On the ground. Do it now. >> Hey, go high and go low. Go low. >> CUZ I AIN'T GOT TIME FOR YOU. YOU KNOW I GOT A BAD GET UP. >> ON JUNE 22ND, 2023, officers stopped a Honda Accord speeding in the rain. What began as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated when the driver, Leon McCray, started acting nervous and ignoring commands. Moments later, the situation spiraled out of control. >> How y'all doing? >> All right. How you doing? >> Good. You got all the windows down? Thank you. You know why I'm stopping you? >> No. You realize when I uh >> Uh one, you're speeding on I 35, and two, you don't got your headlights on. It's raining outside. >> It ain't raining hard. >> It was raining back there where we were. Yeah, you got your lights on? >> Huh? >> Oh my goodness. Is that McCray? >> Yes, sir. >> Wow. Haven't seen you in a while. >> Going fishing. >> You're what? >> Going fishing. >> Going fishing. Where's your fishing pole? >> In the trunk. >> Got you. >> You want to You want to see it? >> Huh? No, I'm good. You guys got your IDs on you? >> Yes, sir. >> May I May I see them? >> I don't got mine. >> You don't got yours? Thank you. Feel free, man. Go ahead and hang that rolling tray. Thank you. Uh man, you don't got no weapons on you, right? No guns, nothing like that? Just keep your hands on the steering wheel, man. Thank you. Just go ahead and put your hands on the steering wheel. I'm going to take your seatbelt off for >> I'm grown. >> Don't call your mom, McCray. Come on, dude. You've been doing this many too many times to call your mom, dude. >> I'm grown. What's going on? >> You're being detained for a drug investigation. >> Drug investigation? >> Yes. >> McCree, you sweating a lot, bro? You weren't sweating when we started. >> It's hot. >> Ain't that hot. I'm wearing all this stuff. I ain't sweating. Oh, stop that nonsense. [ __ ] It hot as >> I'm not a lady. >> McCree, stop moving around in the car. Put your hands on the dash. Put your hands on the dash. Stop reaching. McCree, stop reaching now. Stop reaching. Stop it, McCree. Put your hands on the dash. Do it now. McCree, put your hands on the dash. DO IT NOW. >> NOTHING IN THERE. >> YES, YOU ARE. Put your hands on the dash and do it now. McCree, hands on the dash now. Hands on the dash. McCree, get your hand out your pocket. Stop it. You're acting a fool. No, he's pulling this stuff. He haven't changed one bit, bro. Stop reaching. Hands on the dash, McCree. McCree, HANDS OUT YOUR POCKET NOW. >> HAVE NOTHING. >> Put your hands on the dash. >> Will you please come up here? Man, they assuming they going to get a [ __ ] lawsuit, BRO. >> I GOT A CAR. >> Stay in the car until I tell you to get out. >> Man, I'm trying to get out, bro. I [ __ ] going to pass out. It's hot. >> It's hot. >> All right. >> What's his name? >> Just comply. >> McCree. >> Yeah. >> Put your hands on the dash and then >> It's hot, bro. >> I understand that. >> He told me to reach for the cell phone. I'm not reaching for nothing. I don't have nothing in my pocket. >> Just come over here. I'm going to keep going to call for one. >> I'm trying to get on out, man. Just comply first, all right? >> Damn. >> It's straight up. >> Go grab him. I got to say at least he >> Yeah, bro. That ain't a 40. >> It's straight up, he's bro. >> You shouldn't have done what you done. You shouldn't have done what you done. >> Grab his arm. >> I can't breathe. >> Okay, okay, okay. Can I pull MY PANTS UP? >> STOP. STOP. Let's go. McCree, on the ground. Do it now. >> Hey, go high and go low. Go low. >> Someone go low. >> Go low. Go low. Go low. Go low. >> Cuz I ain't got time for you. YOU KNOW I GOT A BAD BACK. GET UP. >> NO. >> CUZ I SAID SO. >> HOLD UP. HOLD UP. HOLD UP. >> ROLL HIM OVER. >> WE'RE TRYING. >> We're trying. He's holding. He's holding. >> There you go. Just get him off his back. To the side. >> You don't have to do all of that. >> Yeah, he always does. He always does. Every time. >> I have nothing, bro. >> Okay. >> All right, then why you acting like this? >> Because I'll be I'll be out of this [ __ ] car sitting with my kids. >> So my hands are going to be on you. You're starting him on the escort. >> You kicking ME FOR? >> KICKING? I AIN'T KICKING YOU. >> YOU KICKING ME FOR, BRO? >> I tell you get up. >> Bro, WHAT YOU TALKING ME FOR? >> YOU STOP. >> MAN. >> WHY DON'T YOU JUST LISTEN? >> What you TALKING ME FOR, BRO? >> JUST LISTEN, BRO. Never change. Haven't seen you in 3 years. You haven't changed one bit. >> Get out of my face, bro. Man, move, man. >> You're doing too much. You want me to help you get in the car or you just going to throw a tantrum the whole time? >> You kicking me in the car for? >> Sir, you're going to get up on your own. Cuz you're going to have to go in the patrol car or you're going to make it harder. >> For what? >> So, we would like you to stand up on your >> going to jail for? >> We're just going to split you, man. >> For what? >> For this, clearly. >> For what? >> This car All right. So, are you going to stand up on your own? >> What is that? Beat me UP, BRO. YOU GOT to get up. You want to get up like a big man? >> HE KEEPS KICKING ME. >> I JUST SO YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU JUST DID WAS A FELONY. >> THEY KEEP KICKING ME, KICKING ME IN MY BACK. BRO, THEY KEEP KICKING ME, THEY KICKING ME THE WHOLE TIME, BRO. >> YOU NOW HAVE BATTERY ON A LEO. TURN AROUND. Numerous battery on a Leo. >> Now I got BATTERY NOW I GOT BATTERY ON A LEO. NOW I GOT BATTERY ON A LEO, BRO. >> Can you Can you bring it closer, cuz Can you bring IT CLOSER, CUZ >> WHAT IS THAT? IS THAT KICKING ME IN MY [ __ ] BRO? Y'ALL TRIPPING, BRO. MAN, Y'ALL JUST kicking me the [ __ ] OUT HERE, BRO. AND MY PHONE BROKE, BRO. Y'ALL MEAN, MAN. I'M ACTUALLY letting you rest on me, bro. >> These guys are on the car. >> I don't have a >> These guys are on the car, or had a car. >> Thank you. >> I don't want to do May contact with The hard way. >> I don't know about >> He's still on the car. So, get up. >> Come on, Dre. I've been sitting here this buddy. >> So, you know you're under arrest? >> Yeah, he under arrest, but y'all >> And you're going to be charged, you're going to be charged with escape if you don't listen. >> I'm going to be charged with escape. I'm not I'm not escaping. >> You're escaping by not allowing us, okay? So, you need to stand up on your own. >> Bro, why y'all holding my neck like that, man? >> want to add more charges, man? Just get in the car. >> How I'm going to add MORE CHARGES, BRO? >> STAND UP. >> STAND UP. MAN, LET ME GO. >> STOP RESISTING. >> MAN, CALL THE COPS, BRO. >> SIR, you're resisting arrest right now. >> not resisting. >> You need to stand up. >> I'm not resisting, bro. >> You need to stand up. >> Cuz I ain't doing no resisting. >> Stand up. >> Okay, but just stand up. >> Man, look how this man was he jerking me off. >> Stand up. on your own, all right? >> Trying to save you. >> Sir, you need to stand up. >> STAND UP. >> DO Y'ALL REALIZE HE DAMN NEAR 500 LB AND y'all doing all that trying to pull him up? >> He's not listening. Stand up. Sir, you need to stand up on your own. Why are you Why are you asking him to stand up? >> BABE, STAND UP. BABE, STAND UP. OKAY, BUT LET HIM STAND UP. I'M HIS MAMA. HE'LL GET UP FOR Y'ALL. WHY YOU GOT YOUR HAND ON HIM? BUT WHY DO HE GOT HIS HAND ON YOU? YOU FEELING FUNNY. THIS THIS WHAT THIS what they do to us kind. This what they do to us kind. You laugh. >> I'm not laughing. >> Okay, I'm going to be the same color. WE THE SAME COLOR. WHY YOU LETTING this be like Rodney King? >> HE'S GOING TO GET MORE CHARGES. >> YEAH, BUT I'M TELLING I'm his mama. I can't get him up. >> OKAY. >> BUT LET HIM GET UP. Y'ALL DON'T GOT TO DO THAT. LET ME GET HIM UP. OKAY, BUT THEY WERE NOT WATCHING THEM RINGING his wrist. >> That's the way we arrest. >> No, that ain't the way. Babe, stand up. BABE, STAND UP. BABE. BABE, GET UP. >> HE'S JUST GETTING MORE charges if he don't get up. So, she's trying to tell him to get up. >> BABE, GET UP. >> You need to stand up on your >> Yeah, yeah, okay. Stand up. Kick your foot towards you, like this. Cross your leg, and then roll onto your knee. >> Up. >> Your mama trying to get you. Come on, man. There you go. You can go to the onto the knee. There you go, man. >> There we go. >> That's don't know to know. PULL YOUR HANDS UP, BOY. OKAY, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND. >> WHY YOU GOT YOUR HANDS ON ME for resisting, man? >> Thank you, sir. >> Roll up onto your legs, okay? We're going to help you up. >> Bro, why don't YOU FORCE ME? STOP, BRO. THAT'S CRAZY. >> BABE, WILL YOU STAND UP ON YOUR LEGS? >> Get up to your legs. >> Let's go to the car. >> God damn it, I'll come over and get your ass. I'm sick OF THIS, MAN. >> GET UP TO YOUR LEGS. LET'S GO TO THE CAR. GET UP TO YOUR LEGS. >> GET UP, GET UP, GET UP. >> There you go. There we go. >> Listen, make a statement. Put your shoes on. You can go. God damn it, no more people [ __ ] with me, [ __ ] with me. >> Y'all forcing me to the car, bro. Y'all forcing me to THE CAR, BRO. >> BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING to >> Is this his? Hey, this is Huh? >> Have we gone through it? >> I don't think it's been gone through, Mamoun, and Kayla. >> Stop. >> You laughed at that. >> THEY THEY [ __ ] MY [ __ ] WRIST, BRO. >> OKAY, BUT THEY THE LADY said they just slapped HIM. WHY YOU DOING ALL THIS? >> Calm him down if I GET YOU TO >> YEAH, BUT >> COME OVER HERE, COME OVER HERE. Talk to me. >> Babe, will you >> Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on. >> Babe, will you >> Stop. >> Babe, will you please >> Listen to your mom. >> Please. Babe, will you please >> Stop. >> They They They got me up, BOY. PLEASE, WON'T YOU LET ME Y'ALL LET ME WALK TO THE CAR. GET IN THE CAR, MAN. Get in the car. >> We're trying to >> Because they forcing me to stand and twisting my hands, bro. >> Okay, you They ain't going to let you go. THEY AIN'T GOING TO LET YOU GO. THEY AIN'T GOING THEY AIN'T GOING TO LET YOU GO. THEY AIN'T GOING TO LET YOU GO. YOU GOING TO WALK to the car by yourself. >> Man, once I get IN THE CAR, BRO, THEY AIN'T GOING to worry about me no more, bro. >> Babe, will you come on, baby? Cuz you Babe, will you know You know I got heart problems. Don't do this. Don't do this. Go get in the car. >> Once I get in the car, bro, >> Come on, they not going to Go get in the car. >> They twisting my [ __ ] wrist, bro. They know I called an ambulance on them. >> Get in the car. >> They want to call me roughing them up. Bro, why you searching me, bro? >> Sir, you got to be checked before you get in the car. Stop. Don't hit your head on the window on purpose again. >> You making it You making everything a longer process. Bro, why did you Why did you Why did you force me to the car? >> Turn around. >> Bro, FORCE ME TO THE IT. FINISH SEARCHING ME, BRO. >> MCCREE, turn around. >> Oh my god, why are you pushing me to the car, bro? >> McCree, this is why you need to be searched. >> Where that come from? That come off him? >> Yes, pot, yeah. >> Oh, you can get that little [ __ ] I smoke that because you ain't got to eat that in jail for. I'll smoke that little [ __ ] >> You said you'll smoke it? >> Yeah, hell yeah, that little [ __ ] right there. Ain't nothing to get in jail about. I'll get in jail for. >> Yeah, right. >> I'll smoke that little [ __ ] That little [ __ ] right there. Ain't nothing to get in jail about. >> We're living an interesting day and age. >> Huh? >> Nothing. >> That ain't [ __ ] That little shakes. What a boy. Damn it. >> Hey, he's going to make all the laundry smell like weed now, though, too. >> The laundry? >> Yeah, yeah, he's got a bunch of shake in his pocket. So, when you go to do the wash, hopefully you wash his clothes. Hopefully. That's why I smell it. >> Okay, baby, sit your ass away. Get on in there and be doing this [ __ ] I got to go home. Sit down. Slide all the way back. Slide all the way back. You in the big truck. There ain't no Ain't no use for that [ __ ] Get on in there. Slide on back. Slide on back. Go back. Go back some more. Y'all got the air on in there, baby? >> What's that? >> The air on in there? >> Yes. >> Okay, slide on back and turn yourself around. You in a [ __ ] big old truck, y'all. Come on. Come on. Okay, it's okay. Get in there. They said they said they checked you. Tell the people to jam. Go all the way back. Turn your legs a little bit so they can close the door. Come on, let them close the door. Okay, stop all that now. Okay. Thanks, Mom. So, what did he weed now? Did he have weed? Resisting and I think he he had a gun on him. He had a gun? I don't know what they told me. He didn't have a gun. I didn't know that. They just searched him. All right, K. It's out of my hands. I can't do anything about it. Well, we appreciate you calming down. No, you're good. Leon McCray was arrested and charged with escape, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, battery on an officer, resisting arrest, and possession of cannabis under 20 g. His passengers cooperated and were released without charges.