[Music] what was meant to be a simple case of returning a child to his Guardians quickly escalated into attempted manslaughter and she D engine and she has them in a car with no car SE please calm down it's okay it's okay what's going on control hold on October 1st 2023 in San Pedro Los Angeles Harbor division uniformed officers received a radio call regarding a child custody dispute at gaffy Street and Capitol Drive in a local store parking lot apparently when the child's foster parent and his friend April Barnes went to pick the boy up from a visit with his mother the mother refused to turn the boy over Miss Barnes reportedly said that the mother wouldn't give him back that she was suicidal and had a gun worried April and her friend called 911 to get help wait wa hold on they comment um I I I I have a mom who's taking a child that I have custody of and I and I need help because she's getting ready to get into a car and drive said you have custody of it like Soul custody I have soul custody yes and she's getting ready to pull off in a vehicle right now she's starting the she's starting the vehicle up right now okay and she's R engine and she has them in a car with no car SE please oh my God uh it's a it's a son is she the mother of the child after receiving details from the guardian officers and a supervisor drove off to meet with a suspect a 39-year-old Woman by the name of Mesa Scott upon finding her they began asking her for the reasons behind her actions calm down it's okay it's okay what's going on don't I'm in no I just didn't want the car please don't call place before you run up on me like that I'm in distress okay's you need another help for that don't do that pleas I'm begging y please don't do that don't do what run up on me look at me I'm standing here with my hands in my pockets all right got I understanding right calm down page I'm I'm calm no you're not okay explain me what's going on I'm calm I'm calm okay listen to the officer okay this officer here yes okay you know what okay what's going on you okay so me and my cousin okay here you go right here ma'am talk to me ma'am talk to me it's fine no we all can talk together since we are so what's going on okay so I'm I'm good I'm a mother okay first of all first yes I understand you're a mother okay and that's it and um I'm having a hard time co-parenting with my cousin here of uh of course because he's oh then you bring back up you see it's just me in my couch you know what I'm saying so please don't please don't ma'am ma'am okay Mak we off to talk you know what I'm saying but if y' if y'all want to if y'all want to do this y'all can just you know what I mean listen do I've been able to say about two sentences here okay cuz you haven't been a to explain to me or anything keep inter I already said I'm in distress already and call somebody help me do okay explain to me what that means that means that the police does not have no control over this situation okay I don't know the situation is cu you haven't been a to explain anything to me so why don't you take a deep breath okay and let's start from the from the beginning okay all right cuz I just got here and I just got some information from what someone told the dispatcher I really don't everyone's safe I'm not concerned about anything right now no one's going anywhere all right but I need to know why I why I was brought here unable to comprehend Miss Scot's poor attempted an explanation the officer calmed her down and began to ask her questions regarding the situation instead this is your son correct yes sir okay um and how old is he five five okay now explain to me before anything happened today what's the cussy situation with your son the cussy situation with my son was that my cousin take care of my son and protect him okay by all cause until his mother gets out of jail and able to commit uptain custody herself okay so there is a court order that's staying this no there was a court order is closed okay this is a r okay so tell me what the court order originally said the court order said said for me okay to listen to my cousin okay by all means necessary because you C cousin is this gentem over here right yeah okay okay what miscot failed to recognize though was that this wasn't how children are taken into custody since the foster parents had physical custody while the mother had legal custody she was allowed to make important decisions first son but was not allowed to stay with him if she wanted to change this she had to file papers with a court to ask for an order not simply kidnap the child still no closer to figuring out the circumstances that led to the current situation the officer interrupted her once again to get her back on track however miscot failed to do so as she went off on another tangent we Haven seen no Jud let's stop that because obviously we're talking into two different languages here CU you I understand because I'm up why don't you tell me what happened today oh what happened today um I got up I took a shower I got shower and we headed to the park okay and then to question so is staying with you no the whole time all summer every day every day that he's supposed to be with him I take him to school I fix some clothes I buy his food I I got I got beat up okay you're telling me a bunch of stuff that doesn't really apply but let me I'm just telling you no let me cuz I need to figure this out because I'm upset that's why so keep telling me to calm down you can't keep that's why I said can you call somebody that can negotiate all of our situations so we all leave fair so no one cause no more commotion I'm trying to do that this is a hazard okay I'm going to ask you some questions again okay so where do you live I live at 14 Navy okay is that your own place are you saying with some else um no it's a share living share living what does that mean huh explain to me what that mean roommate that means I don't have enough income to live by myself because my cousin gets my income so you don't live with your cousin you okay does liberty yeah okay back and forth back and forth join cussy so you have join cussy with with how does that work is there certain days that you're supposed to have and he's supposed to have it yeah we agreed with him he he made up everything like I'm just saying yes yes yes yes because he did me a favor let's let's get an understanding that's why I'm trying to get this so y don't pick sides this is this documented yeah everything is documented that's why I wanted to have a positive conversation you have a copy of that document listen I have a a copy of certain documents I don't have all the documents in the world to prove what I'm saying is right he don't have no documents to saying that he's right all I did was take the document that the police um asked me for okay okay so let's let's Lo let's let's let's let's avoid that again we we're talking two different languages and I think game over that okay so game that's what I'm trying to understand you no one it just seems like you don't understand what I'm talking about he don't understand what I'm talking about that's that's why I said don't run up on me like that to call somebody that can deal with the situation if you don't know nobody like that we don't I don't even I I don't even know who lives in San Pedro that's why we came to San Pedra okay you're talking about a bunch of stuff that's applied you keep going off on things okay so was you with you today okay at what point did you first interact with your cousin today that caused this whole commotion happen this morning at 6:45 okay what was that about him picking my son up early okay so he came to your house to where you live and picked up your son earlier than he supposed to when is he supposed to pick him up at 9:30 p.m. from 14 native so at 930 p.m. he's supposed to 9:45 9:45 p.m. tonight today right now which what time is it it's like uh 8:45 okay so but he came over at 6:00 in the morning all right and then what happened then did he take your sign or no because that's why I'm trying to get to that's what I'm trying to get this understanding so y'all don't just RAM and kill me or hurt me you know what I mean going off anybody sorry I I've been hurt enough I just got ambushed in my house on Monday while my son was there get the point where I'm not going to listen to you anymore I'm just going to listen to everything he says because you're you already did that you just I hav't I already my point so that's what you're going to do we got to go to see a judge no you have not explained anything I don't have nothing else to say I got the right to remain silent if I'm then do that okay I'll be right back no I just wait there okay thank fed up with making no progress the officer went over to asking his colleague who was gathering information from the child's Guardian what's going on they don't everybody knows their right and they don't give I about my she does have to him but they've been letting her see her son because said she's been doing better so they gave her permission to see him but today when they called to for her to return the child um she has been kind of evading them so they had to come here and track her down and she's just refusing to get the child all they want I should have called kidnapping on him okay oh weid so they're saying that dcsf decided who supposed to there's no order Sergeant that's on me because they don't have an actual like they don't paper want me to just contact DCFS to see if there's an open case on it already just to verify after learning that Miss scottt took the child without permission and refused to give him back the officers began planning a course of action after deciding to have their Department take the child into custody they returned to miss Scott to inform her of this fortunately she didn't make matters easy this is what we're going to do we're going to take custody of your son yeah we're going to go back to the station yeah and all of us going to and wait no your son's going to come with us yeah okay and then we'll have to figure out we have to have dcsf come out create a whole new case start over again that's what I'm saying okay there's no agre thank you well no no thank you okay or we can gra I'm just playing I'm just playing you we're not playing games you want your step baby can he get his stuff please okay you want him to go with him no well give me his stuff I'm just playing where else he going to go we're not playing ma'a we're not playing games okay we'll get his stuff let's let get his stuff like look that that's this is very dis what's his stuff he knows his stuff he don't have nothing this man Stars my child you know what if you don't give me his stuff you can keep it no well how am I going to keep it what is that doing for my child well you're not doing anything for your child I'm just asking you Maisha I'm I'm stressed out I'm having a hard time explain explain to her what uh Department of Child Family Services okay okay don't walk away ma'am got I'm trying to smoke okay yeah I'm telling you an officer began explaining to mcot what the Department of Children and Family Services told him during this interaction the woman continued to interrupt him making it more difficult for the police to cooperate as a result the officer shifted plans to secretly let the original Guardians take the child home I spoke to the supervisor down at the Cs and they informed me that on 201 there 2019 no this illegally we see this is how I know this NE since 2017 yeah so now what's the next one okay last okay it was who I'm just excited that's it yeah yeah based on the information that Department Child Services it's okay all right damn like what why are y'all doing this to me we're not we're just y yall did look where where's his backpack he told my son that he not safe look how he holding my son where's his backpack I'm your anger I love you son don't fight relax y have a good night you too now with the child returning to his uncle and miscot driving away the altercation seemed to be over with however while the mother was driving away she made a decision that would be far worse than a simple case of wrongful custody 3189 the inci number 3189 3 oh hey hey [Applause] hey 51 off help shots fired the target parter where are you get in the car get in the car out of nowhere with no thought to the consequences you would face Miss got Ram straight into her son's Foster mother with her vehicle and then fled the scene of the crime there's no doubt that such a Savage Act of brutality immediately warranted multiple charges such as assault or battery which can result in up to 6 months in a county jail and a fine of up to $1,000 attempted first-degree murder which is premeditated and willful can be punished by life in state prison hit and run which as a misdemeanor can carry a possible sentence of up to 6 months in county jail as well as a fine of up to $1,000 clearly there was no longer a question of whether or not miss Scott was allowed to have custody of her son since the only thing on the officer's Minds was her immediate capture and arrest the Cur hey guys coming back at the officers coming back to gy off I believe there a shepher here she's going to go over the there TC the park here guys hold the frey control hold the fre [Music] just pull her out and flip her over got it got it let me know when approach come come on your stomach on your stomach on your stomach hold up hold up hold up hold up hold up after the incident police later confirmed that miscot suffered minor injuries due to crashing into a tree not because of the shots that were fired at her as she was racing out of the parking lot meanwhile the Foster mother April Barnes who was hit by the car was fortunately treated and released at the scene the Los Angeles Fire Department Personnel also responded to the termination of the pursuit and transported mcot by ambulance to a local hospital where she was treated for injuries that she sustained during the Collision she was later cleared for booking by medical staff upon her release miscot was unsurprisingly arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and felony evading along with her vehicle being impounded as evidence after witnessing the events that unfolded the child's foster parent began trying to relocate him to family members outside of the state in an attempt to provide him with a safer environment