Absolutely not. Okay. APPARENTLY HEY, YOU KNOW BEING BLACK IN AMERICA IS THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO, RIGHT? THAT'S IT. BEING BLACK IN AMERICA, BABE. WHAT'S GOING ON? I DON'T KNOW. I CAME up they were at my door. They put me in handcuffs. Okay. What are we fighting over today? I have no idea. What I have no idea. This is Sergeant Thorne of the Springfield Police Department walking into a chaotic scene where his officers are wrestling two black men on the ground. This incident began with a domestic disturbance call but quickly spiraled into a dispute over property rights and the right to remain silent. While the men insist they were simply fixing a truck, police argue they were obstructing a lawful investigation. Give me your arm now. You feel better? You get your mouth? You feel better, G? You feel better? Do you feel better? You feel better? Answer my question, bro. Do you feel better? Do you feel better, bro? No, please let my people go. Do you? Please let my people You feel better, bro? Huh? You feel better, B? Wait, here's the other pocket. Here's the other pocket. No, I'm going to help him. I'm helping him. I'm helping him, bro. There you go. Yeah, here. Yep. You want to search my booty hole, too? There you go, here. Look, there you go. Oh, you want that, too? That's what you want? That make YOU FEEL BETTER, B? AIN'T NOBODY DID [ __ ] to you. Nothing. You feel big? [ __ ] you. You feel big? Hey, this will go better for you. No, hell no, man. You weren't even here. This [ __ ] ain't do [ __ ] THIS [ __ ] CAME OVER HERE TRYING to slam [ __ ] AROUND, [ __ ] HELL NO. NO, I DON'T FEEL BETTER. ABSOLUTELY NOT. ABSOLUTELY NOT. OKAY. APPARENTLY HEY, YOU KNOW BEING BLACK IN AMERICA IS THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO, RIGHT? THAT'S IT. BEING BLACK IN AMERICA, BABE. NOT RIGHT NOW? Not right now? You ain't going to shoot me in my face NOT RIGHT NOW? HEY! HEY, BRO! BRO! BRO! BRO! HEY, TERRY! TERRY! THIS is the [ __ ] talking to me. Hey, Terry! I asked him what he going TO SHOOT ME IN MY FACE NOT RIGHT NOW. YOU need to identify yourself. If you do not identify yourself, you're going to go over to the station. >> You got my fingerprint. You know who I am, [ __ ] Let's go, baby! [ __ ] out of here, man. I love you. Hey! Hey! Please, being in black in America is the worst thing you can do these days. Cuff it up, B. This [ __ ] hurt like a [ __ ] bro. This [ __ ] hurt like a [ __ ] Hey! HE LOCKING US UP BECAUSE NOTHING. Literally because of nothing. Literally. I wish I was A COP, I'D LOCK THESE [ __ ] UP. REAL [ __ ] BIG ASS MUSTACHE. >> [laughter] >> BIG ASS MUSTACHE. THAT [ __ ] need to shave. >> I get name and badge number spray? >> For everybody. Can we get a name and badge for everybody? Shoot, man, you know what? I like YOU, MAN. [ __ ] YOU. I'M GLAD YOU LIKE ME. LISTEN, you cool as hell. WHAT'S YOUR NAME AND BADGE NUMBER? I'M the supervisor. THAT DIDN'T ANSWER MY [ __ ] QUESTION. WHAT'S YOUR DEAL? What's your name AND BADGE I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M IN HANDCUFFS. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE in handcuffs, either. All right, we're in the same boat. What's your name and badge number? Thorne. What's your badge? Sergeant. 1437. THORNE, 1437. >> YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHAT WHAT'S YOURS? WHAT'S YOUR FIRST NAME? WHAT'S GOING ON? I don't know. I came up they were at my door. They put me in handcuffs. Okay. What are we fighting over today? I have no idea. What I have no idea. Is there an argument? We just talking about like life [ __ ] Like see that truck over there? Okay. See how it's on the [ __ ] thing? This one that's smoking? No, no. No, that that's a that's a say that's part two. But part one is the Chevy. Okay. My uh I had just put in I just placed the wheel bearings. Yeah. Took it for test drive. Didn't work out. Okay. So my old truck came off and stuff, right? We just talking about like life, what we're going to do next. We got some pigs we got to pick up. So it's like nothing. So I have zero idea why these guys are here. Okay. So someone called 911 and said that there was a fight here or an argument. It was not me or or So who was it? Not me, her, or him. Okay. Did you see an argument? I mean, we were all having conversations. Like not not anything even remotely worthy of this. All right. So so what's happening with my officers today? Like why are why are we all rolling around on the ground? No, I'm asking you. I know. I I I don't know. I don't know why I'm in cuffs. Like like okay, I came around the back, right? Because my daughter came and she was like, "Hey, there's some cops over here." You see my car right there with the lights on? Whenever I pull up, you're rolling on the ground with my officers. >> They they started [ __ ] turning my arm and trying to push me around on the ground. >> I don't know. I'm assuming it's something y'all was trained to do or I don't know. >> less than cooperative? I haven't I've literally done nothing but what they've asked me to do. Okay. They got cameras. They so you see it. So Yeah, I'll I'll look at the cameras. All right. Give me your information so we can get all this sorted out. >> giving [ __ ] bro, cuz I've done nothing. That's not All right. Do you see Now we see. All right. Now we SEE WHAT HAPPENED. I'LL TALK TO YOU IN a minute. Oh, you, Sarge? YEAH. OH MY GOD! BRO, come on, man. >> is this that's smoking? My sister's. Can we turn it off? We literally was outside trying to get our car to come up cuz the truck [ __ ] up. So we tried to get our car to work. We was switching out [ __ ] [ __ ] in the car. She nothing happened. So Buddy and them came up and it and my my niece came down to the basement and said, "Uncle Bunny, the police are here and they're trying to lock my dad up." I said, "What do you mean?" Exactly. So I came outside. So I come outside and I'm like, "Hey, what's going on?" That one cop is [ __ ] around and fighting with Terry and [ __ ] They rolling around. He pushing me. I'm like, "Bro, hey, I just want to make sure that my brother good." He steady pushing me and [ __ ] Get the [ __ ] back. You know it don't even mean Look, look. Okay. It don't even matter to tell y'all, man, cuz you it's not like you're going to, you know what I mean? Take my side over his. That's your man. Y'all wear that badge. So I mean, all this is recorded, right? Because we all got body cameras. Yep, I got a body camera. Yep, he's got a body camera. Ooh, I can't wait till y'all look at that footage then. Whose car is this? Can we turn it off? Turn it off. Cuz this I'm afraid that >> Turn it off. this thing's going to Turn it off. All right. You can turn it back on if you turn it off. I'm We don't know. That was the thing. Here, let's >> outside trying to fix Turn that thing off so it doesn't Nobody trying to bother nobody. Want nobody bothering nobody. >> So here's the deal. We were we were called out. Someone called 911. Mhm. Said that there's a fight or an argument here. >> Where? Where do you see it at? Well, that's what my officers are here to investigate. Exactly. And when and when your mans got here, I told him, bro, ain't no fighting, ain't no argument, ain't no none of that, bro. Okay. He say, "All right." He say, "Why is your man falling around like that?" I said, "Can you get him off like Can you get off his back and shit?" You know what I mean? He got mad at me for saying Again, it doesn't even matter to say this to y'all because you're not going to believe me, brother. You know what I mean? And that's the [ __ ] up part. Y'all here to serve and protect, but anything I tell you is going to be under seated Well, we're trying to get to We're trying to get to that point about what why everyone's Let's just go to the jail, bro. Because y'all not going to believe me. Y'all not going to listen to me. You see what I'm saying? Y'all not. Y'all not. Y'all not. Okay. Well, I guess we'll let's go. Because no because I'm steady trying to tell them, "Bro, What you saying?" What you mean? This guy didn't witness whatever originally took place to get us out of here. He's not telling us what happened, right? Hey, hey, real [ __ ] bro. Okay. Weren't nobody doing nothing. My niece came and got me and was like, He's got the law guy in this. Uh Who is it? 213. Okay. Okay. All right. So All right, hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. How are you doing? >> What's your name? What's your badge number? >> My name is Sergeant Justin Thorne, 1437. What's your name, baby? Okay. So we were called out here for some sort of a disturbance, right? Right. Police force, so I ask you what's going on? What's going on? I told you what's going on. You said it's on the body cam, right? And you don't don't know anything that's going on? No, I don't. Perfect. Thank you. It's on the body cam. It's it's 100% on the body cam. Your officer said take 27 >> Hello, we just turned it off. >> Oh, okay. Who's got the log on this? So, uh the 13, we can cancel the log and I think I think we're going to be able to get him in a car. All right, gentlemen, what do we got? Whole lot of nothing? Exactly. Can I talk to you real quick? Um I think you know who this is. I recognize him as soon as I saw him, but he still runs back inside the house. She comes out of the house and talks to She comes outside, starts talking to us. Terry comes trapping in on Frenchy who has Rucker back here on the sidewalk. Rucker starts fighting. This guy gets dangerously close to him. I help Frenchy with Rucker. This guy won't back up. Frenchy pushes him back and then he starts resisting Frenchy. And he won't tell us his name, and he's got a warrant. So, he's going for refusing to identify. Did you guys You guys know who he is? I know who this is. And I started out his like Oh. And he's got a warrant? Yeah. Perfect. Good work. >> So, he's going for resisting, he's going for resisting and his warrant. Cool. What's his name? His name? We're good, Barge. Push it. Hey, what's what's old boy's name over here? Should be William. William DeGraphenreed. That name sounds familiar. He's got a warrant, too. I put a case on a DeGraphenreed. There can't be that many of them. Hold this picture. Yeah? Can we get in a truck cuz I need some leg room cuz I'm so tall. I'm like 7 ft. You are? I need some leg room cuz I'm so tall. I don't believe so. She didn't She didn't want I I tried to talk to her. She is uh not not cooperative. Okay. Well, what would we list this as? General disturbance? Warrant arrest. Um We don't really have any other other than resisting. Yeah, assault. Rucker out here? Hey, Frenchy did assault me, he's resisting. Domestic disturbance. I mean, that's the whole crux of why you're here. Domestic disturbance with a warrant arrest and resisting arrest? Or obstructing? [ __ ] Case details. Incident. Response to a domestic disturbance call >> [music] >> escalated to physical struggle. Charges. Resisting arrest, obstructing, and warrant arrest. Legal controversy. Use of force on private property and claims of racial profiling.