We want to bring you to the hospital. We're not arresting you. We're not talking about lawyers. We're not talking about DAs. Nothing like that. This is different than the last time. You just need to bring it to the hospital. >> So, how can you get back through this? Do you have the authority to break this? >> The SWAT team does. Yeah. >> Okay. So, let's get the SWAT team do it. And I would like to videotape it and take it to the judge on Tuesday because that will be good for the judge to see. >> This started at 12:38 a.m. when police showed up outside a man's apartment door in Brooklyn. There were no charges mentioned, no paperwork, and no clear explanation for why they were there. The man did not open the door. Instead, he grabbed his camera and started recording, knowing he was already in the middle of an ongoing court battle involving his housing and an upcoming court date. Officers claimed they were only there to help and said this had nothing to do with court or past cases, but they still wanted him to come out and go with them. As the conversation dragged on and the man questioned their authority, the officer's tone began to change, especially once the camera was rolling. What happened next raised serious questions about whether this late night visit was really about help or about pressuring him before his case ever reached a judge. >> Uh what do you call a warrant from the judge? >> It doesn't matter. Again, we're not in the >> Well, I don't know. I We are going to be here all night until something. >> All right. I'm honest with you. It's all being recorded and ultimately what's going to happen is ESU is going to come here. They're going to talk to you just like we are. >> Okay. >> And if you don't open the door at that point, they will open the door and take you to the hospital. >> Okay. >> Okay. So you do what you have to do. Thank you. >> I don't think that there should be a problem. I'm in my own home. Okay. >> All right. Now, now you can see me. Now you can see who you're talking to. It's okay. >> So like I said, ultimately ultimately the way you're acting downstairs >> Uhhuh. >> it's showing that you're not in the right state of mind, sir. And you're being violent towards other people. >> But I do you think that I'm in the right state of mind right now? >> No. >> Okay. So then you have to do what you have to Let's not talk about it anymore. >> No. No. I want to talk to you. Oh, let's not talk about it. Just go to the next uh next level >> because it's easier for you if you don't if we just if we just do this. >> Well, you know something? I have to be in court on Tuesday. >> Okay. >> And that's why they're doing >> the previous thing that happened. >> Well, it's an eviction court. >> Okay. >> So, that's what is going on. I don't know anything about what's >> but if you would like to >> if you would like to uh whatever you know please just do what you have to do >> it's a whole lot easier for you >> I know what you're saying but right now I would like for you to just go through the whole thing >> okay I want to explain something to you Mr. As far as your your eviction and your court and everything like that, it doesn't look good if you're not willing to work with us. We're not here to work. >> Well, I I I'm looking to get evicted. They don't want me to get evicted. >> That's not how >> I know that's is really the strangest thing. >> Okay. >> I already applied for another apartment, right? >> Okay. Where >> in Manhattan? >> Okay. Okay. >> This is supposed to be an HPD apartment. >> Okay. Mhm. >> I am not able to move out because this apartment was not registered with HPD through the agency. So, they're taking me to court telling me saying in court that this apartment is actually a regular apartment. So, it's not protected by HPD. Okay. But I have another apartment that cannot be >> validated or authorized because this apartment in which I claim to be an HPD was never registered by the corporation as an HPD apartment. >> I understand. >> So I've been getting a lot of harassments, >> okay, >> from them. >> What What happened earlier today that I saw on camera >> where they had their phone out and you like hit you looked like you tried to hit it out of her hand. >> Well, she was videotaping me. >> Okay. I was coming in and and there's all this whole situation, you know, double talk and half talks and whatever and I'm just tired of it. >> This has been like >> a year of it and I really want to get out of here and I really would like the judge >> to >> put a you know judgment so that HPD can move me. I have an apartment waiting for 3 months. It cannot be approved. >> I know. and they're trying to take me out, but then at the same time they're trying to get the case dismissed so that it goes no no way. >> No further. I got you. I got you. Okay. >> So, I don't know anymore that we're hearing about anything that happened. >> So, this this thing has been lots and lots of police things, but you know, >> my my thing is Mr. McDonald, >> so far >> talking to you now, you we need you to talk to somebody. Not just me. I'm not a doctor, man. No, I know what you're saying, but I already saw my psychiatrist this month. I see psychiatrist at the Brooklyn at the Presbyterian Hospital on 23rd Street. So, I have the whole thing records there. If you're going to take me here >> to the only place for because they you yo, I can give you the 20 psychiatric evaluations that this company has gotten on me. >> Okay. >> 20. >> They've done 20. >> 20. I have them in there and I can go and look for them and give them to you for you to read them. Okay. They don't make any sense. >> So what what you said you have a psychiatrist. What are you diagnosed with that they >> I my doctor when I told her the problems that I was having with them she immediately put me to see a psychiatric doctor and then after that the whole psychiatric thing started with that. >> Okay. What did they diagnose you with? >> They didn't diagnose me. you just put me as you know that you had uh that I have an appointment. So when you going to take me to the present hospital >> there my record is there. >> We want to get you checked out. >> We want to bring you to the hospital. We're not arresting you. We're not talking about lawyers. We're not talking about DAs. Nothing like that. >> This is different than the last time. We just need to bring you to the hospital. >> So how can you get back through this? Can you do you have the authority to break this? >> The SWAT team does. >> Okay. So, let's get the SWAT team do it >> and I would like to videotape it and take it to the judge on Tuesday because that will be good for the judge to see it. >> Sir, this isn't this isn't the the building calling us. >> I don't know who did it, but that's what I want. It's not what you want. It's what I want. I have to be the one to get up, right? Not you. >> So, this is what I This is all I'm asking of you just to make it easier for you us. It's It saves you a lot of work just to be honest. And it makes you look a lot better is if you just come willingly to the hospital. >> I know. I know. But I already been through this volunteer nonsense. >> Yeah. >> And it doesn't work. >> What happened? >> The only thing they dismissed me out for them to start all over again. >> Okay. >> That's all it's been. It's been 20 of them since May 2nd. >> I don't know who was doing that cuz we haven't been here. >> I know. But it's been quite of them. So you need to figure it out who is doing it because I don't know. But I am not going from you telling me that some Mexican woman with no documentations is the one making the complaint >> to do I right now sir it's us and based on our visualizations >> well I don't know because the last time that I listen to all of you I end up getting arrested and then it end up getting dismissed >> sir we're not arresting >> well I know you said that you're not but then before that you took me to the whatever psychiatric and they said and they left really me. So how many times do you think that they are going to go through this? You know how you know so just do what you have to do. I just got to deal with my life. Sorry. >> What made this encounter disturbing was not just the late hour or the lack of paperwork, but how quickly the situation shifted once the man refused to comply. inside his own home and already dealing with an active court case, he was pressured under the guise of help while being warned that force was inevitable if he did not cooperate. The repeated threats of escalation, the dismissal of his past, cleared evaluations, and the attempt to control the recording exposed a familiar pattern. This was not about safety or care. It was about leverage. And once again, the only thing standing between quiet coercion and accountability was a camera and a man who refused to surrender his rights before a judge could hear his