I'm not telling you about that. I'm not
the one. I'M NOT THE ONE TO EAT. NOBODY
SCARED OF YOUR FAT ASS. DO YOU NOT
UNDERSTAND? I DO UNDERSTAND.
I DO UNDERSTAND.
YOU JUST KICKED ME IN THE FACE.
>> On January 27th, 2024, officers
responded to a domestic dispute between
a mother and her teenage daughter after
tensions inside the home reached a
breaking point.
From the first few minutes, it becomes
clear that this isn't just one bad
argument. It's a family dynamic that has
probably been building for years.
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>> Hello. Hey, it's fire department,
please. What's going on?
>> I called y'all before cuz she was
beating on the garage outside.
And it just blew up from there. So, it's
been verbal back and forth between both
of us.
I did snatch that the thing off her wall
in her room cuz I'm I told her you got
to go cuz I'm I can't Her dog has
destroyed the house. I got to pay for
that.
The bills are mounting. Stuff that I got
to pay for.
And so, I really just want
her to go. Like I think she's upstairs
with her stuff.
>> So, what today what happened today? Is
it just arguments?
>> It's just arguments and she's just in
her room and stuff.
She's in her She's in her You can go
look. She's in her bedroom. It's messy
over there, but she's in her bedroom to
the left.
>> Hey, Rachel.
>> What?
>> Hey, how you doing?
What's going on?
Hm?
Rachel.
>> No, don't do that. He's going to help
you.
>> Hey, what's going on?
>> I don't want I don't got to talk to you.
I'm not going to talk to you.
>> Okay, well, your mom called.
>> I don't give a [ __ ]
>> I mean, I'm I'm not your enemy, okay?
I'm here to help.
>> What you say?
>> Who you on the phone with?
>> Don't worry about it.
>> So, what's going on, man? Who you on the
phone with?
>> Don't worry about it.
>> I'm here to help you. Like, why are you
Why are you freaking
>> Leave me, fool.
>> Okay, but I'm I didn't do anything to
you.
I'm just trying to see what's going on
if I can help you, you know what I'm
saying? I I didn't do anything to you.
So, I see you packing up stuff. Were you
trying to go somewhere?
Okay, where are you Where are you
>> Don't worry about it.
>> Maybe I can help you.
>> need your help. I didn't call y'all. She
asked for help. I didn't ask y'all for
[ __ ]
>> Right. Right, that's correct. She called
us. Do you need a ride?
>> No.
>> Do you want to speak to someone? Like I
said, I'm here to
>> I [ __ ] Y'all should be buying y'all her
ass. She don't good for [ __ ] She
contribute to nothing to this earth.
>> So, all that stuff is That's not my
concern, right? I mean
Right now, you know what I mean? I see
you in distress.
And I'm trying to help you, you know,
alleviate that. So,
it might not be [clears throat] with me.
That's why I'm asking if somebody else
You know what I'm talking to?
I mean, that's my job. I'm here to ask
My job is to work and help help people.
>> [snorts]
>> So,
>> I didn't ask for your help. [ __ ] that
>> Okay, you didn't ask for help. That's
correct, but
>> So, leave me alone.
I'm doing what I can do to get the [ __ ]
out of here.
>> But, I think I can help you.
>> doing nothing but slowing me down. Get
the [ __ ] out.
>> I'm not slowing you down. Have I stopped
you from doing anything you're doing?
Do you need a ride somewhere? Where
Where are you
>> don't need a ride. I want you to leave
me alone.
>> So, where are you Where are you Where
are you going?
>> your business. I'm just keep telling you
that I'm not talking to you. I'm done
talking.
>> want to talk to somebody else?
>> me pack my stuff up. I'm not talking to
you.
>> Do you want to talk to somebody else?
>> Are you arresting me?
>> No, I'm not.
>> THE [ __ ]
OUT.
>> IS IT my uniform that's making you
upset? It's Rachel, right?
Do you prefer to talk to us like the
EMS?
Tell me about what's going on.
Like I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here
to help you.
I mean, you might You know, you didn't
call me. You didn't
You didn't call and you want me to
leave.
I think they're here now.
>> Hello.
>> Hey, how you doing? This is Rachel.
>> Oh.
Get the [ __ ] out. I don't want y'all in
here. I don't want y'all bothering me.
>> Rachel, we're not
>> Is that not a clear answer? Leave us the
[ __ ] alone.
>> Rachel, we're not
your [ __ ] enemies. Like, we're here
>> Then leave me alone.
>> We're here to help you, Mommy.
>> I don't need help. Y'all You can help me
by getting the [ __ ] out of my face. Get
out of my sight. I don't want to talk to
y'all. I don't have [ __ ] to say to
y'all. You're wasting your time and
you're wasting mine. I
>> Why you threw the TV down?
>> Cuz I'm pissed.
Connect the dots. READ THE [ __ ] ROOM.
GET OUT.
>> RACHEL, JUST BECAUSE YOU TALKED TO US
like that don't mean that we don't have
obligations legally.
>> I don't give a damn.
>> We didn't We didn't come here
because
>> care. Get your NERDY ASS OUT OF HERE. GO
DOWN.
>> WE DIDN'T come here because
>> I don't care.
>> We don't need
>> I don't care.
>> All right, so
we can't leave.
>> I don't care.
>> That means you're going to have to come
with us.
>> I don't got to do anything but be black
and mind my goddamn business.
>> Are you Are you 18 years old?
Rachel,
so you're going to have to come with us.
>> Shut up.
>> You can come with us
peacefully
>> He said he's not arresting me, so I
don't got to come nowhere. Get the [ __ ]
out.
>> He's not arresting you. That's nothing
to do with us.
>> So, you you don't have to go to jail,
right? But we cannot
We cannot
leave you here. So, you can come with us
peacefully or you can
COME WITH ASSISTANCE.
>> NO. I'LL BEAT ALL Y'ALL ASSES. Don't me.
>> You're not threatening to eat a man's
heart out.
>> Threatening to eat me or touch me and
trying to bring me out of here. Don't
touch me. Don't touch me. Girl, shut
your sleep herbal looking ass up. LIKE
DAMN, NOBODY WORRIED ABOUT [ __ ] YOU'RE
SAYING.
>> Nobody called you no names, baby.
I don't know what my feelings
This is going to go one of two ways.
I'm going to have feelings that are not
hurt.
>> Your feelings don't GOT TO BE HURT. THEN
GET THE OUT.
GIRL, SHUT YOUR ASS UP OVER HERE TRYING
TO PLAY VICTIM.
>> RACHEL.
RACHEL.
>> I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
>> Rachel.
>> Hello, hello, brother.
>> I'm sorry, man.
What's going on?
>> Your daughter she probably mad at me.
And then she going to try to kick me
She literally throwing my DOG OUT THE
FRONT DOOR. LIKE WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
WHAT the [ __ ] is wrong with you?
>> Rachel.
Well, just just watch your mouth.
>> I don't give a damn about none of these
here. I'm out. Resha Lindsay. I TRIED TO
BE NICE. I LITERALLY TRIED TO
DE-ESCALATE every situation but BE
TRYING ME. I CAME IN HERE TO ASK HER
ABOUT Bahamas and I asked her about if I
could WASH THE TOWELS AND SHE
IMMEDIATELY STARTED GOING off on me. Her
soul is deeply disturbed. And she knew
all that spiritual [ __ ] trying to
nothing nothing is going to fix that.
She's the devil herself.
Rachel, that's what I was asking you
about.
>> THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU WAS ASKING ME ABOUT.
>> THAT'S
I ASKED YOU ABOUT
I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE BAHAMAS TRIP, MAN.
>> I WAS JUST TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE
BAHAMAS TRIP MY DADDY was going TO TAKE.
YOU GOT MISERABLE LIKE YOU ALWAYS
>> DON'T TOUCH ME.
>> WHAT DOES THAT GOT TO DO WITH ME? WHAT
does that got to do with me?
>> I'm not talking TO
>> EVIL
>> I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT.
>> FROM THE DEVIL.
>> I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY.
THAT'S WHY YOU'RE STILL STUCK WHERE YOU
AT.
LIKE YOU'RE THE PROBLEM. YOU DON'T
REALIZE THAT. YOU DON'T HAVE A [ __ ]
>> THAT'S all we we don't want to hear.
>> Don't do that.
>> We don't want to hear that.
>> No, no, no,
NO BECAUSE THIS IS YOUR FAULT, TOO.
>> THIS IS BESIDE THE
>> FAULT, TOO.
>> NO, NO, it's our fault.
>> You keep bringing up that law degree BUT
WHAT LAWYER JOB YOU GOT? NOTHING. SO, IT
MEANS [ __ ]
IT MEANS [ __ ]
>> WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? CUZ THIS IS NOT
YEAH, I UNDERSTAND WHAT you're saying.
So, you're going to go with
them which might be the best.
22
>> Okay, I'll leave you alone. We don't
even have to talk. Can you tell me the
answer to these questions? What's today?
>> [ __ ] Saturday.
>> Okay, how many quarters make a dollar
75?
>> Five.
>> Like no, a dollar 75.
>> A dollar is four quarters and 75 is
three.
>> Okay, cool. Is Mickey Mouse a cat or a
dog?
>> Okay, let me ask you something else. Do
you know who the president is?
>> Biden.
>> And do you know where you're at?
>> In Atlanta.
>> Okay, what county?
>> Fulton.
>> Okay, well
I'm sorry Rachel, you have a great day.
>> Bye.
>> She don't want us to talk to her, she
don't want us involved. Uh-huh, you know
>> I want her but she's throwing the stuff
on the floor. I just want her out. She
keeps staring at my house.
>> I I I completely understand that. But
what I'm telling you is
>> That's fine. If you can't take her, you
can't take
>> Right, that's kidnapping.
>> Yeah.
>> And she don't want to be assessed.
So, that's battery. I'm not going to
touch her. I'm not going to touch her.
Okay.
>> I'll piss on her grave.
>> All right, look. Just try to calm down.
You got to go with your granddaddy, so
you don't need to keep working yourself
up.
>> I'm not leaving without my dog.
Cuz she just tried to let Gracie out the
front door and go get hit by a car. I'm
not leaving without my dog. She's going
to I mean she just tried to came in here
and tried to throw fists at me. Like
come on, but she's GOING TO CALL THE
police just like a white woman. She do
she throw the hits and then want to play
victim. That's exactly what she did last
year cuz she called the police over here
in November of 2022 and I was on police
for that whole year. I mean for the rest
of them years.
She's miserable.
>> I'm not here to arrest anybody, I'm here
to help.
>> You're not helping cuz she's still
>> Rachel, that's not nice. I mean
>> I don't care.
>> What is what is
>> I'm
>> Nothing is not nice. I don't care. This
woman
>> Don't say nothing about Don't say
nothing about your mom like that no
more.
>> I don't care. She
She She She She She I don't care.
>> Where's your DOG AT?
>> I DON'T WANT HER HERE. I don't want her
I don't want her
>> Rachel
>> Like she she's just uh
>> Where's the dog at?
>> In the backyard.
I've never been so happy in my I've
never been so miserable in my life. No,
I'm going to keep talking cuz I've been
so I've been playing it too cool. I've
been too nice. I've been You This woman
says everything under the sun to me and
I said there and just take it because I
don't want to be for her.
>> We're just going to
>> a certain point in time, no, she going
to hear my mouth. She needs to hear what
people need to be what she needs to
hear.
That's why her life is the way it is.
She's miserable.
That's why she can't keep a man. THAT'S
WHY EVERYWHERE SHE GOES AT HER
WORKPLACE, THEY BEEF ON HER CUZ NO ONE
LIKE HER. She's an unlikable person and
it's going to stay that way.
People sense energy. She has nothing but
demonic energy and no no matter crystals
or freakiness is going to fix that [ __ ]
In a situation like this, the back bone
is always THE MOTHER. MOTHERS ARE THEIR
DAUGHTER'S BIGGEST HATERS. RIGHT. RIGHT.
SHE DON'T TOUCH ME.
>> RIGHT. RIGHT. RIGHT.
>> [ __ ] OFF. DON'T TOUCH ME.
>> Come on. Come on.
>> Get off me. Get
off me.
>> Come on, Rachel. Listen, if that dog hit
me, you going to go to the good jail.
So, I need you to calm your control
I don't have to leave.
You need to control YOUR ACTIONS, OKAY?
FREAKY, shut up your mouth.
>> Man, that was
>> You need to control your actions because
if you do something
Rachel
>> Okay, man.
>> I understand.
I didn't do anything to you.
>> You're You're sitting here and bothering
me. Get the
>> I'm trying to make sure this is
peaceful. So, if you're going to go
If you
Okay.
>> You catch this [ __ ] too.
>> All right. I'm going to I'm going to do
it. I'm going to tell you like this.
You do one more You do one more thing
like that, I'm telling you you going to
go with me.
Rachel, be quiet.
You going to go for this.
I'm telling you right now.
I'm going to tell YOU LIKE THIS.
RACHEL, BE QUIET.
ALL RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT.
I'M LEAVING LEAVING WITH ONE OF
LEAVING WITH WHATEVER YOU WANT.
All right.
All right.
I'm going to tell you right now. You say
one more thing.
You going to GO TO JAIL.
ALL RIGHT.
YEAH.
I'M TRYING TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, MAN.
I'M NOT telling you about that. I'M NOT
THE ONE.
YOU DONE PUSHED THE DOOR ON ME.
OH, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED.
GET YOUR STUFF AND LET'S GO.
OKAY? GET WHAT YOU CAN get so you can
go, okay? You can come back later to get
anything else.
All right?
All right. Just get what it you can get.
>> [laughter]
>> Come on. Just if you going to go with
your granddaddy, just the best is to get
what you can get so you can go, okay?
I'm here to help you.
>> [laughter]
>> Okay? You're not going to be able to get
everything at one time.
All right?
Just come get get what you can get. You
got a whole basket of stuff downstairs.
>> [laughter]
>> You go to your granddaddy's house, clear
your head.
Go talk to somebody, okay? I'm not here
to hurt you.
>> Let me hold this out for me.
>> I'm not here to hurt you. I'm not here
to take you to jail.
Okay?
Clearly, you've been distressed and you
need to go somewhere where you can clear
your mind. Okay? But you you're not
going to be able to grab everything
right now.
That's all I'm here. I'm not here to
bother you.
Stop. Please stop. Put it down.
It's going to hurt if you just just put
it down. Please put that down.
Cuz I don't want you to hurt yourself
and I don't want to get hurt either.
>> going to hurt you.
>> If the glass breaks and it shatters, it
hits me in the eye, hits you in the eye.
>> Let's not break it.
>> Okay, but can I have it, please?
Thank you.
I'm not trying to bother you.
>> I'm not leaving without my stuff. Come
on back with me. Leave from that way.
>> I'm not leaving without my dog.
>> Your mama said your dog can stay here.
>> I'm not leaving without my dog. Cuz she
the same person that you let her run out
into the street before the police came.
Well, I'm not leaving without my dog.
>> Sorry about that, man.
>> Oh, you're all right.
>> I'm not going to figure that out.
Everyone else I really No, you're the
issue.
>> Come on, let's go. You got your stuff?
>> Been dancing in her drawers like a old
lady. Like this is disgusting. She
should be embarrassed.
Go out trying to figure out how to get
out.
>> Thank you. Thank you.
>> I got it. I got it. I got it. Wait, why
do you think I put her to leave?
>> Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
>> We don't need to do that.
>> I I TOLD YOU THAT.
I TOLD YOU THAT.
I DON'T LOOK LIKE YOUR FATHER. I I HAVE
A two-household family.
Get her out.
>> I told you that.
>> LOOK WHO LOOK WHO WALKING LOOK WHO
WALKING OUT WITH THAT BACKPACK.
>> I DON'T GIVE
>> I'm still SCRATCHING. DO YOU WANT TO
>> I GOT TO SCOOP THAT UP.
>> HEY.
>> LOOK.
>> SEE?
SEE?
>> I AIN'T GOT a poopy piss in it. I'll
throw out the front door.
>> Hey, look.
>> Yeah, she needs to go to jail.
>> She got to go to I'm about to You about
to Look.
She about to go to jail.
>> Huh?
>> Get her in the car. Is she getting
>> Yeah.
>> Well.
Is that your car?
>> Yeah, that's my car.
>> Cuz she break something in my presence,
she already should have been already
going to jail.
>> Yeah, I think so, too.
You can get your own ride.
>> That truck Come here. Turn around, man.
I'm about to do this.
>> Huh?
I am.
I can
>> I'm I'm not about to keep doing this.
Come here, Rachel.
You going with me.
>> That was an accident. I really didn't
>> No, I just said that I watched you.
I'm going to This is going to be a last
time, okay?
You need to I'm right here. You need to
get what you need to get and leave. Do
not come back in here cuz I'm telling
you right now, you getting ready I I
watched you.
All right, do something else then.
>> That's right.
Now you going
We can't reach her.
>> Don't worry about it, Rachel.
>> Okay.
I've been real
I bet I'm not going to close the doors.
She
>> Huh?
>> I'm going to
I'm going to close the door
and she's not coming back in this house.
>> What else did she break up there?
>> She pushed over uh
uh it was a printer or something.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah, that's Let's close the door. She
ain't coming back in here.
All right.
Grab your stuff.
Rachel, you're not going
You're not going back in.
>> I'm scratching
You know what?
You trying to fight me?
You trying to fight me?
Put your hands behind your
Put your hands behind your
Put your hands I'm about to taze you.
All right. I'm about TO TAZE YOU.
TURN AROUND. TURN AROUND. TURN NO, SHE
I'M ABOUT TO TAZE.
SHE'S ABOUT to taze MY FACE.
TURN AROUND.
TURN AROUND.
TURN AROUND. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR
BACK.
ALL RIGHT.
TURN AROUND. TURN AROUND.
Turn around. We're not playing with you.
Turn around.
Sarah, step back. I ain't being nice no
more. I'M TAZING.
SHE'LL BE ALL RIGHT.
Ain't nobody on her.
She'll be all right.
Nobody is on you. Only thing you got to
do is let your hands go.
Let your hands go.
You got You got to get tazed.
You're going to get tazed.
You don't You don't kick me in the face.
You're going to jail. Yes, you did.
You're going to jail.
You just tried to bite me.
I promise you you're going to get tazed.
You are going to get tazed. You don't
kick me in the face. You just KICKED ME
AGAIN.
I AIN'T GOING TO TAKE YOU. LONG.
>> Everything is on the floor.
>> I just want you to stop.
Stop. You're hurting me.
>> All you got to do is calm down. You're
over here fighting. Told you to calm
down.
>> Stop.
>> She going to cause injury to herself.
>> Wait.
>> [laughter]
>> Subject keeps banging her head.
>> I didn't do anything.
>> Banging on the wall. Start the paperwork
right here.
Go ahead and start your paperwork. Give
me your social security number.
>> I just want you to stop.
>> about that. Warrants.
>> I just want you to stop hurting me.
>> No, you keep hurting yourself.
>> pressing my head.
>> All right. All right. You got to stop,
baby. You had to calm down.
>> [laughter]
>> What they were trying to call me? No, I
can't because I didn't know Giles didn't
come.
And I know what the call was.
She's supposed to be walking with
granddaddy, but she kept pushing and
knocking over stuff. Knocked I told her
she had one more time.
>> I just want you to stop
You don't understand.
>> I do understand. You can't hit us.
>> I do understand.
>> You can't hit us.
>> I didn't
>> You just kicked me in the face.
>> You kicked me in my
face.
>> And you tried to bite him.
>> I just WANT YOU TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT
I SAW.
>> IT'S NOT A JOKE.
>> I KNOW all everything that I saw. I know
I bit you, but I did not kick you.
>> Yes, you did.
>> Well, I apologize.
>> It doesn't matter. It's too late for
that. It's too late for that.
>> Cuz you were hurting me.
>> I was If you would have just put your
hands behind your back the first time,
nobody would have been taking you to the
ground.
>> You're going to take me to jail.
>> I told you. Just get your stuff. We can
come back later.
>> I'm tired of this.
>> It does not matter. You can't kick
anybody [laughter] but yourself.
>> You were hurting me.
>> If I kick somebody in the face, I would
go to jail in uniform.
>> Yeah.
>> That's what I'm saying.
>> You were hurting me.
You were really
hurting me.
>> That's what you need.
>> You're hurting [laughter] me.
>> I didn't do anything to you.
>> You were hurting
I want All loosened. and hurting my
wrist.
>> I know you are not coming to the car.
Realize where you are?
>> I want water.
>> She needs to say she is in custody.
>> [laughter]
>> I'm not hurting you.
I'm not hurting you.
>> There's your water.
>> Just give me what you
What you doing?
>> Let me go.
>> Yeah, I do.
>> I want to get out of here.
>> Watch out, sir. Back up, please. You
keep fighting. You keep fighting.
>> I want you to let me go.
>> You keep fighting. Nobody is letting you
go.
You keep fighting. It might be too big.
Just put it on that side.
>> No.
>> Nobody got their hand on your throat.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
My My hand is on your My hand is on your
chin. My hand is on your chin.
No, chin.
>> No, I'm serious. Like for real. You're
hurting me.
>> No, [laughter] it's not moving.
>> I can't breathe.
No, I'm serious. Can you just stop
talking because then you
>> [ __ ] up, white [ __ ]
>> I can't breathe because you're talking.
>> [laughter]
>> No!
>> Tighten it.
>> No!
>> If you start fighting, we will let you
We will relax you.
>> Okay, okay.
>> But you keep fighting. Calm down.
Calm down.
>> It hurts so bad. My wrist bone IS
GETTING HURT.
>> ALL RIGHT. All right, listen. All right,
LISTEN. LISTEN. LISTEN.
CALM down and we can adjust it for you.
>> IT HURTS.
>> [screaming]
>> NOW YOU'RE FIGHTING US WITH THE CUFFS.
SO YOU GOT TO CALM DOWN.
You got to calm down.
Listen. We can't help you Calm down. We
can adjust it for you. What's hurting on
you?
Calm down and stand up. What's hurting
on you?
>> It's my wrist. It's squeezing my wrist
bone. Like that bone right there.
>> Okay, okay. Okay, step back for me.
Yes.
>> Step back further for me.
>> When you come battling us, we can't put
it on correctly cuz you're fighting us.
Stop moving.
>> I'm trying to get it off for you.
>> help you. Stay still.
>> This bone right here and right here.
>> All right, give him a second. He's
trying to loosen it. Just stay still.
You should be feeling better now.
>> No, it still pain on them skinny.
>> Well, call saying man for coffee.
You're supposed to be in this detention
block.
Go on with granddaddy.
Stop.
And you And you bit me in my right hand.
And then you kicked the sergeant.
>> I didn't mean to kick you. But I meant
to bite you, but I didn't mean to kick
you.
>> you didn't you didn't you meant to bite
me? Why did you want to bite me?
>> Cuz you were hurting me.
>> hurting you.
>> It was hurting me.
>> I was stopping you from going in the
house.
>> It was hurting me like when my dad used
to hit me. I used to scratch him when he
was hurting me.
>> your dad.
>> I don't care. If I'm in danger and I
feel like I'm being hurt, I'm going to
hurt you cuz you was hurting me.
>> I was doing was stopping you from going
in there.
>> No, you manhandled me and snatched me.
>> That wasn't [laughter] that.
>> Last time I got hurt happened to me was
my dad. You know my fight or flight
kicked in. [laughter]
>> And
you lucky you didn't get tased. I'm
going to take you to let her go 10-13.
And we're going to get the warrants out.
>> I don't want to go to 10-13. I just got
out of Emory.
>> Oh, you going to take You take You
definitely 10-13. You don't say you want
to
>> I did not say I wanted
I said I wanted y'all to
>> Okay, that's the same thing.
>> I don't want to really 10-13. I don't
even
want to go to
I don't want to I'd rather go to jail.
Please don't send me there.
>> late. Okay, take it to jail. Listen,
the jail's not going to take you.
>> No, you can take me to jail. I don't
want to go back to
Please don't take me to
>> Thank you.
>> Please don't want to
>> too much. You trying to go to the jail.
>> I don't want to go to
I don't want to go to the air.
>> Jail's not going to take you. In your
condition right now?
>> I'm not
I'm just hurt cuz my own mother. Imagine
Imagine the only thing you wanted was a
mother's love and she treated you like
this. It's damaging and does a lot to
your character.
I'm not
I'm just tired.
>> say that?
You have to go to jail because let's say
you go to
Let's say you go to
to jail and
Carolina. So we're not playing that.
We're not We're not even going to risk
it.
They hit up
They hit your head against the car. Bang
your head against the car.
>> I want y'all to let me go.
Of course I'm going to do that. Anyone
would do that. I just want to get out of
this situation.
>> No, anyone would.
>> I just want to lay down.
>> Listen.
>> [laughter]
>> I told you up there. You called me all
the names in the world, right? I sat
down.
>> I'm literally the victim. She called the
police on me. This is the same reason
I don't want to
I don't
No.
I don't want
you to do that to me.
>> I gave you so many warnings. How many
warnings did I give you? I said,
"Listen."
>> 15, but still I don't want to
>> I gave you 15 warnings.
>> That was an accident. I stopped doing it
like I was good. I don't even know why I
did
>> You kicked me in the face.
>> It was an accident, but I was trying to
get away.
>> Cool. It was an accident. Cool. That's
That's not an accident.
>> No, wait. Why would I intentionally kick
this man in the face? Be for real. Why
would I kick him?
>> You were fighting TO GET LOOSE.
>> YEAH, BUT I did not mean to kick you in
the face. You
>> But you meant to bite me, though.
>> That's still
>> Yes, cuz you were hurting me.
I don't want to do this. Oh. I don't
want to do this.
Just take me [laughter] to jail.
>> Well, that's where you were
going at first, but
>> I don't want to do this.
>> Well, you were actually supposed to go
with granddaddy. Remember?
>> Please, don't I want to go
I don't want to do this.
Help me.
Help me.
Help me.
Help me, mama.
I don't want
>> You will help me when you get out.
>> Who are we waiting on?
>> We're waiting on the ambulance.
>> I don't want to get in that ambulance.
>> You don't want to have a choice.
>> want them to sedate me.
I don't want to do none of this.
Please, I believe.
Please.
>> That's fine.
>> Please.
I don't want to do this.
No.
>> Yeah, she's not going to
>> No.
>> The way she's acting She's fighting us.
They're not going to take her while
she's fighting like this. They're not.
She already said she don't want to go to
the
>> I don't want to go to the jail.
>> Please, I will act normal if you take me
the jail.
>> She got knots on her head. She's
suffering bigger wounds on herself.
I think raising those kids is too much
for her. She's already saying she wants
to
>> Please, I'm tired.
I'm just tired.
Tired. I don't have
Please.
Do you get that stuff at the door and
put it in your car?
I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do this.
NO.
NO.
NO.
>> YOU KNOW you know I'm with you. I'm not
I'm not I'm not
>> Why don't you let her go, police
officer? She do this every time. And she
always play victim.
I don't want
>> What she said is the same thing.
>> I don't want to
I don't want to go, please. Don't take
me there.
Please, I'm
Please.
Please.
Please, don't take me
>> Wait, you're going to be all right.
>> No.
>> You're going to be all right. I'm going
to come down and take care of
I'll be right there with you. Don't
think don't think you're leaving
yourself.
So, she's getting ready to leave with
the grandpa. I stopped her from going
cuz she's been terrorizing the house.
So, I stopped her from going to the
station.
>> Everything.
>> So, pretty much I I was like, "You know
what? If you're going to go with me to
the jail. She started fighting us. She
started fighting us. She started biting
me. She kicked him.
And then she started banging her head.
Once we got her in the car, she started
banging her head, banging her head. SHE
WANTS SOME
>> NO.
NO.
>> I'M SORRY.
>> NO.
>> HUH?
LIKE HOW LONG TODAY?
>> YEAH.
>> PLEASE.
PLEASE.
PLEASE.
I don't want to go.
>> Okay, so listen. Listen. We're going to
sit with you before we go, okay?
Why are you saying that?
Okay?
>> Please.
>> I'm going to stop. No, I'm not going to
stop. Listen, this is There's a
>> Slide it up. Slide it up. Slide it
No.
>> There is no reason to go.
>> NO.
NO.
NO.
>> WE'RE WORKING ON THE RESTRAINTS.
>> NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
NO.
>> TALK TO THESE PEOPLE.
TALK TO THEM.
>> I don't want to.
>> You're going to have to. You're going to
have to.
>> I don't want to.
I DON'T
I DON'T WANT
I DON'T WANT TO.
I'M NOT GOING TO KICK YOU.
NO, I'M NOT GOING TO kick you. That was
an accident. That means I have to say I
got to save you.
Ow. You're putting too much pressure on
my shoulder. Ow.
>> What's up? Slide your butt. You're
pushing up. Is that better? Okay.
[laughter]
>> I don't want to do this.
I don't care.
>> [crying]
>> Ow.
>> We'll get her out.
>> Ow.
>> Yeah, we'll get her out.
>> Ow.
OW.
LET ME GO.
OW.
>> RACHEL'S REAL PROBLEM ISN'T THAT NOBODY
OFFERS HER A way out. It's that every
available way out requires her to give
up the final word. That distinction
explains almost everything in this
encounter. The officers do not arrive
determined to arrest her. Her
grandfather is willing to take her. She
is allowed to gather belongings. She is
repeatedly told that she can return
later for anything she cannot carry.
Even after threatening emergency workers
and insulting nearly every adult around
her, the basic plan remains surprisingly
generous. Leave the house, cool down,
and let the situation breathe. But
Rachel does not seem interested in
leaving peacefully. She wants to leave
after defeating her mother, humiliating
the officers, securing every possession,
taking the dog, and proving that nobody
has the authority to limit her.
The practical goal and the emotional
goal are completely different. The
practical goal is to get out of a toxic
house. The emotional goal is to win. And
that is why every solution fails.
She experiences even gentle direction as
an attempt to dominate her. Questions
sound like interrogation. Assistance
sounds like control. Physical boundaries
feel like personal attacks.
When someone is operating from that
mindset, cooperation starts to feel like
surrender and escalation starts to feel
like self-respect. That doesn't mean her
anger came from nowhere. The family
environment sounds deeply unhealthy.
Rachel describes feeling rejected,
mistreated, and physically harmed in the
past.
Her relationship with her mother appears
built around resentment rather than
trust. The mother sounds exhausted and
openly wants her gone.
Rachel, meanwhile, speaks as though she
has spent years collecting every insult,
grievance, and emotional injury until
the entire relationship has become one
long argument waiting for a trigger.
I believe there is real pain underneath
her behavior. But real pain does not
make every response reasonable.
Rachel repeatedly uses her suffering as
if it should exempt her from
consequences. She is hurt, therefore
everyone must tolerate the threats. She
feels rejected, therefore property
destruction becomes understandable.
Physical restraint reminds her of past
experiences, therefore biting and
kicking become self-defense in her mind.
That logic may feel emotionally coherent
to her, but legally and socially it
collapses very quickly.
Trauma can explain why a nervous system
reacts violently. It cannot
automatically justify attacking people
who are trying to stop the violence.
The officers actually handle that
distinction better than most people
would. They recognize that she is
distressed without pretending that
distress makes her harmless.
They speak to her calmly, offer
alternatives, involve medical personnel,
and try to avoid turning the encounter
into an arrest. They do not demand
politeness as the price of assistance.
She is allowed to insult them for for
almost absurd amount of time while they
continue looking for a peaceful
resolution. In my view, their patience
is both the strongest and weakest part
of the response.
It shows impressive restraint. Rachel
threatens them, mocks them, degrades
them, and repeatedly rejects clear
instructions. Yet they continue trying
to help. That level of emotional
discipline is rare. At the same time,
they may be patient for too long.
When someone receives warning after
warning without consequence, the
warnings begin to sound negotiable.
Rachel seems to learn that every last
chance will be followed by another last
chance.
The officers are trying to avoid force,
but the delay may unintentionally
strengthen her belief that she still
controls the encounter.
A boundary only works when the person
eventually discovers that it is real.
Her grandfather's role reflects the same
problem on a family level. He clearly
loves her.
His instinct is to protect, comfort, and
remove her from the conflict.
That is understandable and probably
comes from a good place.
But there is a thin line between helping
someone through a crisis and repeatedly
rescuing them from the consequences that
might force change.
Rachel seems to expect rescue. No matter
how aggressively she behaves, somebody
will arrive to soften the landing. Her
mother may call police, but grandpa will
take her. Officers may warn her, but
they will keep negotiating. She may
destroy property, but the conversation
will remain focused on how upset she
feels.
Over time, that can teach a person that
emotional intensity is an effective
tool.
Become loud enough, distressed enough,
or difficult enough, and eventually
everyone else reorganizes around you.
That pattern is not compassion anymore.
It is reinforcement. Her comments toward
her mother expose another contradiction.
Rachel mocks her for struggling
financially, for not having a successful
career, and for being unable to maintain
relationships,
while Rachel herself is living in that
same woman's home and relying on the
family system she claims to despise.
That doesn't invalidate her complaints
about the mother. A parent can provide
housing and still be emotionally
harmful, but it does reveal how inflated
Rachel's sense of independence is. She
speaks like someone completely above the
household while still being materially
dependent on it.
That gap between self-image and reality
is part of what makes any limit feel
unbearable.
She wants adult autonomy without adult
restraint. That is why this is bigger
than a disrespectful teenager.
Disrespect is only the surface.
Underneath it is an inability to
regulate emotion once another person
says no.
She does not simply disagree with
authority. She treats authority as an
attack on her identity.
Whether it comes from her mother, an
EMT, or a police officer, the response
is similar. Insult the person, reject
the boundary, escalate the stakes, then
frame the reaction as persecution. Hey
Danae. The legal progression is
important because it is much simpler
than the emotional drama makes it
appear.
At first, police are there to assess a
domestic disturbance.
They need to determine whether anyone is
injured, whether property is being
damaged, and whether Rachel is in a
mental health crisis.
She answers the orientation questions
well enough that anger alone does not
justify forcing her into treatment.
Being hostile or unpleasant is not by
itself enough for involuntary
intervention.
She still has choices at that point. The
situation becomes criminal because of
what she does afterward.
Once officers prevent her from
reentering the house and she fights that
physical boundary, bites one officer,
and kicks another in the face, the
original family dispute becomes almost
irrelevant to the new charges. That is
something people often misunderstand.
Police do not have to prove that Rachel
started the original argument before
charging her for violence against them.
The domestic dispute explains why they
arrived, her later conduct creates
separate offenses, and her own
explanation makes that even clearer.
She claims the kick was accidental, but
admits that she meant to bite because
she felt she was being hurt. That
admission matters. It shows that at
least one act was a deliberate attempt
to cause pain in response to restraint.
Feeling afraid during an arrest does not
automatically make attacking the
arresting officer lawful.
The central question becomes whether the
officers were acting lawfully and
whether the force used was reasonably
tied to controlling her. Here, they had
given repeated instructions, tried
non-physical alternatives, and only
moved to restraint after she continued
forcing the confrontation.
Once she starts banging her head and
making statements connected to
depression and self-harm, another legal
responsibility appears.
Officers can no longer treat this as a
simple jail transport. They now have to
consider whether she is medically and
psychologically safe enough for booking.
That is why she cannot simply choose
jail when she becomes afraid of
psychiatric evaluation. She seems to
view jail as the less frightening
option, which suggests previous mental
health treatment may have been deeply
unpleasant for her. Her fear sounds
genuine.
But officers cannot ignore what they
have just witnessed because she suddenly
promises to behave.
They have seen violence, extreme
agitation, self-directed injury, rapid
emotional shifts, and statements
suggesting significant distress.
At that point, the safest option is no
longer necessarily the option she
prefers.
The most important line in the entire
encounter may be the simplest one. Pain
and responsibility can exist at the same
time.
Rachel can be genuinely wounded by her
mother and still be responsible for
biting an officer. She can have a
traumatic history and still be wrong for
threatening an EMT.
Her mother can have contributed heavily
to this dysfunction while Rachel remains
accountable for her own choices.
The officers can feel sympathy for her
without allowing her to continue hurting
people.
Reducing her to a spoiled monster would
be easy, but it would also miss the real
issue.
She looks like a young person who has
learned to turn pain outward before
anyone can use it against her.
Unfortunately, that survival strategy
has become destructive enough that even
people trying to help are treated as
enemies.
The officers cannot repair that in one
afternoon. They cannot fix the mother,
undo the past, or teach years of
emotional regulation in a hallway.
All they can do is keep the scene safe,
offer reasonable exits, and eventually
enforce the boundary when every peaceful
option is rejected.
Rachel had a place to go, a family
member ready to take her, officers
willing to help, and more chances than
most people ever receive.
What she could not accept was leaving
without winning.
That need cost her far more than the
argument ever should have.