Hey, so you know how I was just begging you to help me with the kids? >> We at Walmart in the parking lot with the police. So I I have feelings. >> And one is running around out here in traffic. >> Can you please try to reach my mom? >> Do you have anyone else you want me to call other than your mom? >> That's the only person. I don't have nobody. That's why are you in my That don't have nothing to do with nothing. I don't call my mom. >> You're under arrest. >> My dad. I call my babies. Y'all, please. On March 27th, 2022, a routine trip to Walmart turned into a tense and emotional police response after two young children were found alone in a car, one of them dangerously close to traffic. As officers unraveled the mother's chaotic story, the situation took a sharp turn. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> You call? >> Yeah. >> Okay. He's in here. >> Yeah. >> There's another little >> Yeah, that's what they were saying. And I got another guy coming. He's going to go inside. Um, so the one in here got out. >> Mhm. The little boy got out and then I was like, "Oh man, I hope his mom sees him." And then when I looked in there, I didn't see any adult. And I stepped out and I was like, "Hey, come back." Because he started walking out for the street and I didn't want him to get hit. I've been here for almost 30 minutes. >> Okay. So, it's been it's been a while. >> It's been a little time. >> All right. Appreciate you calling and hanging around. So, all right. You guys have a good one. able to find out anything on his name or >> No, he doesn't speak. >> No, he um he jumped up and he seen this one lady, but okay. Oh, no kisses. Give him kisses. He was wandering in the parking lot. One lady yelled, the other lady grabbed the kid. So, she went over there to get him out of the street and she was taking it to the lady. She like, "He's not my kid. I just seen him in the road." >> Yeah. >> So, I walked back out there. She said that there was a car parked next to her that had like a six-year-old in a car seat by herself. So, we went out there. The car was gone. >> Oh, the other officer got there with the car, right? >> Oh, take the car out there >> cuz somebody else called also on it. >> Me, too. >> Before he took off and so we was already on the way for that one. >> You want to go with your sister? You want me to go with you? >> Is loss prevention even here so we can attempt to find out how long. >> Hi. Can I open the door? Oh, can you open the door? Can you open the door? Can you open the door? Oh, no. Other one. Try the other one. Do it again. Do it again. Can you Hey, can you open up the door? Can you try and open up the door? Look, press that button. Yep. There you go. >> Yeah. >> Hey, sweetie. Hey, where's your mom? >> Well, I've been up here a good 30 minutes. I've been up here about 20 minutes. >> I've been up here a good 30, 45 minutes. >> I came up here to get batteries for my work and he came to me and ain't left me. >> Hit the unlock button. Does she know mommy's name? >> What's mommy's name? What's her name, sweetie? Here. You want to Here, let's go sit. Let's go sit in my car. >> No. >> Do you want a sticker? >> No. >> You don't want a sticker? You want to go inside with mommy? Is this your Is this your child? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Where Where have you been? >> In the store. >> In the store. >> Store. >> In the store. How long were you in there for? >> I'm going to call you back. >> 57128. I'm out with the female. >> Are y'all going to take them or something? I'm doing the best I can. If y'all going to take them, take them. >> We're not We're not going to take your Here's the thing. I'm at my um I'm at I'm at my wits. I I can't like So >> we're we're not going to take your kids. I get your >> I've been trying to get my girl. No, the police got my kids. I guess they had woke up up in the car. I'm at Oak Island at Walmart. Told them if he going to take them, take them. I'm tired of doing the best I can. So, >> are you done? >> Yeah. Okay, >> girl. I'm at Walmart. Girl, I don't know. Um my grandma waiting on me. So, I don't know. He up in the um So, what's going to happen? Well, so what? >> That's exactly why they say every kid deserves parents, but not every parent deserves a kid. This woman straight up left her babies in the car for over 30 minutes and went into the store like it was no big deal. A random person had to pick one of the kids up so he wouldn't wander into traffic. But the wildest part, this mom didn't give a damn. Like not even a little. >> I'm just showing up honestly. >> Do you have any other kid with you? >> I have a son. >> He's inside with some other lady cuz he walked into traffic. >> He walked into traffic. dog if they woke up. >> Okay. What? Uh, >> so some lady saw two kids little like a three-year-old got out, walked into traffic, walked inside. Nobody's around and she's saying that she was inside and she's doing the best she can. >> Is that my mom? >> Bath mom. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Where's our recording party? As long as we get a scene. >> I already got I already got the statute says something about like you already did. >> Yeah. >> So, how long have the kids been in here? >> He said like 30 minutes. >> All right. How long have you been inside for? >> Probably 10 minutes. >> Okay. Cuz we had we had a lady that saw she said somebody Is there somebody else inside with you? >> No. >> Okay. So, you're by yourself. So, we had some other lady say that she saw nobody in the car for like 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes. Okay. >> Okay. So, here. >> Where's your other child at? >> I I guess he up in there. >> Well, we need to go get him. >> Yeah. Well, Brad's with him. Brad's with that. >> So, here's the deal. Who else takes care of your kids? Just you? Okay. >> It's just me. >> Just Just you? >> It's just me. Nobody else. I called my mom to her. Nobody will help me. So that's why I said if y'all going to take them, I got to go. My grandma is sick. She's actually in the middle of um what's it called when you got camping? You doing all this and that? I got to go pick Yeah, I got to pick her up. >> Are you bringing the little boy outside? >> Did mom come out yet? >> Yes, we're with mom right now. Car. We'll bring him out. >> I know. Well, the faster we we faster we do this, the faster you're going to get go. Okay. >> Yeah. >> First name. >> I'm tired. My name is I'm tired. I'm exhausted. to take me to a hospital. That's what my name is. I'm tired. >> I'm sorry. I know it's not your fault. It's my fault. >> Mama's outside. So, me and you going to go outside with mom. Okay. You want to go get mom? >> Just take me to jail. I don't want to do this. I'm tired. >> We're going to take you to jail. >> I'm tired. I don't want to do this. I'm trying my best. >> Where are you where you live at? >> I'm trying to call my mom. I don't know the address. I don't know everything. I just got Just take them. I don't care. I'm tired. I can't I've been trying to I'm trying to do the best that I can. Like I'm >> Can you take a seat for me? I want to talk to you. >> Why do we got to talk in public in front of >> Because listen, Destiny, you just left the kids in the car and they both got hit. Okay. If it wasn't for these kind citizens who witnessed this whole thing and then helped corral your kids and then get us involved. >> Who knows where your son would be? Cuz you don't know where your son is right now. >> I do know where he is. >> You have no idea. >> He right there. >> Listen. Sit. Sit. Sit down. >> I really want my mom to answer and she's not answering on Can you get a hold of mom? >> I'm trying. >> You trying? >> What's mom's saying? >> Hey, so you know how I was just begging you to help me with the kids? >> We at Walmart in the parking lot with the police. So I'm like I was telling him, I'm tired. >> Tell her to come here. >> I'm tired and now they want you to come up here, but I'm tired. >> What's going on? >> I'm tired. I left the kids up in the car to try to run up in Walmart to get a toilet and Yeah, that's why I was begging you for help. Like I'm I'm When I say I need help, I need help. Instead of taking the investigation seriously, the woman was busy scrolling through her phone like she was live streaming the chaos, dropping every excuse she could think of. One moment it was her sick grandma, the next it was Mercury in retrograde. Honestly, was she aiming for an award and creative storytelling? >> And I had think Okay, so you don't give a basically. >> No, no, no. Let me let me talk to your mom. Hi >> Destiny. Can you call your mom back? >> Door unlocked. [Music] >> Let me talk to you. [Applause] >> So she is by herself. Her husband was killed. She's on her own. Mom, I guess lives in Belleville and was not not helping out. So she went inside to go get a plunger and I guess that's when >> Yeah, she's been in there. They've been in there for a while cuz she's been holding that one for a while. >> See that Alfred? Who else do you have to come take a case? >> No, Bobby. It's just me. It was just me and him. Nobody. That's why I'm begging her like I really I need help. >> Who's this number? >> I don't know. What is that number? >> I don't know. Ask him. >> Hello. >> Can you stop calling my phone, please? >> Is it? >> No, I don't know him. Don't tell him. I don't >> Stop. Give me a second. I'm trying to find somebody to come. >> Okay, hang up. Give me >> You're about that close right now to go in jail. >> Give me my phone. You're you're about that close to going to call DCFS and turn them over to them. >> Is that what you want? >> I don't know who that person is. >> That's the other option. >> Okay. But I don't know who that person is. So don't give no random guy calling my phone my business. I don't know who that is. >> Calling your phone. So yeah. Okay. So try to get a hold of somebody. Come up here. >> Okay. >> Otherwise, you're going to jail. Okay. >> And you still might depends if you want somebody to come pick up the kids or you want DC investigator >> out there. Let me text her real quick. I know y'all white and I'm black, but listen, I'm matter. I'm a person. >> You left your kids alone. >> I I have feelings. >> And one is running around out here in traffic. >> Can you please try to reach my mom? Do >> you have anyone else you want me to call other than your mom? >> That's the only person. I don't have nobody. That's rubber. Why are you in my That don't have nothing to do with nothing. >> Making sure it wasn't what I looked like. Okay. >> A bag of rubber. What? It looked like call my mama. >> I am calling your mama. >> Yeah. Call my uh call my grandma. Let me see. >> I'm calling What's grandma's? >> Cuz y'all make it uncomfortable. Call somebody else over here besides y'all. Call a Walmart worker. Call a random person. Call somebody else over here because I feel uncomfortable. That's all I want. >> My friend to take the phone. I gave you an opportunity and you obviously couldn't call anybody. >> Destiny. Here's the thing. We're trying to work with you. >> I know. Thank you. >> You You left your kids in your car >> for a freaking hour. >> Here's the thing. We're trying to work with you. Have I been nothing but nice to you this entire time? You have. >> Okay. I'm trying to work with you. I'm trying to sympathize with you. >> Travel with the found police department. I'm on Destiny's phone. What's your relationship to Destiny? It's your cousin. Okay. So, basically, here's what we've got. We had a situation in which uh she's being investigated for endangering the health and life of a child here. So, basically, she's going to be taken into custody. >> This woman's non-stop arguing just kept making things worse. While one officer was busy dealing with her felt like a whole different kind of mission, she acted like letting them check her phone was a threat to national security, like it held secret launch codes. Honestly, she seemed more worried about that phone than her kids. >> But we have her two kids and we're trying to get her two kids into good hands and we're trying to figure out She's kind of being uncooperative. We're trying to figure out a family member that we could get the kids with so we don't have to give them to DCFS. >> Where where are you coming from? >> That's all I got. I understand that. Okay. I'm >> No, I'm not. Don't do that. >> Stop. >> Hello. Stop. >> Stop. Let me go. What the are you doing? >> Okay. You're under arrest. You're under arrest. >> Let me go. >> You're under arrest. >> Call my mama. >> You're under arrest. >> I'll call my mom. >> You're under arrest. >> My babies. Y'all please. >> You're under arrest. Quit resisting. >> Y'all please >> stop resisting. >> Okay. Let me get up. Let me stay in the car and stop. >> Stop. >> Stop. >> I didn't do [ __ ] Move. >> Stop. >> Let me go. >> I didn't do anything. My kids is in here. This shit's recording me. Y'all is doing the most for nothing. >> Come here, buddy. Hey. Come here, buddy. Hey, it's okay, dude. It's okay. Hey, it's okay. You're all right, bud. Okay, you're okay. >> What's your name? >> Hurry up. Let me in the damn car. Y'all embarrassing. >> You are. >> You are racist. >> You're the one put >> No, you racist. Why are you doing me? What's your name? >> Thomas, put your foot in the car. >> Okay. >> Put your foot in the car. >> Hold on. Wait. >> You've gone beyond that. >> You've gone beyond that. >> I don't have a criminal record. Listen. >> Put your foot in the car. Listen, >> put your foot in the car. >> Can you call the um >> call my mama? I'm going >> put your foot in the car. >> Call my mama, please. >> I'm not a criminal. >> You're under arrest. >> No, it's not what I do. >> You are. >> Can y'all let me out? >> Call my mama. >> Put your foot in the car. >> Call my mama. >> Put your >> Can you help me? >> I will help you. Put your foot in the car. >> Put your foot in. >> Why are y'all treating me like trash? My kids. >> Hang on. >> Come here. Come here. >> Listen. I'm trying to get a hold of you for a second. >> Come here. >> What is your passcode? >> What is your passcode? >> Listen, this is serious. If I'm under arrest cuz listen, >> what is your passcode? I'm trying to help you. >> Y'all don't know this. My kids don't have nobody else. My kids don't have Please, I will act right. Look, I'm just under stress. I don't have nobody else. >> What is your What is your passcode? >> I want to try. God, my mom not Elsa, she the eler. Take me out this cuff for real cuz I can't. I'm not a criminal. I'm going to go to a public academy. >> I cannot stop. >> I cannot I cannot wait until you give me your code. >> Let me out of this. I don't know it. It's my face. >> Here. Look at this. >> It's a pass code required. Let me out of this. >> This woman seemed determined to make things harder for herself. Like self-sabotage was her game plan. Even while officers were trying to take her into custody, she kept resisting and arguing like it was a debate contest. And the way she kept screaming, "Call my mother." You'd think her mom was a magician who could show up, erase the charges, and hand her a get out of jail free card. >> Call my mama. Just press call. Y'all let me out. Give me my Give me my kids, please. >> Won't let me call. >> Can you let me out? That man is racist. If you listen, I'm trying to work. >> All I did was that. Damn. And he instantly came and grabbed me. >> Can you let me? >> Will you Can you Can you work with me for one second? Work with me for one second. >> My kids don't have nobody else listen. My mama ain't going to do right. She going to act. >> I am trying to call your know. Give me my phone. Give it here. Look. >> Give it here. >> Look at it. >> Let me hold it. I'm telling you, it's all in the touch. I don't know the passcode, son. It's only taking a passcode. What they going to do with my B? Hey, what they going to do with my kids? >> Hello, >> mama. >> Hey, this is this is officer with the Lound Police Department. We are out here with your daughter, Destiny. Are you heading Are you heading here right now? >> Yeah. I just didn't know if it was. >> Okay. How far out are you? We have two We have two police cars here. Kind of a little uh towards the back of the uh Walmart lot out here, kind of close to Highway 50. You'll see us. If you can come find our cars here in 10 minutes, that'd be great. kick in the window. Now >> you're going to catch another charge if you break that window. >> Don't open that door. Open the >> Go ahead and transport her. >> You want to switch her to your car? >> It don't matter. >> Mine I'll get her out of here. >> Yeah, I' I'd go ahead and transport the MS just >> I don't remember this code and she's >> uh Grandma was was pretty cooperative. She said uh she was 10 minutes out. She said she was literally on the way here. >> Okay, so Do you just want to transport her and then stick her in the cell? >> So >> you going to get another choice? I know, but calm down. You making it bad on yourself. >> Are you just Okay. You don't know her. >> I'm just trying to >> If you just want to transport up there and I'll be up there in a second. >> Sounds good. >> Maybe bring yourself. >> Yeah. >> What's going on with my baby? >> All right. >> Okay. You wrong. You wrong for that. All you do is say your mom is coming to get your kids. You don't you don't do a woman like that about >> I don't know what you're talking about. >> That's all you had to do. >> This woman wasn't acting like a mother. She was acting like a full-blown mess. Honestly, sometime behind bars might be the only thing that forces her to face reality. Big respect to the officers, though. They stayed composed, kept the kids safe, and handled the whole thing with calm professionalism. 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