand? 'Cause I wanted to show you the rock 'cause somebody was talking in my head, and I was mad.
Somebody was talking in your head and your were mad? You couldn't put the rock down somewhere else and then come and talk to me? No, I put the rock down.
FTO CARTER: Yeah, after I told you to.
Come on.
Have a seat.
But you got me in handcuffs.
Yeah, you fought with me.
No, I didn't.
FTO CARTER: Yeah, you did, and then you ran.
Why'd you run? 'Cause you touched me, and I didn't know what you was doing.
FTO CARTER: I was trying to get you to where you were settled down.
That's why I tried to get away so you yeah.
FTO CARTER: You were doing a whole lot of hollering.
I didn't know what you were gonna do.
Yet you walk up on me with a rock and you're hollering and yelling? I grabbed the rock 'cause I wanted to show you, I wanted you to see the rock.
FTO CARTER: I'll tell you what.
Go ahead and step out real quick.
The medics want to take a look at you, all right? Would that be cool with you? CARTER: We're gonna head over to the convenience store to talk to the victim.
The original call was, uh, it was an individual in the parking lot.
He went to the store and threatened one of the cashiers with a rock in his hand.
Now we're just going to get her side of the story.
VITO: I just want to come over here and get your side of the story.
He came in the store, he told me, "Call the police! Call the police! They out there bothering me!" And I was standing right there at the time.
And I looked, I said, "There's nobody out there.
" "Yeah! Call the police! They out there!" I said, "There's nobody out there.
Get out of here like that.
" So he came outside and went back, came back in here with this rock in his hand.
I didn't want to get busted in the head.
VITO: Oh, I understand that.
So he says, "You gonna call the police now?" I was, "Oh, yeah, I'm gonna call them now 'cause now you threatening me.
" The cop, he pulled up right there.
He walks over to him.
Next thing I know, he ran this way, and the chase was on.
VITO: The chase was on.
Right now he's just gonna go up to Riverside for a little bit so he can get checked out.
- Yeah, 'cause VITO: - Yeah, he needs some help.
VITO: And after that, he's probably gonna get transported over to City Jail.
They're probably gonna follow up with some charges for assault.
- You need anything else, just give us a call.
- I will.
DEPUTY KEVIN ESTEP: I've lived in unincorporated Alameda County for 21 years.
I've been on the department for over five years.
Started out in the jails after the academy.
Right now, I'm just having the time of my life.
Working in the gang unit.
Got a good group of guys.
I don't see myself doing anything else in the near future.
DEPUTY GURVINDER GOSAL: We're gonna pull over this silver Buick.
The registration tabs show that it's expired for the last two months.
So we're gonna conduct a traffic stop due to its expired registration.
ECVB at Marshall on Six-Boy-Charles.
(over radio): 10-4, ECVB at Marshall.
ESTEP: - What's up, guys? - How's it going tonight? ESTEP: - You got your car turned off? - Yeah.
ESTEP: You have your license and insurance? Your tags are expired, dude.
Um, I got the registration right there in the window.
ESTEP: Okay.
We can't see it behind you.
When'd you buy it? A month ago.
GOSAL: 553, 10-4.
ESTEP: - You on probation, parole or anything? - Yeah, I'm on parole.
ESTEP: You're on parole? Out of where? Uh, San Mateo.
ESTEP: Where do you live now? In San Mateo, Belmont.
ESTEP: Belmont.
What brings you out to Castro Valley? Just dropping him off.
ESTEP: - Dropping him off? - Yeah, I'm going back to work.
ESTEP: Anything illegal on you or in the car? - No.
ESTEP: - Nothing at all? Come on, jump on out then.
What I want you to do, I want you to step This thing even open? Step into the wedge of the door, face away from me.
When's the last time you checked in with your PO? - Uh, last month.
ESTEP: - Last month? Yeah.
ESTEP: - What are you on parole for? - Uh, sales.
ESTEP: - Of? - Ecstasy.
ESTEP: You have any Ecstasy on you? No, sir.
- I work now, man ESTEP: - What's that? I said, I work now, I don't mess with none of that stuff.
ESTEP: I never met you before, that's why I'm asking.
Turn around, we'll walk back this way.
Have a seat right here on the curb for me.
I'll hold you so you don't fall.
Anything in that car? Nah.
He might have-- there might be some trees, that's it, but he got his cannabis card.
ESTEP: - You do? - He does.
ESTEP: - He does.
- How much? - I don't know.
GOSAL: - Step out for a second.
Just have a seat.
ESTEP: You have any weapons on you? Since you're gonna be sitting out here, you care if I check real quick? Put your hands right here.
And you got a little bit of weed on you or in the car? - Yeah.
ESTEP: - How much? Is it on you or in the car? - It's in the car.
ESTEP: - Nothing on you? No, sir.
GOSAL: Just doing a parole search of the car, and you can smell the strong odor of marijuana.
Looks like there's a small amount of marijuana.
Looks like, uh, maybe under an ounce.
We'll see.
ESTEP: Who's Andrew? - Andrew? ESTEP: - Uh-huh.
Uh, one of my cousins.
ESTEP: Why's he asking about "the zip"? "How chunky is the zip?" I have no idea.
ESTEP: "If you can drop the zip off, is it cool?" Show me that.
(Gosal laughs) ESTEP: Want me to show you? It's in your text messages.
"How chunky is that zip?" "Can you drop it off?" What's up with that? You got the money? You got a zip? How would I have the money? That was in my paycheck.
ESTEP: I'm saying, you have some money on you, you got text messages from Stephan and Andrew.
Or Stephan, asking about an ounce.
And you got an ounce.
- Right? - Yeah.
ESTEP: So you're selling it, right? Or you just giving it to him? I was giving it to him.
ESTEP: You're just giving him your ounce of weed? GOSAL: How much do you have? Like, 380, 360 or something.
I was gonna buy hemp for my dawg.
ESTEP: How much you get an ounce for it? They buy it by the pounds from us.
They buy-buy pounds from us.
ESTEP: - You grow it? - Yes.
ESTEP: Where do you grow it at? I'm not gonna tell you where I grow it at.
It's all legal, though.
ESTEP: So you grow, you grow the weed, buys weed off of you? Donation, no.
Donations.
ESTEP: - You donate it? - Donations.
ESTEP: Okay.
GOSAL: You have a tattoo of weed on you, too? - Yeah.
GOSAL: - Where? - On my arm.
GOSAL: - What does it say? - Just weed.
GOSAL: - Huh? - It's a weed leaf.
GOSAL: - What does it say? - Just a weed leaf.
GOSAL: - Just a weed leaf? - Is that how much you love weed? - That's how much I love weed.
- Pull that down for me, bro? ESTEP: - Yeah.
You love it so much, he's gonna go to jail for it.
All right.
- I'll get my money back? GOSAL: - Hmm? Do I get my money back? GOSAL: - No.
- For reals? GOSAL: Money-- yeah, money goes into evidence.
That's all the money I got from my paychecks.
GOSAL: Mm, right now with all the evidence we have at hand, text phone messages, the weed, the cash-- I mean, it is what it is, right? - Yeah.
GOSAL: - All right? All good.
GOSAL: Okay, have a seat.
How am I gonna get in here? GOSAL: There's a, there's a seat right here.
So put your left foot up.
There you go.
Fuck.
Ow.
GOSAL: All right.
Did a parole search of the vehicle, and underneath the passenger seat, find just about an ounce of weed.
Um, looked through our subject's phone.
Within the last 15 minutes, he's received text messages from people asking, "Is it cool to get that zip tonight?" Which is a street term they use for an ounce of weed.
Asking if he can drop it off.
That in conjunction with the amount of weed that he had packaged, with the amount of cash, that tells us that he's dealing drugs on the streets.
So, he's going to jail tonight for possession and for sales.
All right, Tom, you know why you're going to jail, right? For the 420 friendly.
GOSAL: - Huh? - It's legal.
- We're going to jail for weed, legal weed.
GOSAL: - How is it legal? Look, if you're gonna, if you're gonna say it's legal and it's for medical purposes, don't carry a zip on you, under-under your seat, don't get text messages from fools saying, "Hey, when-when am I gonna get the zip?" and whatnot and don't carry all that cash on you, okay? That's work, man.
I got my paycheck stubs, everything.
I just cashed my paychecks, like, two fucking days ago.
$350 ain't nothing.
I need that work money back, man.
That's work money.
If it was hustle money, I'd have a couple hundreds in my pocket, a lot more than that, bro, I'll tell you that much.
That's all legalized work money.
I smoke weed after work.
I work ten-hour days, seven days a week, man.
I can't have no weed on me and smoke? Come on, bro.
GOSAL: You know the way you got caught.
It is what it is.
Oh, yeah, I'm not even trippin'.
I'm not trippin' at all, bro.
GOSAL: - Right? - It's what it is, what it is.
GOSAL: - Right.
- Hey, thank you guys for being nice officers.
GOSAL: All right, guys.
(door closes) OFFICER KAMERON FENDER: I moved to Las Vegas about four years ago, from Portland, Oregon.
It was a different change, moving to the desert, but, uh, it's a very exciting job out here in Las Vegas.
It's a city that never sleeps.
(over radio): unit car for one confirmed.
FENDER: Right now we're en route on a domestic violence call.
Um, it's the details of the call are saying that a a father and a stepson are in a verbal argument, so we're just arriving now and we'll figure out exactly what's going on here.
(voices shouting) (indistinct arguing) I got through with you, bitch! (officer speaks indistinctly) I'm talking yeah, talking to you.
OFFICER: Code three.
We're gonna make contact.
(over radio): Okay, copy.
That's copy.
- I got my bad attitude - Ooh, ooh.
FENDER: How's it going? Step out here.
- Now.
- Yeah.
(dog barking) FENDER: Step out here.
Everybody, let me see your hands.
Absolutely.
FENDER: Sit down, let me see your hands.
- Oh, I'm right here, bud.
FENDER: - Up against the wall.
Me? Me? FENDER: - You want to take care of him? OFFICER: - Against the wall.
All all right, heels against the wall.
FENDER: Come out here.
Come out here.
- Let me put my cap on.
FENDER: - Yeah? You want that? OFFICER: Hands behind your back.
FENDER: Keep your hands where I can see them.
Oh, I promise! He's he's the problem.
FENDER: - Step out here.
- Absolutely, you bet.
FENDER: Face the wall.
Put your hands on the window.
FENDER: Don't move, do you understand? You just sit there.
Hang tight one second.
OFFICER: Any guns, knives, or anything that's gonna stick or poke me? - No, sir.
OFFICER: - I'm not talking to you.
FENDER: Just relax.
Is anybody else in the apartment? - Yes, there is.
- Uh, yes, sir.
FENDER: Step out here really quick.
Put your hands straight out, man.
- Just have a seat for a second.
- All right.
What's-what's going what's going on? - I came over here FENDER: - Do you live here? I'm just a guest.
- I'm a guest.
FENDER: - Okay.
He's the man of the house, and and that's his stepson.
And they was just arguing and stuff, and and it got out of - hand and that's why you're here.
FENDER: - Gotcha.
We're just here to figure out exactly what happened between them.
- They was just arguing.
FENDER: - Okay.
No no swings, nobody was throwing anything, or damaged - any property or anything FENDER: - Were they both - yelling at each other? - Yeah.
FENDER: - Okay.
- That's all.
FENDER: - All right.
- That was basically it.
FENDER: Just have a seat, sit down on your butt.
Appreciate it.
Thought we could get a couple hours' sleep.
OFFICER: Okay, so you got a couple hours' sleep.
Then what happened? FENDER: You're the one that called? - Yes, sir.
FENDER: - Okay.
What, uh, what exactly is going on between you and your stepson? He is you know, he slept all day, he's tired, you know, he has no place to go, I can understand that.
But, you know people sleep at night.
FENDER: - Okay.
- You know? Don't come in here at 8:00 in the morning, that's fine, you know, if you want to go help me do something or whatever, but to sit around and think that his mom and him's gonna sit around here and sleep all day, no.
I pay the rent.
FENDER: - Okay.
- No.
I asked him, you know, "What do you got going on?" "Well, I ain't gotta do a fucking thing.
" FENDER: When we walked up, you guys are in there yelling - and screaming at each other.
- No, he was.
FENDER: - He was? - Yes.
FENDER: - Okay.
- And I asked him to leave.
I refrained myself from getting agitated, so I FENDER: He was yelling and screaming about kicking your ass, or something like that? - Yeah? - Mm-hmm.
- And, uh - Did anything physical happen today? - No.
FENDER: - Okay.
- I just want him to leave.
- I got you.
FENDER: What's your first name? - Keith.
FENDER: - Keith.
How come when we walk up, you're yelling and screaming at your, uh, your stepdad? Because, he told me that my mom didn't want, he my mom didn't want nothing to do with me.
She didn't want me over here.
And I know damn well that's a damn lie.
So I got mouthy, and I did get loud.
Because you know what? He wants to treat me like I'm still a kid.
He wants to treat me like I'm nobody.
And I treat him just the way he treats me.
He yells at me, I yell at him back.
FENDER: Why are you over here? Because I figure family's family, you know, come down and they'll keep you for a while.
Especially my whole family.
But you know, when family don't get along, you know, they argue and stuff, you know, it doesn't work.
Especially when somebody's been drinking.
FENDER: - Do you have your own place? - No, I don't.
FENDER: - Where are you - Right now I'm homeless, I just got kicked out of my other pad I was just at.
FENDER: Where was that at? - Uh, down there on 11th and Bonanza.
FENDER: - Okay.
If you guys just don't get along, I mean, it's not gonna work out.
Well, we get along, but it's just when he's he has his bad days, he has his head up his ass, you know what I mean? Nothing anybody can do about it.
FENDER: - Okay.
- A lot of crap.
FENDER: Well, it doesn't look like this is a good option, for you to stay here.
For your sake and his.
You know what I mean? You say family's important.
When I walk up and all I hear is you screaming that you're gonna you're gonna beat him up, that's that's not any way to treat family, you know what I mean? Well, he wants to act like he wants to get beat up, well, if he wants if he wants a fistfight, he can leave.
You know? - I got no problem FENDER: - This is this is his place, so I mean it's more appropriate for you to leave.
And one lesson that you're going to learn in life is Technically it's his place, but you know what, it is but it isn't.
FENDER: to-to get respect, you have to show respect.
You know? Well, he needs to do the same thing with me, then.
FENDER: You're absolutely right.
- Has he been drinking a little bit? - No, he hasn't had anything.
FENDER: No? What about you? You have a little I had a couple beers, worked on a car all day, yeah.
FENDER: - I gotcha.
- Yeah.
- I had a couple of beers.
Sure.
FENDER: - Okay.
You know.
I mean, everything was fine, you know, it's just I'm not gonna - be disrespected by him.
FENDER: - Okay.
You understand what's happening, here? - Hopefully not at length.
FENDER: - Look.
In a minute, he's gonna get let out of handcuffs, he's gonna grab his bag, and he's gonna be on his way.
That's fine.
He can call me later.
FENDER: Exactly.
All right, stand on up, here.
All right? Yeah.
FENDER: Do me a favor and just put your left hand on top of your head.
All right.
Go ahead and grab your bag.
You can keep do me a favor, okay? Go shake your dad's hand, you know, we'll get through this another day.
Resolve this, okay? He's got to listen to Mom and Pop.
FENDER: I told him, when he comes over, he's got to respect you.
Absolutely.
I love you, man, just keep respect.
You know I try to.
But you know, two ham bones don't get along, you know what I mean? Well, a ham bone can only go as far as the bone can go.
(laughs) - I love you, man.
- Hey, where's Mom work again? - What? - Where does Mom work again? - Where's she? - Uh, Apache and All right.
That's where I'm going.
I love you, man.
FENDER: I don't know what that means, but I'm sure it's heartfelt.
- The ham bone? FENDER: - Yeah.
Well, a hambone a hambone's a hambone.
A hambone's a hambone's a hambone.
(laughs) FENDER: All right.
Well, you know kids, you know, them age, they just need just to have a little bit more respect for their elders.
FENDER: You're right, you're right.
You know, I mean, I'm only 35.
Yes, he's only 22.
I raised him.
He needs just to have respect for him, and not only him, but other people.
FENDER: He's going through a hard time, you know, and he's reaching out for somebody to help him, I think.
And just do what you can.
Thank you.
OFFICER (over radio): I've got him at gunpoint.
DISPATCHER: At gunpoint, Cover is Code Three.