Bite, spray, repeat. A welfare check gone wild. A routine welfare check turned chaotic when officers responded to 568 Johnston Court for April Christian, reportedly off her meds and deep in another delusion. Hey, you called. What's going on? Who is my mom? Okay. What's going on? She went to the hospital. Why? She's not herself. Okay. You got to talk to me a little bit, dear. I just can't I just can't take people away. M. Okay. In a long time, for years. And I feel like she going to harm herself. Okay. Has she made threats to do so? No. Okay. But she been having get low sleep. She's disappointed by cold. Okay. She need to go to a hospital. All right. Um I She pick a fight with my brother. Okay. Well, just so you know, I don't has certain restrictions and laws I have to follow to make sure she goes to the hospital. If she does not meet the secretaries, I cannot take her. All right. Um if these here, they also talk to her. They also have different rules, regulations they can follow. And if they don't determine that she needs to go medically, then we cannot take her then, too. All right. Do you have a alternative? If we cannot take her somewhere, she'd go home. Okay. Does she drive or walk? She walked. Okay. From Fur Hill. Yes. Okay. Hi. What's going on? My mom's pregnant. She happened to get no sleep. She bad. She came here banging on my door early this morning. That's on my stove. Okay. Thought it was a gas. It's not a gas. The fire department already came out and checked it. Okay. To go to the hospital. It's nothing else we can do. So, you're saying that cuz you don't want her here like she needs to go to the hospital. All right. We'll check her out. She made any threats or anything? No. Hi, dear. Bye. How are you? Uh, don't come talking to me. I'm helping my daughter clean the house. Okay. Don't even I don't give Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Get enough. Destiny for me. Enough. I'm here. Enough. Enough. I'm not choking me because I'm helping my Get the off of me. Get off of me. Get your off of me. Get your knees off of me. You [ __ ] Get off of me. I can't breathe. Get off. Get off, Julius. This is not over now. Get off. Get off of me. Nope. This is abuse of power. Okay. I can't breathe. Get off. Get off. Don't bite me again. Get the off of me. Do not bite me again. Do not bite me again. He's trying to kill me. No, man. Let me breathe. [Music] Oh my god. I got Jackie. I got Jackie. I got I got Jackie. I got Jackie. I got Jackie. Please get off of me. Oh my god. Please get off of me. I don't want to scream on my reg. We got baby. Wait until I lose my breath. Huh? You ready to pull her up, sir? Yeah. I got her legs. I got her legs. I got to roll over. I got her leg. Come on. Slow down. Just slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Calm down. Calm down. You calm down. Are you calming down? Okay. Come on. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Okay. Okay. Come on. Put your hand in the back. Backup arrived. April screamed the whole time, but was finally cuffed and pink slipped to Akran City for evaluation. The officer left with scratches, a bruised arm, a cut lip, and a solid story. [Applause] Tell us. We'll take it out so they can see it. This is what he got straight in the face with. Yeah, he went we went to go talk to her. She came out of the bathroom and just started spraying acetone other stuff. This ain't over. Okay. All right, we'll let you know before we leave. My godamn GMC goddamn freedom. Yeah, that's what I said. This is how y'all abuse your wife, huh? Hey, Sam. I'm going to put that on. I was going to have him open the door and put it on. Hand. You all right? Yeah. I love it being that that's some type of air freshener. Uh this seat belt and we've had EMS checking out. Put her back in the uh back. You guys need to go in the bus and check her. Need to go back in your bus and check her. We can check her if you want to. Take her down and stuff like that. Ma'am, I'm going to check you out. Make sure you're all right. I'm EMS. All right. Nothing you can do for me. twist my arm. Okay. Will you let me check you out? No, you can't check me. Okay. Are Are you hurting anywhere other than your arms? Bro, I didn't do that. I didn't even do anything, bro. Hey, I'm EMS. I'm just here to check you out and make sure your health is good. Are you going to check me out for being a grandma? Because you don't know how it's like to be a grandma. I I understand, ma'am. I I I I I don't know that stuff, but I can take your blood pressure. I can make sure your blood pressure and uh Okay. All right. I'll leave you alone. Okay. We'll take the hospital pig slipper. Ask my mom and everything that's going on. I'm sorry for y'all having to go through that. Yeah. But uh she usually like that when she's on her medication. How long she's been off her meds? They said for years. You know, it just been like uh probably about six months almost almost a year. So, is she living here? She lives over in West Park. She lives in West Park. This is my sister's house, her daughter's house. So, she usually when when we know she's like that, she comes around to around to her kids. You know, usually we look at it like as she needs help. You know what I'm saying? And I usually when she gets in there, she gets right back on her medication. She come home, she should be okay. You know what I'm saying? So, I believe that's the plan is to get her to the hospital. Yeah. And then get her some help. Yeah. That's all she needs to get her medication because I don't know about her doctor. I It's been a minute since we stayed at her old house since we stayed at her old crib where we had information all that to her uh doctors and you know to keep the medicine. She normally go to Akan General. Is that where she usually goes or she go to city? Uh I'm not for sure but I knew she did uh go to uh St. Thomas, that would be city. Yeah. Yeah. For Yep. Yep. Yep. So, she went there for like a couple weeks and came back and they gave us, you know, everything we needed to know to keep her on, you know, her medicines and stuff, you know, but that's all it was. So, you know, it's not her, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. We I'm sure the officer that was involved is aware of that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just want y'all to know I'm apologize for that. You know what I'm saying? It's not her. You know what I'm saying? So, okay. Uh if y'all do need one 7 to one, like I said, the sergeant's going to be out. He'll he'll talk to a couple people and Okay. go from there. So far as everything in like in our sense, it's okay. She she you know what I'm saying? Mean no hard. Once my mom gets better, she'll know what's going on. Yeah. So it'll be okay. You know what I'm saying? So to you and all the other officers, sorry about that. So whatever uh officer comes out. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Okay. And I hope you find his form. Yeah, I'm going to keep looking. Okay. Yeah, you we hear it. All right. Thank you. Hey, seven. You can go to five, please. The other side. Uh, she's going to be the other side, but Sergeant and David wants her to hang out here before we take her up. Gotcha. Do you mind watching her so I can go wash my face out? Least I can do. Thank you, sir. All right, I have to investigate. I'm Sergeant Davis. This is just my camera. I'm holding it down here. We have to do this to be fair. And I'd like to get your statement about what happened with the officer. I don't even know what I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. I mean, my I don't even know why I'm here. What's your name, dear? My name is April Christ. I know it's not a good day for you so far, but we're hoping it'll get better. Okay. I didn't say it wasn't good. I Well, good day. Well, you're sitting back here, so it's probably you've had better days. Um, I just I'm I'm Sergeant Davis at PD and I'm investigating a use of force. My officers, they had to, you know, tussle with you or whatever happened and I just want to get your version of what happened. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. What's I don't know what to say then. I don't have nothing to say cuz I don't even know why you arresting me in my daughter's house when I'm helping her clean up and she say she's sick. I don't know what to tell you. I have no idea. I mean his camera the camera his body came tell. Yeah. He come questioning me for what? Okay. For what? There's no I don't care about abuse of force. I don't know what abuse of force is. Use of force. I don't know what it is. I don't even care. Well, I'm just investigating because my officers had to use force. So, I have to check and Yeah, he had to use Ask him. Well, I I did ask him. Now, I'm asking you. I don't know what he talking about. I don't even know what how why would he use need to use abusive force cuz I'm I'm doing I'm doing my duties as a grandmother. Okay. Helping my daughter clean. Okay. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what the abuse of force is. You don't want to talk about what happened? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know. I told that young man, I don't even know who he is. I don't evening care. I let him in my house. Y'all been I let him in my house because mom he he didn't have nowhere to go. I I don't know. Okay. I don't have a know. Well, I'm asking about the officer's uh involvement with you. The officer just going by what that little boy is saying. I don't know what he talking. I'm talking about my daughter witness. You know what? I don't even know what he ain't he ain't come to talk. He come to snatch the door out my hand. What you coming for? And why is you even being called? Cuz he getting offended. Is it because he wanted uh the ingra? I want to go. What? Whatever y'all bringing me in here for? I think you're going to have a doctor talk to you. No, doctor. Wait, what are you going to do? Pri prescribe me a prescription on how to talk to uh how to talk like a grandma and a mama or how to talk to the big bad wolf. Huh? All right. Well, you said you really weren't cooperative. Well, I wasn't cooperative. I don't know what you're talking about. How do I trying to figure out I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. Don't ask me [ __ ] else. Take me to court and then we'll decide what what I want to tell you. Okay. All right. Well, you have a you take me to court for being a grandma. It ain't going to stop me from being a grandma. Of course not. Okay. And they but not have no try to give my grandson no fing on either. Thank you. Oh, your seat belt. I got you. All right. Now you can come on out. I'll make sure you don't fall. Have a seat, man. There we go. Yeah. Grab that. This is my keys in there. That boy better not have my No, we left the keys at the door doing them. Yeah, she doing all those fire. Oh, you get what? I don't care. Well, well, I don't give a I see you had a bunch of fire. I want you to learn something new. Like everybody else going to be [Music] new on So with the situation right now, what we need to do, we need to get your vital signs. All right. We need to get into a couple gallons, blood work, urine, and a COVID test. Okay. That's what we need to do. I ain't taking no CO test. So, it's just a little tickle in the nose. No, I don't like it. I want nothing stuffed up my nose. Okay. I don't have I don't I don't like the CO test. All right. Well, we have to get the other stuff for sure. All right. We'll deal with that later. Okay. But that's what we need to do. All right. You don't need to take my blood. Yeah. So, I don't I don't want no pants or nothing. So, man, listen. This is how this is going to work. Okay. We took you out of the handcuffs. All right. And your pink slip. So, those are the things that you need for being a grandma. So, that means I'm not cooperating. So, so be it. I'm telling you, that's what we need. I'm not in school. So, I don't get I date them. They want to ask them why I'm here and why I got roughed up cuz I'm doing what I need to do to help my daughter and I don't know what you feel like you want to hurt yourself. Do you feel like you want to hurt? I want I want them. I'm asking you. Do you I guess I do. Every time every time they come. Uh, I guess I'm hurting myself cuz I got it done. Do you feel like you want to be dead? Yes. Do you feel like you want to be dead? Do you want me dead? No. I'm here to help. Do you feel like you want to be dead? When he hold me down cuz I tell him, "Leave me alone." And he choking me so I can't breathe. I said, "Yeah, but I'm not fluid. I'm not a man." [Music] Can you go ahead and take your socks and shoes off there? We need to get changed to a couple down. Okay. Give me my privacy. Well, one of the one of the females. Okay. Listen, man. So, just to let you know something. Okay. I don't need to know. I don't give a And you're going to do all those things. Yeah. And you give me my privacy. The easy way or the way. All right. Easy way or what the easy way or hard way? Get out. April Lynn Christian now faces charges of assault on a law enforcement officer, no serious injury, aggravated assault, resisting arrest with harm, mental illness intervention, and use of force. The officer walked away bruised, bloodied, and slightly disinfected.