All right. >> What's your name, partner? Uh, >> AJ. >> AJ? >> I can't see it, though. My bad. >> No, you're not AJ. You're Jacob. >> My name is AJ. Austin. What? Can you please let me keep your arm? Go. Ow. Ow. >> I'm not going to ask you again. >> Okay, I know. I'm not doing nothing. Please let me go, though. Please let me go. >> On a September night, an officer spots a man who looks like a wanted suspect, but it's the wrong guy. When backup arrives, the mixup snowballs into an even bigger mess. >> Relax. >> What's hurting? >> My knee. Okay, this is my life. >> Not yet. >> Can we get medicalally murdered? If >> I only ran over the kids over by the police wouldn't have been laying around like that. >> Stay around. >> I was getting attacked like that. Please have save me. I said, please. >> On the evening of September 13th, 2024, around 8:06 p.m., a Lacrosse police officer spots a man matching the description of someone named Jacob, a suspect they'd been searching for earlier that day. As the officer approaches him, things start going sideways almost immediately. >> Just looking for somebody. >> Oh, man. All right. >> What's your name, partner? >> AJ. >> AJ. >> I can't see at all. My bad. >> No, you're not AJ. You're Jacob. >> No, I'm not Jacob. I'm not Jacob. >> What's Do you have an ID on you? >> No, I don't actually. Nope. >> Let's walk over here yesterday. >> 96. >> Jacob, though. That sounds like >> That sounds like something that's made up. This is made up. This is Let's walk over here. >> Are you talking about Jake? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm not him. Carter versus your brother. >> Yeah. Let's walk over here quick. 61. >> Walk over here quick. >> You know credentials, dude? I don't want I I got to go. Like someone's waiting on me. >> I got to talk to you right now. >> My friend's waiting on me, though. >> I'm going to ask you to stop. We're going to walk over. >> This is tiring. Okay, whatever. >> 96. You want to hang on me a second, please? >> What the >> You have anything with your name on it? >> No, I don't right now. No, but I'm not Jacob. Jacob is 61, dude. Almost any cop knows me. I have brown eyes. Look, I got brown eyes. >> I got you. Let's walk over here. Let me check. >> Okay. All right. I'm going to grab my stuff. I >> Nope. We'll just leave it right there. Nobody will touch it. >> No. No. I don't want to do that. >> Stop. Stop. I'm asking you. I have a legal right to stop you. I believe that you you have a warrant. I believe that you're Jacob. Stop. >> I'm not Jacob. No. No. Wait. Please. I'm just sitting in my bag there. Okay. Well, please don't rest me. >> Let's walk. Okay. Hey, can I just grab something? Can my legs s I'm walk I'm walking with you. Stop walking. Stop. I'm walking. I'm walking with you. Please. >> I'm asking I'm asking you. >> Man, this is embarrassing. Okay. I promise I'm not Jacob, but can you please let me go? >> Okay. Right now, I'm going to put you no hands behind. Please let me go. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I got this in my hand. Please. Please stop. Walk over. I'm walking. Dude, I'm being an adult. Can I walk? I'm not going nowhere. Hey, I'm not going with my stuff there. Please don't arrest me. Please, there's no reason for it. >> What is your name? >> My name is AJ Austin. >> Austin, can you please let me Can you please let my arm go? Ow. Ow. >> I'm not going to ask you again. >> Okay, I know I'm not doing nothing. Please let me go, though. Please let me go. Please let go my arm. I'm not doing nothing wrong to you. >> I need a name. >> Okay, it's Austin. I told you. >> Austin, what's your last name? >> I said, please go my arm. You're trusting me. You're bending it. >> I tell you to do nothing wrong. Stop. Stop. >> Stop. >> But here's the catch. This man isn't Jacob at all. He's 27-year-old Austin. And it's only a matter of time before the officer finds out in one of the most painful ways possible just how wrong he is. >> I'm not doing nothing. I'm not doing nothing. What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing? Put your hands behind your back. >> What am I doing? No. Hands behind your back. Stop. Sir. Sir. Sir, please let go. Please let go. Sir, please call me. Sir, please let me. Please. Please. Please. No. What is your name? My name's Austin. >> Please get off me. I'm calling the cops. Let me call the police. I need to go to the police. >> I am the cops. >> I want to call the cops. Please call me. Please. >> 96. What do I do? >> Stop. I need >> you. I told you. >> Stop. Put your hands behind your back. >> Put your hands behind your back. I'm not going to make your face. Stop. On your back. Activate. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I'm going to choke you up. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> Behind your back. >> I'm not doing this. >> Put your hand behind your back. >> Please stop, dude. >> I don't have you. I'm not choking. >> Put your other hand behind your hand. >> Put your other hand. >> Give me your other arm. >> Give me your other arm. >> I'm not choking. >> Put your other hand behind your back. >> Put your other hand. >> Put your other hand, please. Nobody's got you. >> Put your hand. Pull him back. There you go. >> Get your hand >> behind your back. >> Please stop. I can't. I can't. No. Please stop. >> I'm What do I do? >> Behind your back. >> I'm Austin. Please stop, dude. Please do nothing. >> Stop resisting, dude. >> Stop. >> I'm trying to I'm trying to breathe. >> I'm not Jacob. I'm not Jacob. I'm not Jacob. >> I'm resisting. >> I'm Austin. >> Put your other hand behind your back. >> Me for no reason, dude. What's your other This is pirate [ __ ] >> Austin keeps fighting back and a good Samaritan pulls over to help the officer get him into cuffs. At the same time, assisting units are already in route. But one slip up by an officer rushing in is about to change the course of the encounter. >> On your face. >> No other. >> Please let me breathe. I'm trying. Please stop. >> Let me breathe. Please. >> He's got his arm. >> Let go. Please. I have a broken elbow. >> Oh, it's broke. That was broke. >> I got it. >> Please stop. Please right off the train park. >> Please get off me. >> Stop. >> Please, sir. I can't breathe. >> Stop. Nobody's got >> your face. Just stay right here. >> No. >> I can't breathe. I have a broken elbow. Ah. Please. Sir, please stop. Please stop breathing. >> Hey, sir. Can I sit up and let you rest, please? No. [Music] The officer was still working to get Austin detained when backup showed up. But in the poor lighting and the awkward angle of the struggle, the responding officer didn't see what was happening on the ground and accidentally drove into the entryway, running over both Austin and the first officer. >> Back up. What the I [ __ ] Oh [ __ ] >> No. This way. That's >> I got to >> Hey, don't hurt me. >> I got to get out. >> Am I going to die? >> Stop. >> Stop. Stop. Stop. >> Am I going to die? >> No. Push it. >> You need to relax. >> You need to relax right now. I don't want to die. No. >> Relax. >> What's hurting? >> It's my knee. >> Okay. This is my life. >> Not yet. Can we get medical emergency? Am >> I the only one who got that over? >> Put your arms behind your back. Put your arms behind your back. >> I got him. L. Please help me. Save me. No. Don't hurt my leg. I can't feel nothing. Please. Please. Please don't kill me. Please do not kill me. >> Oh my god. My leg. My leg bending. >> They just ran me over. >> This a bonus expos. >> Please call me. >> Can I cop him? running over. >> Oh, if you wouldn't have been laying around like that laying around like that. Please have save. And please, please, I'm not going to make it. >> Keep your hands behind. >> Sorry. Okay, I need to run. >> You're under arrest. >> This is going to be all my fault, too. >> Oh, please. Oh, am I going to die? Get the water. >> What's wrong with Adam? >> It hurts. There's no bone coming. >> I'm not Carter or Jake. >> No, I need someone to do. No, bro. I just got hit by a car thing. >> Someone stop shaking my leg. It hurts bad. >> Pleaseing help me. Why is there not an ambulance here? Please, please help me. Give me water, guys. >> Ah, stop shaking it. Please, please, please. >> Yeah, >> no. >> Guys, is he okay? Oh my god. Am I going to die? Am I going to die? >> Oh no. >> Where the is on purpose? >> Oh no. >> No, I cannot, sir. >> No. Oh no. >> Oh my. I'm going to die. Am I going to die, guys? Am I going to die? No, >> Thomas. >> Fine. Just >> have some water. I'm not Jake. >> If I have to stand, I'm going to die. >> Just relax. >> Oh, no. >> The first officer has a deep cut to his right knee from the impact, while Austin suffers a far more serious injury to his right ankle and shin, leaving the bone exposed. Even through the pain, the first officer pushes on, trying to explain the situation to the backup officers so they can get a handle on what just happened. be honest. Can I have water, please? Ah, stop lifting it. No. No. Right over my car. >> No. Ow. I'm not restricted, dude. I'm not Jake. >> We both did. >> How bad is it? >> My leg's hanging there. >> My car. >> Oh, I can't feel any of my leg. >> My knees. >> I thought I was Jake. Jake. >> Try to walk over my identifier. Start fighting with us. >> I need one. I haven't took anything. >> No. >> I don't want surgery, dude. I was Jake. I'm not Jake. I don't want to die. I don't know what's happened, but I can't feel my But you're I'm in a lot of pain. Hey, sir. Hley, thank you for helping. Thank you for your good. Please be honest. I >> can't feel my hands. >> Hey. Hley, please be honest. I was digging about Jake. No, I don't have my knee right now. Holding your breath. >> It's going to make the pain worse. I know that sounds ridiculous. >> Oh my god. I'm going to jail now. I'll go. >> I'm going to jail. >> Don't try and stand. >> Are you okay? You don't know what's going on in here. Make it worse. >> This one's supposed to happen, man. I hope you're okay. I hope you're okay. >> [ __ ] him, but I hope you're okay. That's my girlfriend. >> Yeah, that's his stuff. So, she needs her stuff. He needs her belongings. >> Ow. Why is there an ambulance here? What the What day? Officer, are you okay? Officer, are you okay? No. >> God, did you get hit or no? Sir, did you get ran over too? >> Please stand up. >> What did I do? >> Till we know what's got >> I saw a guy. We were looking for Jacob earlier. He was he was standing there messing with the bike. I got out here >> called out with party. Walked up to him. >> He looks like Jacob. >> So I was like, "Hey, what's your name?" He's like, "No, it's AJ." >> I said, "I need Do you have an ID?" He said, "No." So he starts walking this way. I said, "I need you to walk over to my car right here." Okay. >> I'm fine right now. Who's on the car? >> Sounds like he might have got hit by a car. If you check his ankle, it's not. >> So, I thought it was Jacob. Believed it to be Jacob. Cuz he was on a bike, had a white shirt on earlier. He was calming us. >> So, I grabbed him by the arm. We start walking this way. He wants to go back towards the bike. I said, "No, we're not doing that. I need you to come over to my car so I can identify you with Warren and Jacob." He says, "No, my name is Austin." So, what should I say? >> I I I got to go. I'm not No, I'm not seeing. >> Oh my god. >> So, I put him in a escort hold. We start walking over here. We get in front of my car and he starts pulling away and starts to try to leave. I said, "No, you're not. You're staying." So I put him in rear compliance, start try to put him in handcuffs. I'm put going in handcuffs. That's when he starts fighting. Starts pulling away. He's like, "I'm not staying. I'm not I'm not Jacob." And then he's So I grab onto him, decentralized him once. He's able to get up and I decentralize him again. Pass by comes over and starts to help me. So I'm trying to yell over the radio and get him emergency. Pass by comes. I can hear the sirens coming. He he was helping me try to get him subdued and I hear him. I was like, "Just let get off of him for a sec. Like, just hold on to him. Another officer is going to come and help." When we get here, we're sitting over here fighting still. He's trying to grab my leg or something. >> And whatever squad car is right here came up and drove over me and this guy. >> You say drove over. What do you mean? >> Uh, I know for sure the front of my foot got caught possibly under the first wheel and he was the car was dragging us >> beside your leg. What else? >> Nothing right now. Earlier that day, officers reported that Jacob, the suspect they were looking for, was last seen in a white shirt riding a bike, a description that closely resembled Austin's. Now, as they move to confirm his identity and search through his belongings, officers make an unexpected discovery. >> Officers in right right there. Officers injured and then we have a severe injury to the suspect. Severe injury. The suspect is a green or compound green fracture in the >> I need >> I'm just trying to find an ID on this guy. >> Okay. None of this stuff is in search. >> I didn't go through that. Looks like all female belongings in there. >> There a bunch of needles and in here needles. There's no mess in here, but he had meth on them, I guess. Inside Austin's backpack, officers find a small black scale, a broken meth pipe with crystallized residue, some prescription antibiotics, and a loaded needle with meth tucked inside his wallet. But even with all this, Austin insists he is not Jacob and tells one of the officers assisting him in the ambulance his full name. It's here that his chaotic night finally starts to wind down. >> It's the from the black backpack. >> I saw his face. >> Yep. I'm working on it. I looked at his face. Do you think that's him? >> That is not him. 45 to 58. It's not him. This guy was red hair. This guy. >> Yeah, he's lighter build. >> This guy had red hair and was slender build. >> Yeah, that looks like >> Yeah, that's him. >> Okay. Is he added? >> He's got shorter hair now. But >> yeah, that's 100% him. I was up close and personal. >> Yeah. >> 45. I added the uh suspect. Austin. Austin did have an outstanding warrant against him and was taken into custody from Gunderson Hospital 2 days later on September 15th. Ultimately, Austin was charged with misdemeanor, resisting obstructing an officer, disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia, and bail jumping. He was soon released on a $1,000 signature bond. On January 3rd, 2025, Austin filed a claim with the city of Lacrosse regarding this accident. And as of August 14th, 2025, the city has approved a settlement of up to $144,000. But while Austin might be cashing checks, 68% of people watching still haven't subscribed. Be sure to subscribe and turn on the bell so you don't miss what comes next.