How long was this sword? >> It's It's a sword. It's a >> Like the length of your arm? I see you holding your arms like this. Okay. >> A parking dispute turned deadly when a resident brandished a 2-ft katana. What started as a routine work day ended in a sword-wielding rage and a felony arrest. >> But she didn't make a direct threat with her knife. >> She had a knife. >> She had a knife in her hand and said, "I can get [ __ ] >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Call that not a direct threat? >> Correct. >> I have this sword. I'm going to cut you with it. That's a direct threat. >> About the about the threat. >> Okay. That's It's just a difference in >> Yeah, you're good. >> what kind of statute you get. Okay. >> I also need to make a police report about the accident that happened a moment ago. >> the lady right there in the black shirt? >> No, she's gone. >> She's gone. Do Are they witnesses? >> No, those are people who came out after the fact because when I was backing up, moving for her >> I'm just going to write my statement and I'll be out. >> After the sword was brandished, >> Hi, guys. Did any of you guys happen to see a woman out here brandishing a knife or a sword or anything like that? >> I'm actually waiting on waiting on my >> He went out 11:29? >> Yeah, you were asking. He was like really >> Hi. How are you? Sorry. You were out here? >> I'm now. >> Okay. What happened What did you see? >> All right. So, we parked in this spot originally. She came up I guess we were in her parking spot. So, we have stuff in our hands. We have to like unload it and I guess we wasn't moving fast enough for her. So, we trying to unload off to everything off the tailgate. You know, I'm over there going back and forth running, finishing that building and >> place I leave the place everything right there. >> Okay. >> So, it takes time to empty all that stuff, lift up the liftgate and move. >> Okay. >> She's over here honking, honking, impatient. >> She Where was she at? >> Where were you Officer is >> Okay. So, okay. So, he moved the truck. Okay. He moved it right over to that to >> No, just straight a little He pulled out of the parking spot and he can make a turn that way because she was walking right >> Okay. >> So, she got out of the car. She had a sword or something. Yeah, like a sword, katana, whatever you want to call it. About to I don't know if she was about to swing it. >> How long was this sword? >> It was It's a sword. It's >> Like the length of your arm? I see you holding your arms like this. Okay. >> It was definitely a sword, katana, whatever you want to call it. >> Okay. >> And she just like back and forth. I I don't know. It was It was a mess. >> Okay. Okay, so she was >> So, we moved the truck. So, >> Okay, so when when she was out with the sword, how far away in feet average were you guys away from her? >> Um she got up next to the door. He was in the truck. I kept my distance cuz it was It's a sword. I had >> It's a sword. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, she walked up to the truck. >> Yep, right next to it like she if she wanted to, she could have just, you know, swing it and he he was in striking distance. She got it right up to the truck. She's parked here. We're trying to back up and she's still going on. She was looking at He's looking at her, so I just make sure not to hit her or like it cause any more of a scene and I guess he wasn't paying attention, so he backed up into her. >> Did like the the truck hit the car? >> Right there. That car. >> This here? This right here from the black truck? >> Uh um >> From that right there? Oh, yeah. All right. >> All of us All of us play a role in life with each other out here. God created all of us and on this earth, there's enough room for all of us to live peacefully. People shouldn't try to over exert whatever they're trying to do and then when somebody decide to defend themself, now you want to you you on some other stuff. That's crazy. People should understand that everybody have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness out here. Just like they want to make their own of their family, everybody does. Just like y'all do, everybody do. Everybody do. Ain't nobody jumping out to threaten nobody cuz they don't think that they just want to do it. Like they You know what I'm saying? That's not what's going on. They want to see the difference. >> So, we got called out here. Our call said something about a sword. That's that's what we got before we got here. Can you tell me what happened to >> Yes. Yes, as I pulled up they were wherever the big truck was is where I'm parked at right now. >> Okay. >> Um I sat right here. One of them the the one with the red thing on his head uh was walking from the truck and I said, "Hey, bro. What's up? What y'all doing?" I said, "You're in my parking spot. Can you move?" He said, "Okay." So, he yelled to I guess yeah, the one the driver. He yelled to the driver and said, "You got to move the truck." As he was walking back to this apartment right here, he had a ladder in his hand. >> Who had the ladder? >> The driver. >> Okay. >> So, he was walking to this apartment over here down here to put I guess I don't know. He was putting the ladder in there. So, I sat there. So, he went inside the apartment. No, first he walked back to the truck. So, that we That's when we thought he was going to move. >> Okay. >> He didn't. He left the truck, walked back to the apartment, went in the apartment and stayed in the apartment. So, I said, "Mom, what's going on?" It was just me and my mom in the car. So, he never came back out. So, I blew the horn. And then all of a sudden he came out of the apartment. Both of them came out of this apartment down here and that and apartment down there. This one the one with the red was walking back to the truck with something in his hand. He was He started coming This one the driver walked to the truck and he went to the back of the truck. He started putting stuff on on the back of the truck. >> Where Where were you at for that? >> Still sitting here. >> Okay, in the car? >> Yeah, still sitting in the car. So, they're basically they're putting stuff in the back of the truck. So, we're still waiting. And as we're waiting, the one with the red walked from the truck and was walking like towards this apartment over here. So, the one in the the driver was still in the back of the truck. So, I seen him letting up the bed. So, I'm like, "Okay, Mom, he finna move." So, as >> You saw him in in of the truck? >> Yeah, he was letting up the bed. So, he came he was still on the passenger side of the truck when he came up to the front of the truck saying something to the one with the red on. So, when he said something to the one with the red on, they were laughing, kicking, but still acting like as if they wasn't going to move. So, I let down my window and I was like, "What happened? What did you see?" So, this one over here, the one with the red, he said something to me, he he um he's not talking to you, he's talking to me. But, the tone that he talked to me and I said, "Well, who are you talking to like that? Don't talk to me like that." So, he started proceeded on talking about you got an attitude, this, that, and the other. No, I don't. You don't know me. What are you talking about? So, he was arguing with me the whole time as he was getting in the truck. So, as me and him arguing, I'm telling him just shut up. You don't even need to talk to me. I'm a whole woman out here. I guess a whole man in the house that you can talk to if you really want to talk to somebody because the way they was he was talking to me a whole kind of So, I'm arguing with him telling him to shut up. You don't got to say nothing to me, but if you want to argue, I got somebody you can argue with. So, I look up. When I look up, the truck he don't pull out of the truck, but he's sitting right here at my window looking at me like like >> Where was the truck? >> He pulled He pulled right here. >> Truck was facing that way? >> He was facing this way. >> Okay. >> But, I was pulling up so cuz I thought he was moving so I can park. So, as I'm as I'm moving up, he moving up, but he moved next to my car and just sit there and was just looking at me. So, I got out of the car and I had my sword on the side of my hand. I was like, "What are you doing? What you doing? Like, what's going on?" And he went to arguing with me, "Oh, you talking about move the truck. We moving the truck." This, that, and the other, but he never moved to truck. So, I got back in the car and when I got back in the car, he said, "You got a sword and I got a gun." And I think I stopped talking to him. I don't know. I let up my window by then. >> That's right. That's your little girl, man. She'll always be your little girl. She'll always be your mama's little girl. >> Exactly. >> I mean, my parents tell me that all the time. I'm like, "I'm not little anymore." And they're like, "You're always our little girl." >> Yeah. >> Go ahead and put your hands behind your back for me. >> Okay, let me get in my purse. >> Yep. I'll put them on nice and safe, okay? >> Okay, hold on. >> No worries. >> So, what am I going to jail for? >> Come here. I'll explain it to you. Let me just get these on here. Put your hands together like you're praying. >> Who am I going with? >> I'm going to explain it all to you. Let me just get these on here, okay? >> Okay. Looks like they're taking her into custody. Sarah, don't approach them while they're handcuffing her. Just give give them a moment. Do their thing. >> Yeah. >> Hold on. Let them Hold on. Hold on. >> We'll work it out. >> So, I hear your statement. I hear the other two statements. I've got I've got a witness telling me that the sword was out of the sheath. You had it raised up. You made a threat. You were up at the window. He was in fear for his life. So, you're under arrest for aggravated assault, okay? And that's because of the witnesses. Obviously, I wasn't here, but throughout the investigation, these are the statements that I've gotten. >> Okay. >> I've got your statement. I've got his and I've got a witness, okay? >> What's wrong with my witness? >> What's What do you mean? >> My mama. >> That's your mom. She's not a defendant. >> They They They Wait. Wait. Wait. They'll come over and talk to you in a minute. >> They believe in their statement over hers, so they're saying she's guilty right now. She ain't guilty. >> What is this Plato's? Cuz nobody seen nobody but Yeah, nobody seen nobody but >> arresting her right now? Y'all arresting her off of hearsay? And y'all saying that she's guilty? >> We'll talk to you in a minute. We'll explain it all to you, all right? >> They're friends and they work together. So, they're independent? >> Well, we've got statements from them saying that you committed the aggravated assault to the guy. >> But I didn't. >> I know. >> And my mama was saying that's what you telling me. >> So, based on by what they telling you, that overrides what I'm telling you. >> Based on the investigation as a whole, okay? So, obviously I wasn't here. You're innocent till proven guilty. That's stuff that you got to sort out with your lawyer. >> handcuffs but I got to go to jail. >> Well, you're under arrest for the the aggravated assault, okay? >> They They say I did to them. >> Right. So, let's go go talk this way, okay? >> Come get my purse. Hold on. >> I'll hand it to you. You wanted me to have the whole thing, right? Okay. >> I ain't interfering with nothing. I'm asking this man he breaking me a purse up out here trying to ask some questions. Y'all Y'all Y'all stop overexerting everything. So, what's I'm asking y'all the question, why are y'all arresting her? >> What's your first name? >> I'm asking you a question, why are y'all arresting her? >> so we can talk? I'm Officer Bond. >> I ain't ask your name. >> So So, I I'm addressing you as a human being. So, how we're going to have have just a a normal conversation >> So, yeah. So, I'm asking you so why we are So, why we arresting her? >> I'm going to fully explain it. Let me get her secure with my partner, and then we will talk to you guys and answer any questions you have, okay? >> Well, this is like y'all 10-12 10-15. >> This is what I'm not understanding. Y'all taking her away and y'all telling us to wait till y'all take her away before we ask y'all why. >> Because Sir, because obviously >> Now y'all saying that she guilty of whatever they saying. >> To be fair, we don't have to give any explanation but I'm going to give you an explanation, okay? >> I understand all that. >> The investigating officer is going to be right over there. I'm going to have him talk to you because I came after these two officers were even here. I don't have the full full picture and I want to make sure you get the full picture, okay? >> Hey hey hey, you breaking me a purse up while I ask you a question, okay? >> She asked me to do that for you. So, I want to make sure that was secure. All right. Let me seat for me. >> So, did y'all arrest her as a black a black woman and all that? Cuz I'll put a good ass call to the Anti-Semitic Apple all y'all. I'm not playing. Cuz she's a Moor, American. She ain't black, negro, colored, or African American. So y'all got to answer her paperwork just like the rest of the black females. I'm going to go down here and file a complaint. I'm going to go down here and talk to y'all. You the supervisor or what now? If it's a male, I will call the news and all that. >> What's the department number? >> Who going to stop me?