Because in the in the midst of me placing you under arrest, you said you hate your life and you'd rather be >> I just said it because I don't like the situation I've been put in. >> Well, I mean, because that was said, you're going to have to be seen. >> A homeless man in New Jersey, a knocked over bike rack, a routine arrest that ended with an involuntary trip to a psychiatric facility. Was any of it legal? >> Are you going to be okay with first aid or are you going to cause any issues with them? >> As long as they don't put black people in front of my face. >> Why do Why Why are we always getting calls for you? What's What Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. >> Cuz I don't have no place to sleep. I don't have no place to shower. No place to >> What happened with the bike rack? >> Huh? That's a piece of garbage. >> What's that? >> It's a piece of garbage. It's rusty. It shouldn't even be out. >> The bike rack? >> The bike rack. >> That bike rack over there? >> It's rusty. It should be taken. >> It's not secure like that. Okay, so did you knock that over? >> Yeah, you just want to see how loose that's secure. That's not. >> Come over here. Come over here. Come over here. Come over here, Greg. I'm telling you to stop. Every single day we get calls on you. Every single day. >> I should be on the street. I should be on the >> Okay, well, then you're not our You're not You're not our responsibility to to take care of. >> I'm sick of [ __ ] living on the street. >> Turn around. >> Good. >> Turn around. >> Good. Who do we have to >> This is This is ridiculous. >> I hate my [ __ ] life. Get the [ __ ] out I'd I'd rather be Cuz you want to treat me like you serve and protect. >> treat you anything. We You just keep having calls placed on you today. >> Good. Good. I'd rather live in Put me back in prison where I came from. >> Okay. >> I don't need to have a [ __ ] I can wear I can I step to the corner and a nigger's in my face. >> I'll walk over to the car. >> Grab my stuff. >> I'm going to grab it. SHUT UP. YOU'RE HIGH AS HELL, AIN'T YOU? PLAYING THIS [ __ ] US GOVERNMENT. I got to walk around here and picking up pennies off the [ __ ] street. It's so [ __ ] hideous. >> It's everybody else's fault, again. >> That's right. It is. It is. Who's the [ __ ] [ __ ] who put the [ __ ] gay flag up? >> Yeah, that's the problem, right? Not you. Not you. >> Yeah, it's sleepy Joe Biden's. >> You're the problem. >> No, I'm not. >> No, give me that. Ready? All right, inside. >> On the 30th of June, 2025, New Jersey officers responded to a disorderly conduct call involving a homeless man named Greg, who had knocked over a public bike rack. Greg was arrested, charged, and ultimately transported for psychiatric evaluation. Three distinct legal questions arise from this footage. First, does the bike rack incident satisfy New Jersey's disorderly conduct statute? Second, does it support a criminal mischief charge? Third, did officers meet the legal threshold to order involuntary psychiatric transport? On the disorderly conduct charge, New Jersey statute section 2C:33-2 requires either fighting or threatening behavior or creating a hazardous condition through an act serving no legitimate purpose. Greg admitted to knocking over the rack. That admission establishes the act. However, his stated reason that the rack appeared poorly secured and rusty introduces a legitimate purpose defense that a court would need to resolve. The statute's language is critical here. The New Jersey Supreme Court has held that disorderly conduct requires more than conduct that is merely annoying or inconvenient. In State versus Stamp, the court emphasized that the hazardous condition prong demands an objective risk of harm, not simply a nuisance. Whether a rusty, unsecured bike rack falling over constitutes an objective hazard created by Greg rather than pre-existing is a factual question a trier of fact must resolve. On the criminal mischief charge, New Jersey statute section 2C:17-3 requires purposely or knowingly damaging property of another. Intent is established by Greg's admission, but damage is not. Greg characterized the rack as already deteriorated. If no new damage occurred beyond its pre-existing condition, the damage element fails and the charge would not survive a motion to dismiss. Officers should have photographed the rack and documented observable damage at scene. That evidentiary gap weakens the prosecution's position considerably. >> I'll just put everything in that in that sweater, yes. And just like wrap it up. Watch out for your oriental umbrella. >> Makes me an umbrella. >> 641. Hey, you want to just pick that bike rack up? Can you? >> Oh, is that the one he kicked over? >> No, 41 come 10-3. Can you grab that one? Run out to the bench. >> All right, Greg. Uh the property you came in with uh 58 cents in that clear bag with the papers, your your uh your jail papers you said, your sewing kit, uh your blue sweatshirt, your white t-shirt, your brush, your wallet, two lighters with matches, Vaseline, Chapstick, New Jersey Transit slips. Uh can you just sign right here saying that we're holding on to it while you're in our custody? >> [snorts] >> All right, Greg, you're going to have to take off your shoes. You're going to have to have one layer of socks. Just hold on. And Greg, the hair the hair bands on your ponytail. Got them here. And Greg, um those leg sleeves, just unroll it for me. Just flip it. >> Can I Can I take them off? I don't need If I'm staying there, I don't need them on. >> All right. >> It's only if I'm walking so I don't blow out my leg. >> You just stuff in your shoe. >> I just want to Can I show you something? I have injuries on my feet. >> Okay. >> Okay? That's another reason why I request my own whatever. If I leave and go to Farmers or whatever. >> You're not going anywhere. This is just the sort of the person's offense. >> No, okay. What's a 24-hour hold? >> No, not even. These. No, no. All right, Greg, just stand up. Uh put your hands against that gray wall real quick. I'm going to do another search real quick. All right, Greg, you're going to follow this officer. >> The most legally complex issue in this footage is the involuntary psychiatric transport. New Jersey statute section 30 4-27.6 authorizes law enforcement to transport an individual for evaluation when the officer has reasonable cause to believe the person is in need of involuntary commitment, meaning the person poses a danger to themselves or others. The officer cited two statements made by Greg during the arrest, that he hates his life and that he would rather be back in prison. Greg immediately contextualized both statements as expressions of situational frustration, not suicidal ideation. He said, and this is legally significant, that's a statement because I don't like the situation I've been put in. Courts evaluating involuntary commitment decisions apply the standard established in Addington versus Texas due process requires a meaningful factual basis, not a bare assertion that distress was observed. Greg's coherent, logical engagement with officers throughout the transport discussion, asking procedural questions, negotiating conditions cuts against a finding of acute crisis. That said, officers are not clinicians. New Jersey's crisis intervention training protocols instruct officers to err on the side of caution when any statement suggests self-harm potential. The officers' decision here reflects that training and courts have generally afforded officers reasonable deference in these threshold determinations. When made in good faith. The transport decision is legally defensible even if the clinical necessity is arguable. On Greg's use of highly offensive racial language throughout the encounter, the First Amendment analysis is settled. In City of Houston versus Hill, the Supreme Court held that offensive speech directed at law enforcement officers is constitutionally protected. New Jersey courts have consistently applied this principle. Greg's slurs, however repugnant, do not independently constitute criminal conduct absent a direct, specific threat of harm. >> That [ __ ] >> Hey Greg. Hey you're going to be heading over to the hospital to be evaluated by a screener by crisis, okay? What? >> Why? >> Because in the in the in the midst of me placing you under arrest, you said you hate your life and you'd rather be >> I just said a statement because I don't like the situation I've been put in. >> Well, I mean because that was said, you're going to have to be seen. >> Don't don't tell me right now don't bring me to Jersey Shore. >> Well, it would be Jersey Shore. >> No, I don't want to go to Jersey Shore because I hate that people there. >> Well, that's that's the hospital that would >> Come on it's like a [ __ ] revolving [ __ ] door. >> Are you going to are you going to be all right with first aid? >> Huh? >> Are you going to be all right with first aid taking you over there? >> I don't want to go to Jersey Shore. >> Well, that's where you would be going. >> And then what are they going to do? >> What's that? >> What are they going to do? >> Well, they're going to evaluate you. You're going to talk You're going to talk to the doctor. >> That's like me evaluating you. You don't know what I'm thinking you today. >> Well, they're doctors. >> those are not doctors. It's nonsense. I'm sick of this situation. And then they're going to say you need medicine and they're [ __ ] ejecting my and that's not going to be a result. I'm sick of the nonsense. I'm sick of [ __ ] >> So, are you going to be okay with first aid bringing you over there? >> I don't want to go to the hospital with your costs to me. >> Well, you're going to [clears throat] have to go to the hospital. >> I don't want to put [ __ ] in my face. I don't want a [ __ ] in my face. >> Well, you're going to have to go to the hospital, Greg. >> That's [ __ ] [ __ ] man. You made my [ __ ] life AND TOLD ME THIS [ __ ] THIS stupid [ __ ] world is >> you going to be OKAY WITH >> [ __ ] JERSEY SHORE OUT THERE SMOKING MARIJUANA. That's so [ __ ] [ __ ] >> Marijuana >> illegal anymore in New Jersey. Are you going to be okay with first aid? >> there's cannabis shops out. >> Are you going to be okay with first aid bringing you over there? >> If I say no, what the [ __ ] is What's my options? >> Well, then we'd take you over there. >> Have first aid bring me cuz I'm sick of walking. I don't want to be laying down. >> You're going to be okay with them though? You're not going to give them any >> to provide me transportation back? >> Well, no. >> Oh, then where where are you going to get in then where am I going to go after I get today and I leave with me? >> Well, >> Huh? >> That's something you're going to take up. >> Oh, yes. The rules change. And then you're going to [ __ ] bring me back to [ __ ] This is so [ __ ] stupid. >> So, are you Are you going to be okay with first aid? Are you going to cause any issues with them? >> As long as they don't put black people in front of my face. >> [snorts] >> Because I >> Are you going to be okay with first aid bringing you over there? >> As long as they say yes, I will. Don't put a bunch of >> There's not going to be an issue. >> Huh? >> There's not going to be an issue. >> No, there won't be. No, not at all. >> Okay. >> And but I don't want to ask them to come back here. And don't put me >> [music] [music]