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Cops have to deal with all sorts of violent and dangerous criminals every day, but what happens when it's their
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very own family they have to arrest? DADDY, WHY ARE YOU HURTING ME? CAITLIN, KNOCK IT OFF.
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THIS IS OFFICER KOVAC, a policeman who didn't approve of his daughter's relationship with 18-year-old McKay
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Coleman. After tracing his daughter's laptop to the residence, he spotted McKay's car driving by and decided to
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pull it over. You can get out. For what? You're going to jail. For what? Get out.
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For what? Let's see if my car We'll make [ __ ] up as we go. It's immediately clear that this isn't a
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normal police interaction. That last phrase, "We'll make it up as we go," is obviously unprofessional and quite
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scary, too. Officer Kovac has a personal and emotional connection to this case and has even made an unlawful traffic
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stop because of it. Even if he did have a valid reason to pull McKay over, he should have radioed for another officer
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to handle the stop, but instead, he's taking things into his own hands. Any guns, knives, weed on you?
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What's that? Uh, obviously it's not. Don't get smart before I can do something to you, even more.
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The passenger side door opening means someone is still in the vehicle and it turns out to be another of his
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daughter's friends, but she's still nowhere to be seen. I told you to get out of the car.
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I said I told you to get out of the car. I'm on a road of 12. I'm advising a white female in a blue
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shirt in front of my house. Did dad know my my daughter's in your house? Conveniently, Kovac managed to pull them
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over right next to the friend's house, so he decided to have a chat with the mother after remembering his daughter's
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laptop also showed her inside of this house. Why is her computer there? Why would your daughter be in my house?
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I don't know. You know, so if I check and you're lying to me, you're going to jail.
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You can check and I'm not lying to you. She's getting a ticket cuz she wasn't wearing her seatbelt, so that's going to
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cost you $20. Can you write me a warning? search my house. That's fine. I will. The woman politely invites Kovac to
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search her home despite having no legal obligation to. He tells her that because
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her daughter wasn't wearing a seatbelt, he's going to write them a ticket for $200, causing the woman to revoke her
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consent to search. It's becoming clear just how much he's willing to abuse his power to solve his own personal issues.
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So, the woman decides to speak up. Sir, you're making this personal. it How am I being disrespectful? I was
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wearing my seatbelt. You're making this personal. You want to ticket my daughter because you think
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your daughter is in my car. You're making this personal. You want to ticket my daughter because you think your
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daughter is in my car. No, she wasn't wearing her seatbelt. I'm going to call 911.
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Realizing exactly what's going on, the girl's mother reminds Officer Kovac that what he's doing is both unprofessional
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and illegal. But, in a scramble to prevent the woman from calling his colleagues to the scene, he decides to
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let her daughter go without a ticket before discovering something nobody could predict.
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I didn't even see you. Get out of the car. Get in my car. But, why? All right, you guys are good. Ma'am, you
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can They can go with you. The officer's daughter, Caitlyn, had been hiding inside McKay's car the
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entire time, obviously terrified of what her father might do to her and her friends. It turns out her fear wasn't
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unfounded as he proceeds to essentially kidnap his own daughter by forcing her into his vehicle.
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Get in my car. Goodnight. You can't. You can't take me. I am 18. You have to give me a reason. BY LAW,
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YOU HAVE TO WHY ARE YOU PUTTING ME? CAITLYN. KNOCK IT OFF. YEAH, SHE DID NOTHING.
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GET IN THE CAR. YOU'RE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL cuz she She said she was You're to kill herself
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right you? NO, I DIDN'T! NO! CAITLIN IS ESSENTIALLY BEING KIDNAPPED HERE. She's broken no laws and is
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legally an adult, meaning she can stay or go with anyone she wants. But despite that, he tells her that she has to come
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with him to the hospital as she needs a psychological evaluation. There's no need to point out just how badly Officer
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Kovac handled the entire situation. Internal Affairs did that for us. It was quickly concluded that Kovac acted
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illegally and irresponsibly. During the entire interaction, Kovac was listed as an available unit and was called to a
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domestic abuse case, but he never responded. Officer John Kovac was later fired from the police department for his
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unprofessional behavior, but it's not only police officers that can be protective parents, though. Take this
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example from Vermont when a 52-year-old father tried using an excavator to attack the officers that were arresting
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his own kid. What you're watching is essentially two people threatening each other with
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deadly weapons. The cops are in an extremely tough position here. They have to keep control of the detained suspect
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while also talking down his father, all while in a life-or-death situation. All available units, I've got 343 and
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254 in a 10-10. Unfortunately, this is where the footage ends. However, you can make out the
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radio dispatcher informing other officers of a 10-10 at the address. A 10-10 is a fight in progress and more
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units are quickly dispatched to help these two officers take control of the situation and take the entire family
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into custody. The son was arrested on charges of burglary and assault, while the father
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was also taken into custody and arrested. In both of these cases so far, a cop's family member hasn't been
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directly arrested, but this next case shows what happens when a cop has to arrest his own daughter for a DUI.
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Dad. You stop with this [ __ ] You're arrested for DUI. On the 28th of December 2022, a witness
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had observed a white vehicle strike a traffic light and then quickly drive off. A part of the vehicle's bumper had
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fallen off in the road after the hit. Around 15 minutes after the call, police located the suspect's vehicle at a gas
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station across the road, but the driver was the last person they expected. Come back from Applebee's?
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a drink. Okay. How old are you? 21. My dad is a Wow. He's showing me Listen. Your bumper's in the road over there.
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Did you just hit that pole? No, I promise I did not. No? The very thing 21-year-old Teresa says
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is that her dad is an officer with the local PD, possibly hoping that he'd come and get her out of the situation, but
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the cops at the scene are sure that things are way past that. You left Applebee's?
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Yeah, I left Applebee's. You cut through the plaza. You came out by Lowe's and Chick-fil-A.
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Yeah. Did you hit the traffic pole that's right there? I did not hit the traffic pole. This
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part was hanging off already. I I hit a deer in Pennsylvania cuz I go to school in
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Do you smoke marijuana recreationally? I did not smoke marijuana universally. Universally smoking marijuana isn't the
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only part of her story that doesn't make any sense. She's saying that her bumper
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was already hanging off from an accident in Pennsylvania around 25 miles away, and it just happened to fall off right
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as another car identical to hers struck a traffic light. But Teresa has a trick up her sleeve that might just get her
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out of this. At At that's what she hopes. They hit a Pennsylvania deer. You see this?
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I hit This piece fell off at the traffic light that you hit, that you knocked over.
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67, do you have another unit out with you? All right, hang out. Over the course of just a few minutes,
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Teresa brings up her dad over five times, obviously praying that he'll be able to find a way for her to get out of
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this. But, before he can come to rescue her, the cops are starting to zero in on
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what really happened and begin to get at least some of the truth from Teresa. Did you drive away cuz you're scared cuz
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you had maybe had one drink and you think you're drunk? And you might get arrested, but you don't seem like you're
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drunk. So, you want to just tell the truth? So, when after Applebee's, did you hit a
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traffic pole? You can't miss it. It lights up. It's red, green, and yellow. You hit a traffic signal.
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Yeah, you went up the curb. You hit the traffic signal. The traffic signal fell down, and you left.
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Okay. Well, FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, YOUR DAD the sheriff's office wasn't driving your
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vehicle tonight. In just this one short conversation, Teresa admits that she did hit
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something, that she's more intoxicated than they realized, and that she was texting while driving. Three driving
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faults that can each come with their own punishment. So, now that the truth has come out, the detectives decide to speak
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with her father, John. But, it turns out he's not there to help her. Hey John, how are you?
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So, your daughter hit a traffic pole. Okay. What's the damage on the car? Okay, you see damage on that car on that
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car there? I think it was like the front right bumper. John explains that Teresa did hit a deer
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earlier, and that the damage was on the front right bumper. But, it was nowhere near as serious as the damage of was
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currently sustaining. Can I come out? Are you guys out there? Uh that's up to you. I'll I'll see if
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she wants you to come out. If she wants, you know, you to drive her home. Yeah, I I I appreciate it. I'll let Let
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me come out there and I'll and I'll see you guys. Be careful. Thanks. Okay. All right, sounds good.
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It looks like Teresa isn't going to be getting the salvation she was hoping for from her dad. And just 5 minutes later,
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he arrives at the scene to talk with the cops. What's What's up? So, what she's saying like and where the
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damage was there doesn't really make too much sense. So, tried to get some more information out
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of her, but and then that piece of bumper there. This is the bumper. So, the other one wasn't just like the
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bumper wasn't hanging like that. Yeah, no. So, what it was is basically this was intact.
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Okay. Um this piece was missing and the scratches here Those are all from That's all from uh up here that she
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She That's who she lost this on. So, right now this is going to be my call. I'm surprised he's coming out.
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Okay, got you. to be my boss coming out. Yeah. Okay, who was it you talked to last
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time? Sergeant Not that I'm going to. I got I'm just asking. The cops who were first at the scene
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almost seem as though they're expecting John to try and make excuses for his daughter and get extra nervous when he
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asks who their supervisor is. Obviously, there are countless examples of corruption where officers, especially
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those in the higher ranks, are able to use their power to prevent their family from getting into trouble. However, the
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officers quickly realize all he's trying to do is gather all the information on the incident so he can make a fair
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assessment himself. This quickly becomes evident as he checks his text messages from her to try and create a timeline of
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events. I I want to want to show you this so you can see it. You hold 10:39. What do you
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think time do you think that initial call came? Because she probably hit it and was
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like, "Dad, what the [ __ ] do I do?" Somewhere between 10:45 and 11:00. Well, I
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That's about right. I'm going to talk to her as close to the time as we can all.
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I I why would her, She knows that I'm a cop. She knows She knows not to do that.
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Well, maybe she didn't even Do you think she Not once. I'm saying she didn't lie.
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Yeah. Okay. I want to be very clear about it. But, she might not even looked at the
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freaking car. It wouldn't have made any difference. However, despite John's willingness to
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help the officers out, the sergeant at the scene asks him not to get involved so to guarantee the integrity of the
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investigation. So far, everything other than Teresa's conduct has been perfect and is a great example of proper
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policing. So, it's back to focusing on what Teresa had mentioned earlier. She says she'd only had one drink at
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Applebee's, but it's starting to seem as though she may be a little more drunk than they realized. Suspicions that were
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only confirmed after some field sobriety tests. All right, everything that happened
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today, all right, I don't think that you were okay to safely operate a motor vehicle.
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Dad! Dad! You got it. Dad! Where's my dad? Oh, your dad's right over here. And then
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All right. Come on. You need to stop with this [ __ ] and get in the car. Okay. You're under arrest for DUI.
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Got it. Have a seat. After being forced into the police vehicle by her own dad, Teresa was
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driven to the police station where her blood alcohol level was tested. It came back as .17%
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over twice the legal limit. As of this upload, Teresa is still awaiting her penalty, but has been issued a court
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summons for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and failure to report
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a car accident. Teresa's dad followed protocol perfectly, but what happens when instead of the dad being called to
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handle his daughter, it's the daughter who calls the cops on her own dad? Well, that's exactly what happened on the 24th
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of March 2023 when officers were called to a domestic violence case that turned out to be nothing like they expected.
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Hello. I'm going I can't Can you put the dog in the room for me? I will. Can you give me
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All right. Who called? Me. You did? Yeah, sure did. All right. What's going on? The woman who answered the door tells
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the police that she had an argument with her father where he threatened to punch
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her and she just wants her parents to listen to her and take responsibility for the issues in her childhood. The
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responding officer immediately realizes he's in for a rough one. When did he threaten to punch you?
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Well, treat me the way he treated me. Are you talking to me or are you talking to them?
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No, I'm not talking. You know I'm talking to her making faces. What I'm saying though is you need to be
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talking to me. I have never once called the cops on someone before and this first time and
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he deserves it. Okay. Well, he's going to go talk to him separate. about me. Okay, then what do you want us to
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conduct an investigation or not? In this time, the cops take her father into a separate room where he explains
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that his daughter had been screaming at him all day. Apparently, she was blaming
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him and his wife for decisions she made and he was getting tired of the problems
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she's causing them. Despite the toxicity of the situation, things stayed calm at
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least until the cops found a marijuana pipe in the daughter's bag. You have a pipe in there that's commonly
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used to smoke marijuana. you take this? As well as wrapping paper, so Well, still that's not your purse. You
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don't have the right to It's in plain view. Plain view. Turn around and Turn around and put your hands BEHIND
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YOUR BACK. TURN AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR YOU'RE GOING TO BE UNDER ARREST for
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obstructing if you do not comply. Stop. Give me your hands. Stop resisting. Stop.
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Okay. In the scuffle, the woman intentionally kicked one of the officers and resisted
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the arrest. The cops also searched her bag and found a myriad of intoxicants and illegal drugs. So, they read her her
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rights and took her out to the patrol vehicle. Back inside the house though, things are only getting weirder. The
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officer hears a sound coming from the bathroom and decides to investigate further.
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It happened back there. Something fell down back there. Probably Christine in the bathroom.
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Who's Christine? You okay? friend of Janet's. Is she allowed to be here? Yeah. It's kind of odd that she stayed in the
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bathroom the whole time. Does she have warrants? I don't know. Hey Christine. I need you to come out here for a sec.
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Unsurprisingly, the mysterious woman hiding from the cops in the bedroom turned out to have warrants out for her
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arrest and was also put in cuffs. The woman's parents explained that their daughter has been troubled for a long
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time and has serious trauma from when she was younger. They tell the police that she's currently in therapy for it,
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which might have brought it to the front of her mind and caused the aggressive nature towards them, but they never
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mention what the issues are. Nevertheless, the woman was charged with possession of illegal drugs and
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resisting arrest. The parents weren't charged with anything, meaning their daughter's call completely backfired on
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her. Drawing from what we know, it seems that the parents were mostly in the right here and had just been dealt a bad
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hand. Things are completely different for Bruce Adams though, a father who decided to take matters into his own
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hands when his son was arrested by abusing his power as a county commissioner. Tell me who I call to find out why he's
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in jail. You want me to sue the son of a county sheriff? In November 2022, Kenneth Adams was
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pulled over for running a stop sign, but as it turns out, Kenneth was in much more trouble than he realized.
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How's it going? Good. What did I do wrong? Okay, so the reason I stopped you is you
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didn't come to complete stop at the stop sign. I did. And then you didn't have your turn
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signal on. I sure did. Okay. a fact I had my turn signal Okay. That's why I was surprised you were
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pulling me over, but whatever. The officer then took his license and ran it through the system, where he
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would discover Kenneth had a warrant out for burglary and theft of a vehicle. All
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of a sudden, Kenneth becomes defensive and refuses to exit the vehicle. All right, can I can I get you to step
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out of the vehicle with me? What are you doing? No, what what's going on? Seriously, what's going on?
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You have a warrant. How do I have a warrant? I don't know how you're having a warrant, but it's on our system right
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now. You have an active warrant out of the 7th District Court here in San Juan. I've gone to No, that's incorrect.
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Okay, well, it's on our system right now. Well, you need I'm not going to argue with you about
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it. You're going to go to jail tonight on that warrant, okay? No, I'm not. Dude, this this this is absurd.
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Mr. Adams, you do have an active warrant for your arrest. And you and well, who who issued the
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warrant though? The the courts have issued For for what though? Cuz I've gone to
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court for everything. There should not be an active warrant for me anywhere, dude.
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Kenneth claims that he's already been to court for his previous crimes, but the warrant still calls for his arrest. For
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the majority of smaller cases, the suspect is tasked with turning in the documents that prove that they've been
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to court and completing any classes they were made to attend by the judge. Without those documents, the court
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cannot confirm they attended anything. So, when Kenneth forgot to turn his in, the warrant remained open and the police
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had no way to tell that he had in fact been to court. Issued October 13th. For what?
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It has some felony charges, burglary charges. Dude, I've been to court for that. No,
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no, I've been to court for that. You want to know the charges? Yeah, I do. Well, it has two burglary charges
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listed, a theft charge, and mischief. That's all my old case. Uh three charges of burglary of a
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vehicle and criminal trespass. Yeah, what what why is that showing up now? Kenneth was taken away to the station,
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but this is when his father, Bruce Adams, turned up, who turned out to be the county commissioner for the local
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area. How convenient for Kenneth. Immediately after arriving at the scene, Bruce demanded to know what was going on
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and quickly started to show signs of corruption. Where's Kenneth? He's in jail. They took him.
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You all right, took him to jail? They took him to jail and I stayed here with the car.
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Why? For a warrant. Who do I call to find out why? to find warrant? You're a police officer. Tell me who I
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call to find out why he's in jail. I got to be careful with this stuff, Bruce. Do you understand that?
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Okay. That's the warrant. Okay, so it says warrant status active, offense burglary,
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burglary theft, criminal mischief, burglary of a vehicle, burglary of a vehicle, burglary of a vehicle.
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to court over that. It's You saw the warrant right there. I even I showed you the warrant.
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He's been charged with that and he has a plea in abeyance on all of it. What do you want me to do?
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I want you to turn him loose. I can't turn him loose, Bruce. Who can? Nobody can. He's been arrested for a
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warrant. The courts can. And the warrant's false. Huh? The warrant's not false. You want me to sue the son of a [ __ ]
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county sheriff because he arrested my kid on a false warrant? The warrant's right there. Bruce is
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obviously trying to abuse his position and influence the commissioner to try and save his son from the law. But
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luckily, this officer stands his ground and refuses to cave in. Eventually though, Kenneth was released from jail,
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the warrant was withdrawn, and no further action was taken against Bruce.