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I promise you I will do everything in my power as a city council member to make sure these guys are defunded. There will be five police officers in this >> complex 56. >> Now, former Smithfield City Council member Ted Stokes was visited by police to follow up on a crash involving his son. Stokes wanted to defund the police and was crashing out on police over what he thought was an abuse of power. >> Why are you here? >> He's asking you which car is involved. I want to know why there's two officers responding to such a simple thing. >> Cuz they're candy. >> We pay a lot of money for you guys in this city and I decide whether the budget's good or not. And so I think you should go patrol Main Street. Do your job and I'll talk to him and I'll deal with this. >> Okay. >> Go patrol. I'm not dangerous. >> Talk to him. >> Look guys, we pay so much money for this. >> Look, I don't just hang out for a second. >> Go patrol Main Street. Make yourself useful. Come on, guys. >> Go patrol Main Street. Make yourself useful. Let's not waste taxpayer dollars. >> So, tell me what's going on. >> Come down here. I've got a family event going on. >> Okay, that's fair. I'm willing to do that. >> I want to know why you're even here. >> Because there I am obligated to invest. There's a car that's wrecked down there. >> Uh-huh. >> Yeah. >> And you have already talked to the guy and said that your son had run into his car. >> Yeah. And I gave him my insurance and I gave him everything and he and I we're we already called and made an insurance report. State Farm's handling everything. >> Okay. And it's also over $1,500. >> So I need to >> It's gonna be his His car is totaled. Yeah. >> So he called you. That's what you Yeah. That's all you needed to say. Hey. >> Yes. He called me. >> Yeah. See See, this is the problem. And And I'm Your guys' lack of training blows my mind. >> It blows my mind. Hey, Ted. I'm here. There was an accident. The person whose car >> Please not step up on me. >> No. I'm telling I'm asking. No, no, no, no, no. telling you how you're supposed to do your job because you obviously don't know. Look, listen. Hey, Ted. The p the person that your son your son hit earlier has asked that I make a police report. I'm here to do that. Instead, you show up like you're an FBI agent doing some big secret thing. Like, who trained you? I want to know who trained you. >> Can I get your son's name? >> How old are you? >> Can I get your son's name? >> How old are you? >> Okay. >> How long have you been How long How long have you been impeded an investigation? >> No. Are you going are you are do you have a warrant to be here? >> I'm on public property right now. >> I'll cooperate with you, but you you I'm trying. >> No, no, no. You guys have got to learn how to do your job right. We are botching so many things in this city because of you guys. And you know that you're aware of everything and I'm aware of everything. >> Can I get your son's name? >> You can step onto my property. I will talk to you if you will be reasonable. Let's start the conversation over. >> Let's do it. >> Please. >> Okay. >> Hi, my name is Ted Stokes. >> I am here because there was a complaint about your vehicle or your son hitting another vehicle >> and the vehicle looks like it's totaled. >> And the person who made the complaint was the person who owned the car. >> Yes. >> Okay, cool. We already talked to him. I'm happy to help you out. Okay. Yeah. >> But we need your Two responding officers. Yes. For a non-moving vehicle incident. >> And what's your son's day? >> His driver's license. Yeah, sure. Do we need >> Well, you go get it, Court. I don't have it. >> Okay. >> Does he need to come out here? >> No, we'll see what happens. >> Okay. Uh, can you tell me which vehicle it was? >> Yeah, it was that Hyundai Sonata right there. >> Okay. So, I do have his uh or I guess it's your insurance information. Does the car belong to you? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I stayed there for half an hour. or I waited for them to get home >> when they gave them their I don't have a problem with you being here. I have a problem with the approach >> to responding officers >> to this >> and and we we have we what we we probably have another on main street right now. >> So what's this one right here? >> It's unbelievable. I can't believe that you guys are wast I can't believe you have him sitting there wasting tax dollars. Give me one good reason why he's there wasting tax dollars. I love that you want me to answer your questions, but you won't answer mine. >> He doesn't He doesn't dispute dispute fault. Like, it's his fault. Okay. So, is your son okay? >> Yeah, he I think he might have broke his phone. Hey, Justin. Ted Stokes. Hey, I've got I've got two police officers in my house. This is the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. Tucker hit a non-moving car on a road. We gave the insurance. Can I get a 1027 by number? >> Everything was good. I think he called to make a report just to make it fine. Two officers show up at my house. Walk up to my front door. >> 24718. >> Don't tell me anything other than we're here to do an investigation. And the other officer is still sitting here as backup. Like this is Justin. I'm sorry, but >> sorry. 1099. >> This can't happen. Like this other officer needs to leave and stop making needs to go. >> Yes. Correct. I'm fine to give a a report to this, but he like he wouldn't even tell me. He It wasn't like, "Hey, Ted, we're here. It's It's Officer Hansen. I'm I'm blown away by this just like some guy wants to make a report. We're here to do it. We understand you gave him your insurance information. Thanks for doing that, but we're obligated to make a I'm fine with that. You should have seen this guy approach." Actually, I'll send you the ring footage. You will be blown away by this. I I don't know what to say, Justin, but but that's this is the last straw. I know I've expressed my complaints, but this is it. This is the last straw. They're both here cuz he's afraid I'm going to jump him. I I I I I approached him to talk to me. He says, "You You need to back up off of me. Back up off me. I'm standing here talking to you with a Sharpie in my hand. You think I'm going to hurt you? These guys are so untrained, Justin. It blows my mind. I am done. Like I don't know if there's a way to amend amend the budget now, but I want to amend it and I'm going to talk I'm going to call the other council members tonight. I'm going to tell them exactly what happened and we are amending it. Like we are going to five officers. This is it. We need two officers on duty in the morning. We need two officers on duty in the afternoon. We need one officer on duty at night. This is the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen. Tell me when you can talk in the morning. Oh, go enjoy your Sabbath. I need to talk to you first thing in the morning. >> This is This is unbelievable. >> All right. Well, let's talk about it in the morning. I I'm sorry, Justin. Like, I know like Justin, this is culminating like the I've got other stories I could tell you. Last week, an an officer an officer pulled someone over or in front of ju just just just in front of the in the the intersection of of Spring Creek Fitness or what's it called? Summit Creek Fitness. The guy pulled over like right past the intersection. The guy was an idiot, right? He pulled over like 5t past the intersection. So, our officer parked right in the middle of the intersection and no one could make a left-hand turn or a righthand turn or go straight through a Main Street intersection for like 30 minutes while this guy did his stop. What would you have done, Justin, if you were the officer in that situation? Tell me what you would have done. You would have you would you would have got out of the car. You would have gone up and said, "Hey, can you pull 20 ft forward so I can pull in behind you?" But no, no, no. We parked the officer parked smack dab in the middle of the intersection and sat there and did his 20-minut stop. And I have pictures of it. I have pictures. I have videos. Like, Justin, we cannot fund this because it's not worth our money. These guys have no idea what they're doing. Oh, I'll take a picture. You can see both their trucks pulled up right here to handle this issue. I am I am done. Like, this is the last straw. It is the last straw. I am done with these guys. I I I'm embarrassed. I'm flat out embarrassed. I get a ticket three weeks ago for rolling through a stop sign at 7 a.m. and and the officer says, "Sorry, I had to do it." Turns out I find out him and him and him and him and the chief are giving each other high fives the next Monday. Like Justin, I've got three officers in the force who tell me everything. I know everything that's going on. Like I am done with this. Like it's it's done. Well, I I want I'll talk to you I'll talk to you tomorrow morning. We there there's changes have to happen or there's going to be problems. Thanks. Bye. >> Okay. So, does your son need medical attention? >> No, he he I think he hurt his he was bleeding his nose pretty bad. We handled it, but like you know, we're competent parents. If he needed medical attention, we would take care. >> But you think he might have broke it? >> I don't know. We're going to go check it out tomorrow and see. Like, we would we would we would handle that, right? Tell me why you think I couldn't handle my son's medical attention. I >> think he can. >> Don't Isn't that my Isn't that my It's not a right. It's my legal obligation. But it's your right to be doubled it. >> It's my right and my legal obligations. So So yeah. >> Okay. >> Uh can I talk to him? >> What? >> What do you need to talk to him for? >> Just to find out what >> I can tell you happened. He had city youth he had he had steak youth council. He's on a youth council for the church. Okay. >> He pulled out of the steak center. They gave them muffins. >> Uh chocolate muffins. You can see them on the front seat. They spilled. >> He set the muffin on the seat and he was going to eat it when he got home cuz he's fasting and we were going to eat dinner at 5. and he set it down and the muffin fell down onto the carpet. You can see where the the frosting like got on the carpet. He bent down to pick it up, which he shouldn't have done, and he set it back up on the seat. When he looked up, he kind of veered off this guy. >> Yeah. I have a sister that years and years ago, did the almost the exact same thing. >> Bent over, grabbed the steering wheel, went across the road. Luckily, he went this way instead of into oncoming traffic. >> Grateful though. No one was in the car. He's okay. Has a bloody nose. We'll look at it tomorrow and make sure it's not broken. >> Okay. Do you know if he was wearing his seat belt? >> He was. >> Do you know how fast he was going? >> I don't think I asked him. He said, "Dad, I pulled out of the the the thing and I had let off the gas cuz I'm going downhill anyways." He turns left at that intersection. The car got pushed about 15 ft. 10 to 15 ft. He turns left right there. So, he wouldn't be going too fast cuz he knows he's turning left right there. >> He should have turned left, but he bent over to get the muffin and Gotcha. >> hit it. Okay. Uh, at this point, I just need to fill out the the witness state or not the witness statement, but the accident exchange form. >> I mean, it that way both of you have the exact same information. >> Sure. >> So that you can contact your insurance company. >> I already did. >> I gave him our insurance. I hope he did, too. >> I don't have a problem with you making a report. It's two officers and it's the approach. Blows my mind, man. >> Okay. I >> Can we just >> I don't feel like I >> Yeah. No, you need to You need to You need to You need to handle that better. You need to say, "Hey, I heard your son was in an accident. Someone asked me to come make a report." And I would say, "Oh, was it the guy who got hit?" Instead, you come up to me like you're doing an FBI and gets not getting into that cuz I tried to I tried to be the entire time. >> No. >> Tried to be friendly with you the entire time. I tried to strike up a conversation. >> Why are there two officers here? >> Just Justin's blown away. >> There is a vehicle that >> No say and that that's what you said too. I forgot about you said hey there's a vehicle that's been to that's been total on a on a roadside as if we hit and run it. That's how you approached me. >> I until I get here I don't know the full circumstance. >> I don't >> the person who called didn't say >> I'm going to start working on work so that I don't waste more time. >> Let's finish this up. Let's finish this conversation. >> Hey, >> let's finish this conversation that you're up. Did you know you Hey. >> Okay. >> You said listen. You said I didn't know the whole situation. What What report did you receive? >> What do you mean? >> What were the words that the dispatch person told you? >> It's all on written records. >> So, no. No, you tell me. >> It's all I'm going to do. >> Why won't you just tell me? >> This is what I hate about you guys. the lack of transparency. >> Okay. >> Lack of transparency. All the bull crap. Like, it's done. Like, I'm sorry. You guys dug your own grave. >> Okay. >> It's unbelievable. >> Hey, Justin wants that other officer on Main Street. >> Okay. >> Go send him. >> Okay. >> Okay. You got a second? >> You're good. Coming up. >> I'm I'm okay, man. Thank you though. Uh, so this is the accident exchange form. It has your the case number. It also has both of your insurance information that's on there. Some of it looks like I haven't put it in, but it's redacted. >> I understand. >> So that >> I don't need his. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. So, what you'll need to do, like you've it sounds like you've already done it. Contact your insurance company. That's what they'd be looking for. Cool. >> Do you have any questions? >> No. >> Okay. Uh, do you want to fill out a witness statement or anything? Or does your son >> No, we're good. It's his fault. We didn't That's why we waited for 30 minutes for them to get home. >> We gave it to him. That's why we took care of it. I I expected someone might show up just to make a police report cuz sometimes the insurancees want that. I just suspected it. I didn't expect two officers. I didn't expect that approach. >> I Yeah, I had a second officer following me out there. >> It's unfortunate. >> So, anyway, have a better day. See you. [Music] Charlie >> confirming 2600 north US 91. >> Yes. 101. >> Yeah. Well, we don't have a for sure direction of travel from there. Let's do that just a little way.

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