On June 15th, 2023, Austin police officers responded to a home in Oel, Georgia after a verbal argument between two women escalated into a physical altercation. How you doing? I'm good, ma'am. Okay, this the is this is my girlfriend. She's just mashed and she's probably going to make up some I've been I've been here before. We've talked before, right? We just just go over here and talk with one of these officers here. Okay. Okay. Officer. Oh, here. This phone, too. Thank you. Hey, ma'am. I'm Officer Johnson. We spoke before. You want to kind of tell me what's going on today? You cring me in my lip. Let me see. My arms and she got bruises on her because I was defending myself. She's bigger than me. She Were y'all in the house? Huh? Were y'all in the house when it happened? Do you want to come step inside and talk to me? How are you, man? What's going on? Okay, this is my girlfriend. We arguing. We supposed to be breaking up. I finally got a job. And she's just mad. She think I talked to somebody. So now she's about to lie to get me locked up because she thinks I'm talking to somebody else. When did When did this occur, man? I've been home. I got home from work like 7 8:00. Okay. I don't want to fight with her. Any weapons involved? No weapons. No weapons. What led to this point? Because she cuz she won't calm down. Smell me. Smell me. I don't want to smell you, man. No. What I smell like? The wind's blowing. I don't know. You don't smell Clorox? Did she throw Clorox on you? She didn't throw it on me. She went to spray and I asked her to. She just upset. She didn't She She sprayed Clorox on you. Clorox, you know the Clorox. Yeah. Right. Okay. But after that, that that was it. But she calmed down. But that's where did she spray it on you? Face. Shirt. My shirt. You sure? Yeah, my boxes a little bit. That's it, man. In my face. All right. So, kind of tell me what happened. What's the start of the the uh argument and kind of start from the beginning and go from there. Okay. She's been here since October. Mhm. She won't find no job. I go to work from 4:00 a.m. And I'm a nurse. I go to work from 4:00 a.m. in the morning 5 or 6:00 at night. And this is what I come home to when I'm tired. I'm tired of this. Even if y'all have to take me tonight, I want her out of here. I want her out of here. Tell me what happened when you got home. When y'all started arguing, tell me what happened. Did she come at you? Yes. She punched me in my lip. Explain. I don't know if you can see these bruises on my arms and stuff. And let's start here. Let's start here. Let's start with this. Okay. I just want you to breathe for two seconds. Take a deep breath. Okay, it's over. That part's over. Ready? Hopefully. Okay. All right. You got home tonight. What happened when you got home? Did you just start arguing or what? What happened? She tried to make me think she was talking to somebody. I don't care about that. I just want out myself. I just want her out. I don't care where she go, what she do. I can't be her. I can't. Okay. What led up what led up to it being physical? Because she punched me in my lip. Oh, she just Yes, we arguing. She pushed me in first. She was grabbing on me. Where were y'all in the house when that happened? Upstairs. In the bedroom? In the hallway. Okay. Let me see your arms again. That's those grip marks that her holding you. What is that? Scratching me. I don't know what happened. I just this right here is swollen right here. Turn your arm over again. Here. Oh, that's fresh. And her lip. Your neck. Yeah, her neck and her lips. Should she explain Clorox? Not yet. It's called So, she threw Clorox on YouTube. This is where the Clorox came from. It's all over. Not me. Her. Okay. So, this mark on your neck. How did that mark on your not get there? What did she do to make the mark? I don't even know. I don't remember. I don't even know how none of this Well, you're paying attention to these questions. You don't know. You don't know if she It was her, but I don't know exactly how it happened. You don't know if she tried to strangle you or anything like that? She didn't try to strangle me. Okay, that's where I was going with that. Okay. I think she was just swinging at me. She punched me in my lip. All the marks you've shown us on your forearms, on your chest, on your neck, and your lips. I don't even know where his marks at. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't Did you end up on the floor at any time? Huh? Did you end up on the floor at any time? Yes, several times. Okay. Did you ever hit her back? Yes, I did. Okay. I did. I had to try to defend myself, but look at her and look at me. I'm big, but she's clearly stronger than me. Okay. And both of y'all live here. This is my house. This Okay, gotcha. She lives here. And she does live here. Is anything else broken out besides the laptop? That little circle. How much does a laptop cost? [Music] You're fine. Take your time. Take your time. I know we got a lot of questions. I don't care about that laptop. I don't care. I don't care. I just got I know, but we we have to document what what it may what you think it may cost. I don't know. $200. I don't That'll work. Oh, there's the bottle. There's the bottle. When you're done, come up here, Wallace. [Applause] That is a big four post bed. Yeah. So, it was an argument, right? It started as I didn't hear I never heard your side like the buildup to it. It started as an argument, right? Yeah. When I came in Okay. She called me before. That's what she's really pissed off about. I know her. She's mad because when I was on my way from home, she called my phone and I didn't answer. Then I I did answer because I was figuring too. I'm on my way in the house anyway. So, anything you got to say to me, you can say, but make a long story short, I get in the house. But when I got in the house, somebody else called my phone. She came out the room like, "Oh, I know you heard me calling you." I said, "Actually, I didn't, but what's up?" "Oh, you." And the argument started from there. We've been arguing since 7:00. Like, I want to go to sleep. I got to get up at 6:00 in the morning. You get what I'm saying? So then I'm telling her like, "Hey, you can't be that mad that you just can't calm down and we can talk about it another time." Another thing, she don't know how to talk things out. I'm not putting her down, but that's just her, okay? She's controlling. It has to be her way or the highway. So, I'm ready to take the highway. That's where I'm at with it. I understand I'm in your house, but that doesn't mean you just be disrespectful to somebody in the house. And that's how she's been doing lately. So, that's why I said as soon as I get an opportunity to get out, I'm going to get out, right? And that's what I'm doing. And I think that she, like I said, she thinks I'm talking to somebody. And that's why she got mad. Oh, you ain't going to be talking. You ain't going to be talking to me. At what point did it get physical though? It didn't get physical. It didn't get physical. She's got a lot of marks on her. She's got she's bleeding in some places. And you got you got marks on you, too. So, got big spikes on your neck. It's clear that it was physical. I was just trying to get here why or when. No, it's just like like a little like you know how females I don't know if you understand, but you understand. You know how you grab somebody like this? That's just what it was a part. I'm like, chill with the surgery with the hands. All right, ma'am. Here's what here here's what's going to happen. Okay. Um, I need you to go put your phone on your phone and ID on the car. So, what you locking me up for? What? Go ahead and turn around for me. What you lock? Can I put some clothes on? What you locking me up for? Um, for the the message battery. Thanks a lot, Tracy. Middlebrooks. Thank you, baby. Thank you for letting me lose my job. You need some flip-flops or something? Yes. I need some my clothes. Like this is ridiculous. Are y'all serious? They're going to give you something to change into um Do you want me to go get some shoes or something for you out of your room? Tracy, are you serious? It's not It's not even her decision. She doesn't have the choice. So, who decision was it? State of Georgia. State of Georgia. How is it the state of Georgia when I got scratches and bruises all over me, too? How is it the state of Georgia? I smell like Clorox. So, how is it the state of Georgia? What observation are y'all really making? You serious? Yo, make me lose my job. Mitch, you can't get me a t-shirt or something. Yo, I sue NYPD. I see. I'm about to make get me some more money. I don't got nothing else to say. I don't even got nothing else to say, bro. Cuz my I don't deserve this [ __ ] right here. I really the don't. Y taking me locking me the up. Noing clothes on like this don't make noing sense. Yo, yo, this around mying neck, man. What the is wrong with you? Ma'am, it's not around your neck. That's the It was just now around my neck. Y'all going to take me to to jail? Spray Clorox all in mying face. All this like this crazy. And y'all going to take me to jail. Why? Cuz I got a criminal record. This is crazy. But y'all don't got nothing to say now cuz y'all locking me up, right? I'm asking you a question, but you can't answer me, right? You mean to tell me you going to put me in this tight ass situation and try to put that tight ass. I'm a big mother. No, you're not. No, you're not. Get too tired. I listen. I was in a a serious car accident and my back and my neck is bothering me. I had an operation, [ __ ] You cannot put that. It had me tight like this. What is you talking about? I'm not even going to allow you to do no lock. No, not going to allow you to do that. It didn't lock up, bro. That's all it's got. Oh, it really won't connect. No, it's not connect. Put it at the one above. All right, man. Watch your leg. Okay. I got scratches all over, bro. I smell like Clorox, bro. Spray Clorox in my face, bro. I want to see medical now. Now I want to see medical. My eyes is burning. Okay. [ __ ] with anything. It should have took both of us cuz I got scars on me too. Type of observation was they making you only see her scars. You don't see mine. The black officer see mine. Soon as she stepped as soon as she se stepped in front of me, she seen me scratched up. But I ain't act like y'all noticed it though. Y act like y ain't no problem. Like I said, I look like a man. So I'm automatically the aggressor to y'all. That female's my lieutenant, man. That female officer noticed scratches all over me as soon as she came soon as I came out the garage. So, how y'all didn't see it? How y'all acting like I don't see the scars on my arm and scratches and bite marks on my arm? I'm not walking around this hospital with no clothes on either. Man, we brought you to the hospital. Y not going to humiliate me. That's what we not I'm a female at the end of the day. Y'all getting on my nerves already now. This got me tight. Y'all should have let me get a pair of shorts out mying house, bro. Think I've been walking around all these people with no clothes on like I'ming crazy. Miss Ever, I'ming pissed off. Yo, I'm well aware that you're mad. So, do you want to go inside the hospital or not? You don't want to You want to deny me medical attention? That's what the you do. But I don't have to walk in there with no motherucking clothes on either. That kind of puts me in a spot. I have a right. I don't give a I still have a constitutional right. And y'all not going to violate me. I'm not trying to violate asked y'all for clothes before you pulled off of my house and y'all kept telling me no. Who the goes to jail with no clothes on. So now y'all figure that out. So if you don't take me to the hospital, that's on y'all. Now you figure it out, officers. I'm making your observation. We're at the hospital now. I don't give a Yes. I want to see medical attention. Okay. Well, then I don't give a You figure it out. I'll go see if they get a gown for you. How about that? I ain't going to threw me in the [ __ ] not trying to. I still got constit. I'm not really. I want my t-shirt on me. Here, put me on the spot, man. I'm not I don't care. I know you don't care. If y'all would have got me a pair of shorts like I asked you to before I left my house, be wouldn't be having these problems. I thought I had shorts on. You should know these is men boxes I got on. These is not shorts. Would you unlatch this is humiliating. Now I got to walk through the hospital. I'm not wearing that. Now I want to put my TC. You should have let me put this on. Yo, y'all dropping my I'm put on when I go in the bathroom. There's a chair right here if you want to sit down. I want to put my shirt on. I feel humiliating standing out here with no clothes on. That's what I want. I want to put my t-shirt on. We got your t-shirt on, man. Okay. You want this gown to cover up with first? No, I don't want no gown. I want my t-shirt on. Why y'all keep act like I don't want me putting on my t-shirt? The is wrong with y'all? I can put it over you, but when you're I want to do my arm like a normal person. Like y'all always trying to humiliate some body. I'm really trying not to. It's not that I have a right to have my clothes on. You're not doing me a favor. But you're not doing me a favor, bro. Ma'am, you act like you're doing me a favor by letting me put clothes on, bro. I never said it was a favor. Okay. I have still have a constitutional right, ma'am. And if you violate it, I'm going to make sure y'all pay for it legally. Period. Now, I keep asking you, let me put my clothes on, man. We're in the hospital, man. I need you to calm down, okay? I don't give a [ __ ] where we at. I don't give a where we at, bro. Okay. I was asking you in the car. I asked you before you pulled off, get me some clothes. You refused to get me clothes. This how you got me walking out walking around and I feel humiliating. I just told you that. This how I walk around my house and I'm walking around in the street like this. So yeah, I'ming pissed off and know I'm not gonna talk nice. Okay, Miss I need to use the bathroom. Let's get you checked in. Figure that out. Okay. Okay. So sit here and hold my pee. Okay, no problem. If I got to pee bad, I'm going to keep it real with you. I'mma piss right here cuz I have a right to use the bathroom. So that's just what I'm trying to tell you. So wait to get checked in the bathroom. Now I can figure the bathroom. You can't take me anywhere. You got two men. You'll need a female officer to take you to the bathroom. How about that? That's what you should be getting cuz you can't come into the bathroom. I'm not going to wash you in the bathroom. You can't come in the bathroom pit. I'm well aware. Okay. I'm I dare you. I already sue NYPD. I dare y'all to violate any constitute law of mine. I dare you. I'm taking it all the way. I'm not playing with y'all. I'm going make sure you do your job by the book. I know the law, bro. It's not the first time I've been in this situation. How do I get wild? I have this old body, old scars, everything. I just not So, I think what it came down to, and I'm not, you know, cuz I'm still training. I think what it came down to is the laptop being damaged. The laptop being damaged. Then the what being damage? Her laptop. That's my laptop. Wait, wait, wait. She threw That's my laptop. And then I think it was some other black, right? I think she That's my laptop. She threw it. And then I think that also she said that she was trying to call 911, but you kept taking I was trying to tell her. I said, Tracy, I wasn't taking it like you not, you know what I mean? I was like, Tracy, you don't need the police involved. It's not that. That's what it was. I was giving it back, but I was thinking like, wait, you really? So that's what there is. Okay. But you talking about the laptop. The laptop? Why you didn't ask me? That's my laptop. Actually, that's my mother's laptop. My mother's dead, but I kept it cuz they got my information and she threw it. See what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? Now y'all thinking I That's my laptop. She threw it down the stairs. So it's broken now. She threw my phone, too. But see, that's I just told you my phone before y'all got She threw that down the stairs. I said, you think that would have been nice to say? But this is what I'm trying trying to tell you. If I was the cop caller, I wouldn't be in handcuffs. You get what I'm saying? I just don't call the cops. So, she been hitting me since I got in the house earlier. Tracy does not know how to talk. Tracy hits when she talks. And after hitting me so many times, I said, "Okay, stop hitting me." I have this thing that I got from physical therapy. This has to weigh about not that heavy. It's probably like 10 lbs. Like 5 or 10 lbs. She hit me in my head with it and that's what made me I didn't hit her. I shook her but she has bad knees. All of that should have been said when I I understand that but I but I don't want her to go to jail. But I don't want her to go get what I'm trying to say to you? I don't want to send her to jail. She was evaluated by medical staff at the hospital and later released. She was then charged with domestic dispute, obstruction of emergency communication, and simple battery before being transported to jail for booking. [Applause] Okay, let me put you over here. Be easier to get on that side, but you don't walk around that side. So, it's the side if you're able. You got it. Yeah. Can you turn sideways by any chance? I'm like n I could do like this. I ain't going to be able to turn. It's about 4 miles. All right. My fat ass ain't going to be able to turn no more. Okay. You sure? Yeah. Watch your knee. Okay. Mhm.