Asheville, North Carolina Asheville Police Department, 2 Apr 2018

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From YouTube: 9. Christopher Hickman

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Recording is taken from the body-worn camera of Christopher Hickman on August 25, 2017, at 1:22 a.m. The recording is taken in the parking lot of Mission Hospital following Mr. Rush’s release from the hospital. The video shows Christopher Hickman, Officer Verino Ruggiero and Mr. Rush talking about the earlier incident in the Mission Parking lot, and then the drive to the Buncombe County Detention Facility.

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You got one on you.

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I find it I'll give it to you. Homie, chair.

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Me get you a smoke.

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We're gonna put it back behind you. Yes,.

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Sir, that's hot.

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You've got a light: I'm go I'll, go.

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Didn't either he warned you once then he was just gonna. Give you a ticket. The second time.

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What's done is done, we're all gonna go our lives, and this will never happen again and we'll probably never even see either one of each other again.

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If we do I hope you'd be on their own Devin. Oh me.

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So, what's my charge is my buyer.

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Your original charges, which are impeding traffic and trespass and then resisting.

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So all misdemeanors, then you're super chill. If you stay super chill, they also haven't been in trouble in forever. You'll, probably get a very little bone, or even possibly a written promise. As long as you like I mean the demeanor you are now is what he was trying to get at like we get a lot of complaints over there. Smile starters calls all the time about people in their parking lot. You happen to be right there and you know the only reason that we even noticed you were there was you were yelling at somebody.

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I think you yelled at some dude or something.

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Yeah but I mean we heard it. So that's why we even looked over there, we're like oh somebody, just hollered it something we saw you and then you walked out from the road. So we weren't around just to give you a warning and he waited for you to buy your beer and everything, because it wasn't that serious at that time.

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He's just gonna wait: til you left and be like hey bro. You can't do that. These people complained about it and then you went and did it exactly again.

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Then you walked right across the road. Again you got to go to that. Crosswalk.

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There's two things about it: one both places you crossed because I just washed it or on my body, camera you're, not in a crosswalk, either time you're like on Biltmore Avenue, you're about 40 yards from the crosswalk and then thought smile, stutters you're about 20 yards from the crosswalk right there at Dalton, the Stiller.

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Was frustrated but then you put on like you got frustrated your emotions got the better of you started getting belligerent. We can't do that. I can't do that out there. Oh, so I, don't know you, you don't know you, you ain't, you won't get in trouble. We don't ever deal with you. So we don't know. You now doesn't mean you're a bad person, but we also don't know what you're capable of or what to expect. Just like you don't know what. So, when you try to run, we don't know why we don't know why.

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The true reason is I mean you just wanted to go home. That's why we know that now you just want.

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You take off a room because.

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Told you you're going to jail, I told you. You knew because I said it. It's on my body, camera I.

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Said: put your hands.

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Behind your back you're under arrest.

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I get that it's petty, but just like I get parking tickets, man I think it's Betty I'm a cop I get parking tickets, I get speeding, tickets I'm not allowed to cross the street, but I'm not allowed to either, especially like I, tried very hard to party currently trying okay, good I. Think you took apart personally than was intended and I. Think that's what escalated this I don't want this anymore.

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Know this is going to sell, you know, understand, I, don't know what you did and then you got you kept punching me and choking me yeah.

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You never complied with my.

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Order Wow, you.

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Didn't put your hands on your back, I didn't start jerking, you till after I, probably punched you ten times.

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Here's another reason.

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Of this, though, go think about this mr. rush think about this, you know what never would have happened. You never would have got punched if, when I told you to put.

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Behind your back, yes,.

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Have had somebody try to stab me with a screwdriver doing exactly what you did now I, don't think you ever would do that.

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I don't know because we hadn't searched you, we hadn't patted you down so I, don't know if maybe you're running cuz you you carrying a piece I, don't know that cuz I, don't know you from Adam. You know what I mean so.

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You go on running over something as petty as trespassing and jaywalking I've got to think normal people aren't gonna. Do that. Is there something more serious going on here and then you wanna, like then taunt us you're gonna have to catch us while you're running, which was pretty funny by the way, but.

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I did stop yeah.

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Did finally stop but.

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This ain't, a game of tag, it ain't like you, get to stop and be like I I'm done now. You know I mean once you start the ball rolling. It's gone now, cuz I, don't know. What's going on, that's.

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So far down, hmm we never have to get to this point. It didn't work.

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Today, yeah.

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Like that, what happened, I will.

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Tell you a lot of people don't realize this, but this is 100% the least favorite part of my job, because right now we could be going hanging out at the club checking out the pretty ladies and making sure people don't fight. But now we got to do this like I hate doing this. This is a ton of work for both of us. You.

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Can drink another beer yeah well.

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You're super cool and I think we'll probably get through the process. Real, quick and your girl gave us her number said the caller. Just in case you do get a bond, so she can come, get you out and as long as you act this way and we know you've got a job. You got a place to stay. We can tell the magistrate and you haven't been in trouble in a long time.

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There's still a possibility, you might get a written promise and if you don't we'll call your girl up cuz, she came down there to check on you and forgive us your number for the call.

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That's a possibility: I mean yeah. We.

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We'll do our best you'll be there, but I ain't gonna lie to you. Does anyone do either? One of us we're gonna, tell her you've been fine. Yeah written promise means like you, get to sign yourself out yeah and if they don't and they give you a bond, we got a number for your girl. She said she'd come get you out. What's Dominique Kazan her name yeah, she came down there and gave us her phone number and said: she'd have her phone on so cuz I guess she lives. You live with.

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Her I met her before she's, pretty nice lady. She working that um while she working at one of the gas stations- oh I'm thinking, she's somebody else.

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Long y'all been.

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Y'all got kids.

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So that's your.

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How long you been in Cracker, Barrel.

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You work with CJ and Tasha.

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Used to work with them and another job they're all they're, both pretty cool people CJ heavier set a little bit taller black dude. He cooks he's one of the cooks in there and then Tasha's a short.

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Redheaded white, chick, okay,.

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Got you? What do you do cook.

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Was that better than just one 4-pack.

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Yeah they starting off the team, have.

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Some bunch of it.

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I'm done su I hated that job I.

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They let you do that yeah cool the place. I worked, you weren't allowed to listen. Music I hate it. We.

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I, look older, don't know.

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You do I was about to say that you look a lot younger than I.

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Right, let's get you up there, so we can see about getting you out tonight and.

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Least, get your girl up here to pick you up.

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Got your we got the song I put.

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Your smokes back in there.

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Is this your water, my water? Okay, that's my water.

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Once we get their name away, oh, oh, we're not gonna have them, and then you go to the restroom socket clean myself up.

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Absolutely as soon as they get those cuffs off it'll be the first thing we have.

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Where'd you put Julia right, Tom.

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huh Oh I set it right here.

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On the hob lower, now, damn it hold on a minute. I drop all the papers on the ground.

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Yeah: here's a ID.

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A silly as it seems, rush it, it's not, you know easy so to speak, to go up to somebody. Ask them not to do something.

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No, no people die everyday jaywalking.

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Really she get hit by a car, some.

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Say it's not necessarily you that isn't paying I'd.

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Be more worried about the damn car not paying attention anything, but can we write them tickets to all the time we just I just wrote one the other day for blasting through a pedestrian I think put the brake on. Are you did.

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Charlie finitary think you think just be advised, but we still have to complain about public service he's refusing to connect. Give me your consent.

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Edward 35ml to County before.

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You know it damn it what what property got damaged. There's a report here. It says that you have our victim of damage to property, I.

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Know I was asking you: did you file a report last month about some property getting damaged.

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Let me see what it says.

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We have 97 times the mill road keeping a hill for a repla starts a pulley pickup truck driving kind of high rate of speed. If I think it's off balance understand your own located Stephanie, where we actually do 136. You.

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Got a Chevy Impala, oh.

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So sorry, I wasn't there during the time when they had because it was re. Oh.

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Somebody mess it up against.

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How long you been living up in Lee, Walker.

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Do you like it, you ever have any problems.

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Gotta hurry: oh the guys that jock got some butter a while back. Oh good man, the Charles! Yes,.

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Had a problem with him: oh the night, oh not before y'all have is busting him out there yeah.

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Be the cup of the board has jumped me for something that ain't had nothin to do with me, I kind of felt like he already didn't like the anyway right.

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I don't know because I never I, don't mess with my body. I go to work and not go home that we're taking the night off if he wanted to find somebody to the booty Oh. Your ass.

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Had to bring backup huh he had to bring backup, huh he wasn't man enough to do it himself.

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Have nothing to do with.

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Just go to work.

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Just your girl.

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So if I do get a bio with my body, probably.

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Probably on the low end, I wouldn't think more than $1,000 honestly, but I don't know.

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You haven't done this process in a long time right or ever.

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I'm gonna explain.

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It to you I'm, not gonna patch, on eyes, you I'm just trying to explain so you understand all right. Okay,.

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You I'll, let you out of the car, we'll walk up to that door when that door opens over there just turn and face the wall past that little port part in the wall, where it jets out. Okay, it'll be obvious. When you see it.

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Charlotte 53 option what I.

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Got the colorful role I can go with him. I'll do the other stuff in the deal stuffing himself in the restaurant.

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No problem, there's everything you need.

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Here's a copy for the jail and.

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His records is in pita city ordinance, No.

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Hello chapter 20, all of those are chapter twenties or chapter twenty, but you know that one. You know that I won't that one's new, but also a misdemeanor and feel free. If you want this is up to you, you can actually just do one but list us both and one and list us both if you feel comfortable, if not then break it up into two one for each of us, that's one! That's.

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Fine I'm fine with.

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It I'll start working on the paperwork crap and then throwing some of this stuff out and then typing this up. So I'm gonna make you do it cuz I, don't we'll be here all night, not that you're slow but I mean either way.

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Do half of it you do the.

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Thought that was funny.

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I'm, just too frank with people.

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Actually coming there in a minute I, just.

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