A bizarre cop call leaves a Black Kansas City, Kansas, family wondering if a police officer was “high” on-the-job.
In a video trending on social media, a white Kansas City cop is seen blinking incessantly, shaking, slurring his words, and being unstable while responding to a call.
“You brought a high cop to my house,” Charles Guy yells in the video.
Guy recorded the video on Jan. 6 showing the officer identifying himself as “Officer Shepherd,” who then provided his badge number 2075.
Guy told the Kansas City Defender he was having a custody dispute involving his son and wife. Kansas City police were then called to the home.
“I had my son for a couple of hours,” Guy said. “We came back home, and those cops had been inside of my house,” he added.
“That cop admitted on camera that they had already gone into my home,” Guy said.
In Guy’s video, Shepherd can be heard saying the phrase, “if we can’t find anybody, we’re going in” although not everything is clear because some of his speech was unintelligible.
As Guy engages with Shepherd and the second officer, who appears fully coherent, he asks for a sergeant. Meanwhile, Shepherd continues behaving and speaking strangely.
“You’re high as s—t, dude,” Guy said.
“You know for a fact this man is under the influence of something,” Guy said to the other officer.
“If I held my finger up and told you to follow my finger, could you do it?” Guy asked Shepherd. Shepherd responded to the question with another unintelligible response.
Shepherd is then seen continuing to shake and blink his eyes continually, all while leaning against the wall for support.
“His teeth were grinding. His eyes were going all over the place. His foot was f—–g twitching it was looking like a jackrabbit. He would close his eyes and go to sleep leaning against the wall,” Guy…
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