GROUND. >> GET THE GROUND. >> You're going to get shot, dude. YOU'RE GOING TO GET SHOT. >> NO. >> Show me your hands. I saw you throw a gun. >> In Fort Lauderdale, January 20th, 2023, Freddy Mrick bolts from cops, yeets a not a gun toward a kid's birthday party, then tries the classic legal strategy. It was drugs. Spoiler. Officers recover an actual firearm, and he's now staring at serious felony exposure, especially if he's a convicted felon. YEAH. BLACK SHIRT. BLACK SHIRT. PLEASE STOP. HE JUST THREW A GUN. HE JUST THREW A GUN. >> THE officer's call out isn't overreacting. It's risk management. If it looks like a gun, moves like a gun, and gets thrown where kids are, it's treated like a gun because that's how people stay alive. Come on, get on the ground. Get the ground. >> You're going to get shot, dude. You're going to get shot. >> Show me your hands. I saw you throw a gun. >> GET ON THE GROUND. Get on the ground. >> TREVOR get off THE GROUND. GIVE ME YOUR HAND. >> GIVE ME YOUR HAND. He threw a gun somewhere over here. >> My gun. What >> are you doing throwing a gun around these kids? >> Gun over here. We got a big crowd. >> Thank you, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah, man. I appreciate you. >> Same with >> Yeah. Northwest. >> What' you throw, man? >> You're saying it's not a gun, huh? >> Drugs. >> Drugs in a in a black shaped thing. >> Yeah. >> Or in a black color thing. Where that? I threw it when I was on. >> The it's drugs, not a gun line is cute, but legally lying doesn't unthrow the object and it definitely doesn't unscare everyone watching. Also, either item at a kids party is peak bad choices speedrun >> going over that gate. >> Serious. So, you know how stupid that is? You pulled a black object out of your c out of your pants, turned towards a cop, and then threw it while he's chasing. >> Yeah, cuz it was filled up. >> Either way, >> see, look. >> Yeah, it was filled. You kept trying to say it's not a gun to me. It looked like a gun. >> No, it was no gun. >> I just had dope. I'm not going to lie to you. >> You're going to get found with dope. >> I don't give a about dope. >> And now you got to go for everything, dude. Make me chase you through a child's party. Pull my gun out cuz I don't know what the hell you're doing. >> Yeah, but sir, just just charge me for fleeing, sir. >> No, you're getting everything out, dude. >> What I'm getting from >> Can't count that high. Hey, just secure the bikes real quick. We're finding the He's He's saying it was drugs. Something right along this area. >> Hey, you saw You go look. I'll bring him to the car. >> Get up, bro. >> He threw it good. He launched it. I knew saw a gun. >> Godamn. >> Signals are recovered. Great job, sir. Appreciate you. >> All right, man. What's your name? >> Freddy My >> FR A D I E. >> If he's a convicted felon, Floridaly makes possession of a firearm ammunitionful for felons with narrow acceptance like restored rights. I didn't mean it doesn't help much here. >> My m y r i c k. You arrest before? Yeah, I'm out on bond. >> Caught on bond. What were you arrested for? >> Um, a battery and a gun charge. >> Battery and a gun charge. You have any convictions? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Oh, no. Give me a second. >> Hold on. >> Why the would you tell me it's drugs when there's a children's party walking around? Any one of those kids can walk. >> This is the rare police rant. It's 100% public service. A child grabbing a loaded gun turns every adult nearby into a potential tragedy headline. >> Up, picked up the gun, started fighting with it, and guess what? Now I got to choose between shooting a 4-year-old kid and trying to tackle him and losing my life. What the is wrong with you? >> I'm going be honest with you, sir. >> Legitimately, I've only been a cop for 3 years. That is probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen done. >> Yeah, but I I did it cuz you know, they take it out by >> Well, it's it's not legal to be driving it anyway. So, why ride it in the first place when you're out on bond? >> So, why ride now? You're riding it with a stolen gun while you're convicted felon. >> It's not a stolen >> and then and then the police stop you. All we're going to do is take your bike if you don't run. That's all we're doing. But now you ran. Now you got to go. And then instead of And then a million times, like I said, cuz I knew it was aing gun. I I trusted you when I shouldn't have when And you said it was drugs. I said, "Maybe I saw it wrong." But I knew it was a gun. Then you go out and you take the gun out of your pocket while a police officer's chasing you. Like I could have shot you in the back of the head. >> Yes, sir. >> Like why do that? cuz I be cuz you know I sir I'm I really I didn't want to go back you know I just did 10 years >> for what you do 10 years for >> when I was younger me and my brother went and did a robbery >> okay all right you got to give me a minute let him relax for a minute then I'll roll the window down for him >> he runs from us and throws a gun into a children's party like I that can't fly any one of those kids could have walked up and picked up the gun now I got to choose between getting shot by a kid accidentally or shooting a That ain't right. >> I'll take the money for the gun. >> No, it's No, you can have a gun in your house, but you can't you got to have a son that's being responsible and not steal it from you to go ride around and do stupid stuff. >> But he took it from me without you knowing, right? >> Yeah. I don't even knowing because you know I have the guns and you want >> So don't charge the police. >> You got to charge him with the gun. >> He threw a gun into a children's party while he's running from the police. >> That's fair. He didn't. You know, it's not like strangers. Do the children know what a gun is? The little four-year-old. Then when he's running, he's shoving kids out of the way. >> I have my thumbs out. >> What if he's walking right there and somebody else shoves your damn kid? What the hell would you do? You You beat more than I would, >> right? I even got him to >> He didn't steal it is not the win she thinks it is. If a prohibited person accesses a firearm, that's still a legal and safety disaster, especially when it ends up airborne at a birthday party. admit from what he did, he turned him off, cop was chasing him, pulled the gun out, looked back, holding a gun, and then threw it. How many times on my camera of him doing the gun like that would people get mad if I shot him? There might be people mad, but then they see the video and be like, he pulled a gun on the cops and threw it. So, in the end, you're walking away with your son that didn't that didn't get shot when he pulled a gun on the cops. >> I know it's tight. Give me a second. >> Hey, sir. Sir. >> Huh? >> Is any way cuz my I can't >> Bro turned a simple foot chase into a children's party hostage to his bad decisions and then tried to fix it with it was drugs. That's not a defense. That's a confession with extra steps.