Out of the [ __ ] car, dude. Sorry, don't you understand? What's up? Sir, don't you understand? >> Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! >> Put your hands behind your back. >> This escalated really quickly. We're going to watch the approach of this car, this citizen driving through his neighborhood, going to work. It's still dark outside. Both of these guys are on their way to work. The police officer hasn't even gone to roll call yet. And he passes a truck in the night. He says the truck swerved at him. I think Well, let's watch the video first and then I'll tell you what I think happened. So, the two cars pass on a narrow road and watch [music] as they pass, Officer Hernandez says that the white truck swerved at him and almost hit him. Do you see that? Cuz I don't see that. They pass in the night, the early morning before sunup, and the truck comes by him. What I think happened, you can see cars parked on either side. There's a truck parked on the citizen's side, on Mr. Miller's side, and so he comes into the middle of the road to go around that truck. But that's as close as he comes to hitting this cop. He wasn't swerving to hit this cop, and it just pissed Officer Hernandez off. That's why this guy gets stopped and ultimately beat to the ground. Was it justified? Or is Officer Hernandez just a bully? I will say that Mr. Miller didn't pull over immediately, but he didn't run. He wasn't using evasive moves or maneuvers in the neighborhood. He wasn't trying to get away from this officer. I believe he was just trying to get to his workplace before he actually pulled over and stopped for this cop. He probably thought to himself, "I haven't done anything wrong. Why is this cop pulling me over? I haven't even started my day yet, and it's already starting off with blue lights in the rearview mirror." Let's watch what how Officer Hernandez tells him why he pulled him over. You can tell Mr. Miller here's got his phone out. You can see the phone light, so he's videoing. Officer Hernandez has his taser pointed at Mr. Miller. It's already escalated beyond what it should have. Hernandez should have used his words and told him why he stopped him and told him why he wanted him to get out. Did Officer Hernandez escalate this unnecessarily or did the citizen escalate? >> Get out of the car. >> I'm pulled over for him. >> Get out of the car or you're going to get tased. >> You're not telling me why I need to get out of the >> Get out of the car, dude. >> Right there. Get out of the effing car, dude. That tells you who this cop is. That he's got to use the F word when he's dealing with the public tells me that he's a bully. He's a bully from the jump. >> Hurry. Don't you understand? >> What the >> Don't you understand? >> Help. HELP. HELP. HELP. HELP. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND your back. >> OH, [ __ ] OH, PROBABLY CUZ HELP. I CAN'T. I [screaming] CAN'T. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND >> I CAN'T. I CAN'T. I CAN'T. OH MY GOD. WOW. I didn't resist, brother. I didn't resist. You almost What? You won't tell me. Help. Help. Help. >> There was no need to yank this man all the way to the ground. There was certainly no need to tase him. He was not resisting. He might have been resisting getting out of the car, but he wasn't resisting with force against this officer. I don't necessarily fault Mr. Miller for that. Although, I teach when they ask you to step out of the car, just step out of the car. Don't get in a confrontation with them. Don't ask them why. And I teach cops, too. If somebody asks you why, use your words. Tell them why. Tell him, "Hey, you veered at me when I was passing you back there and you almost hit me." Now, I don't believe that's what happened, but that's what Hernandez says happened. I want you to hear both sides. And then at the end, I'm going to tell you who I think won. So, let's listen to this cop tell his buddy who pulls up what happened. See if it's really what happened. >> He's a uh he is one of the the Lennar homes they're building out here. He works for Lennar. Like he's one of the >> And he just evaded? >> Yeah. He he he swerved into me, almost hit me. I turned on my light him up and then I lit him up almost like I would say I would say they're pretty big blocks, but it's way down there where I lit him up like the 2600 block of of that street. And we come all the way over here and he decides to finally stop here for whatever reason. Doesn't get out of the car. I pull him out of the car, tell him he's under arrest. He just still doesn't get out of the car, so I pull him out, we go to the ground, we start fighting. And then I taze him. >> You can't taze for evading. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh what are we doing? Is he just like or >> Yeah, I don't I don't know if he's having a bad morning, but from the initial contact LT, it was just started chirping at right away. >> Who's having a bad morning? Is he like just Is it justified or is Hernandez just a bully? I think Hernandez is a bully here, but what do you think? >> Like why did you pull me over and you have no reason to pull me over and this this and that >> This this and that. Tell me about this this and that. He said, why did you pull me over? Why are you asking me out of the car? And you didn't use your words. You didn't tell him why. You just said get out of the car, get out of the car, get out because I told you to. Thank goodness we've got body cams so we can go back and Monday morning quarterback these kind of stories. >> But there's no street lights on these streets, so my red and blues were on almost immediately. There's no way you he didn't know I wasn't pulling him over. Yeah. >> How far did he go before he finally stopped? >> Um I would I don't know exact distance. If I had to guess, maybe half a mile if >> If not more. >> If not more. >> That's the same street, half a mile. >> Yeah. And then he there was a stop sign, he didn't stop at the stop sign, he just immediately turned left. >> I'm less concerned about this how far he drove until he pulled over because he pulled over. He wasn't evading, he wasn't using evasive maneuvers in the truck. He obviously was not trying to get away. He was trying to get to a safe location to pull over, which was his work spot. Now he might have been the first one on the scene at work, I don't know. I didn't see anybody else there. I don't fault this guy for driving to his workplace, because he's in this neighborhood, and there's cars parked on both sides of the road. There's not any really good place to pull over where you could feel safe. What do you think? Was that legitimate? >> Uh and that's when I like kept my siren on at that point and then for whatever reason he And even then, he still drove to the next street to stop. Like, he still didn't stop. >> So, I think what we're hearing here is all the reasons that Officer Hernandez got pissed off. I think he got pissed originally because he overtook that truck and came in the middle of the road to go around the truck before Officer Hernandez was let through. Hernandez thinks that this guy should have pulled over and let him drive through. That's why he stopped him. He didn't stop him because he swerved at him and almost hit him. There's no evidence that this truck swerved at him and almost hit him. None. No evidence at all. So, now let's watch again the approach and tell me what you think. Comment below. He reaches in and he opens the door. He's got his taser pointed at him already. So, literally within 20 seconds of walking up to the door, he's yanked the door open, pointed his taser in the guy's face, yanked him out of the car, tasers him to the ground, tasers him when he hits the ground, just because he can. The guy's not fighting him. You can clearly see the guy's hurting. He's wailing. He's begging him to stop tasing him. Cop puts his knee on his back and basically manhandles this guy. He stopped him because he could. He just wanted to see who is this knucklehead driving in front of me. Now, let's go to the citizen side of the story. Citizen's in the backseat of the car, you can't see his face in this video, but you can hear his voice telling the lieutenant what happened. >> I did nothing Yeah. To make this man treat me like this. When he pulled up, he asked me, he said, "Where are you coming from?" I I kind of like smart-assly I said, uh "I'm coming from nowhere." As I said, "I'm coming from nowhere. I'll I'll be honest, that's what I said. Name, he says, "All right, step out of the vehicle." From that. From from where are you coming from to step out of the vehicle? And then I asked him for what? For what? What is the reason I need to step out of the vehicle? What am I being arrested for? He's not telling me. He's He's He's got the taser pointed on me, and he's telling me if I don't step out, he's going to tase me. And then he grabs me, pulls me out. I'm out. He didn't tase me yet. He grabs me, pulls me out, throws me on the ground, and then tases me. I thought it was going to I never felt anything like that. Never in my life been treated like that, dude. Fries me. While he's frying me, telling [music] me put my hands behind my back. Have you ever been tased? I'm sure in the in the academy y'all get tased, right? I can't do anything with that taser on, bro. >> That's true. You can't do anything with that taser on. So, it really irks me to watch cops push that taser in their chest, or up under their arm is a good place that they teach you in the academy to put that taser, and pull that trigger, and expect them to follow your commands to put their hands somewhere. They're not going to be able to put their hands anywhere. When you're tasing them, it literally feels like they're electrocuting you. It's very painful. So, I'll tell you this. They booked him for two misdemeanors and a felony. He spent about 15 hours in custody before he made bond, and within 3 weeks, guess what happened? A district attorney watched this body cam and said, "Oh, crap. That doesn't look good [music] for us. We're just going to dismiss these cases. I just want to dismiss all charges." All of you are wondering what my verdict is. Of course you know my verdict here. The officer deserves a big fat D minus. I'm not going to give him a complete F, but he's a D minus for sure, because he didn't handle this properly. He didn't de-escalate when he should have de-escalated. Even if he had a reason to pull him over, which I question, this was not a legitimate stop. He didn't run the stop sign until the blue lights were already on him. Once the blue lights come on behind you, you're seized under the law. The time starts there and goes backwards as to whether or not you've committed an offense that deserves the blue lights. Come on. I think this guy deserves probably a B. I wouldn't have handled the stop like Mr. Miller did. I mean, I would have videoed for sure, so I give him credit for that. But, don't refuse to get out of the car when he says get out of the car. When he says get out of the car, hold your video camera and say, "Please back up. I'm going to step out of the car." And comply with his lawful orders. A D minus for the officer and a B for the citizen, and that's my verdict. Hey everybody, if you liked this video, you're going to love this video. 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