COPS (1989) s23e13 Episode Script

Bad boys whatcha want, whatcha want? whatcha gonna do when sheriff John brown come for you? bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? whatcha gonna do when they come for you? bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I've been a deputy sheriff for 14 years, and I've spent a majority of my time working patrol.
Working with a partner, you know how each other will respond to certain things and you do the job more safely.
Because I know he's got my back.
I know he's got my best interests in mind.
Uh, he wants us to go home safe, and we're on the same page about that.
We're going to stop this guy on the bicycle.
See why he's riding a bicycle around at night without a headlight on it.
Hi, there.
How are you? You know you have to have a light on your bicycle when you ride at night? I was going to my grandma's house, right up the street.
- How old are you? - I'm 20.
- You have any warrants or anything? - No.
Do you have your ID on you? No, I don't have my id 'cause we just was in the process of moving.
Okay, do me a favor.
Stand up.
You don't have any weapons or anything on you, do you? You got to stop! Hit him with it.
Go, go.
Turn around.
- Where you at, Corey? - I'm right here! Don't move.
You understand? Hands out.
Get your hands out.
Bring his hand back.
we're cuffing him now.
I didn't do (bleep), man.
What? I didn't even do it, man.
I swear, man.
Police be on me.
All we stopped you for was riding without a light on your bike.
He was reaching in his waistband.
Man, I hate my life.
I swear, I wish I was dead.
- Did he get up on the fence? - Yeah.
You just want to take somebody to jail.
Nobody told you to stand up but now that you did, let's walk to the street.
I'm a dumb ass.
That's me.
- Climb in.
- You guys want to You guys want to max restrain him? - Is he going to be like that? - Come on, man.
My arm.
Get in there.
secure our car back there? I came through the garage, and I tripped over something and I fust ate it, - but he had fallen, too.
- There's a gun.
- Is there a gun? - He had a gun in his pants.
Where's the mag release on this? There's one in the chamber, it looks like.
- 25-R.
- Yeah, there is.
- Is there one in the chamber? - Yeah, there's one in the chamber.
That's a round in the chamber.
We've got to clear that.
Here we go.
Looks like .
25 auto.
There's about four rounds in it.
Looks like he has a little marijuana, and a little Rock cocaine.
You understand we found the gun in your pants? You found a gun in my pants, but you didn't know I had it - And some rock - In my pants for protection, - to keep myself - So you carry it for protection? Who's going to try and kill you? I don't carry it for protection, I just picked it up off the ground today.
How about the coke? What coke? The rock cocaine.
- Rock cocaine? - Yeah.
Twisted up in that little receipt, the little wrapper.
I ain't have no rock cocaine.
Y'all must have planted that (bleep) on me or something.
I ain't have no damn rock cocaine.
Okay.
I'm going to let you talk to your grandma here in a second.
Are you living with her right now? Where you living at right now? I'm homeless.
- You're homeless? - Yeah.
Okay.
Well, you understand why we stopped you, right? You can't ride a bicycle at night without a light, okay? I get out, I ask you for your I.
D.
, and you take off running.
- Why did you run? - 'Cause I didn't have my I.
D.
I didn't think it was nothing I should be stopped for.
I had that gun on me for protection.
I mean, you took me on a good run here.
You know? Who knows? I'm just scared 'cause I really just got evicted out of my apartment.
Everything is like a domino effect for me right now.
I know y'all don't care how my life is.
Y'all gonna do what y'all got to do, period.
But I'm just telling you, my life is like a domino effect right now and this is the time that this is the era of my life to where everything is going downhill.
Can we just talk to him for just a second? Why did you - I was riding up the street - Yeah, I know.
- But that's not the problem.
- It's this and this alone.
Okay, we know that.
Do you know why you ran? Because you had cocaine and all that.
Where you get that from? Trying to help so we can have somewhere to live.
But you know what? - Let me let me talk to him.
- Yeah.
Baby, you know we love you, right? - I know y'all love me.
- But let me tell you something.
Everybody has choices in life, and I don't care how bad the situation is, that's not a good choice.
I hope you know where that gun came from, and I hope that that - gun doesn't have other things on it.
- No.
Or you gonna be in serious trouble.
You haven't even had a chance to start your life.
Do you know that gun charge carries ten years? Was it loaded? I hope it wasn't loaded, because if it was loaded, that's that's more time on you, darling.
What kind of gun was it, anyway? If they incarcerate you, you are not going to have time You're not going to be able to live your life.
You going to be institutionalized before when you get out.
Just tell my mom I'm sorry.
- If she don't be able to talk to me - It's not about being sorry, though.
No, just tell her I sorry and I didn't mean to I don't want to hurt her.
I don't want her to be stressing off nothing I do.
But you know what I need you to do, though, right now, and that is cooperate with these guys.
Quit being mad at them 'cause it's not their fault.
- You only have one - It is their fault.
No, it's not.
They have one person to blame and that's you.
You can't tell me you can't tell me these white, racist, redneck - Excuse me.
Uh-uh.
- Kick me all in my face.
We don't even go there.
You know better than that.
- I'll go there.
- Let me tell you something.
Look at my face as you touch it.
Look how they kicked me in my face after they already had me on the ground.
- If you was running - (Bleep) the police.
- If you was running - I don't care.
I'm sorry.
What do you expect for them to do to you? I don't care, I don't care.
(Bleep) the police.
I don't give a damn.
You better you know what? Okay, let's go.
I was riding down the street without a light.
I don't care.
Okay, well, we love you, and call us, okay? Tell my mom I love her.
- And I love y'all.
- Okay, I know.
- We love you, but call us, okay? - Racist bullies.
I don't care.
Nuh-uh.
Calm down! Let's go.
He's being charged with four felonies.
Oh Okay? And resisting.
Oh So he'll be, um He'll be incarcerated unless you guys bail him out.
He'll be incarcerated for quite a while.
Hopefully, this will turn him around.
Hopefully.
He's got, he's got a good family behind him, but you know Hopefully he'll make a better decision next time.
We seem to draw a lot of tourists, particularly from European countries, and a lot of times the tourists themselves are amazed that the police in Texas don't ride up on a horse with their cowboy hats and boots on.
I guess that's the stereotype that Texas portrays in European countries.
But you know, in a lot of ways, we are the last cowboys.
We don't follow a whole lot of structure out here.
We go to every kind of call you can imagine.
We've been flagged down by a female who's been assaulted and saying that the suspect is across the street at this other store in a silver truck.
I have an eight-month-old and a two-month-old son and an 87 year-old grandmother over Is that your Is this your husband or? My boyfriend that's living with me, and he has been holding us hostage, threatening to kill me in front of my kids.
Would you please go get him? Did he drop you off over here or? He went to go get cigarettes, and me being the smart blonde, I jumped out of the truck and ran over here.
What's his name? Joshua (Blip).
What's your name? Christine (Blip).
I have a warrant out.
I don't care if I go to jail.
I have the money in my purse, I mean, if you want.
If I can do a bond in hand, I will.
I have an eight-month-old and a two-year-old kid.
All I'm worried about is that my kids are okay.
Let's go to her house.
It's just right over here.
It's right there.
Did you have an ambulance coming up here? Yeah, I was going to have one come over and check on her.
Okay, ride with him.
Is it 4016 (Blip)? Go.
We got to get over there and check on them kids.
Please.
So that's where we're going.
We're going to have the ambulance meet us over there.
She tells us that she has been assaulted and basically held hostage in her home, and managed to escape, and that there is a eight-month-old baby and an 87-year-old male still at her house, so we're going to go check on the welfare of them.
be secondary to an assault.
Is that his sil? - Y'all cover him and I'll handcuff him.
- Okay.
Keep your hands up.
Turn around.
Get on your knees.
- What's your name, guy? - Joshua.
What happened up at the Taylor's? Nothing.
We went to go get a pack of cigarettes at Taylor's.
Who else is in the house? Uh, her great-grandma and the kids.
Why are her eyes black? Because she started hitting me.
- Really? - Yes, sir.
Where are you beat up at? Probably not real bad.
Okay.
She's been whaled on.
That, that's strange.
Hold him.
I'll bring the car.
She gets drunk, and she starts hitting.
Bring Browns.
Yeah.
She gets drunk and starts hitting you.
Yes, sir.
I have a witness.
She hit me first.
Your face is not as swoll up as hers is.
No, sir, it's not.
And why is that? I guess I hit harder.
Hit harder and more more times maybe? No, sir, one for one.
I don't believe in hitting women.
You just told me you hit her.
Yes, sir, I did.
But yet you don't believe in it.
No, sir, I don't.
That's kind of contradictory, isn't it? I understand that.
That's why I didn't run.
Okay, go ahead and spit your cigarette out and stand up.
Until we figure out what's going on, we're gonna let you have a seat in the back of this police car, all right? He went inside, and I jumped out of the truck, and that's when I ran across the street to toot 'n' totum where y'all were there.
So when he did this to your face, both your kids and your grandma were in the room with you - when that was happening.
- Yeah, they've seen what happened to me.
Did your grandmother actually see you getting beat up? Yes, and she's heard it.
I mean, it's been for the past, I'd say about two hours now I've been getting my ass whupped.
What started the initial fight tonight? Him drinking.
He don't, usually, he don't drink at all.
I'm in Alcoholics Anonymous.
And I'm not gonna lie.
I've had a little bit to drink.
I'm not drunk.
Like I say, he don't drink.
He is on probation.
He is in a lot of trouble already.
And, um, he whupped my ass.
He told me if I tried to call the cops or if I tried to escape, that he'd whup my ass.
That he'd kill me.
All right, let them check out your face, okay? Okay.
Grandma said she didn't see or hear anything, that she didn't bring her back into the other room and proceed to whup her in front of everybody.
Yeah.
It just happened.
She heard them arguing and fighting.
Well, I mean, I think he needs to go for assault, and if she has a warrant, pick her up when she gets done with her medical issues, you know? Yeah.
- Joshua - Yes, sir? You're under arrest for assault, domestic violence with serious bodily injury.
- How long have y'all been dating? - We've known each other for A year and a half now.
We've been dating probably Since about three-and-a-half, four months.
Is this the first time anything like this has ever happened? No.
She gets drunk and she fights.
You can ask the neighbors around here.
That one, the one across the street.
Her ex-boyfriend's boss, she beat the (bleep) out of him.
That's a little more than fighting tonight, man.
I mean, her face is swoll up.
It is.
This is the first time I've ever hit a woman, I swear to God.
She's pretty messed up.
Go and have a seat, and he's gotta get some questions from you, and we'll be back here in a second.
The female half in this deal, she's going out to the hospital, and the male half, he's been arrested for assault with serious bodily injury.
And then we're gonna meet up with her out at the hospital to get an affidavit from her.
Been with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department since about August of 2000.
Worked Lakewood for a little while, and then moved over to the east side of Pierce County.
It's a fun job.
It's really enjoyable.
You meet a lot of different people and Oh, let's see what we got going on right here.
Uh, we're gonna come around and see what this guy has to say.
It looks like I'm getting waved down.
It's a white male.
Blue over blue.
Whoo! That was crazy! So what's going on? Some guy just came out of the apartment right here Uh, the final one up from up top and came and started running, chasing me with a knife.
He pulled it out and started running.
Kind of got me a little nervous, and run in back.
What did he look like? Uh, he was about my height, probably a little bit lighter.
A white guy.
Um, shorts.
Either late 30s, mid 40s.
And, uh, I look up, and that guy's sitting on the top stairs.
He yells, he goes, "what are you looking at, you privacy rapist?" And I was kept walking.
He goes, "you think that's funny?" Then he ran down the stairs, and I'm probably right here in the street, and he's right behind Right by that curb right there.
And at first, I'm, like, "okay, oh, I don't want to get in a fight," but And then all of a sudden, I saw the knife, and then he popped it open 'cause it was, like, one of those kinds.
Popped it open So he made a physical movement to open it? Oh, he opened it up, and he actually ran after me.
- Okay.
- He chased me, chased me to the corner.
- What color was the knife? - Silver.
Looked like silver.
All I saw was I didn't I don't know if I remember that I don't remember seeing any different color, but just silver, so it could have been And you're 100% positive it was a knife? Oh, I know it's a knife, 'cause he had to flip it open.
So you saw him physically open the knife? Okay.
If you'll hang out next to my partner's car, I'll get your statement.
Sheriff's department.
Open the door! - Let me see your hands.
- Let me see your hands.
Turn around, face away from me.
Put your hands on top of your head.
- Top of your head.
- Keep your face away! Relax.
Okay.
County.
We got one I'm not going to jail? I don't know.
We're gonna go talk about it.
Okay.
We're gonna go outside and make sure you're who we think you are.
Why would you be going to jail? I don't know.
'Cause I had an anger outburst.
'Cause you had an anger outburst? 'Cause I don't get along with that neighbor, and he provoked me, and I chased after him.
Okay.
What did you do with the knife? - I didn't have a knife.
- Okay.
Did he say I had a knife? Oh, let's go down here, we'll talk.
Have a seat right there.
I was there, having a cigarette, I asked him what he was looking at, and, uh, he said some remark, and he and he started laughing.
And I walked I walked I walked I walked over there, and he started running from me, so I ran after him, and then he called you guys.
Okay.
Why would he call us? I have no idea.
He's bigger than I am.
Did you have anything in your hands? My keys.
These are all you had in your hand? Yep.
He got my goat, is what he did.
How'd he do that? Just by laughing at me and saying something under his breath.
So how would he mistake these for a knife? I have no idea.
He said he saw a blade.
Uh I have no idea what he's talking about.
There's intimidation with a weapon, and there's felony harassment.
Felony harassment? Or intimidation with a weapon.
Wow.
Yeah.
When he walked by and he looked up here, what did you say to him that made him laugh? Um, I said, "you're you're a privacy rapist.
" - "You're a privacy rapist.
" - Privacy rapist, because, um, he had me believing that he could see into my house.
Today, as he walked by, how he was staring at me and stuff, I felt provoked, so I wanted to go over there and talk to him.
So why don't you tell me the rest of the truth about where the knife is? And then we're done.
It's, uh it's packed away in boxes.
Which box? It is in my the bedroom where the boxes are in.
Can you show me? Yeah.
Let's walk upstairs and you can show me.
- I won't let you fall.
- Thank you.
I appreciate it.
I had my keys in my hand, is what he's saying is a knife.
It was keys.
I don't want to dig through all your stuff.
It's just easier if you tell me, which box did you put it in? Did you drop it in this box? That it? That's yeah, that's my knife right there.
Okay.
But I didn't run after him with it.
Okay.
Let's go this way.
Would you like to have an opportunity to say your side of the story and what happened? I don't even want to talk to this dude.
Thanks for making me lose my home, you rapist! - Hey, hey, hey.
- You privacy rapist, die! Do me a favor.
Go over and sit in my patrol car.
Privacy rapist! Calm down.
I'm going to be in jail for a minute.
Nobody's going to pay my rent for me.
Chances are good you'll see a judge either tomorrow or Monday.
When you explain your case to him, maybe he'll be able to assist you in a way of making sure your rent gets paid.
- Okay? - Please don't take me to jail.
Please.
Sir, you're going to jail, okay? Watch slide in, have a seat and watch your head.
I know I've lost my home.
Good-bye, vatos.
Scoot down to the other side for me.
What do you remember about the knife? Anything distinct or distinguishing? Yeah, I remember it was one of the kind you have to push with the button and pull out, and I remember it being silver.
Okay.
Would that be it? Exactly, that's the one.
- Okay.
Thank you, sir.
- Yep.
Hey, so you know, that guy told me the knife I showed him was exactly the knife.
Are you saying it's not? No.
I don't think it I didn't chase after him with the knife.
You didn't chase after him with the knife? No.
So why does he say that's exactly the knife you used? I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay, sir.
You're going to go to jail for felony harassment and intimidation with a weapon.
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