Stop.
Get that right there. Climb that.
>> A traffic stop turns into a full-blown
chase through McDonald's and a
schoolyard. No drugs, no violence, just
one man terrified of going back to jail.
Was it fear or guilt that made him run?
>> All right, he's still on the way up
right here.
>> HEY
05. HE'S RUNNING. HE'S RUNNING.
MCDONALD'S.
Black male,
white pants,
no shirt.
All right, we're going northbound
right off of uh walking.
Nice. Still north. Coming through the
school now. Cutting through the back of
the school.
I got him here.
Uh funeral home.
Come on out right now.
>> DOWN. DOWN ON THE GROUND.
All right. Still running.
Stop.
Get that right there. Climb that fence.
Right there. Climb that fence. Stop now.
Flip over.
>> Flip over. Now turn to your stomach.
You're going to get tased. Turn to your
stomach now. Turn to your stomach. Put
your hands on top of your head.
Put them ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD NOW.
>> YOU'RE GOING TO get tased again.
>> Don't freaking move.
>> I can't breathe.
>> You're fine.
>> Don't do that. Thank you.
Just cuff me. I can't breathe. Okay.
Okay.
>> Coming here. Go back to the vehicle.
>> Do not do something.
>> Don'ting reach, dude.
>> I reach. I'm not [ __ ] angle.
>> Yeah. Don't reach.
>> I can't reach.
>> Okay, we'll get you up in a second.
>> Okay. Please.
>> Can I vehicle?
>> Yeah, we got an apprehension. So, go
back to the vehicle.
I can't breathe.
>> All right, sit up.
>> Help me up, please.
>> Sit up. Flip over.
>> I'm trying to help me up, please.
>> Yeah, you got to flip over, man.
>> All right.
>> You got anything on you that's going to
poke, stick, or stab you?
>> All right. Face the car. Spread your
feet.
>> Spread your feet.
>> How much time?
Yep. Well, you'll still get to come
check you out here shortly, man.
[clears throat]
>> Okay, boy.
>> Yeah, cuz you just ran, man. Catch your
breath.
>> All right, have a seat. Hang tight.
You're fine. You good though?
>> Which way? This way or the fence?
>> Ran through here. He uh weren't a good
call out. Okay. He said funeral
homestead
was right here and I see this dude. He
hopped over this fence and went over.
Yeah. So he came off of Hawkins.
>> Yeah. So he was coming through here. He
was trying to run around in circles in
here with
>> Okay. Okay.
>> I got him.
Don't put anything in there.
>> We'll check up a This dude's supposed to
be a pound.
>> I think I think I got a probation
violation.
>> You think you what, man?
>> Got a probation violation
>> for what?
>> It happened about 6 years ago. You ran
for that?
>> Huh?
>> Child support.
>> The tags are what?
>> It's child support.
>> Oh, child support. Yeah. I I
>> That wasn't smart cuz I don't
>> You got a warrant. Was that for child
support or let's see?
>> I think I think they suspended the
probation. I don't know.
>> Has a sword knife scissors. He's feeling
very violent.
>> I don't even know. I ran, man. This
crazy.
>> Well, I'm in route.
>> Yeah, dude. You suspended so you're not
even supposed to be driving. You do got
the warrant. That's why you ran, man. I
see it.
>> That was stupid, man. I don't know.
>> For freaking child support, dude.
>> This helper, man. I'm scared of
>> so petty.
>> I'm scared of Madina, man.
>> Dying for what? What are you talking?
>> I said I'm scared of Madina, man. I did
some time up there, man. It was
horrifying.
>> Well, you're not in Madina,
>> man.
room.
>> No, but they'll transfer me again.
[snorts]
>> All right. One sec.
>> We're all good. All good.
>> Hi, sir. Sergeant Castow. Uh, the act
police department. What's your name?
>> Huh?
>> What's your name?
>> Well, listen. All All I'm out here is to
investigate my officer's use of force.
It's my understanding that a taser was
deployed. Did that taser make a
connection on your skin? Where did it
make a connection at? Do you know?
>> Are you able to lean up so I can see the
puncture mark? Is that okay?
>> Is Oh, okay. Did Do you know how many
probes hit your back?
>> Say it again.
>> Three.
>> Okay. Let me uh Can you lean like Yeah,
there you go, man. Perfect.
>> Right. How many? I see one right here.
Do you anywhere else? Is it lower?
>> Is there any lower?
>> Right in the same area is lower.
>> Okay.
>> All right. That's that's the only mark
that I see on you. Um and then I see
that they bandaged up your You can go
ahead. You can go ahead and relax. I see
that they bandage up your left hand
right there. How did that happen?
>> From from the fence.
>> From the fence.
>> Okay. Um do you know when it happened?
Like was it when you were climbing over
it?
>> No, I was climbing over it.
>> Okay. Any other injuries that you have
on you that I need to know about?
>> No.
>> No. Okay. Um, can you kind of just give
me a a rundown of the encounter with the
officers just specifically with the
tasing and anything that happened after
that?
>> Okay.
>> The officer pulled me over.
>> Pulled you over? Yep.
>> I just panicked cuz I thought I had a
child support warrant out of my dying
colony.
>> Okay.
>> And
And the last time I was there for child
deport
>> and then you were what now?
>> Last time I was there for child deport.
>> Okay. So you thought you had a child
support warrant?
>> It was torture up there.
>> And then what happened?
>> And then I just didn't park and then
jumped out.
>> Jumped out. Okay. Um and then
>> I ran proceed around these buildings
back this way.
>> When did the officer tase you or when do
you remember?
>> Right behind that tent
>> on the other side of the fence over here
>> on the white inside that little yard
over there. Okay. Um, anything happened
after the tasing?
>> No.
>> Stop.
>> You stopped and gave up. Okay. And then
nothing else happened after that?
>> Okay. Is there anything else that you
want to tell me? Like I said, I'm I'm
specifically here to investigate these
officer.
>> The only reason why I ran cuz I did time
in the diner for child support and he
was tortured. I was in the dorm with all
all car cases and they tortured me.
>> Gotcha. That's fine. All right.
>> Nothing else.
>> Nothing else. No drugs, no nothing.
>> No, I mean nothing else that you want
to.
>> All right, man. Very good. We'll uh
we'll get you on your way here soon.
Okay. All right. Good luck to you.
>> Where are we going?
>> Uh you're going to go to the uh you're
going to go to the hospital
cuz they got to check you out real
quick. So then the jail will take you.
I said you got to go to the hospital.
So, the jail will uh check you out, but
uh another officer is going to transport
you. So, I'm coming over here to meet
him.
>> So, I got to go to the county.
>> Go ahead.
>> Yeah, you're going to go to the county.
Yeah. I I don't I don't know all the
charges. You're going to have to talk to
other officer and ask him. So, I don't
want to say any of that, but yeah,
you're going to go to county.
>> When did he pull me?
>> What's up, dude? I
>> I don't know where he pulled me over for
>> I don't know, dude. You're have to ask
him. I I just came to help him out, man.
I didn't
>> I read a Miranda.
>> All right.
What's going on today?
>> Hey, I apologize to you, man. Only
reason why I ran is because I thought
has child support
and they last time I was there for child
support, they tortured me. Literally, I
was in a I was in a dorm with all all
Caucasians and I mean nothing against
Caucasians, but I just I got a child of
Madonna, you know what I mean? And I
don't even go there for nothing. This is
a pro. This is the issue I have with
that, man.
>> To be straight up with you, people don't
run for that kind of stuff.
>> Oh, man. I do. My old ass. I don't want
to get I don't that kind of stuff.
>> But that's the only thing I I thought
maybe I should have is What else is on?
>> You got a bunch of warrants,
>> huh?
>> You got a bunch. Did you eat something?
>> No.
>> Did you swallow any dope?
>> No. No. Die,
>> huh?
>> I ain't trying to die. Where you get
throwing up at the mouth, my man?
>> That was cuz I was dancing for BRS. I
got tasered, man. I don't sell dope. I
don't eat dope. I don't do nothing.
>> I don't do nothing, sir.
>> So, uh, you were your phone. Those are
your phones in there?
>> Yeah.
>> You mind if we if we go through them?
>> We go through them and then if there's
no dope, nothing on there, then we'll
we'll get you out of handcuffs today.
>> Ain't no dope in there. You you want to
open it up and we'll go through them and
make sure
>> all three phones are yours.
>> Three phones?
>> I don't know about some of them don't
work.
>> Yeah.
>> Phone don't work.
>> The phone don't work.
>> My um my brother had one and one of my
grandbaby play with one of them. I work
in power.
>> Why? I mean, why is it
>> looks like uh people people that have
this going on
>> tend to tend to do some do something
they ain't supposed to. And through all
my years of experience on days, man,
it's not like I just got out of the
academy yesterday. Uh people don't run
for minor warrants around here.
>> Minor warrant. How many warrants I got?
>> Uh you got a few, but people don't run
people that are from they run they run
for uh
>> You got You got a lot more than just
child support.
>> What is it? Uh, I believe some RSP
stuff. Did you receive some stolen
property?
>> Years ago.
>> Usually for all my years, people don't
run unless they got something they're
running for.
>> What am I running for? What you running
for?
>> What are you doing running out your car,
man?
>> Man, what what's the other ones?
>> I just told you.
>> Just just receiving stolen property.
>> Most likely I didn't run you all. That's
all coming from everybody else. Just
receiving stolen property. Well, the
felony failure to comply, proceed in
stolen property, he's got a protection
over.
>> So, you run all the time. Failure to
comply.
>> I ain't got no potential violation.
>> I am non support. Four warrants.
>> You got four warrants. One's failure to
comply. So, that means you let officers
on a chase before, too.
>> No, I do.
>> They just
>> Oh, yeah. 2020.
>> Yeah. The pandemic.
>> You run on foot. You run.
>> He was in a stolen car this way.
>> Gotcha. All
right, put your foot up in there. Hey,
>> I need my phone though to get my my
numbers up.
>> All those all those phones in there
since it's not your car. They're staying
with the car until the
>> In the end, the law caught up with him,
resisting arrest, obstruction, and old
warrants. And his past finally wrote him
down. You can outrun a patrol car, maybe
even fate for a mile or two, but the
truth, the law always catches up. And so
does the man you've been running from
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