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When Corrupt Cops Realize They Ended Their Career

September 22, 2023 / 16:59

This episode covers police misconduct involving Ohio police chief Chad McArdle, officer Jonathan Hemphill, and Corporal Scott Bertzik. Key discussions include McArdle's alleged assault, Hemphill's aggressive traffic stop, and Bertzik's DUI incident.

Chad McArdle, the police chief from Ohio, was involved in a serious incident where he claimed he was stabbed but later admitted to attacking a homeless man. He is currently facing misdemeanor battery charges.

Officer Jonathan Hemphill escalated a minor traffic stop into a confrontation, resulting in an oral reprimand and mandatory anger management classes.

Corporal Scott Bertzik was found driving under the influence after crashing his vehicle. He faced fines, community service, and a suspension from his job.

The episode highlights the challenges of holding police officers accountable for their actions, featuring multiple cases of misconduct and the consequences faced by the officers involved.

TLDR

Ohio police chief Chad McArdle faces charges after assaulting a homeless man, while other officers deal with misconduct and DUI incidents.

Episode

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police Chiefs are some of the most powerful authorities able to command cops but what happens when police Chiefs
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mess up and their co-workers try to arrest them I think I murdered at 1am on the 28th of July police were called by a
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taxi driver after a man started banging on his window begging him to call the cops the man later identified as Ohio
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police chief Chad McArdle claimed he was stabbed by a group of people but when cops arrived his story changed
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drastically right here he hit me probably three or four times and then he got me right here do you
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have any idea who it is I'm a cow I don't know what your guys for some reason Chad decided to start
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being slightly passive aggressive to the cops despite them not having any problem
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with him whatsoever it's clear that something might be bothering Chad and it's obviously not the four stab wounds
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that he claims to have sustained luckily it doesn't take long for him to spell the truth
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finale is sort of Keeping the Faith I grabbed a stick I'm pretty sure I killed one of them do
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you think you killed one of them yeah he like came off kicked in the face I was like all right let's go I broke up a
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rant off I don't want dude to be dead but don't [ __ ] with me dude what started out as a
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simple call has suddenly turned into something incredibly serious that's gonna be pretty hard to solve as it
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stands there only witness is also their primary suspect but they've also got a gang of people and a dead body to find
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this one isn't going to be easy or at least that was the case on until they found this in the alley where it all
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happened did you come out here what's your name Joe did you hear any commotion going on like a fight or something this
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broke out yeah come out here for me so I can see you oh okay you were hiding from him yeah so what
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did you hear I was standing right there and he kicked me in the back after the blue kicked you
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yeah did you do anything to him when he kicked you know I hit the ground matter of fact my
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package so when he came up and attacked you did he say anything and he said I'm gonna kill you at this point things
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aren't looking good for Chad on the bright side nobody's dead so he might just be able to dodge a murder charge
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but by all accounts he has still just beaten up a homeless guy for no obvious reason so now it's up to the cops to
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decide what to do stabbed multiple times there's absolutely zero stabbings on him
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whatsoever all we can corroborate is it to beat this poor guy up in an alley for
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no reason who wants to press charges on your back we're gonna Entertain You Right Now hopeful another investigation
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it seems all his years of police work haven't taught him to remain silent as at this rate he might end up talking
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himself back into a murder charge currently Chad is being charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and has
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been placed on paid administratively from his position back in Ohio the maximum charge he's facing is one year
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in jail and a one thousand dollar fine but at least Matthew remained calm during his stop Jonathan Hemphill
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however managed to do the exact opposite in his stop despite being only pulled over for having too dark of a tint on
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his windows to let you know who I was yes sir well we didn't know what that you know that's
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not a government tag that is a unofficial tag that Tag's not even on file I said yes well we have to catch up
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the building from running everything like that sir so so I won't blink my bullets at you next time I'll let you
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just see for example well nice to meet you sir Matt Polk worked for me your Chief
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worked for me yes sir there's no need to get upset I'm upset easy I don't I don't have to talk to you
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okay I'm not I'm not talking to you the cops are immediately met with aggression
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despite this being a pretty minor stop after they realized it was a fellow officer the chief would likely have been
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able to explain away the window tint and let them know it was an official police
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vehicle with clearance but Jonathan's aggression throws all of that out the window while making the officers believe
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that maybe something isn't right here yeah what she's about bringing your driver's license back up
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yeah uh first we ran the tag came back to like a Dodge Ram so we're just gonna last night
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wrong like you must have run it wrong because you're going to come back so so it's still coming back to a Dodge
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Ram now sir can I ask why is it still coming back to a Dodge Ram no we got it fixed why are you so upset no you didn't
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fix it dude is it still come back to a Dodge Ram right now no it came back not on five that's right because you run it
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wrong I'm trying to be respectful I understand that I understand I'm not raising my voice right I understand all
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right the only thing I've done wrong y'all never would have pulled me over if I had
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to flick my blue license no sir no we were gonna pull you up again this stop was incredibly minor and
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all the officers really wanted to do was check that this was in fact a police officer and not just an impersonator but
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unfortunately for Jonathan he escalated this to a completely unnecessary and unprofessional level and received heavy
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criticism for it it's very unprofessional after a short investigation it was decided that
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Jonathan would receive an oral reprimand and he would be required to attend at least six months of anger management and
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de-escalation classes you'd think that the cops in such high positions of power would know to avoid breaking the law but
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people like Corporal Scott bertzik clearly did not get that memo officer Brooke shutterly was called to the scene
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of a car crash where she immediately recognized her supervisor sitting in the driver's seat of the crashed vehicle
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reached out for my lighter slammed into his ass cool yeah not really not really are you okay oh yeah no I'm good your
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car's [ __ ] up no absolutely obviously Brooke and Scott are familiar with each other and curiously Scott
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holds nothing back when describing exactly how the incident went down it's clear that Scott is the one at fault
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here so before going any further Brook decides to call back to the space to ask whether or not it's okay for her to be
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handling this incident this crashed um birdie yeah so come work it okay I can't remember it's been a long time since
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I've worked a crash with one of us in it so no he's not on duty he's in his POV I
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just didn't want there to be any like conflict of interest type issues all right that was it I just want to make
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sure okay bye Brooke is given the go-ahead and told that there should be no issues with her
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handling this case but that was before she noticed this you good huh wait on his way he's not coming
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he's good walking home but yep I'm good so birdie eat you giving me some indicators oh
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listen listen woman listen daldos is coming out just to I'm not gonna lie to you about it she's
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on her way yeah she's on her way I'm not really comfortable with this whole thing
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at all but I'm not gonna lie to you about it I don't mean to put you in that indie
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yep from now on you know how it goes you can't consume anything okay because right now you're being detained wait
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what it's obvious that Scott is under the influence of something judging by his slurred speech slowed reactions and
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slight loss of motor control Brooke is fairly sure he's been drinking at this point Scott is no longer her supervisor
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he's just a suspect in a case and what's more he's drunk and likely unpredictable
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a combination which can be incredibly threatening to a female officer please don't make my life difficult
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I would never do that to you okay I'm very uncomfortable right now that I apologize for putting you in that
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position are you on yes yes I am and I'm going to remain on integrity [Music] you know you can't smoke right now
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what because if I'm gonna do a DUI investigation at a pizza too you can't consume anything
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oh I want to get that dog this really cute dog fear aggression is you you can always train a dog
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you can't consuming you're killing me I'm trying not too late now after a short wait another officer
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arrives at the scene meaning they can finally start getting to the bottom of all of this with some sobriety tests
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these lasted over 10 minutes but it's not hard to tell how they went by just looking at a few seconds of them you may
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begin the test [Music] one judging by this and the overwhelming amounts of evidence against him at this
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point the officers thought it was safe to conclude that Scott had been drinking that night and decided it was time to
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put him in cuffs something he was far from happy about there's things that we can do to fix this place
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[Music] good to go yeah despite Scott being one of the most polite and respectful
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suspects ever on this channel he was actually hit with a better sentence than the majority of criminal cops after
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blowing up 0.156 back at the station he was charged with driving under the influence and damaging property He was
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ordered to pay just under one thousand dollars in fines served 50 hours of community service and take multiple
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substance abuse and DUI classes and had his driver's license suspended for six months he was also sued by the driver of
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the vehicle he hit and a cash settlement was reached and on top of all of that he
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also was suspended without pay for a week and given a last chance agreement meaning one more slip up and he was up
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for good realistically this is how it should have been handled in the Gainesville Police Department should be
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praised for this in the same way as the officer in charge of this case in Oklahoma
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back in your car drunk huh a what captain of what the big don't reach in your pocket get back in your
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car have a seat I I will I'm not [Music] you've been drinking tonight I just got a ride
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you've been drinking tonight sir I'm a captain Oh please forward what Police Department Oklahoma City
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[Music] what division investigations how much we had to drink tonight sir [Music]
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huh I'm not turning my camera off okay this guy isn't just drunk he's absolutely
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hammered even to the point where he thinks the camera can't hear him whispering but despite the captain's
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pleas the officer refuses to turn off his camera and continues with the investigation I'm going to step out of
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the vehicle kidding me how much we drink tonight sir I was a poker game because you're swerving all over when
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you turn up here you didn't use your signal I'm sorry how much you drink at your poker game not much not much how
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much is not much I don't know beer liquor not any beers three or four three or four how long ago
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was that it's been going on a while how long ago did you drink the last beer sir what
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time is it now it's zero 140. midnight you think you should drive it no but I came from four blocks
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and your mom your mom lives here I live here you live here yes forward to the rear view vehicle okay
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you got any weapons or anything I do not sir those must have been a strong few beers as Not only was he stumbling over
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his words but apparently also swerving across both lanes on his way home the captain is then searched and told to
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stand in the open where he's tested on his balance and sobriety hands down by your side please
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straight ahead and you see the tip of my pincer I do and when she falls it my pain without moving your head okay
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come over here where it's a little bit more level I'm going to demonstrate for you first
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want to demonstrate it I want you to stand with your feet together hands down by your side just like this all right
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sir what's your name Matt French Matt French Mr French sounds just like that for me when I tell you to begin okay I'm
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just going to demonstrate for you first I want you to pick a foot of your choosing it doesn't matter if it's your
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left or your right foot I'm from here and I want you to lift their proxy six inches off the ground
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and while you look at your toe I want you to count by one thousands one thousand one one thousand two one
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thousand three one thousand four one thousand five so on and so forth until I tell you to stop at any point in time
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you lose your balance your foot touches the ground just go ahead and pick your foot back up and continue to count okay
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do you understand these instructions of explain times in French you may begin I cannot sir please I know you're aware
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of our body cam policy and you know I cannot turn off this body again but I'd like to talk to you foreign
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I understand that sir and I am a sergeant on this police officer pull the wall I don't show favoritism to
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anyone regardless I don't care if you're a gang banger or the president of the United States sir I'm not asking for
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that if I was to treat you differently then I was to treat like some South Side Loco
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or some pedo how's that look on me okay I'm not asking for that because I wouldn't do that for any of them even as
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the captain begs him to turn his camera off and just talk the officer stands his
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ground and states that he has to treat everyone the same or his job and livelihood could be at risk he's showing
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a fantastic amount of Integrity that unfortunately we don't get to see too often likely due to people like this
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trying to pull rank they then continue with the third and final test involving simply walking Heel To Toe for 10 steps
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all right anytime you're ready you may begin form two three four five six one two three
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four five six seven eight nine all right go ahead and turn around for me put your
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hands behind your back oh you got arrested myself yes I am can I talk to you go ahead and put your transplant your
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back Sir now that the investigation is concluded and the purpose placed under our rest
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the officer turns off his camera and Returns the captain to the police department Not only was he suspended
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from his position as Oklahoma Police Captain but he was also hit with the regular punishments for DUI likely
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amounting to a small fine and a few months in jail

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Episode Highlights

  • Police Chief's Dark Night
    Ohio police chief Chad McArdle's night takes a turn when he claims to have been stabbed, but the truth reveals a darker reality.
    “I'm pretty sure I killed one of them.”
    @ 01m 14s
    September 22, 2023
  • Captain's DUI Arrest
    An Oklahoma police captain faces the consequences of his actions after being pulled over for DUI, showcasing the challenges of accountability in law enforcement.
    “You think you should drive it? No, but I came from four blocks.”
    @ 13m 08s
    September 22, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • I'm pretty sure I killed one of them.
    When Corrupt Cops Realize They Ended Their Career
  • Please don't make my life difficult.
    When Corrupt Cops Realize They Ended Their Career
  • I would never do that to you.
    When Corrupt Cops Realize They Ended Their Career

Key Moments

  • Police Chief's Incident00:11
  • Conflicting Stories00:22
  • Tense Confrontation08:38
  • DUI Investigation09:39
  • Final Arrest16:40

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