PUT HER IN THE GET THE [ __ ] ON THE GROUND NOW. >> DECEMBER 8TH, 2022. Two incidents, one shift. Florida officers pursued two retail theft suspects on foot, then apprehended an armed robbery suspect in under 6 minutes. The stop was built on a store manager's tip corroborated when officers found the same suspects inside a second store. Under Illinois versus Gates, that clears probable cause. The arrest was legally clean before anyone hit the ground. >> HEY, STOP. HEY, STOP RUNNING YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. STOP RUNNING. GET DOWN ON YOUR STOMACH. GET DOWN. GET DOWN. FOOT PURSUIT THROUGH THE OUTLET. LET HER GO POLICE, STOP RUNNING. LET HER GO POLICE, STOP RUNNING. LET HER GO POLICE, STOP RUNNING. LET HER GO POLICE, STOP RUNNING. 94 LET HER GO POLICE, STOP RUNNING. STOP RUNNING YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. GET ON THE GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND. >> WHY YOU GOT ME ON THE GROUND? >> DO NOT MOVE. FACE THE WALL. >> WHY AM I BEING TREATED LIKE THIS? I'M TRYING TO PAY. >> Foot pursuit IN THE OUTLET. YEP. YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. GET THE [ __ ] ON THE GROUND NOW. >> BRO, COME ON. >> GET ON THE GROUND. GET ON YOUR STOMACH. >> OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. >> DROP YOUR PHONE YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. >> BRO, WHY WON'T YOU >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND your back. >> Bro, why won't you give me my bag, bro? Hey, guys. You haven't got me on camera doing anything. I got money. That guy just stole it. >> STOP RESISTING. >> I'M NOT RESISTING, SIR. SHE JUST GAVE her bag, bro. >> All right, get up. Get up. >> [music] >> Come on. >> Bro, I'm buying my [ __ ] out of here, bro. >> No, you're not. >> How I'm not? I have money in my purse. >> Hold on, she's still fighting right now. >> I'm I I promise ON MY BABY. >> STOP. >> I'M NOT FIGHTING YOU. EXCUSE ME, MA'AM. Can you please go get my my cousin's car keys, please? >> Hold on. >> I don't want to lose her car keys. >> You're not going to lose anything. >> I'm not resisting you. I have money in my bag to buy whatever I wanted. >> When I tell you to do something, you stop. >> I'm stopping. You scared me. She gave me her bag and started running. What do you expect me to do? Can I get my shoes, please? I don't want to walk barefooted. Excuse me, sir. Please. Mr. Officer, please, my shoes. >> Josh, where are you? >> My shoes back, please. This is nasty. Everybody spits on this floor. >> You got her? Do we got her? Do we Thank you. Stop moving. >> going anywhere. I'm telling you I'm peeing my [ __ ] >> I'm not >> Excuse me, ma'am. She had my [ __ ] Give me the bag. I'm trying to buy myself. I have money. I'm not stealing. >> I mean, I don't think they stole from you guys yet, but >> I'm not >> They've been hitting a bunch of stores, though. >> No, I have not. I JUST BOUGHT STUFF OUT OF NIKE. I JUST bought stuff out of Nike. >> Uh where do you think you're going? STOP MOVING. >> BRO, WHAT YOU DOING? >> WHAT DID YOU >> I'M GETTING out of here. >> Told you what to do. You're not going to make me go chasing after you again. We got her in the All the way out? >> Sorry. I don't go to jail. I have money though. Y'all got me here like I'm buying myself. What did I steal? What did I steal? >> You can come in through Saks. >> Bro, the lady got mad. >> Put your feet back out. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Bro, the lady got mad because I shot a bird at her old lady. Nobody stole anything. Like y'all I have money. I have buku money in my purse. >> Okay. >> I have buku money in my purse. >> Stop. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I have money in my purse. That's why That lady I know that lady an old lady called y'all. She mad because I shot a bird at her and told them that they were harassing us. >> Appreciate it. Where was that? >> In the fitting room. >> In the fitting room? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh Just give us give us a minute. Once we get more officers over here, they're going to come in and try to see what else they have there. >> She was in the fitting room. >> I knew that. >> That was the other guy that just walked out. HE STOLE SOMETHING. >> HEY, HEY, HEY, STOP TALKING. STOP STOP ACTING LIKE WE DON'T know what we're talking about. >> Both women ran. That matters. California versus Hodari D confirms flight from a known police presence contributes to reasonable suspicion. Officers issued more than 10 verbal commands before a taser warning. The taser was never fired. Graham versus Connor 1989 courts judge force from the perspective of a reasonable officer at that moment, not with hindsight. Fleeing felony suspect confirmed theft, repeated non-compliance, taser warnings were defensible, Restraint kept the encounter from escalating further. At the 5-minute mark, an officer used a racial slur at the handcuffed subject. One word. That opens a Section 1983 federal civil rights claim under the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. Racially charged enforcement doesn't have to be the only reason for an arrest, just a factor. This officer handed the defense a weapon. The subject claimed the Prada manager called police because she flipped her off. Under City of Houston versus Hill, that gesture is protected First Amendment speech, not probable cause. But the foot pursuit was already justified on independent grounds. So, legally interesting, not dispositive. While handcuffed, the subject spontaneously stated she was on probation and had been arrested in Atlanta. No officer asked. Miranda applies to custodial interrogation. Spontaneous statements are not interrogation. Every word she said is admissible. Silence costs nothing. She paid for not knowing that incident, too. Armed robbery hotel on Techwood Drive. A witness recognized the suspect from prior visits to the property. That prior familiarity is what compressed the timeline. Officers had a workable description before the scene was even secured. Officers located the suspect near Georgia Tech in under 6 minutes. Commands only. No force deployed. The suspect complied. Graham versus Connor applied correctly. Least intrusive force sufficient to affect the arrest. They used their voice. That's it. A .22 caliber Uzi was recovered along with the stolen cash. Officers flagged a possible automatic conversion device on scene. If confirmed, that is a federal offense under the National Firearms Act mandatory minimums, federal prosecution, no parole. This case goes from state armed robbery to a federal table in one conversation. Grades, incident one officer C+. The arrest was solid, evidence handling was correct. But the racial slur is a 14th Amendment violation waiting for a plaintiff's attorney, and the profanity during commands contradicts every de-escalation policy on record. Subject one, B-. She had real legal arguments, protected speech, a contested complaint, money to pay for items. She discarded most of that the moment she ran, then finished the job by confessing her probation status on camera. Incident two officers, A-. Fast ID coordinated perimeter, minimum force, full evidence recovery. The single deduction is handling the firearm informally on scene. A weapon with federal implications needs an armorer and an ATF call, not a field inspection. Three takeaways. A single word, a slur, a constitutional violation can undermine a textbook arrest, regardless of how clean the underlying probable cause was. If detained silence is the only answer that cannot be used against you, spontaneous admissions are gifts to the prosecution. And in any fast-moving apprehension, the witness who already knows the suspect's face is worth more than a perimeter. >> Stop yelling. >> The whole other guy that just walked out of there just left cuz something was going on. I'm in there shopping. Why would I be IN THERE THAT LONG? >> YEAH, THAT WAS THAT BLACK GIRL. YOU WATCHED THE BLACK GIRL WALK RIGHT OUT OF THE DOOR. >> STOP YELLING. >> NO, CUZ SHE WALKED RIGHT OUT OF THE DOOR. RIGHT OUT THE DOOR. THEY DIDN'T ACCUSE US. >> That's why I was >> Here I am cuz the police yelled stop, police didn't keep going, but you looked back at me. >> You want to see my ID? >> Do you have a warrant? >> Oh, no, I'm not a warrant. >> Do you have an ID in there? >> No. >> Do you have any weapons in there? >> No. >> Okay. What's your name? >> Jessica. We're right in front of Forever 21. If you walk in through Saks, go all the way through Saks, you'll see us. Okay. Perfect. Thanks. We don't have y'all mixed up with anybody. Why don't you I don't know. She's saying that. No. You can talk to me. Well, hold on. I mean, they're probably stolen, too, so we got to make sure Okay. Hold on. We'll make sure. Now, you got no problems going on right now, sweetheart. The store you ran through shouldn't have done that. You got yourself a felony. Oh, that's why, too. Probation as well. That just got violated. Oh, maybe. Maybe a different Joe, it's Joe. >> Joe. Like the best security guard we have here. Oh, man. >> Officer Joe. >> You all right? >> What's up? >> You all right? >> Officer Joe. >> Yeah. Yep. >> What's going on? >> Officer Joe. >> It's a lot, I know that. It's a lot. >> I want to >> Officer Joe. I'm here. >> I'm Joe. You can please call me ma'am. Tonight I loaded up my gear. >> We're not going to deal with the We're not going to We're not going to deal with this part of the investigation, no, ma'am. No, ma'am. >> My name is you can be charged with a misdemeanor. >> Can be is that she's going to be. >> I mean you are going to >> Cuz they looked they looked back at us both and then turned around towards the store. So. It's without Okay. Okay. Yeah. >> Somebody got those leftovers. >> Um okay. >> Oh, [ __ ] I'm Can I have my car keys to you at 9:20, miss lady? >> All right, let's check, shall we? Uh that looks like yours. >> Yep, that's ours. >> Is that Is any of this yours? >> Yep, that >> This one? >> Mhm. >> And probably this one then, too. >> Mhm. That's ours, too. >> Okay. >> This one maybe. >> Old Navy. >> And then That is probably theirs. Yeah. Is there stuff in >> No, that's Old >> Yeah, that's probably stolen, too. >> Yeah, I would assume so. >> Old Navy Cuz this looks like that. So these are both Steve Madden. This is Steve Madden. And this is their rental car. And then this is Old Navy in here. Old Navy, Old Navy, Old Old Navy Where's the Steve Madden? Oh, did they come out of sacks? I don't know if they were all sighted in at the family. Okay. >> The ID card still needs to be done. >> By the way you get out all of this. >> Can you get my purse? That purse is next to you. >> Which purse is yours? >> This is my purse. Can you get my purse? >> This purse is yours. It's going with you. You're under arrest. It's going with you. It's got money and all that in it. It's going with you. >> That's my money. >> I know. It's going with you. >> It's going to It's going to be in my belongings when I get out? >> Yes. >> All my money. >> Yes. There's money in it. It's staying with you and we're going to count it in front of you and all that stuff. I'm not handing it off to somebody else. >> Okay. No, that's my auntie. That's my family. >> it. I'll handle this stuff. Come on. Y'all can't Y'all can't be talking anymore. You're under arrest. You're done with it. >> On the wall. What y'all TALKING ABOUT? TALKING ABOUT yay and giving that and pounds and They did that [ __ ] They did that [ __ ] They did it. Can somebody tie the back of my neck cuz this is my thing for the >> Yeah. >> Pull it back. Pull it tight. >> I'm trying to I'm trying to do that. >> Untie. Wait, let me go down first. Untie cuz it's going to come off. He know you do your girlfriend's own. You know how to do it. >> You said untie and untie it now. >> You push the thing. You push the thing to record. You push All she said >> I know. >> All she said was can you Cuz you know if you stretch it from around my neck then it's just going to release. >> Come on. You can sit up. Sit up. >> You can't lucky your hands like cuffs. That don't make sense. Make it make >> So, is it a bow tie? >> Yeah, it's like a shoe tie. >> Hello. This is 1132 Techwood? What happened? >> Yeah, someone came in with a gun. >> How long ago? >> Um I don't know. 15 minutes, something like that. >> What did Can you give me some video real quick so we can put a lookout for him quick. Like that whatever that video there, like can you rewind that? Which way did he go? >> He just went out the door and then right. I don't know if he went up or down take a driver. I've seen him before. I recognize him because he was in our hotel like a couple weeks ago. >> Did he check in? >> No, no, he didn't stay here, but he like come into our hotel and he like would just kind of steal things out of our market. Um, we thought he was homeless or something. >> Oh, wow. Yeah, we going to You got that X on stuff that on you? Yeah. >> can get them downloaded. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be him now. I was Do you have a backpack on? >> Did he have a book bag? >> Second to talk to you, huh? >> Did he have a book bag? >> He did have a book bag on, yeah. >> Yeah, they say he had a book bag. He had white shoes on? >> I didn't see the shoes. >> Hey, come back down to come back down to Tent and Fowler, READY. >> TENT AND FOWLER. All right, go check around on 205 route. >> Where? Oh. I got eyes on him. Can you say hello? 26 8 miles All right, we're going to have myself and George check. 26 Have y'all seen I sent the hoodie. All right. Show me your hands. GET ON THE GROUND. ON THE GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND. HE'S NOT GIVING YOU YOUR BAG. GIVE ME YOUR MONEY BACK. ALL RIGHT, COME. COME BACK. >> ALL RIGHT, HOLD ON. HOLD ON. HOLD ON. >> Where are we getting them, Gus? Oh, awesome, man. That's beautiful. Thank you. Appreciate it. This is awesome. Yeah, man. This stuff here, man. 28 check Yeah. Okay. >> It says it's a Uzi pistol, but I don't know if it's Yeah, there's ways to check if it's full auto. But I don't know. Yeah, like >> Or you turn around. Just walk over here. Okay, these jokers are on contact.