COPS (1989) s25e09 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 out here for a little over 15 years.
I actually did a lot of odd jobs, wore a lot of different hats before I figured out this is what I wanted to do.
Actually then started off my career riding with my partner here, Phil Maynard.
I'm hoping to put in about another eight, eight or nine years and retire, if I can make it in one piece.
X-ray, Nora, X-ray will be on 65 and Tolman.
We're gonna stop this car here.
We, uh, the registered owner of the car, and they're not quite pulling over yet.
Registered owner has a felony warrant.
And it looks like we're gonna probably be in pursuit here.
We're going westbound Duke from 65.
It's a black Ford Excursion.
Copy.
And, we're gonna be in pursuit.
Westbound Duke.
No traffic on the road.
Um traffic charges at this point.
Northbound 60th from Duke.
There's two occupants.
The passenger is a white male.
Eastbound Eastbound, I think, Tolman here on a gravel road.
And we're gonna have to kind of dust it out here.
Still eastbound, still eastbound.
Okay.
And he's still All right, he's still eastbound.
Should have come up to 52nd.
Eastbound Henry from 52.
It's a dead end.
They're gonna bail right into the church at and Duke, so start a perimeter of dogs here.
Right here, right here.
They just bailed down here.
All right, uh, 979, let's go ahead and get a perimeter.
Uh, we'll go 52nd to 56th.
We'll go Duke to probably Carlton.
Get your hands up now! Get them on that dashboard right now! Don't move.
We got the car.
We got the car.
There's a yeah.
Here, let's just go up there.
Pull them out.
Keep your eyes on the front passenger.
I'll get the guy in the back.
Every passenger, put your hands where I can see them.
Put them up on top of your head, lace your fingers together.
Hey, Strawny? Yeah? Come on out.
What's up? I got her, I got her, I got her, I got her.
Do you have anything on you that's gonna poke me, needles, knives, sharp objects? No.
Who's driving? What's his name? Michael.
Michael? Hey, who's driving that car, man? Uh, 979, we got, uh, two in custody here at the car.
There's a name associated with the vehicle named Michael.
Sounds like it might be the guy who ran.
What was he saying when he was driving? He just said, "Oh, fuck, I'm going to jail.
" Okay, all right.
Where That's all he was saying? Yeah, and then he just took off.
I really, honestly am I don't know why he's running.
Probably scared you, the way he was driving, huh? All right, have a seat in Yeah, I do.
But I We got a dog.
We're gonna be tracking for the driver of this vehicle.
Uh, there's quite a few cops in the area, and we got a perimeter set up.
And, uh, so hopefully we can round him up.
We got the two passengers in custody.
Saw him run right through our backyard and over out fence.
He circled this area pretty hard for a while, man.
Like he knew it.
Show us your hands.
Ma'am, ma'am, stand back, stand back.
I know, I know, I know.
Just stand back.
Keep your hand straight up in the air, Michael.
Straight up in the air, and keep walking towards us.
We're not gonna hurt you.
Just come on out.
Just follow directions, man.
Put your hands behind your head, lace your fingers.
Put your hands behind your head and lace your fingers.
What is this for? Come back this way.
Come back.
I got it.
He wasn't coming out at first.
Nobody else is in there, Michael? No.
You got anything on you that's gonna poke me? No.
You got a warrant, man.
- I got a warrant - Huh? A warrant, but that's it.
He just ran in the door and said he was "Oh, my God, I got scared, so I took off.
I just was in a high-speed chase.
" I said, "Why?" He said, "Because I got scared.
" He goes, "I don't know why they bothered me.
" Did Jessie call you on the phone? So while we're squealing around corners, he's calling you on the phone? He called me.
What was he telling you? He called me, uh, when they came down the street.
So what was he saying? He said, "Oh, my God.
" He goes, "Mike is running from the police.
" He's got a warrant.
Probably some traffic felony, a lewd, other stuff that we're gonna have to see about.
What's in the vehicle, what's gonna be tied to him.
I'm glad you were cooperative, and we appreciate your cooperation, okay? All right, pretty soon, I'll be done with your rig, and I'll come by and let you know that you can come down and get it.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Thank you.
All right, here's the deal, you got the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have a right to talk to an attorney, have one present while you're being questioned.
If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you at no expense.
You understand that all right? All right.
What am I being arrested for? Huh? Well, here's the deal.
I got a warrant, but that's it.
Well, how about for not stopping for the police? In your car.
I wasn't driving no car.
- Yeah, you were, man.
- No, I wasn't.
Dude, you drove right by us.
- But I wasn't driving no - Did you see us at 82nd and Duke? You drove right by us.
I wasn't at 82nd and Duke.
Yeah.
Huh? Angie! They're saying I wasn't at Will you tell them I was here? Dude, really? Yeah, really, I wasn't driving no car.
No, I'm not.
That's 'cause the people in the car already told us you were driving.
How do you think we ended up here, dude? I don't even know.
All right, we're gonna walk down here to the police car, all right? I wasn't driving.
Okay, okay.
I don't live here.
- 'Kay.
- That's not my house.
He's in there.
Passenger's in there.
We're gonna need another car.
Um, let me get her out, and you want to put him in-in here? Yep.
So bring him around that side, and I'll bring her out this side.
All right, come on out this way.
All right, is that the guy that was driving? Huh? You don't want to go to jail for hindering prosecution, do you? Not shaking my head at nobody.
Yeah, you were.
Okay, I'm not even looking at her.
Is that him? - Yes.
- Okay, thank you.
Who was the dude driving the car? Her dude, Mike.
Mike? What did he say to you guys when he took off, man? He just, he said, "What did I do? What did I do? Fuck.
I'm going to jail.
" And I was like, "fuck, then pull over," you know? All right, sit tight.
Hey, Michael, so what happened tonight, man? I just want to go home.
You just wanted to get home? Did you know you had a warrant? Um, yeah.
I don't live there.
I'm homeless.
You don't live there? Is that like, a girlfriend or something? Okay.
I apologize.
I just I don't know what to say.
I need to apologize to my girlfriend, dude.
Look, people make mistakes.
Just keep in mind, nobody got hurt tonight, but next time could be different, know what I mean? Won't be a next time.
Okay, that's good.
I'm glad to hear that.
All right, good luck to you, man.
Working patrol, you're gonna have the best ideas out of everyone else on the police department what's going on in your neighborhood, on the blocks that you work on a night-by-night basis.
So if something big happens, the detectives are gonna come to us and try to get some information on what we know about what's going on on the streets in our neighborhoods.
We're en route to a disturbance where a party's armed with a knife.
We don't have a lot of details right now, but we're right around the corner.
It's up here at one of our local convenience stores.
So we're gonna go see what we can figure out of what's going on up here.
In the back of the parking lot here.
- 143, we're getting - Hey, come here! Get down on the ground! Down, down! Get down on the ground! You, too! Get down on the ground! Get down on the ground! Get down on the ground! Get down, down.
I see that.
Stay down! I wasn't even in the store.
I just bought a beer here.
Stay! I got it, all right? Just hang out.
On the ground.
Okay, get on the ground.
I'm not in this.
I'm just walking to the store before they closed.
You want to cuff him up? You ask all of them, and they'll tell you.
They pulled two knives on me.
Both of them got knifes.
I ain't got nothing to do with this! to take two into custody.
Is this the only guy then, Hobbs? Excuse me? Put your hands behind your back.
Where's your knife? I'm just walking in the store.
All right, just lean against my push bars here.
There we go.
What's going on? What happened? I left the store, went over to this Chinese restaurant right there.
Uh-huh.
He pulled-- that guy in the blue shirt-- pulled the knife on me.
Okay.
So I started backing up.
He chased me.
I pulled the brick.
I threw it at him and the other guy.
Uh-huh.
They both dug in they pockets and pulled out knives.
Okay.
So why'd they pull a knife on you in the first place? I do not know! What'd they say when they pulled the knife on you? I can't understand they language.
Okay.
Who pulled the knife on you? He pulled the first one.
Okay, the guy in the blue shirt right there.
He pulled the first one.
Okay, and who's the other one? That guy with the thing on his head.
With the bandana? Yes.
And the store will confirm, I just bought a six-pack.
Okay, you just bought a six-pack.
I'm talking about two minutes earlier.
All right, you walked over there.
He pulled the knife on you.
He said something in a language you didn't understand.
What happened after next? This is correct.
So I backed up.
I picked up a brick.
Uh-huh.
And they kept coming, so they picked up bricks.
Okay.
They threw 'em at me.
The bricks are in the street right there.
You'll see them going across the street.
Okay, okay.
They three the bricks at me, so I threw the bricks back at them.
Okay.
Then there was a red car that stopped right there on that street right there.
I believe they who called you.
Okay.
So they started going behind the store.
He was picking up the beers.
So I ran in, beat them to the store, and I told the store people they just took my beer from me that I just bought from you.
And they will confirm I just bought it.
Okay, where's your beer at now? They have it someplace? No, some of it is on the other side of the Chinese place spilled all out everywhere.
Okay, okay.
You want to prosecute? Yes, I do.
Okay.
What's your name, sir? Oscar.
Oscar? Yes, sir.
You go to the West Side can center.
Yes, sir.
I ten years in American city.
All right, un momento.
Okay, no problem.
- It's all right.
- This guy's saying he was robbed of his beers by those other two gentlemen over there.
We're walking around trying to see if we can find any evidence of the robbery, any of the beers.
We found one already.
He said they had knives and bricks.
That's where it started at over there.
There should be six cans over there.
Yeah, I see.
There's four, five, six.
Yeah, there's the sixth one.
What'd they do with their knives? I don't know.
They chased me down that street right there.
That's where the red car went in that street right there, and they turned and they stopped and they called.
What'd they say to you while they're chasing you? I can't understand their language.
They're trying to take your beers.
They pulled the knife right there.
And they kept coming after you? Yes, and that's why I ran, that's why the beers are right here.
If you check them serial numbers, the store will confirm I bought them beers just now.
He's saying we can check the beer's serial number.
That's right.
Right here.
Okay.
I'm gonna walk him back.
You guys need for him for anything? No.
I'll be back in just a second.
We're gonna see if we see any knives.
That's why the beers are right here.
What our victim is telling us certainly matches up with what we're seeing.
Yeah, with what we're seeing over there.
The other guys are pretty much trying to say nothing happened.
This guy tried to accost him up there.
They're not mentioning anything about anything back there.
And there's fresh beers scattered all over the place.
You ask him if he wants to press charges? Yes, he said he does.
Can you describe the knife for us? Was it a kitchen knife or a box cutter? No, no, no.
A box cutter is what it looked like.
Some sort of type of box cutter is what it looked like.
It was one of them new kind of box cutters, not them old standard.
He didn't say anything to you in English that you could understand? No, he did not.
Okay.
And then he kinda chased you down the block.
And I ran to that fence and picked up a brick.
That's what stalled 'em off for a minute.
And the other guy had a knife in his hand, too? The guy with the long hair? Excuse me.
I can't confirm that, but he did go in his pocket.
I can't confirm that.
So he never touched you with the knife? No, no, no, no.
All right, thanks, bud.
All right, you want to press charges, right? Yes, I do.
Okay, awesome.
We'll be right back, Sarge.
Yes.
I'm gonna take him out of cuffs.
I'm gonna go ahead and take you out of cuffs.
Stay over here, okay? Don't go, like, yelling or screaming at them or anything crazy, okay? No, no, no, I'm not saying anything.
- This one? - Where was that? Right front pocket.
Hey, guys.
There it is.
I told That's what I described! Man! The dude with the knife, he's gonna go to jail, okay, for weapons-pulling against you.
Basically, aggravated assault.
Yes.
Okay.
Hey, Sarge, based upon all the stories we're getting and the fact that he's being a lot more cooperative, we're gonna go ahead and let him go.
If you can you just explain that to him.
Since you told us the truth Yeah, yeah.
We got the story more or less worked out.
We have the knife.
And the suspect's going to jail for pointing the knife at our victim.
A two-man car's nice because you can get out and talk to more people.
We've got a really good shift, a good core group of people that we all work well together.
Um, a lot of us are friends.
So we're not just friends on the job, we're also friends off the job.
The nice thing about working a two-man car is obviously you've got your cover with you at all times.
Um And it's nice, you know, on a night when it's busy or you know, not too busy, you can go out and prowl around and try and dig things up, and, you know It's also nice working with the same person on a consistent basis 'cause you know what to expect.
Everybody's on the same page.
We're gonna see if we can catch up with a guy on a bike that just rode by us.
Uh, it's the guy up ahead of us now.
He was completely naked, riding his bicycle around, so obviously not something he's supposed to be doing right now.
Dispatch, I'll be out with a guy on a bike at Fourth and Flanders.
Was that Fourth and Flanders? Tase him.
What are we doing? I'm protesting global warming.
Protesting global warming.
Yes.
It's a protest! Making people aware of global warming.
Do you think maybe there's an alternative way of doing that? Free speech is free speech.
- Ah - Well, it is definitely gonna hurt if you go down.
Huh? It's definitely going to hurt if you crash.
That's why I watch the lights, and, you know keep keep aware.
Okay.
I'd ask you if you had any ID, but I see you definitely don't.
What's your last name, sir? Well look, if I was wearing a hoodie or my pants down to here, would you stop me? We're stopping you 'cause you're riding around naked, and it's a violation of the law.
No.
It's perfectly legal to be naked, as long as I'm not doing anything lewd.
Am I doing anything lewd? Okay.
It's a violation of city code, so you need to give us your name.
It's not Look, this has been through a court.
I can do this.
I have a right to protest.
Okay.
What I'm just asking you for is your name, sir.
Okay? I'm trying to be polite.
Okay.
So am I.
Okay.
What's your last name? What is it? Your first? Richard.
What's your middle, Richard? Gene.
Is that with a "G?" Yeah.
Your date of birth? All right.
Hang tight for just a sec.
Do you have any clothing on you whatsoever? I have some back here.
Okay.
Why don't you hop off your bike and put your shorts on? and refusing to leave.
They think he may react badly to police.
A white male in his 30s, white T-shirt, blue jeans, no weapon.
Nope.
And just so we're clear, Richard, you can't ride around downtown Portland naked.
It's not freedom of speech; it's indecent exposure, and you could wind up going to jail for it.
Well, that has been gone through court, and the judge agreed that a person does have the right to, you know, do that.
- It's a tradition.
- Okay.
It's a way to protest.
You can't ride around downtown naked like this.
I don't know how to make it any more clear.
There's kids out.
There's families out You think people want to walk around downtown and see that? If you were down here with your kids, would you want to see a guy riding his bicycle around buck-naked? Probably not.
I know I wouldn't.
Well, they don't pay attention.
You know, I just ride past them.
Well, it's kind of hard to miss a guy riding his bicycle around completely naked.
'Cause like Officer Shaw explained, if you want to protest, do it a little bit more constructive fashion.
It is, in a way.
People aren't looking at your message.
They're looking at you.
Well, because global warming And I have a feeling it's going to distract from your message.
You know what I mean? I mean, it's fine to walk around with a sign, talk to people, hand out leaflets But to ride around on a bicycle naked? I mean, definitely nobody's gonna want to talk to you and hear what you have to say.
Right? I've talked to a few people.
You're probably going to scare them away.
Actually, I've talked to a few people about, uh, global warming.
You know, we've been, uh, riding around on our When you're riding around naked? Huh? Yeah.
I was out in the park.
And I talked to a few people.
They were talking about they were talking about, uh, how, uh, people and their private smog machines are polluting the air.
We've been putting in more CO2 into the air than when the Earth was molten and, uh, volcanic.
Uh, this has its climatic effects on the weather.
We've had higher precipitation.
Now we're having a major drought that's worse than, uh, the drought, uh, since the That's fine, but like I said, you gotta understand the distraction that you cause.
We get calls You know what I mean? It just puts everyone in a difficult position.
- Right? - Hmm? - Is he clear? - Yeah, he's clear.
- So - Richard, do us a favor, man.
Ride around, protest, get your message out, just keep your shorts on.
'Cause if we have to come out and talk to you again, you're probably going to end up having to go to jail.
Mm-hmm.
- Okay? - All right.
All right.
Thank you.
So that was pretty crazy, huh? Just when you think you've seen it all.
I would like to say that that's the first naked bicyclist I've seen in this city, but that's not even close.
And he won't be the last.
Yeah, that's true.
I've got him at gunpoint.
At gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.