2024. >> I couldn't tell you how to spell >> You couldn't you couldn't tell me. All right. Um how long have you been in your wheelchair? >> Since I was 18. >> Since you were 18? >> Five years ago. >> If you don't mind me asking, what's what's your condition? >> Gunshot. I was robbed. >> You were robbed? >> Murdered. Yeah. >> Where when and where did this happen? >> Uh in 2000 over by the pen. >> By where? >> At the federal pen like uh you know Boulevard. >> A woman told police that a man kicked in her front door, choked her, tried to take her car keys, and then fled the scene on foot. Police believed her. They wrote a felony warrant, and 9 months later they arrested the man she named in the lobby of their own police station for aggravated assault. There is one problem with that story, and you are looking at it. Charles Reed is paralyzed. "I'm in a wheelchair," he tells them, "and have been for 25 years." He cannot kick a door. He cannot flee on foot. And by the end of this video, the charges will be gone, the woman will have taken it back in writing, and the officer who arrested him will have handed in his badge uh one step ahead of being fired. So, watch this from the beginning, and tell me at what point does anybody stop and check? I'm Brad Graves. Let's roll the tape. >> That's uh >> And you say you have no recollection of who she is? >> I have absolutely no idea who that is. Yeah. Certainly haven't forced my way into anybody's house. >> Cuz she was able to provide us with your exact information and a description of how you look. >> I truly have no idea who that is. Like >> Okay. >> Said I forced into their in a way in of my way into their house? >> Yes, sir. >> Wait, what is what does that mean? Like >> I can't recall. She says you forcefully entered her home. So, um I don't know what a whether you kicked it down, stormed it through whatever way, as long as you weren't invited, you were forcefully entering into the into the home into the residence. So >> I haven't like been away from my house in like Like I said, I like I think when you get when I when I when I when I when I when I emailed I mentioned I have like a a toddler. I don't like been out of my house after I work from home A. Um The only time I'm allowed to like leave my house is with my wife and kid. So, I I have absolutely no idea what this is. >> So, how did you get here today? >> I drove. I mean, I'm on like, you know, lunch, but I mean, you know, I mean, I'm not like not allowed to leave. I just, you know, I work all day from home and and caring for a kid at the moment that 5:00 p.m. hits. So, I I >> Okay. So I don't know what all happened between you and Miss uh Jensen. Uh cuz this was about 9 months ago, however long ago it was. Was this in the city of Atlanta? >> Uh it was in the city of College Park. So >> I haven't been to College Park in a while. I can't even tell this is the >> Here's what has to happen before an arrest warrant exists. An officer swears out an affidavit under oath and a judge decides there is probable cause. Probable cause is not someone told me. It's specific facts a reasonable officer could rely on. The complaint here, as reported by Atlanta News First, gave police his name and his date of birth. It described a man who kicked a door and ran. It never mentioned a wheelchair. Quick word before we get into the rest of this. Everything I am teaching you here, your rights at a traffic stop, during a search, and at your own front door is laid out in plain English in my Know Your Rights Playbook. It is on sale right now for $29.99 and the link is right below this video. >> Okay. >> Well, I understand you say you haven't been here, but unfortunately, you do have the warrant out for your arrest. So, I'm going to have to place you into custody and I'm going to take you downstairs. You're going to be booked and entered and you're going to have to go to jail. So, you're saying you haven't been here in x amount of years and you say you've been in this wheelchair since you were 18. If you have proof of all of this information that can be verified, uh you say you went to the Grady through your doctors or whatever the case may be or chiropractor or whoever it is that shows that you've been in that 18 that you've been in that wheelchair, then that would make it hard to prove that you forced your way into that woman's home. So, if you get those documents in order, you could bring those with you when you go to your first appearance, um through your bond hearing or whatever the case may be and we'll figure it out, but as of this moment, I will have to place you under arrest. Do you have any weapons, anything sharp on you, anything of that nature? >> No, I can't. Like I Can I pee and stuff? Like I >> You'll be able to pee. I'm going to take you right downstairs. You're not even going anywhere. >> I am hot. This is crazy to me. Like >> What kind of car do you have? >> My Hyundai >> That gray Hyundai Sonata? >> Yeah. >> All right, no problem. So, if there is this turns out, unfortunately, it is. >> I can't >> Is this a joke? >> My wife? Like >> You'll get a phone call when you get downstairs. >> What's going on? >> Listen to what the officer says, you do have the warrant out for your arrest. And then, you've been in this wheelchair since you were 18. He is standing in front of the answer. Not a hunch. Not a defense to be argued later at trial, a fact you can see that takes half a minute to confirm. When a warrant affidavit contains something false or leaves out something that would destroy probable cause, there's a case for that. Franks versus Delaware. A warrant built on a story that cannot be true is not a warrant that protects anybody. Keep watching because the officers themselves are about to start saying so out loud. >> Hm? >> That's what? >> Hey. Do you understand what's happening to me right now? I need a paramedic up here immediately. >> 33 to radio canal with signal 40 to my location for a white male who fell out of a wheelchair. My bad. 24 to radio canal for para signal 40 to my location and 35 law before white male who fell out of a wheelchair. >> Oh my god. >> 10-4. >> I told you that I don't have muscle control. Like, how am I >> Hm? >> You don't respond to me, okay. >> They handcuffed him at the wrists. He can't hold himself upright. And he goes down. Now, listen to how it goes out over the radio. Not suspect in custody. A white male who fell out of a wheelchair. That is the sentence their own dispatch traffic uses while arresting him for running away on foot. >> Oh, I was waiting for the paramedics to come there right now. >> next door, so >> I'm going to tell you what we need to >> Do you have a medical >> They can take me out like a baby. >> He's been in a wheelchair for a >> Just on your chest. >> Ready. >> broken into your house and you stole her ring. Do you know what I'm saying? >> See, that's what I'm saying. >> But >> I can't do anything more. >> Okay, we have you. Hold on. >> You want me to move my leg? It's my leg that's right here. You see that? >> Okay, I got you. All right, push it up. I'm going to have to get behind it a little bit. Okay. Okay, so this is what we need to do first. >> My pants are falling down. >> Hold on, sir. Hold on. >> What's the warrant for? >> aggravated assault >> I haven't broken into somebody's house. >> criminal trespass, aggravated assault >> How long ago? >> June 19th >> June 9th of >> June 19th, 15th, and 9th on the last >> How long ago? >> paralyzed >> 25 years >> Okay. Make a phone call to me. Let's let's get him sitting up right. >> I can't I don't have any muscles, sir. >> Okay, that was a lie. Let me help slide you back some more. Take his grab this arm. That's you have a warrant. But we're going to do our due diligence because if you're paralyzed, somebody must have made a mistake. >> I thought I >> Okay. Who was the original agency? We are. Who's the detective? You are. Okay. Give me a second. Let me give this to the fire. >> Can I get my doctor on the phone? >> Nobody here is the villain of a movie. That's what makes it worth studying. These are officers executing a warrant they did not write, and you can hear it start to land on them. But an existing warrant is not a license to stop thinking. If a person's disability makes the accusation impossible, that is not a technicality. It is exculpatory, it is obvious, and it is sitting in front of you in a wheelchair. >> Talk to me. >> Okay, I'm listening. Okay. You mean paralyzed? >> What sorry? 25 years. I'm 43. I got shot and murdered when I was 18. I died on the table and woke up with a heart on the table and breathing. They told me I died. That counts as murder. I don't I don't have absolutely no idea. You heard everything I did. I don't know. >> He got two twins. >> He got a twin? >> But he described you. >> I I take his spinal cord all day. >> But he said he was in a wheelchair. >> He He said he described me? >> He He described me? >> He said he He said he said like the man both described you. So he besides the wheelchair >> a lot of that wheelchair. I don't know what he took my fingers. But um Basically on what the witness I still remember the call on June 15th last year. I got a call call about a lady from 4111 uh Fredericksburg Drive. And um So basically she was like when I got to the house the front door was kicked in. And I think she was like hiding by the garage or something. >> [snorts] >> And she comes out and she's bleeding from her arm. Her neck is bruised up and everything. She's like, "My ex-boyfriend who we broke up two days ago just entered my home and attacked me." >> Okay. >> And then after that I asked her, "Hey, you know I got on you all used to live together? Did you all used to live together at this address?" Um do you have any of his information? He gave me his name, spelled it out, gave me a description, told me what he looked like. I ran it through NCIC, it matched. And then I was like, "Is this him?" She was like, "Yes, that's him." Gentleman right there. Issued the warrant. So now he's saying, "Man, I ain't been here in like X amount of years." >> Wife said he got shot at 19. He's been paralyzed since then. He used to do some back drop. >> So, I was like, man, I don't know if this is true or not and I can't ascertain that right now. So, might need to call the district attorney's office cuz if the door was kicked in, he didn't kick it in. He didn't kick it in. >> Well, she didn't say kicked in. She said, well, I can't recall if it was kicked in or if that's what she said cuz all I remember her was forced entry was made. So, if it was kicked in and he has indeed been paralyzed since he was 19 years old, that'll be kind of hard. >> I'm looking at his legs. I got a couple of relatives that are quadriplegics. That what we see with his lower extremities ain't for play. >> Okay. >> That's that's legit. Um and if he was born in '82, that means he was shot in 2001. And he's been paralyzed since 19 years. >> [sighs] >> I would suggest calling the district attorney's office. Let them know what you got. And even though she cuz now it's looking like she might have made a false report. So, that's what I was looking like. I was like, I don't know cuz between now and um June, that's what, 9 months? I was like, I don't know if something happened between those 9 months that might have put him in a wheelchair. >> Let's walk back here. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. He can't go to Fulton County. >> They're not going to take him. >> Well, on the aggravated assault charge, they will take him. But, god damn. >> It's uh >> Don't mean to interrupt your lunch. I'm stepping in helping out a little bit. They got a quadriplegic guy up there. >> I just told told him about that. >> Oh, he already got the rundown. >> Yeah, but it's funny watching >> Yeah, but how could he >> And I just want to put it out there, he flopped out the wheelchair. I was like, "Can you raise your hands cuz I'm trying to, you know, pat him down, make sure he doesn't have any >> There it is. If you're paralyzed, somebody must have made a mistake. An officer says it on camera in the middle of the arrest, and then the story itself comes apart in their hands. One of them says it plainly, "If the door was kicked in, he didn't kick it in." And the answer back, "Well, she didn't say kicked in." Read that again. While he sits handcuffed in a wheelchair, the officers are relitigating what the accusation even was, and a supervisor puts a word to it that I would not have dared put in a script. He calls it a ruse. >> anything. I don't know if the camera's going to catch it, but I got him with the tip of my fingers, and he just >> It's a ruse, man. It's a ruse. >> So, I mean, he's it's an obvious attempt to not get out of jail, so >> Yeah. >> But he is [ __ ] up from the waist below. That is pretty >> I actually seen him I agree he But then again, like I said, I don't know what happened between 9 months ago from now, and I don't know how much muscle mass you lose from not using your legs, so I don't know if, you know, >> That's for the court to decide. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Wife said he's been paralyzed for 19 years, so >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I mean, just keep ready to clear it. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. >> So, I don't know if I better I better get the lawyers on standby cuz I know damn well he's going to make a whole issue out of this. >> Yeah. So, we got we got cameras out there now, too. >> And like I said, hopefully this sees that I I've been I was I tell you sorry my bad LT when I tell you I was barely touching him and then he just and I'm like bro, he just flopped out this damn chair. >> Okay. >> So, I'm like and he's like, "Well, I have no muscles. I have no muscles." But you're holding yourself up by your arms. On top of that, how did you get from your car across the street to in here? That means you have some type of muscle mass to will yourself in here. >> Yeah, you got that much. >> Yeah. >> All right, go ahead and run it. I just wanted to make sure both of us are good. >> 240 radio, status on that signal four? Okay. Disregard our signal. >> Why? >> Quick word. Then what it cost him. Probable cause, warrants, what to say when police arrive at your door. It's all in my know-your-rights playbook in plain English. The link is in the description. Now, what happened to everybody in this video? >> Hopefully uh I like I said is I explained I know this your condition. I see it. But I have to do my due diligence. It's a warrant out. I have to go ahead and take you in. So, now that's going to be up to you and the courts and your lawyers and her and that >> what? >> To to establish your innocence. Innocent until proven guilty. So, at this point she says you kicked down her door. It don't look like you could kick kick anything. No offense at this point in time. So, you like it that's why I told you earlier if you have documentation that you were shot at 19 that you've been a grady that you >> I do. I can provide it in 10 minutes from now. So, >> You know what I >> I can just call my doctor's office, right? I mean like I I need I need paper paper. If it ain't on paper it don't matter. I mean I can I can you can call the DMV and see that I needed mechanical aids on my license for the past 25 years. >> Yeah. >> You can call we can drive to grading right now. >> Give me 1 second. Let me um Actually Yeah. Give me 1 second. >> show you my handicap placard that I got 10 years ago. >> Give me 1 second. Let me go talk to my manager real quick. Why is this always shocking me? >> On April 11th, 2025, a television investigation aired in Atlanta. That same day, the Fulton County District Attorney dropped the charges, writing that Charles Reed could not have been at the location on the date and time of the incident. Not insufficient evidence. Could not have been there. The following month, the woman who made the complaint put her recantation in writing to a College Park detective. She now acknowledges he did not attack her. >> And let him opine on whether or not he should or stand the warrant or or let it stand. >> Um I think I have that number. If not, I believe I have someone who can give me that number? Let me try this number. >> Cuz really that's going to be the only way. Not charging him is probably from the DA's office. >> So, now if they say yeah, go ahead and resend the warrant, um how would that go? >> Um You would just need to contact and you would need to use the EWI contact judge. Tell them >> Oh, and call them and right. Okay, okay, okay. All right, got that much. >> But but that needs to come from from the charging authority, which is going to be the DA's office. >> So, I have the Fulton County case intake number. I don't know if that's that's that's it. Okay. >> And just tell me that just tell me who you need to speak to and the attorney about the case and they'll call call call you back. >> And they're not answering, so I'll see. If they don't answer, I guess I'm going to have to take them in Either that or let the warrant stand. I don't know what what >> But I mean the warrant's never going to go away though. Like like like you know what I mean? >> Yeah. So, this is a turn turn into a a delicate situation that I >> You must leave your phone number and or >> No, it would be. >> And here is the part I saved. She was never charged. Not with a false report, not with anything. The chief declined to explain why. The officer wasn't fired either. In August, he resigned in lieu of termination, one step ahead of it. And when reporters pulled his file, they found he had been disciplined at least eight times in two years. Falling asleep on a patrol job, going absent while on duty, claiming more hours than he worked, firing a taser by accident inside the department. None of those eight was for arresting a paralyzed man for fleeing on foot. And then records show that in August, shortly after he resigned, he applied to another police department. So, what do you actually do with this? Three things. One, a warrant is not proof you did anything. It is an accusation a judge signed off on. If officers come for you on a warrant, do not fight it on the sidewalk. You will lose that argument and gain a charge. Comply physically and say the sentence that matters. I'm not resisting. I want to talk to a lawyer. Two, say the impossible part out loud on camera immediately. Charles Reed told them what he was and their own cameras recorded it. That recording is why this ended. Facts you state on video are facts a prosecutor has to look at later. Three, ask for the warrant and get the case number. What is the warrant for and what is the case number? Then ask the same question again at the jail. If an accusation is impossible, the paper trail is what makes somebody check. And in this case, somebody eventually did. At the start, I asked you at what point somebody stops and checks. The answer is nine months in in a police lobby after the handcuffs and only because a camera was running and a reporter kept asking. So, if you've got someone in your life whose body would make an accusation like this impossible, a parent, a friend, anybody in a chair, send them this one comply physically. Assert your rights verbally and say the obvious thing out loud because the camera is the only witness that never gets tired. I'm Brad Graves. I'll see you at the next one.