Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. I just wanted to tell you, Officer Bon, you taking money out of my kids mouths. Sorry. You're taking food out of the kids. Okay, I'm going to take them off. Watch me. I can't move, man. This man's life was changed forever after the officer used excessive force while arresting him. Were stand up. Stand up. In April 2020, Gregory Gross, a 65-year-old veteran from Yuba City, was backing out of a parking spot at about 1 m hour when he tapped another car. A minor incident with no injuries. However, officers suspected Gross was under the influence and arrested him for DUI, but things escalated fast. My gosh. Yeah. Kind of a bad day. Come on. Okay. What are you doing, dude? Sit down. I'll bring a do nothing. Mr. Gross, listen to me. Quit with me. I'm not with you. Yeah, you are. You I'm telling you the way this is going to go. Would you like to shut your mouth and listen? You are not in control of this situation. You are under arrest for hit and run and DUI. You're about to get placed into a patrol car. I was going to walk you over there, but you decided you didn't want to go with the program. So, now you're sitting here like a three-year-old. That hurts. Okay. I was walking. So, listen. Listen, and it'll continue to hurt if you don't shut up and listen. Gross was taken to the hospital after officers were told he needed medical clearance before getting booked into jail. This standard procedure ensures that individuals are fit for detention and do not require immediate medical attention. But the worst was yet to happen. Not at all. I ass which way you going. You slam me up against the car. No. Grab him. I got to put gloves on. Democrat. And we've done it again. We just keep doing this. I can't breathe. Are we going to keep doing this? I can't breathe. You're talking. You're breathing. You're talking. You can breathe. Despite being handcuffed and not actively resisting, Gross was slammed to the ground outside the hospital by Officer Joshua Jackson, a field training officer, leaving him paralyzed. And even then, they didn't take him seriously. Yeah. Okay, let's stand up. Stand up. Put on your big boy pants. You want to act like a man? Okay, please. Wait. Stand up. Stand up. Come on. You're banned. Be a man. I I can't feel my leg. I can't feel my legs, dude. I'm tired. I can't with that. There god. Come on. Don't forget your pasta box. Do we want to just grab his arms and plop him up on the bed and then we can bed doesn't go more. One, two, three. All right, sit up. We're going to We're going to move those cuffs around. Come on. Sit up for Mr. Gross. But yeah, I think he's fine. But when I took him, I had him in an arm bar and so I swept his feet and tried to get him to land on his knees again. Yeah. So we I was on top of him, but his knees hit. So he didn't like No, I didn't like just point him out. No, that's that would be wrong, right? Yes. Even if he's frustrating. Yeah. No, I tried to get him on the ground so that we could then just double pick him up and just drag him in. But he pulled away. So here you guys slam the ground many times. I only slammed you on the ground one time, sir, and it was very controlled. You need to listen to me. I can't not kill myself. I can't breathe my legs. Even though the officers led hospital staff to believe Gross was merely uncooperative, there's no excuse for ignoring clear signs of a spinal cord injury. He repeatedly said he couldn't move or feel his legs. A reckless decision that only made his injuries worse. I have some veterans. I can't really talk. I need help. You got to help me. Please. Oh no, Eddie. I can't move my legs. Please tell me. Please help me, God. I can't move my legs. Gross was left unattended for nearly 30 minutes without a cervical collar or spine board. despite his visible injuries and repeated please until an officer finally ordered a CT scan. Can I explain something to you? We have to take your handcuffs off in order to put you on this bed. Okay, I'm going to take them off. Watch me. I can't move, man. Here, I'll take this off. No way, dude. Okay, that my left hand is so tight. I can't stand it. Okay, relax your arm. Dude, I'm a good guy. Don't do this to me, please. Okay, relax. Relax. Relax. Well, we can slide them straight across if that works for you. And then then we can use the white sheet to go back, right? Oh my god. All right. All right. We're going to slide you off. Mr. Gross. Listen to me. Listen. We're going to slide. We're going to slide you over onto this. I love my kids. Me, too. As a result of Officer Jackson's use of force, Gro suffered a broken neck and underwent two spinal fusion surgeries. The injuries left him unable to walk or care for himself, requiring roundthe-clock nursing care for the rest of his life. Gross filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Yuba City Police Department for excessive force and negligence, leading to a $20 million settlement in July 2023. He also sued the medical staff at the hospital, claiming their delayed care worsened his condition. Officers are typically trained to rely on communication and deescalation to avoid violence, but that courtesy wasn't extended to Barentos. Relax. On April 26, 2022, Zabata County deputies responded to a routine domestic disturbance call at Mr. Barento's residence involving his fiance. The deputies determined that no crime had occurred and offered Mr. Barentos a courtesy ride to spend the night elsewhere. Seconds later, however, Deputy Sheriff Jose Martinez disliked a non-controversial remark from Barentos and tried to detain him. No, no, no. We're trying. We're trying. We're not trying to [ __ ] you up. We're not trying to We're trying. [Music] Put your hand back. Hey, put your hand back. Just relax. Relax. Keep resisting. Relax. [ __ ] relax. Relax, bro. Relax, bro. Relax. Get a turn control. Attorney. Oh, you were getting my I was trying to help you out. I was trying to help you out. I think his bone popped out of his leg. [Music] 108 14 52 108. [Applause] During the arrest, Mr. Barento sustained a severe leg injury that ultimately led to the amputation of his leg. In response to the incident, his attorney filed a federal lawsuit against the Zapata County Sheriff's Office and the four deputies involved. The lawsuit alleges excessive force during the arrest and seeks damages for medical expenses and related costs. Currently, no public information is available regarding any internal investigations or actions taken against the deputies involved. In the next case, the victim barely survived after an officer decided to teach him a lesson. I've decided that you're going to actually go to jail today. Have far too many problems with you. On June 8th, 2023, officer Sarah Gatis approached Herabito Sanchez Mayan, a 61-year-old homeless man with a long history of alcoholism and multiple citations who was sleeping in a vacant lot and trespassing. Hey yo, Araberto, what are you doing? I fall asleep. You know you're trespassing out here, right? Is this yours? No, no, no. Put your shoes on. You can come over to my car. I'm going write you a ticket. Okay. Okay. All right. Actually, put my shoes. S41. Is the van here by any chance? Hey, can you come over to 2515th Street and S41? It's going to be a trespassing on be 15. Oh, you know my ticket. Yeah. Come on over to the car. Okay. [Music] [Music] You got everything that's yours. You're leaving your beer cans behind? Mine. Yeah, right. That's the one you always drink. No. Yes. Yeah. No, it is right next to you. Plus, you always drink those. Yeah, but that's what Could you please zip up your fly? Huh? Zip up your pants. [Music] Do you see this sign right here? You see? Can you read? I know. I didn't see it. What's that say? You don't know. Do you know what it Okay, so you know that you're not supposed to be here. Which way did you come in? Huh? Which way did you come into this park? Just I don't know. Did you walk in from this way or did you walk in from that way? Go that way. All right. Well, there's a sign over there, too. I didn't see it. Well, can't be helped. Can't be helped. Ordinarily, trespassing in Florida is classified as a misdemeanor and does not typically result in arrest. However, Officer Gatis decided to teach Sanchez Mayan a lesson. No, you're going to take the ride today. Huh? I've decided that you're going to actually go to jail today. I've had far too many problems with you. No, absolutely not. We're getting all kinds of complaints. Can't be doing this. Okay. So, he's coming now and then he'll take you out. Drive me a pizza, please. No. Come on. Let's go over here. You get tickets all the time. You don't care. You don't change your ways. Right here. Put your bank with trespass. Yeah. I think after a certain many of you this should be a felony after a certain amount. It should after a certain amount of any crime there should be a felony. I keeps coming in contact, doesn't change his ways. What can we do? A year in jail will probably settle it. What's that? A year in jail might Yeah, maybe. It's debatable. All right, let's play. It's a nice phone. During the arrest, Sanchez Mayan remained calm and compliant, but was chained like a dangerous criminal and kept in a police van without a seat belt. Thanks to Officer Michael's reckless driving, Sanchez Mayan was no longer the same. During the ride, Sanchez Mayan falls out of the seat. Sanchez Mayan's attorneys alleged what happened was not an accident. Chess Mine's attorneys say the van driver didn't stop or offer assistance before he arrived at the jail several minutes later. Come here. Roberto, wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. As a result of the incident, Sanchez Mayan endured lifealtering spinal cord injuries that led to the amputation of both his legs above the knee. On March 14th, 2025, the city council approved a $2.5 million settlement to Sanchez Mayan. To date, neither officer Sarah Gatis nor officer Michael Thcker has faced disciplinary action, and both remain employed by the St. Petersburg Police Department. In the next case, the officers let their ego take the lead, completely abandoning their duty to protect and serve. In February 2021, a Marine Corps veteran, Stefan Lara, was driving through Reno to visit his daughter in Portola, California, when a Nevada Highway Patrol officer pulled him over for an alleged traffic violation. I'm doing great. Hey, the reason I'm stopping, we have a special enforcement campaign going on. We're trying to educate drivers about violations they may not realize they're committing, but we're seeing a big increase in crashes out here. First, apolog. You're driving really slow. It appears that you're driving trying to drive safely under the speed limit. I appreciate that. I just want to talk about your following distance, especially around commercial vehicles. Sound kind of weird. Um, part of my job out here is I do what's called highway interdiction. I look for people that are smuggling contraband through our state, across the country. Uh, weapons, humans, drugs, illicit currency, things like that. Anything in the vehicle I should be aware of? Okay. No, no firearms, no explosives. Okay. Um, are there any drugs in the vehicle? Cocaine? I don't think so. Yeah, I got to ask all these silly questions, right? Okay. Um, any large amounts of United States currency in the vehicle? Okay. What's a large amount of US currency to you? Okay. So, there's over 10,000 in there. Okay. How much money you got in there? A lot. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Um, would you give me permission to search your vehicle today? That's okay with you. During the stop, Stefan voluntarily disclosed that he was carrying approximately $86,900 in cash, his life savings, which he had withdrawn due to concerns about recent burglaries in his parents' neighborhood. Because of the large amount, the officer contacted his supervisor and the DEA as is standard procedure. I think you're a good guy. I'm a good guy. How So how much cash is that? About 100 grand. 100 grand. Okay. So, as you know, right? I I'm a vet. He's a vet. You're a vet. It's not illegal to carry currency. It does though make us ask some questions on why someone has 100,000. I can understand why you don't trust banks, especially in this day and age right now. Are you out here? Okay. I'm I'm waiting to hear back from Shane to see if he comes out here. This is a um it's a strange one, but not a strange one. Um consent to a search. Said there's money up there. We located what he says is $100,000. It's in a um a ziplock sandwich baggie. Um there's also I haven't gone into it a bunch, but there's a bunch of bank receipts and stuff in there as well um to show the the current. This might be Shane. Hold on one second. This is Shane Per. So why why the distrust the banking system? I just don't trust him. Yeah, that's just that's just my it's my reasoning. It's my personal thing. Oh, I'm not trying to convince you one way or the other. It's just it's it's not usual. Despite finding no drugs, no weapons, and no evidence of a crime. The officers were left with nothing but a large sum of cash. And while carrying cash is in a crime, to them it felt like a challenge to their ego they just couldn't ignore. I kind of Northcore. Um it it's odd, but it's odd, but it's not packed like normal. No. And and he's answering the questions. There's there's receipts here, and it I would like to put I would like to put um the dog on the currency there. Okay. Sergeant Glenn directed the junior officer to have the police canine conduct a sniff search of the currency. Bear in mind the numerous studies that shown that over 70% of US currency has trace amounts of drugs. Positive alert. Huh? Okay. While a dog's alert to currency doesn't prove Stephan's involvement in an illegal drug transaction, this positive alert seems to have provided the officers with a legal justification they need to seize Stephan's life savings. I believe there's drugs dog related to it. Drug crushes. Yeah, it's very common, sir. We get people that are trapped in large quantities of marijuana from Northern California to all states east, even from Reno. Sir, I can tell you right now, but I'm going to tell you exactly what's going to happen. Okay, we're going to seize it today, but that doesn't mean we're the final judgment on it. It's going to go through the DEA. Okay. So, the DEA will contact you and the DEA will will uh provide you with a means to um to fight it. You're going to have to provide your your payubs. You're going to have to pro provide your other receipts and stuff like that. The US Drug Enforcement Administration uses a process known as adoption, which allows federal authorities to assume control of assets seized initially made by state or local police. Once adopted, the case is processed under federal forfeite laws. The proceeds from the seized assets are then shared with the local agencies involved, typically up to 80% through the federal equitable sharing program. Want to let you know, I know you're just doing your job. That money I work really hard for money that I have in my jacket is only a few dollars to pay for my kids, bills, my hotel, Texas. probably going to be stuck here unless somebody says no way for my children. [Applause] After the seizure, Stefan was left stranded and without a dime to his name. He later filed a claim, but the DEA missed the 90-day deadline for forfeite. 6 months later, with help from the Institute for Justice, he sued the DEA and after national attention, his money was returned. Stefan also sued the Nevada Highway Patrol, challenging the seizure and use of federal programs to bypass state law. In January 2025, a Nevada court ruled that state police couldn't use federal loopholes to override state protections.