COPS (1989) s28e28 Episode Script

1 bad boys - whatcha want, whatcha want - Stop! Get on the ground.
whatcha gonna do when Sheriff John Brown come for you? Taser! Taser! Taser! - Ow! Ow! - bad boys, bad boys - whatcha gonna do - They're running.
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.
Most of the people we deal with are just regular citizens.
Calls for service.
In my unit we deal with a lot of gang and drug activity.
Getting back to proactive policing versus reactive.
Which is really where our department wants to be.
Focusing on gangs and guns.
We're gonna flip around and we're gonna take a look at this motorcycle.
Doesn't have any license plate.
See if he's got a reason for that.
There he goes.
Five David 52, we're gonna be in pursuit of a motorcycle.
We're gonna be westbound Hammer from Tam O'Shanter.
It's gonna be a black motorcycle.
Speeds are 30.
Speeds are 35.
No traffic.
Westbound.
One is possible.
Ten eight five one.
So, we're passing Lanark.
Going under the railroad tracks.
We're gonna be continuing westbound past Lanark.
Number two lane.
Speeds in excess of 65.
He's gonna be through the solid red.
- Westbound through El Dorado.
- At El Dorado.
Uh clear-- Nope.
Westbound through El Dorado.
I didn't see where he went.
And five eight 52, we'll be terminating.
We lost sight of him.
Last seen westbound.
Oh, correction-- He's gonna be northbound Looks like northbound Lower Sac from Hammer.
He's going to the parking lot.
He's going into Walgreens.
Yeah, he turned into Orchard.
Were we going the right way? Copy, into the Orchard parking lot.
- Did you see which way he went? - Nope.
He might have gone to the back of the business.
He was between Walgreens and Orchard.
No, he's not.
We're there now.
We don't see him.
Ten four.
Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Is this him? Put your hands up! Hands up! Get on the ground.
On the ground.
On the ground! Hey, what the hell, dude? On the ground.
On the ground.
Get your hand out.
I was fine.
We're detaining one.
What are you guys tripping on, dude? Got him? Yeah, he hasn't been searched yet.
Where's the bike at? I don't know.
He came walking out from over here.
What are you guys talking about? 52, we've got one detained.
He crashed the bike in here.
Ignition's punched.
It doesn't have any license plates on it.
They were probably gonna put another plate from another bike on it that's not stolen eventually, but he didn't get to that.
What's your name, man? - Brandon.
- Brandon what? Can I ask what the problem is? Why you guys harassing me? We're not harassing you, man.
- I didn't even do anything.
- Okay.
Let me do something real quick.
I'm gonna read you my rights-- your rights, okay? - But what's the problem? - Okay.
Do you want to tell me what happened, or you want me to just go through the process? I'm trying to ask you what happened.
I just came out of orchard supply and you guys just ran and jumped me.
Can I tell you something? There's city cameras, okay? There's city cameras that saw you on the bike.
- I wasn't even on any bike.
- Okay.
Gonna read you this, okay? You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
You can have a-- Officer, I understand my rights.
But I was not on a motorcycle.
Well, you match the exact description.
You came from the same location, our city camera saw you.
- Dude, that's not-- - I saw you on the bike.
- Officer-- - I saw you on the bike.
That's not me that you guys seen.
- It is.
It is.
- No, it's not.
Why are you running? I'm not running from you guys.
That's not me is what I'm trying to tell you.
Okay.
All right, the bike's stolen.
- You probably already know that.
- What bike are you guys talking about? That's probably why you're running.
- Mm-kay? - I'm not running.
I wasn't on no bike.
Okay.
It was a good thing you didn't hit another car 'cause we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.
I'm gonna look at you straight in the eye and tell you I that was not on no motorcycle.
That was not me.
Okay.
All right.
So what am I being charged with? Stolen bike, and I believe you have a warrant.
- Several, I think.
- Okay? And then fleeing from the police.
- Felony evading.
- But I didn't do anything! - Okay.
- I understand that I have the warrant.
- I know about that.
- Okay.
But a stolen bike is not me.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Watch your leg.
Ma, come on.
She all right? Ma, come on, quit.
Quit, ma.
Ma, quit! Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Take her away.
If you have any questions, I can talk to you over here.
Come over here, come over here.
What? - It's all right.
- I'll make something happen, bro.
I promise.
I'll make something happen, don't worry.
- Yeah! - Ma, calm down.
Hey, hey.
Go over there.
He was in a pursuit, okay? Come here and I'll talk to you.
If you guys would be calm, I'll be happy to explain it to you.
I was just trying to calm her down.
He was on a stolen motorcycle, he's got a warrant.
He's going to jail.
Okay, and he fled from us.
- Okay? - All right.
So He already knew about the warrant, he was trying to say all this other stuff wasn't him.
But we know it was, we saw him on the bike.
Okay? Bottom line is he tried to ditch the bike and run away, so All right? Luckily he didn't hit another car or somebody else.
All right, Brandon.
I'm just gonna go over your charges so you understand, okay? You have four warrants for your arrest, one of them being a no-bail, okay? One question, real quick.
Hold on.
Let me just go over this I don't wanna forget, that's all.
then I'll let you ask me, okay? Felony evading from when you ran from us.
Okay? Um, some traffic charges for running red lights.
Things like that, no license plates.
You're suspended, you don't have a driver's license.
Okay? You shouldn't be even driving a car or riding a motorcycle.
And then, uh the stolen bike.
Okay? Can I just say bye to them? You can say bye from here real quick.
- That's it? - Yeah.
Just yell out.
Doll! Doll, I'm gonna call you, 'kay? - Huh? - I'm gonna call you from booking! - Okay.
- Make sure you answer! All right.
Good job by the city cameras keeping him in sight so we could find him over here.
I've been an Atlanta police officer for just over a year now.
You get to do a lot more than just, you know, lock people up and kind of get in the crazy situations.
You actually get to touch people.
You get to affect people's lives in a positive manner and not just a negative one, so you get to really see different aspects of life that you wouldn't think that you'd be able to see in this career field.
We got a suspicious male up here at the top.
Woodline.
It's a heavily drug area over here, so I'm gonna get out and talk to him real fast.
See what he's up to.
He's running, he's running, he's running.
I don't know.
Yeah, he's running.
Get down! Down! Stay where you're at.
What you running for, man? I don't know.
I'm trying to see what's going on.
Okay.
You're trying to see what's going on? Stay where you're at.
Turn around, man.
- Seen a whole bunch of police.
- Turn around.
- You heard me? Turn around.
- What you running for? Why you running? I don't know, man.
I was drinking my liquor, man.
Are you drinking? Okay, I'm just gonna detain you real quick.
Give me 54 style up.
13-12.
Feel like I've seen you before, man.
All right, have a seat on the curb real quick for me, okay? Hold on, hold on.
Yeah, man, what you-- why you running? Why you hanging up in the cut? - What's your name? - I was taking a pee.
Hold on.
That's good.
Don't reach for now.
What's your name? Don't reach for that.
I'm gonna get my wallet, that's all.
Okay, don't worry about it.
What's your name? Rymon.
- What is it? - Rymon.
- Spell it.
- R-Y-M-O-N.
R-Y-M-O-N? - Yes, sir.
- Okay.
So, what-- what-- what exactly were you doing on top of the hill again? Said you were drinking your beer? Okay.
Where your cup of liquor at? It's up there somewhere Okay.
That's the only thing you was up there doing? That's the only thing I was up there doing.
Okay.
All right, so if we go up there, top of the hill, do a quick search, that's the only thing we're gonna locate is a cup of liquor? I don't know what you're gonna locate.
- I just walked up there.
- Oh.
You don't know what we're gonna locate? Man, get up, man.
Stand up for me.
You look like break your damn ankle.
Yeah.
I see.
I know I sound drunk, man.
- Drunk? - You ain't drunk.
I know you ain't drunk.
You don't even look drunk.
I don't smell liquor on your breath or nothing.
Okay.
Why would you do all that and mess up them nice new J's? - Brand new.
- Brand new! And you stepped in some dirt and some kudzu.
How much you got in your back pocket? Um - Probably 200-something dollars.
- Probably 200? What's it for? A little, um, bill money I had on me.
- Beer money? - Bill money.
Bill money, okay.
What kind of work you do? Little landscaping.
Little landscaping? Some weird denominations for bill money.
It's gonna be kind of tough, man, to locate anything.
We got a dog coming.
Something's gotta be up here, man.
You just don't run like that for no reason.
It might be somewhere back this way where he ran.
Good boy! Good boy! Okay.
See that 69 right here? And the dope right there.
What is that? - Dope and a gun.
- Yep.
- Yep, there it is.
- There it is.
It's a high drug area around this little corridor here.
You see a lot of guys.
And when they see us roll by, they'll ditch it, throw it in a place where they think we won't look, and, uh we ended up finding it somewhere in the bushes.
We'll see.
Several hits of, it looks like crack cocaine.
Looks like we also got some weaponry.
Small Glock pistol.
Uh An extended magazine.
For that Glock pistol.
We got the EMT's here.
Come on, step on out so they can talk to you.
Man, hell no, man.
- Come on.
- So that's not yours? Man, she seen me walking from the liquor store earlier! Man, calm down.
Ain't no way in hell I had all that on me, man! Come on with the bullshit man! Let me ask you this, where do you live? I'm right here in the hotel, man.
Okay, so what were you doing up there in the hill? I was taking a piss! My cup right there! I told y'all that shit man! Why would go up there on top of the hill and take-- I don't want to go to jail for taking no damn piss.
So we were able to recover approximately 80 hits, crack cocaine.
Each one of these baggies goes for about five or ten dollars on the street.
It's the type thing that you'd normally find on these lower to midlevel dope dealers.
Just sort of like the norm out here.
Explain to me, just what are you doing up there on that hill? If you're just up there using the bathroom, why are you running? What is there to run for? Bro, 'cause I don't want you to come up the hill and lock me up for pissing.
- Really? - Drinking in public.
Really? I see folks go up that hill all the time, bro.
I just wanted to take my quick pee, come on back down the hill, go on to the store, man.
So you're gonna go over into the dirty bushes with all that kudzu, right? Walk up that dirt hill-- I know that store ain't got no bathroom.
You got on white and black sneakers and you're telling me you're gonna walk up there in the dirt? But you know what goes on in this area, right? - I know what goes on here.
- A lot of dope selling, a lot of dope buying, right? Listen to what I'm saying.
But you know what was going on, right? Okay, all right.
Them folk down there know me at the store.
I got some gun charge, man.
And I owned up to it, man.
I'm not finna-- sitting here and doing all that, man.
I don't even know where y'all got that shit from.
- That's what I'm telling.
- Well, right now-- Did y'all get that shit from where I was standing at? I saw you running.
This is what I'm saying, right now we don't what's going on with the gun, so we're gonna see what's going on with the gun.
- Man, we can do fingerprints and everything, bro.
- But, at this point-- Then you could see if I held something.
That's what I'm saying, at this point I promise you, man.
You're gonna get charged with the possession of crack cocaine, and then depending on what's going on with the gun, - you may get charged with that also, okay? - Bro.
I'm just letting you know what the situation is right now.
I've always wanted to be a cop.
The fluidness of the job and changing so much, and how every day's a little different.
Just made me so interested in it.
So I went to college for criminal justice, did a five-year program, and when I graduated, I was lucky enough to get called for the civil service list in the city I grew up in.
So, now I'm here working revere and I love every moment of it.
We're going down to the trailer park here to assist another officer with a possible larceny.
Uh, it's described that a male and female stole a package off of someone's front door and took off in the area of the trailer parks.
So we're gonna try to locate those bodies.
Hey, hold on a second, come here.
Where you guys coming from? Turn around.
You can search me.
I need my meds on me.
Okay.
- They're in my pocket.
- Stay right there, man.
Where did you come from? Take out your meds.
Me? Oh, nice.
I know your name, what's your name? Okay.
Hold on a second.
Put your hands behind your back.
What did I do? Listen, you're not under arrest.
- You're being detained.
- For what? 'Cause you have a warrant.
- What did I get a warrant for? - Did you get it cleared? Listen, I don't know.
I'm gonna be honest with you, hold on one second.
They put out a revere most wanted list-- - When? - Every week.
Your name was on it, so let me just check your information-- Please check! I know I haven't been in trouble in fucking years.
Okay.
Did you just take a package off of someone's porch or anything? No, I didn't.
Some guy tried to say that, I said, "What? I have my dog's backpack.
" I was like, "This is my dog's backpack!" And he tried to grab me so I took off on him.
Like, he got out of his truck, tried to grab me.
I'm like, "Get away from me.
" Honestly.
One-oh-six.
We'll figure it out in one second.
Come back here, okay? He incriminate himself with the truck? Somebody grabbed him? We're under control.
Let me know about this party, we have one detained for now.
Why am I getting detained? 'Cause I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
Can I have my meds, please? No, you can have them when you get out of the car, okay? - Who was the girl you were with? - Huh? - That was my girlfriend.
- What's her name? Nicole.
Where is she? Why did you separate from each other? Because she-- she-- The guy tried to grab me and I'm like, "Baby, just stay here.
I'm gone.
" Like, honestly.
Like, if somebody's trying to grab you-- But why would you leave your girlfriend? She was fine.
The guy was after me for some reason.
That's why.
Start from the beginning.
You were walking-- She was at Rite Aid.
I was at Rite Aid.
What happened after Rite Aid? Where'd you go after Rite Aid? I came down.
You can ask JJ and all them.
We came up by the church.
We came down here.
I cut near the old age home, got up here, I came through there.
Right down there.
And that's it.
But what happened with the black backpack and the guy in the pickup truck? He tried to grab it, and my girl has it.
My girl has her backpack.
Why did he try to grab you? He said that I tried to steal something.
I'm like, "What are you talking about? Get the fuck away from me, guy.
" Honestly, I was like, "Get away from me.
" - Okay.
- He was like, "No, come here now!" And he tried to jump out of his truck.
What would you do? Honestly, what would you do? - Call the police.
- With what? I don't have a cellphone.
So you ran down here 'cause he was chasing you? - Yeah, he was chasing me down here.
- Okay.
All right, give me a second, okay? Can I talk to her for a second? We need the show up.
How you doin', miss? Hi.
Hello? Why did the guy in the pickup truck just come up to you guys and try to take James' backpack and how do you know James? That wasn't James' backpack.
That was mine.
Okay.
And then there was nothing in my backpack but cigarettes.
Okay.
Where were you guys coming from? I was coming from Rite Aid.
I ran into my friends that were standing there picketing for the new mayor.
How do you know James? I don't even know his name.
He's from projects.
He said you're his girlfriend, you don't know his name? Listen, whatever.
He said he's your-- he gave me your name and everything and said you're his girlfriend.
That's fine, sir.
You're not gonna try to tell me what's going on here? I already tried telling the other guys.
I'm not-- whatever.
Just-- whatever.
- Okay.
- Bring me back in.
Yep, no problem.
Someone will talk to you in a minute.
So we're gonna bring the witness over.
Do a show up.
- Yeah.
- Just come right down here for me.
Roger, that's him.
Okay, step this way.
He already admitted to it to me.
- Roger? - That he did it.
Yeah, 'cause you said you've got my girl.
Of course I'm gonna tell you I did it.
Your girl says she doesn't even know who you are, just so you know.
We asked her who you were and she said some dude from the projects that she doesn't even know well.
So All right.
What exactly happened, man? Going home Um, a kid-- a kid was coming up the street-- one of my-- one of my neighbors, right? He goes like this.
He goes-- I said, "Did they just steal that package?" He goes, "I think so.
" So, I turned my truck around.
I chased them.
When I was chasing them, I was down over-- over-- over on that street over there.
He threw the package, him and the girl, so I kept on chasing 'em, and that's the time when they had an accident.
And this is the girl over here, - so I didn't want to hold the girl.
- Okay.
- Because the girl, I mean, I could get in trouble.
- No, no.
Absolutely.
So, I just waited with her.
I walked across the street and I said, "We're gonna get you," and this and that.
She goes, "I'm not with that kid.
" Oh, so she said she's not with him? I said, "You're with him.
You were right side-by-side with him, talking to him, when you threw the package on the ground over there.
" - Who does this belong to? - He doesn't know.
He just picked it up on the nose.
- So, if the address is on there - Do you see it? - Yeah, he saw them snuck it off a-- - See? And then he opened it up.
See how they opened it? And then they threw it 'cause they couldn't She was gonna put it probably in her bag.
How 'bout the stuff inside her bag? She probably got some stuff in there.
Yeah, they'll go through that all.
They'll process her all at the station, okay? And there's the-- You can see his fingerprints right there, so - All right, man.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
Have a good night, sir.
- All right, James.
Listen, man.
- Yeah? You gotta be honest with me, okay? - Your girl's got a warrant - I know she does.
Okay, but she's gonna end up getting another charge unless you're honest with me and tell me what happened.
The whole backpack story is just not making sense to us, so now is your chance to talk to me and tell me what's going on.
As of now, we can do it as a summons, - let you go home tonight and go to court.
Okay? - Okay.
But if you don't tell me what happened, your girl's gonna get charged with it as well.
So, I'm trying to figure out the story so I can You know what I mean? - Yeah, I took it.
- Okay.
- She had nothing to do with it.
She had no idea.
- Okay.
- Honestly.
- All right.
- Okay? - So where'd you take it from? - I don't know.
Down - Just give me a close location.
- Near the church I think, okay? - Okay, so near the church.
- I'm off my meds right now for two weeks and I'm - Okay.
And that's why I asked you if I could have' em, 'cause I haven't had 'em in Okay.
We'll give 'em back to you when we're done, okay? - All right.
Thank you.
- All right.
So, he just openly admitted to it.
The female party's gonna be coming in on a warrant, the male party involved is gonna be getting a summons to court for larceny.
132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.