-Huh! ♪ bad boys ♪
-Stop! -♪ whatcha want ♪
-Ma'am, hands up! -♪ whatcha want ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪ -get on the ground!
-♪ when sheriff john brown come for you? ♪
-You are going to jail today. -(sobbing)
-♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪ -get out of the car!
-♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
-No matter what, I'm going to jail.
-Why is that? -Because I'm a criminal, man.
-♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
-Narrator: "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.
-Detective travis anderson: I'm a gang detective
With the alameda county sheriff's office.
I've been with the agency now for about nine years.
One of my side jobs at the agency,
I'm currently a field training officer,
So I get new and aspiring deputies
That come on to our agency and it's my job to train 'em
And get 'em ready to be solo deputies out here.
-We got a call about an active fight
Going on outside of denny's.
Dispatch said there's several subjects
Outside of the restaurant actively fighting.
We have a unit who just showed up on scene.
Sounds like she might have one at taser point.
(siren wailing)
(car doors opening)
(people shouting indistinctly)
-Officer: Get on the ground!
-Get on the ground now! -Hey, stop.
-Get on the ground! -Okay, have a good one.
(taser buzzing)
-That's it!
-Man: He didn't do anything, please!
He's out of his mind!
Please!
(indistinct) he's out of his mind!
-Get on the ground now! -Please!
-Deputy vasquez: Hey, I'm tryin' to grab him up there.
-Man: Please!
-Deputy layne olson: Get on the ground!
-Man: Please!
-Get on the ground!
Get on the ground and stay there!
-Man: He didn't do anything, please!
-Stop fighting!
-Please!
-He... He is...
-Get on the ground! Stop fighting!
-Please! Please! -Stop.
-Please! -(suspect grunts)
-Deputy olson: Stop! -Layne, let me rotate for you.
-Alright. -Let me rotate so you gotta--
-Deputy olson: Yeah.
-Deputy vasquez: Put your hand on your back.
Put your hand on your back.
Hey, get him on his stomach, I got this wrist locked.
-Woman: Justin, calm down!
-Man: Calm down, relax, calm down!
-Woman: Justin, please!
Justin, calm down!
-Deputy vasquez: Layne, get some cuffs out?
-Deputy olson: Yeah. -Man: Calm down, relax.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct chatter)
-Man: Can you take him to st. George?
Please, he needs help.
-Deputy olson: Hey, stop fighting.
-Man: He needs help.
-No, I said no.
-Deputy olson: It's on his shirt.
-Deputy vasquez: Okay. -It's alright, it's alright.
-(man speaking indistinctly)
Come on!
Listen. Listen to them!
Listen to them!
-Officer: Just relax, man.
Just relax.
-Deputy vasquez: Just, what was it?
Keys and wallet.
-Officer: You okay? -Deputy olson: Yeah, I'm good, yeah.
Yeah, that's good.
-He's got some really nice judo moves.
-Officer: Hey, do you wanna sit up?
Are you gonna do anything silly?
-Nah, I'm pretty good. -You're good?
-I mean, we can do another taser.
-Detective anderson: We're not gonna do that to you, dude.
-Oh, fine. -Just stay right where you are.
-Suspect: Yeah, I can sit up.
-If we stand you up, are you gonna be cool?
-Yeah, I'll just sit.
-Detective anderson: We're gonna have you sit in the back
Of a police car, okay? -Yeah, that's fine.
-Stand up.
Gotcha.
-Man: How you doin'? -I'll put him in the back.
-Okay.
-I saw him at taser point.
She deployed it, and he did nothing,
So I tried to go hands-on and the fight was on.
Pull these windows down.
You good? -Yeah.
-Deputy olson: I think there's something else on board.
-Detective anderson: Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
-He's gonna go to eden. -Okay.
-And then I'm gonna start blood bot.
-Okay. -'cause he's,
He's gotta have something on board.
-Detective anderson: Absolutely.
-And then we'll go from there.
-He seems pretty, seems pretty calm now.
But yeah, there's definitely something else going on. -Deputy olson: Okay.
-Do you see when you first got here, what was goin' on?
-So when I first got here,
They were back here by this gray car.
I stopped, I thought another car was involved,
I drew down on that, 'cause alco was like,
Well, they might be involved, and they're leaving.
She wasn't. -That's the same car I saw.
-Yeah. And I was like, alright, get the hell out.
And I was posted up behind this black convertible mercedes,
And he was converging on dad and I was giv--
I just gave him commands, like stop, step away,
Step out in the open, hands up.
He complied there.
And then I asked him to get on his knees,
And that's when he said, you wanna test that?
I'm gonna kill you.
And that's when I put that out.
And then, I don't know,
And then he started to step towards me.
I said, well, I don't have a lethal shot,
So I went taser and then I deployed,
And then you guys literally were like,
It was instantaneous.
And then I was like, alright,
Well, I don't have another taser deployment,
We don't have room. -Yeah.
-And then we went and took him to the ground,
And that was it.
-Your hit looked like it would've been effective.
-Deputy olson: Oh, it was. It hit his wallet.
-But you're good, you're not hurt? -I'm good.
-Good job. - Yeah. Hey.
Thank you.
-Hey, man, what's going on today, dude?
-I was just trying to get money from my father,
And he just said, settle down, settle down.
And I was trying to just leave and get in my car
And he kept repeatedly following me.
-Detective anderson: Yeah. -And he just
Kept following me into my car,
And I was like, I'm about to leave.
And it's just like, I was honestly trying
To push him away from my car,
And it just happened.
And then the cop car, a miss, came by.
She pulled out a gun to one of the cars,
Thought that was it, but it showed to me.
I put my hands up and...
I just wanted to numb myself.
-Detective anderson: Yeah. -Stupidly.
I'm on my medicine. -Okay.
-And I've been waiting to get better medication.
-Detective anderson: Okay. -And I just slowly walked up
Knowing full well
That they would have legal authority to taser me.
So, I just needed to numb the pain.
-You said you're on, on your medication, yeah?
-Yeah, abilify. -Abilify, okay.
What was goin' through your mind
When we walked up to you like that?
-Um...
Uh, just, oh, I'm going to jail.
-Detective anderson: Yeah? -Just--
-'cause I mean, you gotta understand,
That could have been a lot worse.
-Yeah, yeah, I know.
-I mean, you can't walk up on officers
And refuse to comply,
Especially if someone's pointing a taser at you.
You know we have a job to do
And if you do things like that, that's very threatening.
And that could have ended up worse for you.
-Oh, yeah. I mean like, it's kind of, what is it?
What's, it's not suicide with police,
But it's just numbing from police.
-Detective anderson: Numbing from police?
-It's kind of like a depressing thought.
-That's a new one for me.
Well, I hope you get to the point
Where you don't wanna do that anymore.
-Yeah. -'cause that, you know,
We don't wanna see you get hurt.
Try and take advantage of all those services
And we'll see if we can't get you the help you need.
Good luck to you. -Suspect: Thank you, officer.
-Officer willie bermudez: I've been involved in law enforcement
Since I was 17 years old.
I started as a police explorer, colton police department.
Became a cadet there and eventually became
A police officer there.
Came over to fontana.
Since I've been here, I've worked patrol quite a bit,
Worked narcotics.
We have a really good city.
A lot of the citizens support us here,
And we do our best to come out here and help them out
And try to keep them safe.
There's a motorcycle that just drove by us.
It doesn't have a license plate on the motorcycle.
We get a lot of stolen motorcycles out in this area.
And usually when they're stolen, they take the plates off,
So we're gonna go check this motorcycle out
And see what's up with this guy.
(indistinct radio chatter)
(siren wailing)
Oh, he's pulling over.
He had his bike, it looked like he was gonna take off.
Hits the gas and now he is pulling over, it looks like.
Let's see what he does here.
(siren wailing)
Let's see if he goes for it or if he stops.
(siren wailing)
Kind of just seeing if he's going for it.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
41, got a motorcycle failing to yield.
Gonna be goin' southbound down from san bernardino.
No plates, and we're gonna be in pursuit.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
Just trying to stop this guy for no plates
And looks like he does not wanna stop for us.
Coming up to valley.
Male is wearing a gray sweatshirt.
Traffic is light,
And we're coming up to the stop sign on valley now.
Through the stop sign, southbound through valley
On elm towards the dead end.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
(bike clanging)
Get on the ground! Get on the ground!
Lay down on the ground now.
On the ground now.
Get on the ground now. On the ground now!
Get on the ground. Get on the ground.
Put your hands behind your back.
Both your hands behind your back.
-Suspect: I had the music on, sir.
-Oh, yeah, I'm sure you did.
(siren wailing)
What's wrong with you, man? -(handcuff clicking)
Give me your hand back.
-Officer: You good? -Officer bermudez: No, dude,
Can you help me out real quick?
Yeah, no, he has his backpack on,
So I can't get him cuffed real quick.
There we go. -Can you take off my gloves?
-Officer bermudez: Taking one into custody at the dead end.
-Dispatch (over radio): 81, we've got the 41 in custody.
-Officer bermudez: You have any guns or anything, bro?
-No. -No? Why you running?
-Suspect: Because I didn't have a license plate.
-Officer bermudez: That's just a ticket, bro.
If even that.
-Suspect: Oh. -How old are you, man?
-27. -How old are you?
-Suspect: 27. -Do you have a motorcycle license?
-I do not. -No?
Whose bike is it? -Oh, it's mine.
-Registered to your name? -Yes, sir.
-Officer bermudez: Can you just check his bag and stuff?
I'll deal with him.
And if you can, try to get the plate
Or the vin on that bike. -Officer: Gotcha.
-There's no plate, so just the vin maybe.
The bike, it's registered in your name, dude?
-Suspect: Yeah.
-Where you comin' from right now?
-Going for a ride. -Just going for a ride?
-Yeah. -Go ahead and lift this off.
You on probation or anything?
-No. -No?
Parole or nothing like that? -No.
-Here, put your leg in.
Stand up on the count of three. One, two, three.
Where do you live? -Huh?
-You live here in fontana?
-Nah. -Where do you live?
-Suspect: Nah, I'm homeless.
Just live around on my bike.
Yes, sir. -Officer bermudez: Dude.
(chuckles)
Over no plates, man.
How long you had the bike?
-For a year. -For a year?
-Suspect: Yeah, my cousin helped me get it
Right before he passed away.
-Oh, here, hold on, let me take the gloves off you.
You said your cousin passed away?
-Suspect: Yeah, back in January.
-Alright, have a seat.
What's your first name? -Jesus.
-Okay. And where did you say you live at?
-Hmm? -Where do you live?
-Ride around. -You're homeless?
Where do you usually sleep at?
-Jesus: Just, I usually bounce from couch to couch.
-Okay. Alright.
-Jesus: Either way, I just,
Like, right now, I just ride around.
Bought some socks right now.
-Nothing illegal inside the bike,
Like in the bike thing or anything?
-No. -Nothing illegal in there?
Like, in the bike seat or anything like that?
-No. -No?
You sure? -My backpack, yeah, but--
-What's in your backpack?
-I'd rather not say.
-Gun? -No.
-No gun? A little bit of drugs?
Probably? -Yeah.
-Meth?
Ecstasy? -No.
-Weed? -Nope.
-Heroin? -Nope.
-Fentanyl? -I'd rather not just say.
-Well, if it's fentanyl, I'd wanna know,
'cause I don't wanna grab some fentanyl,
You know what I'm saying?
-Yeah. -Is it fentanyl?
-No. -No?
Alright. Alright, hang tight, man.
We'll be right back with you.
(indistinct radio chatter)
Hey, heads up, bro!
I don't know if anyone's grabbed his bag,
But he says he has dope in there,
But he won't say what kind.
-It's a little bit of meth. -Yeah.
Oh, okay. So... Oh yeah.
Yeah, he said he had some dope in his bag.
-Yeah. It was in the small pocket up front right here.
-Yeah, looks like, looks like some meth.
It might actually be some cocaine.
-You think so?
-Yeah, it doesn't, it's not really crystallized or anything.
We will test it at the station. -We're running the vin.
-Officer bermudez: Has it come back stolen or anything?
-No.
-Nothing else in the bag of interest?
-There's some cash, but it looks like just ones.
-He'll go for evading, bike's gone.
He has no motorcycle license.
Tags are expired since March, I think he said.
-Yeah. -So that's definitely
In impound anyway, so...
Shenanigans.
He laid it down when he realized
He wasn't gonna make the turn.
Hey, bro.
So obviously, real quick, it's over,
What, you know, what happened happened.
Obviously, we had to take you down a little bit
'cause you weren't getting on the ground.
-I know, but like I was telling the sergeant,
If that was a sergeant, that I couldn't hear you
'cause I had the music on on my bluetooth.
-Officer bermudez: Oh, got it, got it, got it.
-That's what I was trying to tell you. -Yeah.
Next time, bro, if you get pulled over by cops like that,
They come out and point a gun at you,
Just get on the ground, put your hands up,
Lay on the ground, you know what I'm saying?
-Yeah. -Nothing personal, bro.
You know, obviously-- -nah, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I ain't tripping. -Yeah. Alright, man.
(car door closes) -jesus,
Hey, did you know the street dead ends right here?
-(chuckles) no. -Nah?
-Nope. -Would you have kept going?
-Jesus: I would've pulled over. -Officer: Yeah.
-Detective anderson: I'm a detective
With the alameda county sheriff's office
Gang suppression unit.
Been a detective now for a couple years,
I've been on the agency for almost 10,
And something I've always kind of thought about doing
If this career didn't work out was being a stunt car driver,
That or maybe a competitive eater.
-Dispatch: It's a glc300 mercedes.
-Detective anderson: Ah, so my partner and I are looking
For a green-colored mercedes.
-Detective sterling: Oh, here it is. It's right here.
There it goes.
-Detective anderson: We have a few assisting units with us.
They're gonna help with this vehicle containment
For reckless driving and the failure to yield.
We don't have visual.
(indistinct radio chatter)
(engine revving)
-Detective sterling: Ah.
-Detective anderson: Is it these guys?
-Detective sterling: No. -Is it this street?
(indistinct radio chatter)
Where is it?
-Detective sterling: What's this chevy involvement?
-Detective anderson: Hey, taylor, is this chevy involved?
-Taylor: I'm not sure. -Hold on.
It's right there, yeah.
-Taylor: Pulling up on the car now.
-Detective sterling: No, that's not even off.
-Detective anderson: I think they're still in the car.
-Oh, we're about to go. -Detective anderson: Car's on.
(over loudspeaker) turn the car off.
Turn the-- -okay.
Vehicle assault.
-(tires screeching) -detective anderson: Nope.
Get in, get in.
-Detective sterling: Alright, car's fleeing
Towards fenham on six-four.
It just rammed one of our cru five units.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Dispatch (over radio): Westbound towards fenham.
10-4, eastbound, it's heading straight toward international.
(indistinct radio chatter)
On international.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Detective anderson: It's stolen. That's the one.
-(engine revving) -(indistinct radio chatter)
-Taylor: There's another car that's pulling up next to him
That may be giving him a ride.
Blue in color, and I think it's a nissan maxima
Or an altima.
-Detective anderson: The vehicle stopped.
I thought taylor said they were out of the car?
-Detective sterling: I thought he did too.
-Detective anderson: Our helicopter saw
This suspect we were chasing
Get into another car.
We're gonna go with the black altima
That the suspect's in.
And I think it's southbound for main from 100th.
-That's it right there.
-Detective anderson: Hold on, it just pulled over here.
We're gonna do a high risk stop here, main and apple.
It's a black honda accord, and it is not yielding.
We'll try to get a plate as quick as we get with it.
We should be approaching 105.
Alco, can you grab this vehicle and track it?
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Detective sterling: He's going wrong way, wrong way,
Wrong way on san leandro.
(tires screeching, car crashing)
Oh, tc, tc!
-Detective anderson: Get down on the ground now!
Get on the ground! Get underneath!
Get down on the ground now! -Get down.
-Get on the ground! Lay down flat!
Put your arms out!
Put your arms out now!
Put your arms out wide!
(sirens wailing)
Do not move.
(indistinct chatter)
-Do not move. -I don't have nothin' on me.
I didn't do...
(bleep)
(handcuffs clicking)
(sighs)
What the hell is this for?
-Hey, you got any weapons on you?
-Man: No, no. No sir, I don't have nothin'.
-Detective anderson: You have anything illegal on you?
-Man: I just was helping a friend, man.
Nothin' illegal on me.
-Detective sterling: They crashed, foot bailed,
And we believe the outstanding suspect
Is somewhere in these backyards
In between this block and 105,
So we're trying to set containment
And try to detain that suspect as well.
-Detective anderson: We gotta check these yards.
He hit this wall, I saw.
-So the subject jumped this fence that we see right here,
The wooden fence, and he's hunkered down
Underneath one of the bushes or trees.
The air unit saw him jump
And hasn't seen him go anywhere since.
-(dogs barking) -there's movement.
It's coming to you!
-Detective anderson: Put your arms out!
Put your arms out now!
-Detective hall: So I'm gonna have you come
Over that fence, okay?
Do you have a gun on you?
Okay, just take your time.
I-50 break, we got one at gunpoint.
Just take your time, man.
(dogs barking)
-Get down.
Do not move.
-I-50, I think we got everybody.
-Detective anderson: So they decided to go the wrong way
To get away from us.
They ended up hitting a car head on here.
-Man: Yeah, so basically, I was just driving.
Two guys, they just hopped out after they hit me.
Boom, flipped my car, they hopped out,
And then they hopped out real fast, like real fast.
I didn't know what they were on, so--
-Yeah. -I hopped out too,
Tried to run away, but nah, they just,
There were cops already behind them.
I'm like, damn, this a movie, scene, man.
-That car right there? -Man: Yeah, that's right,
That's the one. -Okay.
-Man: Man, I'm just like, no bars, man.
-Detective hall: So apparently there's clearly marijuana,
There's methamphetamine paraphernalia as well...
And a 50-round drum magazine...
As well as a privately manufactured firearm,
No serial number.
Yep.
-So what's goin' on? What's goin' on with you?
-Man, I just got a call, man. A friend needed me, man.
And I just pulled up, man.
And when I seen the police on me,
I tried to give 'em a little block or somethin'.
-Mm-hmm. -You know what I'm saying?
That's all I did. -Yeah.
So did he-- -I didn't even know what was going on, man.
-Did he tell you what was going on?
-No, he just said he needed my help.
-Detective anderson: He just said he needed your help?
Did he tell you where he was at and all that good stuff?
-Yeah. -Yeah?
That is a true friendship story right there.
So obviously that was a little bit crazy for a minute there.
Because of the collision and taking off on us,
You're gonna go to jail today for evasion,
For hit and run, and a couple other little things.
-Hey, geraldo, so you're gonna be goin' to jail today
For a couple things.
First, being in possession of a stolen vehicle,
Fleeing from us on foot, that's obstruction,
Possession of a firearm
As well as a high-capacity magazine,
And then ramming an officer,
That's assault with a deadly weapon on an officer.
-Geraldo: Why did I, how did I ram an officer?
-Well, we'll talk about that in court,
But backing into the cop car constitutes ramming it.
Fleeing from us on foot, that's obstruction.
You're also gonna be charged
With possession of burglary tools
And possession of that stolen vehicle as well.
-What stolen vehicle? -Do you have any questions?
-Yeah, what stolen vehicle? -The mercedes.
Okay? Do you need anything else?
-Geraldo: No, that's it. -Alright, bubba.
-Officer: (over radio) 132 and bush,
I've got him at gunpoint.
-Dispatch: (over radio) okay, gunpoint, 132 and bush.
-Cover's code three. -Officer: Thanks, 10.
-Dispatch: Phoenix 25-14. Transmit on tac 2.
(indistinct radio chatter)
-Okay, we'll still send a code three.
-(theme music playing)