1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,640 So I turn the report to me, Lieutenant at the time, and he sort of grabs the paper and 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:17,640 tears it up. 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,840 And I'm like, did I do something wrong? 4 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,320 And he's looked at me dead face and said, this never happened. 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,200 And what happened the next day when you got back and came to work the next day? 6 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,200 How does that? 7 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,280 When I came back to work, it was just normal. 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:41,360 And what I mean by normal, it's not normal like every day that goes to work. 9 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,160 Normal police work is they give you updates about people who they're looking for and so 10 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,680 on and so forth. 11 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:51,880 And I think it's important for me to explain that. 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:59,240 During my career as a police officer, my arrests were, I would arrest 100 people, 100 felony 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,320 arrests a month and about 120 misdemeanor arrests. 14 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,720 So combined like 220 people I would arrest on a given month. 15 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:18,240 And during that given month, there's a percentage that made you go, how do I explain that? 16 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:23,600 John Angler at the time he was a governor, he gives us notice that he's closing all the 17 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,040 mental institutions in the state of Michigan. 18 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,720 Then in 97, former Michigan governor, John Angler closed more than a dozen psychiatric 19 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,440 hospitals in his view to shift treatment back to the community. 20 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:41,880 The burden has fallen to hospital emergency rooms, hospital medical wards, psychiatric 21 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,800 units and general hospitals that have been shrinking over the last several years. 22 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,160 Filled with inadequate funding, experts say many of the mentally ill are likely to encounter 23 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,160 law enforcement. 24 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,080 Basically what he did is just set him free on the street and he's also put him on great 25 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,320 home buses and try to send him to different states. 26 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:05,320 And at the time I'm been known to me there is something sinister happening. 27 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:11,160 There is nothing but burnt down houses and vacant abandoned houses and we were finding 28 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:22,360 a lot of artifacts and like the black candles and the Ouija boards and the stars in the 29 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,920 center of this abandoned building. 30 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:29,440 And when you would enter those houses, you knew something bad happened. 31 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:36,400 One day I come to the precinct and Sergeant calls me in and says, Indio, I got to talk 32 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,920 to you real quick. 33 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:41,480 So I go in there and I'm thinking, okay, what I do wrong because anytime Sergeant calls 34 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,480 you in, it's not normally a good thing. 35 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:53,600 And he has a letter envelope and he has it in front of his desk and he sits me down and 36 00:02:53,600 --> 00:03:00,520 goes, you're no longer with the third precinct, you're being reassigned. 37 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,280 I'm like, okay, where am I going? 38 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,600 He says, you're going down to the basement because the third precinct had a basement 39 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,880 and that's where 30 series sort of started to gather their information. 40 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,920 And what I mean by that is our stopping post. 41 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,960 The Sergeant that was there at the time that gave me the letter, he had been through the 42 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:27,520 mallison, butts in trial and he was, he went through that whole mess during that time when 43 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:33,040 the booster unit got in trouble with the mallis green trial. 44 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:38,920 And he just kind of said, I can't tell you what to do, but just know that once you open 45 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,560 that envelope, you're going down to rabbit hole that you can't come back from. 46 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,320 And I was like, oh, cool. 47 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:53,120 My mind at the time, and let's put an age to it, I was 20 going 21 barely. 48 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:59,880 And I'm sort of excited about it because I'm like, oh, I get to wear plain clothes and 49 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,080 I'm like, right around police car and not answer runs anymore, that's going to be cool. 50 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,360 And it was totally different. 51 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,800 And so when I open that letter up, he's like, open it outside. 52 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,640 I want nothing to do with that. 53 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:12,640 He knew what you were getting into. 54 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,640 He knew what I was getting into. 55 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:14,640 Absolutely. 56 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:15,800 And he wanted no more part of it. 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,000 He didn't want no part of it. 58 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,960 He was like, you could open that letter out there. 59 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,240 That's how I was inducted into 30 series. 60 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,520 So Ness being the base, the operations. 61 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,480 It's the base. 62 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,120 And so what I would do is call the chapel. 63 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:37,400 And what I mean by the chapel was because we would literally have priests blessing it, 64 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,760 blessing the grounds. 65 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:47,760 I'm picturing, I guess, as an outsider, I'm picturing this, like you said, you walk into 66 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,520 this dirty abandoned building, but then it's like a facade on the outside. 67 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,680 As you walk in, you're taken through this secret room or tunnel, elevator, whatever it 68 00:04:58,680 --> 00:04:59,680 was. 69 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,240 And then all of a sudden you're in this giant warehouse with high tech gadgets, like clean 70 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:11,000 white rooms, et cetera, very high tech. 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,760 I thought Detroit was a poor city at the time. 72 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:20,000 I imagine the police force didn't have money for equipment and stuff like that. 73 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,440 How was this all funded? 74 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:29,040 Where was this, how come this special unit got all these cool gadgets? 75 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,640 That answer didn't come till later. 76 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:37,480 And I ended up finding out that Vatican actually supplied a lot of the money for our equipment 77 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,800 because the equipment that we had at the nest, no one else had. 78 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,640 That's when you start realizing, I literally went down the fucking rabbit hole. 79 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:48,640 This shit's real. 80 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:49,640 This shit is real. 81 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:50,640 This shit's real. 82 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Wow. 83 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:52,680 So maybe the next call? 84 00:05:52,680 --> 00:06:00,640 Our next one was we had heard a run that there was a police chase nearby. 85 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,240 And so we're like, hey, let's just go check it out and see what's happening. 86 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,240 And what I mean by that is that after dealing with supernatural stuff, there's certain key 87 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,560 things that happen. 88 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:19,360 And what I mean by that is that you get radio interference. 89 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:26,000 You start hearing sometimes voices come through on the radio and we would hear that. 90 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,520 And in this particular chase that happened on Grashit, we were hearing that. 91 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,320 And it was enough for all of us to kind of look at each other and go, yeah, we need to 92 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,160 go look at that. 93 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,880 And the thing with 30 series is that you're not stationed to any precinct, we're on many 94 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:50,440 were in the city, so we took off down West Ford to Grashit, Jefferson Grashit. 95 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,880 And we're getting there and we could hear the speed chase. 96 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,040 It was going on for about 10 minutes. 97 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Enough time for us to catch up to it. 98 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:07,120 And when ends up happening is the person that the chase and it's the stolen car. 99 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,200 He runs into a light pole. 100 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:18,200 And the police cars, of course, they take their appropriate action and do a felony stop. 101 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,520 But the driver jumped out of the car. 102 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,480 And I remember seeing this vividly because we're about three cars back, slowly making 103 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:32,080 our way because as a plane officer, you got to sort of let the uniform officers that, 104 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,760 hey, we're on your team, so we would reach down and pull out our badge that's tucked 105 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:42,320 in the shirt to let them know because if you just come and play and close with the gun, 106 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,240 it's going to be bad. 107 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,040 So we always had to renounce ourselves. 108 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,480 We can always be the leads at the time. 109 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,760 But this guy came out of the car and it happened really fast. 110 00:07:53,760 --> 00:08:02,800 I remember vividly because Tupac was playing and he came out of the car, all dashed up 111 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:09,080 and he starts doing this weird dance and we're kind of like a hell, almost like a puppet 112 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,240 just being controlled. 113 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,800 And then all of a sudden he does a spin move and from his waistband in the back, pulls 114 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,200 out a gun, shoots an officer in the head and that officer goes down. 115 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:28,560 And then we all open fire and this guy took round after round and you can see his body 116 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:36,680 jerking, you can see the impact of the rounds making and he takes off running. 117 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:59,440 And we knew that we were right about the call.