COPS (1989) s25e15 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? 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.
I like working the Strip out here because there's always something to do.
There's always someone doing something wrong.
Tonight, just doing doing a routine Safe Strip patrol.
Trying to look for any kind of disorderly conduct; people who are really belligerent.
Anybody that's got any kind of warrants or anything like that or dealing drugs.
We'll look for people like that.
All right, we're on our way right now to assist another officer.
He's got a subject in custody who's starting to resist arrest.
We're gonna go check it out and see if he needs assistance.
Hey! Hey, relax! I will.
- Relax! Stop! - Kick his feet out.
I want to talk to a field sergeant! - Stand up! Stand up! Stand up! - I am! Hey, relax, relax.
Just one guy get on his back.
Put your knee on his back right there.
There you go.
That's good.
Just sit him right there.
Sit him right there, dude.
Police, sir! Stop resisting! I want to talk to your field sergeant.
Who's got hobbles? - Spit mask on him? - Yeah.
I don't need a mask.
I'm not spitting.
Rose, you got hobbles? Spit mask we got.
All I'm asking is talk to a field sergeant.
You good? Yeah, you guys are good.
All right, cool.
I'm asking to talk to a field sergeant.
We'll get him hobbled.
Listen, listen, listen, are you gonna walk, or are you gonna go back on the ground? - I will walk.
- You will walk? I would like to talk to a field sergeant.
You will talk to one after you go sit down in the back of the car.
Do you understand? Hey, listen, listen! Listen to me.
Stop! Stop! What's your name? - What's your name? - My name's Mitch.
Tell him to get his knee out of my rib! Listen, when we let you up, you have to be cooperative, or you're gonna go on the ground again and you're gonna stay there for a lot longer.
Do you understand? Yes or no? Okay, let's get him up.
We gonna hobble first or no? We don't have any.
Let's go.
Listen, be good.
Be cool, man.
Be cool right here.
Thank you, sir.
Take off the mask.
I am not spitting.
Thank you.
Relax, relax, relax, relax, relax, relax.
Sir, I'm gonna take care of you, okay, but you gotta relax, all right? I do not deserve a mask.
Have a seat right here, right in there.
Have a seat.
Just take it easy, relax.
- Yo, hey, I want your - Watch your head.
Watch your head.
Watch your head.
All right, all the way in.
Seat belt.
Take the mask off me, sir, 'cause I have not spit.
I've done nothing.
- Okay, are you good? - Yes.
- You gonna be good? - Yes.
Can you close this? Close that window right here.
I have no right for the mask on me.
Cool, man, all right.
We stopped him up in front with the bars up here.
Come to find out that he actually had a warrant out of the city, so we're bringing him back down here.
As we were bringing him back down here, he got belligerent.
The closer, closer we got to the car, he got more belligerent, and then finally, refused to walk and became very uncooperative.
No, no, no! No, no.
Close the door.
He's gonna kick the window.
We don't have hobbles, so if he starts kicking it, request hobbles and set it right there, okay? - They have hobbles? - The city.
The city? He's got hobbles.
We got him now for obstruction.
We got obstruction, resisting.
He's not listening to us.
- We have to - He's resisting.
You guys had to take him down over there.
- He's resisting arrest.
- He hindered.
So let's take him to CCDC.
- Okay.
- Cool.
They have hobbles, brother.
Mitch, Mitch, don't kick the door, dude.
Don't kick the door.
Unless you get a field sergeant officer over here, right now Okay, we'll get one going, we'll get one going.
- and the two officers that arrested me - Sit up, sit up.
Sit up, bro, sit up.
Nope, nope.
I won't till I talk to a field sergeant officer.
Okay, hang right right there for a second.
Let's hobble him on that side.
- You try to put that on me - No, you move, you're gonna get sprayed.
You ace me and I fucking bite you.
Don't try to fight me! Pull my hair, I tell you, you know what? Okay, we're gonna put this back on, okay? Listen to me.
- He's gonna try to bite you, bro.
- Don't, don't.
That's why Mitch, Mitch Mitch, stop it! Jeff, we're gonna pull him out.
He's trying to bite us.
That's okay.
We'll take him like this.
I ain't gonna pull him out.
He's got 'em both right there together.
Hey, hey-hey, hey, come on, dude, come on.
Come on, dude.
Come on, dude.
Come on, dude, come on.
Mitch, come on, dude.
Don't bite.
Mitch, stop biting, dude.
Don't bite me.
Come on, dude.
Lay 'em out like that.
Hey, you know what? Hey, you guys have military lawyers brought.
Yeah, dude, that's good, that's good.
Make sure you tie the knots when you get there.
No, no, no, no! No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, he's gonna kick the window.
Mitch, Mitch, don't do it.
- Stop doing it.
- You don't know who! Calm down, calm down.
I'm still active in the military! Open it.
Leave it open.
Grab him! - Dude, will you just chill? - No! - Mitch, listen, listen, calm - I asked for a field sergeant and the two officers that arrested me for their badge and name! - Mitch, calm! Calm! - No! - Calm down! - No! Stop trying to bite us and fight us, relax.
- He's good! - Are you good? Yeah, his feet are down at the bottom.
He's good.
Listen, Mitch, I got to shut the door, bro.
I got to shut the door.
Go, go, go, shut the door.
I will sue your ass! Get your head in there.
Mitch, please, relax.
Don't bite that.
Look what you're doing.
Why you doing that? Mitch, listen, the sergeant's on his way.
Can you please just move your head in the car so we can get the door shut? - No! - We're gonna shut it either way.
We want to do it the nice way.
We just want you to sit up and so we can close the door.
- That's it.
- Nope! Okay, Mitch, we really don't want to do it by force.
Fuck, you guys don't want a lawsuit.
Listen, I wasn't there.
Remember that, okay? I wasn't there.
I just got here, and I want to try and talk to you.
All I would like for you to do is so I can talk to you.
Come over here and talk to me, then I'll sit up.
Okay, all right, fine.
This is it.
Go! Finally.
Get him out of here! I got the gate.
All right, I'm gonna move these gates, stop traffic, so these guys can take this guy to jail.
There he goes.
We're bringing him back here on a simple warrant, and he decided to flip out on us and get real combative.
So things can go from nothing to full out in just a heartbeat down here.
So it went well.
None of us got bit.
None of us got kicked, and we were able to get him down to jail without further incident.
Throughout all my years that I've worked out here for the city, I try to deal with the citizens out here-- as well as my fellow officers-- with a lot of respect.
A lot of the people on the street consider me the grandfather because I'm not always trying to arrest people.
I'm basically trying to listen and understand and help people out.
We're en route to a, uh, dispute call between a man and a male and a female at one of the, uh, local service stations up here that stay open pretty much 24 hours a night.
Um, every now and then they have problems where people are arguing-- they're fighting back and forth with the clerk-- so we're gonna get up here and see what's going on.
Did you call about somebody trespassing, or was it the guy in the store? I don't know, but he's just hitting me in my mouth, and he throwing bricks at my car.
Where is he? In the store.
Who? - Him.
- Him? - I told him, you hit me in my mouth - Man, get out of you jump out of a moving car, and you throwing bricks at my car.
- You told me that.
- She just tried to run me over, bro.
- Why? - 'Cause you throwing bricks at my car.
- Come on, bro.
- Who are y'all to each other? We best friends.
She just broke my phone in the middle of the street 'cause I - told her to drop me off at Four Seasons, sir.
- Okay.
You sit here throwing bricks at my car-- you almost hit somebody else's car.
Why are you sweating like that? She just tried to run me over right here and right - here; it's on camera.
- Okay.
Yeah, 'cause you hit me in my mouth, and this ain't the first time you done hit me.
Okay, dude, you got twos out here for you, see? I should have pressed charges on your stupid ass.
There you go, there you go.
Come on, see? He ain't got none at the you hit me in my face.
Don't put me in handcuffs, bro.
- Okay.
- With your feet! Can't you please, brother, call my mama, brother, please.
Call her, bro.
Until we figure out what's going on - Okay, it's cool, it's cool.
- I know it is.
- It's cool.
- Now, this ain't saying you under arrest.
- Thank you, that's all I was saying.
- Okay? I didn't touch nobody.
She tried to run me over.
- Who are y'all to each other? - We best friends.
How long have y'all been best friends? - For years.
- Four years.
- For years.
- For years.
- Four years.
- Four years.
She just tried to run me over by Grant Park.
Why would your best friend try to run you over? - Because I told her to drop me off at the Four - Yes.
then she caught a attitude 'cause she don't want to go to my house.
- No, this - We been all over and back and forth on the expressway.
- He just jumped out of - Out her car.
He figured hop out the car.
- 'Cause, see, I - He hit me in my face.
I threw his phone out the window.
He hit me in my face with his hand, his back of his hand.
I ain't got a lot of friends.
- Y'all are best friends.
- Yes, sir.
Okay, why is it that you're going through this over a phone? Are y'all more than best friends? No, sir, I That's my only phone.
My kid's number is in it.
- I have a little girl, I - So why would she want to keep your phone from you? She just broke it.
It's over there in the street.
- 'Cause he throwing bricks at my window.
- Why? He almost hit somebody else's car trying to throw bricks - Why did I throw a brick, ask me? - at my window.
Why is he throwing bricks at your car, though? I'm calling my parents on my phone when she snatched my phone - out my hand - Over a phone.
- and threw it out the window.
- Over a phone? - Friend, I gave you a phone - But why is he throwing bricks at your car? Why did I throw a brick? Jamie, tell him, please.
- Be honest.
- Why? - Be honest, why did I - 'Cause of a phone.
- That's why I threw a brick? - Just over a phone? I'm with them.
Put the female Put her in your car for a minute so we can sort all this out.
You're being detained; you're not under arrest.
- You understand that? - Yeah.
Boss, I play fair.
I understand, I understand.
Okay, I don't know.
- I wasn't here.
- I feel you.
I'm not taking no sides.
- Okay.
- Okay? But we gonna sort this out one way or another.
You saying she tried to run you over; she's saying you tried to damage her car.
You saying she broke your phone.
Where's your phone at? My phone over there in the middle of the street, right here across the street at where the red light is.
Whatever, she was on her way to drop me off at Four Seasons 'cause I work at the pool that time of year 'cause I'm a lifeguard.
- Okay.
- I work at the pool.
Man, you are sweating like no tomorrow.
- You said you're a lifeguard? - I'm a lifeguard.
Shouldn't you be in better shape? I'm in way good shape, dude.
Why are you sweating so bad, then? - He was running I was - When's the last - time how long you been running? - I sweat bad anyways.
Okay.
Hey, I ain't mad at you.
I'd sweat too, if somebody was trying to run me over.
All right, have a seat.
Is there anything in that bag we need to know about? It's just a tattoo gun and my lifeguard pouch.
- You do ink? - Yeah.
In the car, y'all got into an argument.
- Yes, sir.
- Okay.
She grabbed your phone in the car.
Threw it out the window right here by the zoo and I tell her - to let me out so I could get my phone.
- Right.
She wait till we get right there by the railroad tracks, you know, the little hump that's right there? She let me out right there.
I was trying to run back up the street to get my phone.
And she turned around.
She turned around, went back up the street, got my phone.
She knew I was running to my phone, so she kept the phone.
As I got up the street, I threw a rock at the car.
That's all I did, I threw a rock at the car.
I'm going to explain to you what you're being charged with, okay? Okay.
Um it could be a lot worse.
Right now, you're going to jail for disorderly conduct, subsection 1 and subsection 2.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay? If I had have actually saw some visible injury on her, it would be a totally different charge.
Yes, sir.
You all right? Ma'am.
He's admitted to throwing the rock, but y'all are best friends, and have been best friends for a while.
Okay? Is your relationship more than just best friends? You're only best friends? You haven't been intimate or anything? Yeah, we have.
Okay, but you're just friends.
- There's not - Nope, we're just friends.
- No - "I want to date you.
I don't want to be your boyfriend.
" - But friends with benefits - Yeah.
is basically Okay.
So is that why you took the phone when he was texting another woman in the car? - No, I don't know who he was texting.
- Okay.
I only reason why I did that is because he back-handed me in my face.
But why didn't you just leave and go home? Because y'all are friends.
You could've simply stayed away from him, did a protection order to stay away from him Called him and say, "Hey, that's it, you're not putting your hands on me no more.
I don't want you to come around me no more.
" Are your emotions getting a little bit of you as far as your relationship with him? You can deal with the friends with benefits thing.
I don't need to talk to him, period.
I'm not even supposed to be talking to him.
You're not supposed to be talking to him, but you still are.
- Who told you not to talk to him? - My mama.
- How old are you? - Twenty.
You're 20, and your mother told you don't talk to him because of something he's done in the past? Because he like to fight me.
Shouldn't be putting his hands on you.
That's not a man.
That's a coward.
Why would you want to be with a coward? You completely disregarded what your mother said, did what you wanted to do anyway because you're 20 and you consider yourself grown? No, I don't.
So just so you know, you're going to jail for disorderly conduct charges.
Fighting out in the street.
He's saying you tried to run him over.
If you had have actually succeeded in striking him with the vehicle, that's aggravated assault with a vehicle, which is a felony, of a high and aggravated nature.
You don't want that.
Okay? All right, sit tight.
Toledo's a very strong industrial town.
Generations and generations grew up here; they started here.
They raised families here.
It's like a small city with a big city attitude.
So, it's not big enough to where you don't know everybody, but it's small enough to where you can be close.
That's what I like about Toledo.
The call that we're going to right now, it's-it's a call of two Hispanic females fighting.
They're fighting out front of this address we were given.
We know one of the females is wearing a white shirt, pink pants, and, uh That might be her right here on the ground-- white shirt, pink pants.
She's on my property She comes out of nowhere and I mean, just starts just hacking.
This goes on from They're saying I slashed their tires.
He's been spray-painting our house.
- My mom already gots a report on that.
- Okay.
We called the cops yesterday.
And we called the cops, too.
And I have my kids with me and I'm walking past to get my - daughter, getting late.
- Okay.
And she comes out and just attacks.
That's all there is to it, and nothing else.
Did she punch you, hit you? Yeah, right here-- she hit me right here.
I want her to go to jail.
- Do you need medical? - No, I'm fine.
But I want her to go to jail.
And then he's video-recording everything, so he probably Lift your hair up for me, would you? You got a good lump there.
Yeah, exactly.
Did she hit you in the eye? No, right here.
Today, they walked up to each other, and they were talking and they got into an altercation.
Verbal-- they're getting into a verbal argument? Yeah, and then they fell and she was holding her head, and - that's when - Well, how okay, you say they get into a verbal argument, and then they fell.
Well, what happened, I mean, you just don't fall They started tussling with each other.
Okay, I was just saying because it's not icy out, so why would they fall? When they grabbed each other, she fell, and, um, they-they she fell into the bushes.
So, they're mutually fighting each other? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Yeah, they were both going at it.
That's false.
Did you see what happened? She is a lot bigger than her.
She had her completely pinned on the ground.
Had her whole her hair in had her by her hair and trying - to, like, you know, to tell her - Did you see anything of the argument and then what led to, I mean You just saw her being held and that's it? Excuse me, I'm talking.
Let me talk to her.
I only live right there.
I was on my porch.
- Right here at 886? - 875.
So, you saw her actually got to the ground? I saw the other woman take her to the ground, yes.
She took her to the ground? Yes.
'Cause she was on top of her.
Okay, okay, okay.
She slashed my tires.
I worked a double shift I worked a double shift.
Got off at 3:00 in the fucking morning, at 4:00, I seen her right by my car and I yelled, "Hey!" I seen her take off and run across the street.
What she did was she slashed my tires-- two tires.
So, you come out here to confront her or what? 'Cause I want you to lead me up to you guys meeting tonight and what transpired from there.
I was out I was outside smoking a cigarette, and then she walked by and she started rifling me, said, "Oh, I heard you want to fuck me up.
I'm right here, bitch.
" So, she met me right here.
She goes, "Oh, let me go get my shoes.
" I said, "You ain't got to get your shoes now.
" She hit me, I hit her back and that was it.
- That's how it was started.
- Okay.
- And I'm so angry because - Were you holding her down? I was holding her down till you guys came! I yelled at the neighbors to call the cops; I yelled at them to call the cops.
I yelled at everybody to call the cops.
So, did that right there create the did she do that to you? The cut underneath your eye? I didn't even know I had a cut under my eye.
Yeah, you have a good cut underneath your eye.
What created the lump on her head-- is that from you hitting her? Who, me? Yeah, she's got a lump on her forehead.
Probably she well, yeah, I hit her.
I ain't gonna lie, she hit me.
Okay, okay.
What am I supposed to do, you know, and I'm on my property.
I'm not on her property.
She's on mine.
Okay.
Look it-- I was walking I wasn't even looking that way.
She was, like, and was, like, "Are you serious?" I didn't know if she was being serious or not.
And she was like, "Yeah," and then she just attacked me.
It was me against a 500-pounder, ten-foot-tall woman, and everything else.
Don't make comments, just, just How did she get the mark on her eye? - Her? - Yeah.
I had to defend myself.
When she hit me and got me on the ground, what am I supposed to do? - I mean just - If I grabbed her, I don't even remember to be honest because she already I'm thinking he's gonna kick me.
I don't know what to think 'cause all these, and, like, I weigh 110 pounds.
Look at me compared to them.
You think I'm gonna come down here and start trouble? On her forehead, she's got the cut on her eye.
I haven't seen my face.
I don't even know what I look like.
So, medical's gonna check them out, and they both want to press charges.
What it's gonna be is you're probably both gonna go to jail for assault, okay? Even though she's on my property and I tried to call the cops Is this your husband? - He's my boyfriend.
- Boyfriend? Okay, here's the thing.
It's one thing, okay, if you're going inside your property, inside your house, she opens up the door and you guys fight.
Now it's a self-defense thing.
But when you go out to meet her, you're not you're not retreating, okay? It's a mutual combat is what it is, okay? And I'm thinking because both parties have injuries, both parties want to press charges, the best thing that I can do is I'm not sure if I want to call it an assault or DC fighting, okay? I've never even heard of that; what is that? Disorderly conduct fighting.
When she comes up and you say she's coming onto your property.
So, I should have called right then and there? Yeah, like I told your husband, there's nothing wrong with going inside your doorway, shutting the door and calling us.
Okay.
Because she goes to jail for criminal trespassing.
Instead, you come out and meet her.
You are now engaging, you are not in a self-defense mode.
You're both in aggressive postures is what I'm saying.
Okay.
Okay, now the big thing is I'm the unbiased party in all of this, and I'm watching you guys fight in front of children.
Figured I didn't want to do it in front of the kid.
Yeah, thank you.
Put your hands together altogether.
I know, that's why I tried to do it outside of the house, okay, and away from the children.
Everybody's got kids, okay, and you don't want to do that to Ma in front of children.
Okay, you're gonna go for disorderly conduct fighting because you came out and met her.
Like I said, it was a mutual combat thing.
Heather, okay, this is what we're gonna do.
We'll just issue a warrant for DC fighting, okay? On you-- you can turn yourself in on Monday.
That way you don't have to worry about the jail thing and I know that's what you're worried about, correct? So I get my lawyer? You would get out yeah, get obtain your lawyer.
That way you can get out, okay? And I'm working with you, instead of going with an assault, we'll go with the DC fighting, okay? 'Cause the thing is you guys are doing this in front of each other's children, and that bothers me.
- Exactly.
- Okay? I'm trying to work with you on this, okay? So, we'll do that-- you're not gonna go to jail tonight.
We're not gonna send anybody out to come pick you up.
What's she gonna get, assault? What you get is what she gets, except for she's gonna go spend the rest of the weekend in jail.
The best way to handle it is both get charged, let a judge take it from there.
Sad ending.
I've got him at gunpoint.
At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.