What did I do? >> Get out of here. >> I didn't even do nothing. >> Yeah, you did. What did I do? Go. What did I do? Go. >> Jabbing his flashlight into the teenager. That is Bay City, Michigan Police Chief Michael Chaini. >> Get out of here. It's disturbing the peace. >> Moments earlier, the teen with friends, >> it's a crime. >> Had squealled a scooter tire. >> I see. We need to get out of here. Disturb Mike, please. Please. You just committed battery. No. Yes. >> With a flashlight. That's battery. >> Get out of here. >> How is that right? >> Battery, right? >> The teen is correct. >> It is battery. >> You've just committed battery. >> Chief of police. >> That doesn't work that way. Dude, >> you don't have a right to disturb the peace. >> You have a right to your right hand. >> What are you talking about? This video is at the heart of a lawsuit against Bay City Police and the chief is now out of a job. >> I'm talking. >> Okay. >> This began on the night of September 17th, 2022. The teenagers were riding a bird scooter in front of an apartment building. They squealled a tire and knocked over a traffic barrel, which they then put back up. They >> come here, they hit the cone. They're messing around here around this new monument. >> It went on for about five minutes. Okay, I'd had enough. >> I'm upstairs. >> All right, I said some bad words. All right, >> he challenged me to fight and dared me to come down. Okay, I came down. >> I'm going to beat your ass and then I'm going to take you to jail. >> What? What did I do? >> Get out of here. >> I didn't even do nothing. >> Yeah, you did. >> He stood off on me and I did a pectoral jab with my flashlight. Okay. Okay. Okay. What did I do? >> Going that battery. >> Get out of here. two charges right here. Okay. >> Are my opinion, >> but I'll let you investigate it. Okay. >> I'll get their statements. I come check in with you. Okay. >> All right. >> Talk to talk to him. >> Me? >> Yeah. >> Talk. >> Okay. Um >> Okay. You got nothing on you? >> No. >> In the M for Michigan shirt, that is 19-year-old Parker Whan. >> All right. What's going on? >> So, we were just riding around on burn scooters, you know, like teenagers do. And then he came up here. >> I'm 19. >> Okay. And he hit the cone right here and knocked it over. >> What cone? >> Uh it was I think it was the one with the gray stuff. >> Okay. Middle one. >> Yeah. And knocked it over and then he started yelling and he threatened him first. So he was defend he was defending himself like against him. >> Where did he come from? He was up there up the top. >> Okay. and he was like, "I'll come down there and beat your ass." >> And he we waited down here to see if he would actually come down. And then he came down. Travis was standing right there. Didn't say a single word >> and like on the road and he came up and hit him. I don't know if it was like in the chest or the rib cage, but he hit him with the flashlight and then started shining it in his eyes. Another officer spoke to 18-year-old Travis Crim, the teen who had the physical confrontation and who then exchanged words with the chief. Like, >> I ain't even doing How did you feel threatened, bro? Is it my luscious locks? Are you jealous, you bald [ __ ] Huh? >> I would be jealous, too. >> Look at my wrench out here, bro. >> Call the cops, bro. You committed battery. I can assault you all I want. >> Assault me. You want to make out? >> I'll make out with you right now. I sweep both ways, bro. Go ahead. Assault me. >> I'm not going to touch you. I'm not going to touch you. I know better. >> Get out of his face. >> I know better, bro. >> Hey, what is he doing? >> Send a unit down here. I've got three hulligans that need to go. >> Huligan, you hit me with a flashlight. >> I'm at 9inth Street in front of River's Edge. >> I was riding. You know how like when you press the brake, the back wheel walks up and it makes a squeaking noise, right? >> Okay. >> You can drift when you do that. It's kind of fun, right? I get it's kind of late and stuff, right? >> But he's up there. He goes, "Hey, Big Shot, you want to go?" Right? Because I said, he said, "Why don't you keep it down?" I said, "I'm not doing nothing wrong." He goes, "Hey, Big Ch, you want to go?" Right. So, obviously, you know, I'm a dude, 18 years old. I can hold my own ground. I'm going to hold my own ground. Right. >> Okay. >> So, I didn't know who he was, right? Spring guy, older guy, not right. So, I said, "Yeah, come down. We can go." Right? He's threatening me to fight me, right? And I stood right here. I said, "What's up?" He walks up to me and like, "I'm not going to hit you. I promise." He goes like that and jabs me like right here in the bridge with the flashlight >> and then he said he felt threatened. My hands right at my sides. I don't know. I didn't swing at him. I didn't pick up. >> What did you do when he walked down? >> I just stood there. I said, "What's up?" Like I, you know, I didn't know who he was. He thought his badge. I think he was a cop. I'm not going to swing at a cop. You know, I have more respect than that. He's like, "Hit me. Hit me. Hit me." Like points toward his chin. Like I'm going to hit him. And I said, "No, I'm more mature than you are. I'm not going to hit you." And he goes, "Hit me." And I'm like, "I'm not gonna hit you." I I hit him, right? >> So, yeah. >> Then what happened? >> And then you guys got here. And I'm just I asked him if I can sit down. He said, "You're free to do whatever you want." I walked over here. I seen you guys pulling up and I stopped. I just Now I'm here. I didn't threaten him in any way. I don't know how he feels threatened. So the original altercation was because you were >> squeaking the tires on the bird. He yelled at you from up there. >> Yeah. Is that is that a worthy thing to hit someone with a flashlight? >> Cuz he's chief of police. He's above me. He's better than me. >> If Chief Michael Chaini thought he was above the teenagers and that it was okay to hit one with a flashlight. The chief found out quickly that was a mistake. Within two days, the teens and their families filed a formal complaint, prompting Bay City, Michigan officials to place Chief Jini on administrative leave. The Michigan State Police then reviewed the video recorded by one of the teens as well as the police body camera videos. And within 10 days, the state police forwarded their report to the Bay County Prosecutor's Office. A few days after that, in a news conference at his desk, Bay City public safety director Michael Chainy announces retirement amid assault allegations. Weeks later, following an independent review by the Michigan Attorney General's Office, as this headline said, former Bay City public safety director charged with assault and battery. It's a misdemeanor which in Michigan is punishable by up to 93 days in jail. At his arraignment, the former chief was released on his own recgnissance, but ordered not to have any contact with the teens. >> Not to be within a quarter mile of his residence or workplace and not to display any aggressive behavior or have any weapons in your possession while this case is pending. Is there questions about anything? >> No. Anything further that we need to address this room? >> No, your honor. Thank you. >> That will you can come up to the bench. Court recorder will have paperwork for you to sign. You do need to have your fingerprints taken. So, we do have a fingerprint order. >> That's right. The former police chief was ordered to provide his fingerprints. Talk about humiliation. Based on Michael Chaini's clean record, legal experts do not expect the chief will receive any jail time, though he will likely have to perform community service. But that's not going to be the end of this. The teens and their families have now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. Legal experts say that proving civil damages may be tough, even if it's clear the chief violated their civil rights. However, the families argue that the police chief caused the teens lasting emotional and psychological damage. In any case, this Michigan incident is a stark reminder. Always film your interactions with the police. The video does not lie. Furthermore, under the Constitution and settled case law, all of us have a right to criticize police and even tell them to their face to do that thing that is anatomically impossible. It may be obnoxious and disrespectful. And when it comes from a teenager on a scooter, the taunts may be particularly annoying. But if a police officer cannot handle it, he or she should not be a cop, never mind a police chief. By the way, in Washington state, some sheriff's deputies are now in trouble after storming into a suspect's home without a warrant. >> Come out. Come out. I'm going to force >> a warrant. Come on. Come out. Come out. >> On camera. I didn't do >> Check out that video at the link below. I'm David Schuster. Thanks for joining us.