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Today on Uncovered. Come on. You want I want the [ __ ] chief of police in Bridgeview. Why you do this to me? After crashing his car into oncoming traffic and suffering from a head injury, this former police chief from Bridgeview, Illinois behaves extremely erratic. Tell him, "Get the out of here. You and acts like he's above the law, which leads to his arrest." Officers arrive to the scene of the accident and speak to the other individuals involved, while the former chief immediately begins acting belligerent. I'm just swinging. This idiot hit that. He was going too fast. Yes, sir. Okay. I know. He was going too fast. He hit that. He's around. This car is total out. I don't know. What the This is not me. What the is this all about? Is this guy drunk or what? He might have a head injury to be honest with you. I'm not sure. I can't get in. Well, he's rattling himself. Okay. Okay, that's their problem. Let me go. I saw the fire department pull out. Yeah, they probably can't. Are they on? Let me come. I know. I know. What's his name? I was going to His name's Larry Cleck. His last he works for the I don't know, but it's last name's on the back of the license plate. The suspect is initially misidentified as Larry. However, his actual name is Walter and he worked in law enforcement for 37 years before retiring in 2016. He's got a hand in here. That's why he's yelling, screaming like that. Other than that, I don't know if he's been drinking or it's hard to tell. Okay, here we go. I'm sitting in traffic and he comes down this way, hits this thing, and then the whole car just flips over like this. What the Just relax, will you? You know what? Just relax. I was going to 525. Justice, can you do a soundex for a Larry? Larry, relax. Have to come down this way the wrong way. Let me go. Larry, just relax. Let me go. Larry, just relax. It's really hard to tell somebody with a head injury. Let me go. I work for Godamn this. Let's go. Just Larry, just relax. Relax. Let's go. Let me go. What the you? Let's go. Let me [ __ ] go. I can't see if he's got an injury or what. What the He's got Let me go. He's got blood on his face. I don't know if that was from Probably Probably the airbag. Yeah, maybe. [Music] Go. Let's go. Come on. You Let's go. Let me go. Come on. You come on you, dude. Calm down. Calm down. Calm down. Make me go. Okay. All right. Calm down. Now make me go. Calm down. Relax. You know what? I'm theing cop and bridge. You don'ting do that. You have a gun on you. Yeah, I do. Wait, let me go. Come on. Come on. Let me go. He does. Obviously, I I can't get in there. I don't know if he's got a head injury. I don't He's a village employee and his name's Larry Clemik and he's got blood hanging off his and he's he's he's swearing and all that. Larry, how are you? He hit the center he hit the center media. He was going this way and hit the center med. Walter refuses to exit his vehicle as paramedics arrive and insists on being capable of driving home. What kind of medical? I'm with Bridge. I'm with you. That's not what I'm asking. No, you're not. You can't go anywhere. All your haircuts are you can't go anywhere right now. Your airbags are sir, let me go, Drew. You good? All right. Thank you very much, dude. You got to get out of the car, climbing, let me go. Larry, don't give these guys a hard time. Don't give him a hard time, man. They're great. Yeah, don't give him a hard time. No, no, they're great. Yeah. Thank you very much, dude. You got to get out of the car, man. I'm quality. No, you're not. You're retired, man. His name is Larry. That's not Wally. Wall-E. It's Wall-E. Wall-E. It is Wall-E. Oh, it is. Okay. Hey, why why are you guys retired? It's an airbag. You were in He's got a break. I didn't put that there. No, you didn't. No, I didn't. You were in a car accident. Wally, the fire department's here to help you. Wally clean. Please. That's what he was. That makes it even better. That's why I want to take care of you. What the that [ __ ] Just relax, Low. I I know because you guys are always awesome when they go down. Awesome. We want to take care of you, Low. All right. I've never seen a head injury like that before. And I was in a fire service for 4 years. I mean, I've seen head injuries, but nothing like this. I mean, I didn't smell any alcohol on them, so I I really can't tell. Come on. Mying goddamn phone is not on me. What the? All right. Make sure he didn't try driving off with Go this way. Come on. Oh, did he try? Oh, you can't go anywhere, man. Come on, guys. You guys are awesome. That'sing cool. I can't let you drive right now. Why can't you let me drive? Well, one, because the car is not two, because you're not answering any of my Just let me go. Bye. Just let me go. Just let me go. Come on, guys. Just let me go. Well, I think it's in your best interest to go to the hospital. Just as Walter seems to be calming down, an ambulance arrives to the scene, which seems to spook him. What the is that thing over there now? What the is that thing? That's the ambulance. That's the go get the out of here. That's going to be the hospital. Don't come back, man. Where the did he come from? Who him? What the did he come from? He's here to help you. He's taking you to the hospital. No. No. He wasing that way. Come on. Get the out of there. Wally, you got to have to get out of the car, my man. Dude, don't make this harder than it has to be. Please look at this [ __ ] Wall-E. Get out of the car. Who the put that in there? What's the make of your car? Not me. Obviously not me. I think it's a Bu. Wall-E, you have to get out of the car. Tell them get the [ __ ] out of here. No, you're going in there. Obviously, get the out of here. You want to walk over there? You want us to bring the stretcher on? Get out of the car. Come on. Tell them get the out of here. We don't want to Who to get out of here, Tim? Kevin, get the out of here. Guys, at Come on, Wally. You ready? Come on, buddy. You got to get out. Got to get out. What's that? Wally, you're right here. Let's go. What the is this? Wally, come on, buddy. Come on. Get the out of here. You know what? What are you doing back here in my [ __ ] arm? Come on, Wally. Let's go. Have to hop out of the car, man. Come on, Wally. Come on, bud. Come on. You know what? I want the [ __ ] chief of police in Bridgeview. Why you do this to me? No, you're not. Come on. All right. You got to hop out of the car. Well, let's go. Why? Why you doing this to You're embarrassing yourself. Come on. What? You're embarrassing yourself. Come on. You know what? Don't do to me. Ama, leave me alone. You know what? Get him the out of here. You want You want to have a job still tomorrow? Get out of the car. Nice. You know what? You know what? Leave me alone. You know what? Get him the out of here. Let's go, Wally. No. Get him out of here. No. No. No. No. Let's go. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. Stop. Stop doing it to me. No. Stop doing it to me. Stop doing it to me. Wally, come on. Get your feet out. Stop doing it to Wally, stop resisting. Let's go. Stop. Stop resisting, Wall-E. Come on, Wall-E. Let's go. All right. easily. Wally, let's come on, guys. You guys hurt me a lot. We're trying to pull you off. No. No. You guys hurt me. No, we're not playing games no more. Let's go. I know, but don't hurt me. All right, then. Get out. Get out. I know, but we don't have to do this. Don't hurt me. We're not hurting you, Ollie. No, you did. Let's go. Okay, guys. Come on. No, you guys are my [ __ ] buddies. I know. Then let's go. I know, but don't do that. Stop. Wally, let's get your hands off this. Hey, come on, guys. I'm sorry. Come on. No. Oh my god. That arm. I have this one, guys. Okay. Okay. We're out. We're out. Okay. We're out. Oh, guys. I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry. You're just going to get checked out. You checked out. But you just hurt me. Check out. Yeah, we asked you to get out of the car. How many times? Right. What? How many times we asked you to get out of the car? You guys hurt me. All right. Well, get up now. Hurt yourself. Okay. Hop up to be a grown adult now. Get up. You guys hurt me. I'm sorry. If I give you a hand up. I'm sorry. Get up. Come on. I'm sorry, guys. Come on. You my best buddies. How much you had to drink tonight, Wall-E? No. No. Not today. No. No. Not today. Not today. How much you had to drink the last hour? Oh, let go of me. Ow. Oh, what? Guys, I'm sorry. Okay, well, get up. I'm sorry. Oh my god, guys. You hurt me. Probably the best idea. No, you guys hurt me. I'm just going to pick them up. Hurt yourself. Put them on the stretcher. Come on. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh my god. Ow. Come on, guys. Okay. Come on. I'm sorry. Come on, guys. Too tight. Come on, guys. You're You're my awesome guy. Ow. Hey, that's mying car, obviously. Come on, guys. Oh, you know what? Come on. Ow. You'reing hurting me. Well, then quit resisting. What? You're hurting me. Oh, well, quit resisting. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's mying car. I don't have one though with About 4 hours later, Walter is released from the hospital into police custody to receive his charges. He seemed to be under the impression that he'd be walking away scot-free, but melts down once again after his charges are mentioned. Give you your citations and I'll give you a ride home. Okay, stay right here. Don't move. Actually, turn around. Turn around. Face the wall for me, please. Here, do me a favor. Let me uh Should we figure all this stuff out? Um, no. You just got to just check in pockets and then I'm going to take your handcuffs off. Okay. All right. All right. So, I'm going to here. Stand right here, sir. What? Stand right here. Yes. And face that camera. You see that camera? You're going to face that camera. Okay. I'm going to move out the way. 631. You understand? Your vehicle was towed, right? What? Your vehicle was towed cuz you you were in a car accident. My vehicle's what? It was towed. Towed? Yeah. No, it's not towed. Well, yes, it was. I'm I'm telling you. Towed. This is going to be towed by you. Listen. Listen to what I'm trying to tell you. It wasn't towed. It was involved in an accident. I don't you crashed into another car and you've been and you've been drinking. No, I told by No, I pulled by you guys. Sir, I'm I'm explaining this to you. Okay. This is going to be your uh sight and release and this is going to be you have a court date. Okay. So, make sure you go to make sure you go to court. This is going to be your court date. It's going to be uh January 22nd, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. And it's going to be at the Bridge View Courthouse, room 105. For what? For DUI. Okay. What do you mean a DUI? I'm I'm explaining to you what this is. Listen listen to what I'm saying. Okay. Stop getting Stop getting upset. Okay. What do you mean a DUI? That's I'm not That's what the officer charged you with. The the arresting officer charged you with a DUI. Okay. So, that's what's going on. No. Uh well, I mean, it's not a debate. I'm telling you what's going on and what you're being charged with. And these are going to be your citations. Okay. Failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash. driving under the influence. Improper traffic lane usage. So, you're going to have three citations and this is going to be your court date. Okay. I'm not going I'm not going the I I'm not drunk. I I came from work by Oh, I came by work by you guys. Okay. You want You want to get out from here or you want to stay in here? If you want to get outside here, okay. Yeah, then I came from you. I came from work by you guys. I'm not drunk. You can argue that in court? Yeah. I'm not drunk. Okay. Okay. So then you can argue that in court. Yeah. Here you go. So I'm not signing anything. That's just a promise. You're going to go to court. Citation a notice. I'm not going to court because I came from them when I was working and I I can't you know I came by you guys. Where do you stay at, sir? Where do you live? I'm going to give you a ride back home. Okay. What? I'm going to give you a ride back home. But what about my car? Your car was pulled. It was involved in an accident. It's not drivable. My car wasn't involved in an accident. What? Okay. The car wasn't involved today. I I pulled in by you guys. No, no, let's go back to your place and see if it's there. I'm telling you, we we told your vehicle. The officer who arrested you told it to If you want to talk to a sergeant, you can. And he can explain it to you. But why was it towed? What? By your I I I'm just repeating myself now at this point. I didn't I didn't get an you know, I didn't get accident by your house by by your building. I don't know why you guys towed it. It wasn't involved. I ain't told it. The officer I know, but but obviously did So the officer who who arrested you did all did all the paperwork. He's the one be charged with a DUI and the other citations I just I mentioned to you. Okay. But no, so you're going to have to go to court now. You're going to have to go to court and argue that. I'm not going to court. I was not involved in a in a in a accident or um Do you want a ride home or are you going to call somebody to come get you? I'm sorry. Do you want a ride home or is somebody going to come get you? So obviously he said he's going to drive me home but I don't know why my car you have for your house here your wallet and everything is here. Follow me. I got to go to work tomorrow. So what are you going to do? Okay. So who told who tow the car? Custom towing tow the car. Grab your keys. Grab your keys. Grab your wallet and grab your insurance card. And I have your bag. I have your bag in the car. Okay. So I'll give that to you once we get to your destination. I see. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see that. Let me see. Police department. Come over here by the door. Do I go right back? Mhm. Walter Klimck was charged with DUI and resisting arrest. Let us know your thoughts on this video in the comments, and be sure to subscribe for more never-before-seen arrest footage.

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