Channel operation
Preparing…
Starting…
- Elapsed time
- 0s
- Estimated remaining
- Estimating…
No changes saved yet.
Keep this page open while work is running. Estimates change with channel size; leaving may interrupt unsaved work.
View resultsTranscript Details
- Language
- en
- Format
- text
- Source
- scrappa
- Auto-generated
- Yes
- Confidence
- N/A
- Created
- 2026-10-22 20:47
Transcript Content
Step out. Oh my goodness. Step out, ma'am. Is this Blackhawk down? Like, who are these people? The police department. We got somebody on the floor, bro. Six7, bro. It's 6:00 a.m. in Tampa, Florida, when police receive a disturbing 911 call. Tampa Police 911. What is the address of the emergency? I was just trying to get strangled. Okay. Do you have any unit letter or number? Okay. And what's going on? I'm just showing you strangle. But I just woke up from Okay. I'm sorry. What happened? I was strangled. Okay. By who? I'm sorry. By who? Is she still there? How long ago did this happen? It happened like like 34 minutes ago. I just woke up. Okay. Where is your mother now? She's at my room. The call cuts out and dispatchers try to reconnect with the caller, later identified as 18-year-old Natavia Sanders, who told police her mother just strangled her to the point of passing out. Officers waste no time racing to the scene. I know you're in the home. Just come to the door. three shuffle. Did you guys attempt to call back? Cuz now the lights are out. I think I hear him screaming upstairs, but I can't tell. One officer thinks he hears screaming coming from inside the home when seconds later backup arrives. Brother upstairs and then I couldn't tell if it was screaming upstairs or where it was. Look, the couches are up on the on the wall. Can you see this? Like up here. See this? Yeah. Almost like not barricade, but you heard screaming. Did you hear a scream for help or something? Police department, please. Come downstairs. Tampa Police Department. Good morning. He's on the home. Everybody. Okay. Can you come outside for me real quick, please? For what? Police identify the woman seen here as 38-year-old Rotesa Sylvius, who's about to get a serious wakeup call. We got a call for service here. Not here. Lady, don't play the game. You ain't even do that. Don't do this. Never. Ma'am, stop. Stop it. You're not going to stop us from entering the house. I didn't do that. Ma'am, stop fighting. Ma'am, open the door. Stop. All right. 31. Come. Ma'am, stop resisting us. Stop resisting us. We're here for a lawful reason. Okay. Sit. Sit down. Look on my Facebook. Sit down. Here. You know what? Come up. Stand up. Stand up. You don't have to be aggressive. I No. Do me a favor. Hey. Hey. Hey. Stop. Hey. Do me a favor. Just hang out with her or my car. I got to go upstairs, man. In the car. Please figure it out. Just keep an eye on this. Rotesa is secured in a patrol car when officers head inside and find Natavia, who called 911 just over 20 minutes earlier, unconscious on the floor. Man, we got somebody on the floor. Bro, she looks super, BRO. First responders perform life-saving efforts while waiting for medics to arrive. How old is the oldest? Upstairs. Upstairs. No, no, she's in the kitchen. Right here, man. Okay. Not responsive at all. Possibly choke out. Maybe let them do their job. Yeah. Let's try to keep as many people out as we can. Let fire do what they got to do and then we're going to roast all EMTs rushed the 18-year-old to a hospital where she would survive for 2 days before passing away. A medical examiner determined Natavia's injuries were consistent with strangulation. Meanwhile, Roesha waits in the patrol car where things take an unusual turn. Step out. Oh my goodness. Step out, ma'am. Come on. Come on. Come on. You think I'm better? No. Huh? No. What's wrong with you? Can we stop? Can we stop acting like this, please? So I can do your search. Really? I need you to like get one of them to come over and say that while you No, no, she was she was uh talking and she started making something about taking something. Forget exactly what she said. We'll just have fun. We'll let her go. All right. You want to put it back in? Come on. That was You know where you're at? Where you at? My house. You take anything or anything like that? No. by chance. Not yet. We're just coming to young lady. What's your name? Rotational service. And uh you live here? Yes. How long have you lived here? Um a few months. A few months. Okay. Who do you live here with? Me and my children. Your children? The small children? Like the babies? I seen one or two little babies. Uh what about the the other person there? No, I have three kids. You have three kids. How old are your kids? How old are they? Nine, three, and four. Four. Okay. Roesa tells the officer she has three kids under the age of 10, but fails to mention her 18-year-old daughter who was found on the kitchen floor. Keep this in mind for later. Hey, by the way, what do the body cams that we cover prove? Maybe that the world is unpredictable. And I'll tell you what, with that in mind, having a great lawyer matters. And that is where our great partner and sponsor Morgan and Morgan comes in. This is a firm with over a thousand attorneys. You know why they have so many? Because they win a lot. In the past few months, Morgan and Morgan secured a $9.3 million verdict for a car crash victim in Florida, a $5.6 million verdict for another car accident victim in Atlanta. And not to mention $1.8 million in Kentucky after insurance offered them a mere $5,000 in that case. And even if you think your case isn't worth millions of dollars, why not start a claim and fight for what you deserve? Morgan and Morgan makes it so simple. You can start a claim from your phone in just eight clicks. So, if you're injured, you can easily start a claim at forthepeople.com/lcbodycam channel or click the link in the description and pinned in the comments. So, who's here today with you? Me and my three kids. You and your three kids. Okay. The three and fouryear-old, were they upstairs? Okay. And then where's your nine? Where's your nine-year-old? They're all upstairs. They're all upstairs. We were all up there. Okay. We just got up and I was going to give them a bath. Who uh who's in the kitchen? I have no idea. Somebody's in the kitchen. A little bit older than nine, though. They're not 9 years old. I couldn't even tell you. You couldn't even tell you? I only have three kids. Okay. There's Okay. All right. Hang tight. Hang tight. Do you want to see the fire department? Do you want them to check you out? I'm fine. I just want my kid. She's fine. I don't know what happened. Like, do you want me just to take vitals of her or something? If you're talking to me, I didn't hear you. I mean, since fire's here, should we have to just set eyes on her? They can. I mean, just check. I'm just Whatever. Okay. And you feel like all right. We're just going to have fire. Just look at you. Make sure everything's good. Okay. rescue. Okay, thank you. Is this Blackhawk Down? Who are these people? The police department. Police on fire. Yes. Are you able to sit back? Another officer questions Rotesa from the driver's seat of the patrol car when her story quickly changes. Who went to the hospital just now? Do you know who? Who is that? I have four kids. Oh, you have four kids. Okay. What was that daughter's name? Now, Rosha tells the officer she has four kids and identifies Natavia as her eldest daughter when she previously claimed to have quote no idea who was in her kitchen. I just don't know. If she doesn't want it, she want to I'm fine. Are y'all okay? Why are y'all here? What's that? If you could just look at her and make sure she's You don't want us to check you out? No, I'm fine. Everything is fine. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right, we're going to walk over to the other car. Okay, you able to walk? Yeah. Rotesa refuses medical help and is shortly taken to another patrol car while officers prepare to take her to jail. We're going to go to We're going to go to this car over here. You're refusing to be seen. Okay. The car. Yep. You're good. Take your hands up just a little bit to get the back. Um, not yet there. I think so. But it's not long until she pulls another 180 and decides she does want to be seen by medics. You just told him you didn't want to see him. Hey Now she wants to see you guys. Heat. Heat. Okay. Okay. They they could treat it when you get there. There's a doctor there that can treat you. Well, we can't treat it. Okay. I know, man. But I see the scrape and stuff like that. That's what I'm saying. They're going to take a X-ray. They can do all that stuff there. I don't need the X-ray. I just need this looked at. I mean, what do you want me to The only thing I can give you is a band-aid for that, man. I'm not a hospital. I'm just This is it. She wants us to go ahead. Okay. They looked at it. He looked at it, right? What do you want them to do? He just said that I could go to the ER and they'll give me X. No, you will do that at the jail. They have Yeah. The Orient jail has a whole medical staff there that we're not we're not going to the hospital. Yeah. So, is there anything else you need them for, ma'am? Okay. I give you a bandage. Roesha was taken to jail and booked for resisting an officer with violence and aggravated battery with great bodily harm. Two days later, when her 18-year-old daughter died, the medical examiner's office ruled her death a homicide, and Roesha's charge was upgraded to first-degree murder. Court records show Roesa was originally found incompetent to stand trial, but at last check, she was quote returned to competency and is expected back in court this spring. Step out. I'm going to go down there to that door over there. Right here.
Danger Zone
This action cannot be undone. Please be certain.