Good morning. Hi. Good morning. Come on. Okay. I don't know if you know why we're here. Okay. So, you know that there's an arrangement as to where you can drop off your daughter. Correct. Yeah. Okay. Where have you been? Where have you been dropping her off as agreed? No, you've been dropping her off in the front. So, you have violated This was how I did it when she was at her previous her previous school. This is how I'd worked. You're not in the previous school. You're in the school in Here we go. Check the front. Would you check the front? I'm just making something on the other side. kind of see a lot. So, I'm going to call this forward. Go to you. Please Mr. Opus, this is Columbia Police Department. We're outside your door. Can we speak to you, please? Thank you. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. Come on. Okay. I don't know if you know why we're here. Okay. So, you know that there's an arrangement as to where you can drop off your daughter, correct? Yeah. Okay. Where have you been? Where have you been dropping her off as agreed? No, you've been dropping her off in the front. So, you have violated. This was how I did it when she was at her previous her previous school. This is how I worked. But you're not in the previous school. You're in a new school and you had an arrangement and you have failed. I hadn't actually spoken with anybody. That's doesn't matter. You have an arrangement as to where you're supposed to drop her off and you haven't been doing that. So, I'm going to need you to turn around. Put your hands behind your back. My keys are arrested. Um, do you need Do you need keys? Do you need keys? Where are they? They're right right over here. Here's the police aren't with you. We're going to handcuff you for our safety and yours. We'll walk in, get your keys for you. We don't want you to be locked out. Is that okay? We can't let you go back in there because of knives and weapons and things that we don't know what's inside. Okay. But this is this is a misunderstanding. We have we have so when we have when we have an individual who is under under um sanctions like you are okay the school has tried to communicate with you several times our officers our officers called you twice I haven't heard a single parent from the school okay I'm not trying to I understand we're not heard I think I think I understand I understand we're going to work on you know trying to make arrangements maybe her mom can get her something like that I I haven't when does the school tried to contact me? They haven't Our officers have two times this week. Nobody left a message or this is this is a big misunderstanding and and I think I hope you understand this isn't our we're we're responding calls. Yeah, we just got all we have is the facts in front of us and the facts in front of us indicate that you're not supposed to be at a school for a meeting for your daughter. So if you if you had done something at your other school That's this was that this just was also discussed at the district level. Um like I said, I mean all all I know is that this was a misunderstanding. I'm uh I'm happy to comply with and I have been You want us to get your keys? Yeah. Okay. They're ready in the door. They're hanging. We're going to go with you. So, we have everything on body camera right now. They're right here on the lanyard. All right. I'm going to sneak past this. I'm going have you go right here. This lanyard, sir. Yeah. All right. I'm grabbing for you. Okay. So, you know, you've been you you're supposed to drop her off at KFax. Sir, I'm going to open your door. Dang. Okay. No, they never I have I They've been in the school the school. The last time I heard from the school was about um her enrollment documents. Okay. We'll talk in a minute. So, you got anything on you or walk your step? I didn't. And honestly, none of this was discussed with me. Okay. [Applause] So, when we get back to the station, we have to call our state's attorney's office. We'll get your side of the story. We'll make sure we present all the facts and they'll make a decision regarding charging. Okay. All right. I mean, I have nothing to say other than them. They have never contacted me. Other than that, okay, that's obviously you're right. We'll get to the rights when we get back to the station. And depending on what happens, then we will make arrangements. Your daughter needs to take that. Yeah, we'll give you phone calls. This is this is a really big misunderstanding. Why Why does nobody If anybody talk about it in a minute. Let's just get to where we need to get to and then I didn't even want to send her. I was forced to send her. He was homeschooled back in back before first [Applause] grade. Who who said anything? I mean, listen, the fact that the last school didn't say anything doesn't mean that you know, I had a direct I had a direct I had a direct arrangement. I had a direct arrangement to bring her to the front. There's no there's there had I I mean this is the you guys this is literally the first time I've heard anything about this. Okay. Well, they have been trying to contact you and you haven't answered. So, you would have the school the school has been trying to but they've contacted me before about her enrollment. That's an example. You sit right here, sir. We'll put a seat belt on you. Sit right here. We will try our best to do that. This is just This is just a