MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

BUREAU OF CRIMINAL APPREHENSION
TRANSCRIPT

INTERVIEW DATE:
OFFENSE:
INTERVIEW OF:
REVIEWED BY:

July 7, 2016
Officer Jeronimo Yanez (JY)

BCA CASE #:
EXHIBITS
INTERVIEWED BY:

Attorney Tom Kelly (TK)

2016-433

SA Doug Henning (DH)
SA Christopher Oison (CO)

Attorney Robert Fowier

1 DH Okay the recorder is going. Uh my name is Doug Henning. I'm a Special Agent
2 with the Minnesota of Be, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. This,
3 this is my partner Special Agent Chris OIson. Urn the date today is 7-7 of 2016.
4 The time right now is approximately 1:42. Thisli be in reference to BCA case
5 number 2016-433. Urn and we wiil be speaking with Jeronimo, J-E-R-0-N-I-M-O,

6 is that spelled correctly and you don't have a middle name?
7 JY No middle name.
8 DM Okay. Your last name is Yanez?

9 JY Yanez
10 DH Yanez?
11 JY Yeah,
12 DH And that's Y-A-N-E-Z?
13 JY Correct.

14 DH And your date of birth is 3-8 of 1988?
15 JY Correct.

16 DH Okay. What is your address at work?
17 JY 3301 Silver Lake Road Northeast, St Anthony, Minnesota 55418.
18 DH Okay and your work phone number would be 612-782-3350?
19 JY Correct.

20 DH Okay. Um, and you work for the City of St Anthony?
21 JY Correct,

22 DH In what capacity?
23 JY As a patrol officer.
24 DH Okay. Um, how long have you worked for St Anthony?
25 JY I've worked for St Anthony for about four and a half years.
26 DH Okay. Prior to working for St Anthony did you work anywhere else?

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 Yes. Before I worked with St Anthony Poiice Department I worked for a contract

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company who was, who worked with Immigration Custom Enforcement and I
worked as a, supervision case specialist which was just a urn I watched over
people who were here En the U.S. illegaily.

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DH

Okay.

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JY

And then before that I worked forWhaIen Security as a security guard, worked at
Seagate Technology. And then, before that! was a student at Minnesota State

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University, Mankato.

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DH

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JY

Correct.

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DH

Okay. Urn and you're assigned as a patroi officer?

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JY

Yes.

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DH

What shift are you assigned to?

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JY

I work the night shift. 6:00 am to 6:00 pm or 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.

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Twelve hour shift?

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JY

Yes.

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DH

And how long have you been working nights?

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JY

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Okay. So your only, law enforcement experience is with St Anthony Police
Department?

I've been working nights for the past, four and a half years. There's been a

couple, rotations where i've worked days but that was, during FTO and just this
last rotation for about three months.

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Okay so, so during your initial hire you were in a training period and you worked,
you worked different shifts...

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JY

Correct.

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...to work with different training officers?

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JY

Yes.

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Okay. Uh can you tell me about your training that you've had?

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JY

I have (inaudible)

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Police related training.

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JY

Okay. Uh poiice related training !'m certified by POST board to be a police officer

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Okay.

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JY

I have skills training through Hibbing Community Coiiege. Urn I've also done um
some training through the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension um to keep my
POST credits updated.

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Okay.

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And current. And, 1 did my four year degree at Minnesota State University uh
Mankato. And got a four year bachelor of science in law enforcement

here in the State of Minnesota.

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65 DH Okay. What's your POST number? Do you know it?
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JY

IViy POST number is 21256.

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DH

Okay. And I forgot to say this right away when we started but you're, you're
represented here by uh two attorneys?

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JY

Correct.

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DH

Urn, Tom Kelly and Robert Fowier?

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JY

Correct,

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DH

Okay. Um why don't we keep going. So you do use of force?

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JY

Yes.

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On a regular basis, how often do you do use of force with St Anthony?

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JY

Once a year.

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Once a year?

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We do a, a use of force once a year. Taser training once a year. Firearms

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Okay.

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JY

And then we also have our own department training shoot.

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Okay.

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JY

That we do yearly.

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DH

Okay so you go to several ranges a year?

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Correct.

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DH

When's the last time you were at the range?

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JY

Urn, May?

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May?

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JY

Yes.

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Okay.

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And that was for training.

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Okay. Have you had any specialized training? SWAT? Anything eise? Anything

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JY

No specialized training iike SWAT.

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No specialized training?

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JY

No.

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Okay. Urn you said you're a patrol officer?

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JY

Correct.

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DH

So in that capacity you wear a uniform?

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JY

Yes.

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DM

Can you explain that to me?

training, muitipie times a year. We shoot through uh Ramsey County Law
Enforcement Center so we do there, I think quarterly training it is.

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iike that?

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 102 JY So...

103 DH Or describe it to me.
104 JY It's a, fully marked uniform with vest, badge on my uh left sh', left breast. Urn a
105 nametag. A states that I'm a police officer, my name on my right breast.

106 DH Okay.
107 JY I have a, pretty visible uh exterior vest carrier or bullet proof vest and I have a fu!l
108 utility belt. That's very observable. And it's obvious that I'm a police officer. I have

109 patches on both arms that say I'm a representative of St Anthony Police
110 Department and a police officer, St Anthony Police Department.
111 DH Okay so what color is your uniform?
112 JY It's navy b!ue.

113 DH Navy blue?
114 JY Yes.

115 DH And then you said you wear a gun belt as well?
116 JY Correct.

117 DH Can you tell me about the equipment that you carry on your gun belt?
118 JY Yes i have, for my depart my de, department uh firearm I have a Sig Sauer P20
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120 DH Okay
121 JY That i carry on my right hand side. Uh I also have two sets of handcuffs. I have a
122 Taser. I have mace. I have a baton, I have my portable radio. And I have a set of
123 keys urn that's ai! i can remember that! have on my...
124 DH Okay you wear...
125 JY ...utility be!t for now. And I wear that every day that I work.

126 DH Okay.
127 JY Um and in the same position aii the time. Everything is En the same position. Uh
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129 DH Okay does your department have body cameras or anything of that nature?
130 JY Our department does not have body cameras but our fully marked uh squad
131 vehicles have squad cameras. Urn dash mounted cams.

132 DH Okay.
133 JY And they have a microphone as weil for and it does audio and visual recording.
134 DH Okay. So that's, uh when you say it's got a microphone is that a remote mic?
135 JY Yes.

-136 DH Is that something that you wear on your person?
137 JY Yes.

138 DH Okay. Is that policy that you wear that?

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JY

Uh I can't recall if it's policy.

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Okay.

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But I know there's something in our poiicy that states that we should wear it.

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Okay.

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Urn, and yeah i wear it ali the time.

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So do you know if you were wearing it yesterday?

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JY

I was wearing my microphone last night.

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DH

Okay do you know if it was working?

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JY

I can't recall, if it was working or not.

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Okay.

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JY

Um,! had my attention focused on uh suspect vehicle that I was puiiing over. As i
was pulling it out of the holster, I can't remember if! was pull, pulling it out of the
bolster or if I already had it in my vest but I know I had it, on my person.

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So when you say holster it sits in a hoister in the car?

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In a charger.

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In a charger?

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JY

Yes.

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And stays in the car?

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JY

Yes.

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So whoever drives, so your car is, is driven by more than just you?

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Correct.

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It's a little, two inch by two inch square that just, you can Just put it anywhere. \
put it inside my pocket with no obstructions over it so it can get clear audio,

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Okay.

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Um, for (inaudible)

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DH

And that's the piece of equipment that you showed me last night?

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Correct.

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Okay. Urn, so at the beginning of your shift do you test this equipment to make

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Uh ! dp not test it. But I did make traffic stops beforehand.

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Okay.

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So, when your shift you, you'd pick it up and you put it on your person. Does it

Just dip on your uniform?

sure it's working or not or?

i made two traffic stops beforehand i believe and uh the audio was working

(inaudible)

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 175 JY I can't remember if i reviewed (em or not.

176 DH Okay.
177 JY But !, I know I had the uh microphone on my person.
178 DH And it was...

179 JY In the same spot that! put it and it was recording and...
180 DH Okay.
181 JY ...it was saying that the micwas active on the um the video screen.

182 DH Okay so you can see some type of monitor or display that tells you this is
183 working, this is operational and the two pieces equipment are...

184 JY Correct
185 DH ...are hooked up and...

186 JY Correct.

187 DH Okay. Urn so with that can you teli me about the car you drive?
188 JY Yes it's a 2015 Dodge Charger. Uh fully marked with St Anthony uh placards on
189 each side. The squad that I was driving was marked as uh 700 and 4. It has a
190 light bear, light bar on top. Uh push bumper in front. It's black and white. The
191 door's on the passenger side and ! think it's on the passenger side and driver's

192 side I think they're both white.
193 DH Okay.
194 JY And then the rest of the vehicle is black.
195 DH Okay.
196 JY And then my squad vehicle is equipped with very bright LED lights. Red, blue
197 and white flashing lights.

198 DH Okay so
199 JY That are visible...

200 DH On the top?
201 JY ...from! would say more than a mile away.

202 DH Okay. Are those, are is, is there more than Just that light bar on top? You said
203 there was an external Eight bar? Are there lights...

204 JY Correct
205 DH ...in the back

206 JY So there's a light bar on top and then the headiights flash on and off. And then
207 when I turn ali the way on there's a, opticom that blinks repeatedly and very fast
208 and it's hard to miss. And then my tail lights aiso go on and off.
209 DH Okay.
210 JY And then there's a light bar I think on the back of the squad as well.
211 DH So when you activate all your lights it's very readily apparent that this is a police
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JY

Correct.

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Okay. Um I want to go back to your uniform for just a second.

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Yes.

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You've been wearing this uniform, the same uniform for the past four and a haif

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years?

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Nobody has mistaken me for anything else, other than...

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Okay.

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...I'm a police officer.

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DH

You've approached people, you've had numerous contacts and it's always
apparent to people that you're a !aw enforcement officer of some, of some type

Yes.

Has, has uh anybody ever mistaken you for anything other than a police officer
when you're wearing this uniform?

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with, with St Anthony?

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JY

Correct.

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Okay. Urn, we'll continue with the car.

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JY

Okay.

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Is there any special equipment that you carry in the car?

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JY

Uh there is a squad computer which aiso has a, mobile air card. I think it's
through Verizon wireless.

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Okay.

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JY

Which gives us internet access and we have um two computerized dispatch
systems. !n, one for Ramsey County and then one for Hennepin County. ! use

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the one for Hennepin County the majority of the time. And uh we have all of our

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access to our primary weapon which is a M4 that's mounted on the roof of the
vehicle.

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Okay.

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And then we have squad sirens, in the same place where ! activate my lights.
And then we have two squad radios. Um one for carlo car and to listen to the
opposite county that we're not in.

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Okay.

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JY

And then one for the county that we're in.

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DH

Okay. Cuz, St Anthony services more than one, more than St Anthony?

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JY

Correct. St Anthony we, we work with Falcon Heights and Lauderdaie. Which
we're contracted with.

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Okay.

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And so we have one squad in Falcon Heights and Lauderdaie.

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Okay.

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JY

it's 24/7 coverage.

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DH

And, is that where you were working iast night?

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JY

I was working in the City of Lauderdaie last night.

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Okay. Urn, do you check all this equipment prior to starting your shift to .make
sure it was operational? Your lights, your sirens stuff like that before you rolled

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out of the...

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JY

! didn't test my sirens.

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Okay

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JY

Um I know that my emergency lights were working.

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Okay.

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And active because I was able to pull over uh two other vehicles prior to the

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Okay.

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JY

Um and I remember going back to my squad and seeing that the lights are
working. And 1 remember from this incident as weil that the lights were on and

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suspect vehicle that we're here taiking about or interviewing about.

they were active as well.

Okay. Uh just before we get too far before we start talking about what happened
yesterday can you tell me about your education?
1, went to high school in South St Paul. Graduated and went to Minnesota State
University, Mankato. Where ! got my four year degree uh in law enforcement.

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Bachelor .of science and then incorporated with that uh is our skills portion which
is through Hibbing Community College.

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DH

But that was conducted down in Mankato though correct?

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JY

Yes.

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Okay. So Hibbing hosts the training but they take it down to Mankato?

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JY

Yes.

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Just to make it easy on the students?

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JY

Yes.

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Okay. Um, why don't we go ahead and, tell me uh yesterday you got to work.

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Yes.

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So teil me about your day yesterday.

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TK

Before you get started on that if I may uh ! wanted to make clear that urn that the
officer is going to be speaking here from the best of his recollection, urn as, as

you know this is only um less than fifteen hours uh since the time of this incident
uh there's always stress related to that. In addition to that this would be the
normal time that this officer would be um sleeping. And he's only had a couple
hours of sleep. And i say that only because I, I know he's gonna make his best
efforts here to give you an accurate uh recollection of the events but En the event

that we do come up with something that we've forgotten or that has been
misstated um we, we would like the opportunity to supplement or modify the

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statement that he's giving now with something that occurs to him later or that he

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realizes that he has misstated now. So we'll do our best to make sure that, then.

This is his, his uh most accurate recollection right now. But we want the
opportunity to urn supplement the record so to speak at a later time.

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Absoiut...

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That is, that is true

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And for the benefit of the transcriptionJst that was Counselor Tom Keily.

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Okay.

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Airight.

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And absolutely if you, if you come up with something that you would like to clarify

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at a iatertime, anything we can, we can certainly sit down again and go over
that.

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So when he speaks he'll be speaking as to the best of his recoliection right now
and, and um and uh it's probably um unlikely that we'll have anything to urn add
later on but in the event that we do we'll, we'll notify both of you.

DH

And Chris and !, Chris and I will certainly make ourselves available for that. So
with that said um what time did you get to work yesterday?

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I got to work at around 5:20...

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Okay.

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...in the afternoon. And 1 went in to our !ocker room and I changed in my ful!

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uniform that i described to you earlier in the interview. And we had shift change
and we uh. with the day shift and then...

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What does that entail? Shift change.

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Shift change...

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Is there a roilca!) or anything like that?

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JY

There's, rolicall if there is any roilcad urn usualiy there's no roiica!! uniess it's, um

something that's a critical incident or a burglary or a string of uh theft from autos
in the area then we get notified about it um

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Okay

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We get notified about everything that's, urn that we would expect to get caliecf for.

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Okay.

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And what day shift finds important for us to know for night shift.

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Okay.

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JY

Um after that it was only, we were at minimum so it was myself was working the

City of Lauderdale. And then which is 6921 and then my partner, Joseph Kauser
who was working in 69 as 6920 in the City of Falcon Heights. And then my other
partner, Tressa Sunde who was 6910 in the City of St Anthony. And we were, my
partner Officer Kauser and i were uh we give a!) of our radio traffic on the
Ramsey County main so...

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 331 JY .. .we monitor on our car to car and our, and Hennepin County on our car to car
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334 JY Um, I we went to the, we went to our contract cities. Um dropped off our lunch at

335 Falcon Heights Fire Department. And then we started patrolling. I was working
336 the City of Lauderdale. I was running speed radar and Just looking for vehicies to
337 pull over and uh just driving around the city and just making contacts with our
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340 JY And uh I pulled over two vehicles that I can remember. And then uh...

341 DH Do you remember what you puiled (em over for?
342 JY I pulled two vehicles over for speeding. They both received citations. And then
343 um it was kinda slow for a iittle bit I think. And then I can't remember exactly
344 where I was but I was keeping my eye on 2424 Larpenteur which is a
345 convenience store on Larpenteur at the intersection of Larpenteur and Eustice.
346 It's on the southwest comer of the intersection. Um, I wanted to pay attention to

347 that because we had a strong armed robbery [ast week uh which involved two
348 African American males um, one havihg a firearm and pointing it at the clerk and
349 then the other uh the victim to!d me that he also had a firearm but I wasn't ab!e to
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see it when the video was reviewed. Urn, so I was sitting at a intersection and I
see a white vehicle. I can't remember what kind of vehicle it was. Urn but I see
two occupants. What I believed was two occupants inside the car. And I couldn't
make out the passenger. But I knew the passenger had a hat on. And 1 couldn't

354 make out if it was a guy or gir! ! just knew that they were both African American
355 and the driver uh appeared to me that he appeared to match the uh physical
356 description of the one of our suspects from the strong arm robbery, gunpoint.

357 DH Okay.

358 JY Uh (inaudible)
359 DM What is that description?
360 JY Um it was a (sigh) I can't remember the height, weight but! remember that it
361 was, the male had dreadlocks around shoulder length.
362 DH Um-hm.
363 JY Or longer hair around shoulder length. And, urn it wasn't specified if it was corn

364 rows or dreadiocks or straight hair. Urn and then just kind of distinct facial
365 features with like, a kind of like a wide set nose and uh I saw that En the driver of
366 the vehicle.

367 DH Okay.
368 JY That uh this incidents about uh at the intersection of about Larpenteur and Carl,
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- Larpenteur and Eustice, that area. Uh so I get behind the vehicle to see if I can
see any uh violations, to get a good ID on the, driver, i run the plate. And I can't
remember who it comes back to. And uh I call out to my partner on my car to car
radio because that's where we do all of our radio tr or our uh radio traffic is on car
to car unless it's something like a in progress cali then we go on our main to
main, our main radio. So I got on my car to car radio, i let Officer Kauser know

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that! was behind a, a suspect vehicle traveling eastbound Larpenteur and i told
Officer Kauser that it was occupied two times and 1 couldn't make out who the
passenger was. And, I told him that the driver appeared to, match the physicai
description of our suspect from the strong arm robbery and I told him that 1
wanted to wait for Officer, I toid Officer Kauser that I wanted to wait for him um
for backup. Uh just in case cuz i didn't know who I was pulling over.

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Right.

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I just knew that the driver matched the physica! description. And we were
approaching the intersection of Larpenteur and SneHing and it's a very busy

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intersection. Uh t can't remember what time it was specifically but' I, believe it
was around 8:45-ish to 9:00 o'docMsh. Um and it's sti!l pretty busy in that area.

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Heavy traffic. Uh would be a close heavy foot traffic with uh walkers, Joggers. Urn
people living in the apartments En that area. Uh restaurants. And i decided to
initiate the traffic stop just west of the intersection, on Larpenteur west of Fry

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Okay.

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Because, just in case anything happened I wanted to make sure that, nobody's

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Just let me stop you for Just a second.

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Yeah.

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So the reason that you did all this stuff, uh you, you waited for a partner?

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Yes i waited for a partner because...

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Urn, you waited for a safe area to make the stop?

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Correct.

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And this is based on information because this guy fit the description of an
individual that had, had been armed and committed a robbery?

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Correct.

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The week prior or a couple days prior?

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Uh the week prior. I...

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Okay.

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... can't remember what day but it was last week.

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Okay. But typically, under normal circumstances you conduct traffic stops on
your own?

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Correct.

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Regular traffic stops?

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Regular traffic stops on my own.

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Okay.

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And then I update my partners if I'm, if I'm okay code 4.

lives were in jeopardy and we were out of heavy traffic and innocent bystanders
and uh all that. And uh so I initiated the traffic stop. At that point Officer Kauser
got behind me. Um I was keeping my eyes on the vehicle and

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 415 DH Yeah.
416 JY Urn or if i need their backup.
417 DH And code 4 just for people that don't understand (inaudible)
418 JY Code 4 is, meaning you're okay.

419 DH (inaudible) okay...
420 JY Don't need assistance.
421 DH .J'm safe, the situation has been deemed, stable.
422 JY Correct.

423 DH Okay.
424 JY And, 1 initiated the traf, what's that?
425 DH So but you waited for a partner? You called a partner?
426 JY Yes I waited for the partner. ! waited to pass the partner and uh I was behind the
427 vehicle and i saw my partner I was about, a quarter miie ahead of him. And he
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430 JY To, get behind us. And I decided to, activate my emergency lights so we wouldn't
431 be in that heavy foot traffic, vehicle area.

432 DH Okay
433 JY . With innocent people at the intersection of Larpenteur and SneUing.
434 DH Okay.
435 JY 1 just wanted to be as safe as possible. And have everybody safe as possible.
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437 DH Okay.
438 JY ...(sigh) I activated my emergency lights. ! started getting out of my squad. Um, I
439 can't remember I had my, eyes focused on the driver cuz that's what I always do.

440 I get out of my squad vehicle and 1 approach the vehicle as I always do. Looking
441 inside, looking for any furtive movements. Dm looking to see who's inside the
442 car. And as soon as I get up to the car I'm hit with a. odor of burning marijuana.

443 DH Okay.
444 JY And i know it's already been smoked and I've been around uh through my
445 training I've been around burnt marijuana and uh as a police officer I've been
446 around burnt marijuana and uh fresh marijuana.

447 DH Okay.
448 JY So I know the distinct smells between both.
449 DH Okay.
450 JY I smelled burnt marijuana. And then I see a female child in the back. And then 1
451 see a front seat passenger, adult female uh in the front seat And then I see the
452 suspect up driving, seatbelt on leaned back in his seat. He had his, left arm over
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 454 DH Initially?
455 JY Initially. And then I told them the reason for the traffic stop and then 1 wasn't
456 goir'9 to say anything about the marijuana yet because I didn't want to scare him
457 or have him react in a defensive manner. Um, he didn't make direct eye contact

458 with me and it was very hard to hear him, Uh he was almost mumbling when he
459 was talking to me. And he was directing his voice away from me as he was

460 speaking and as I was asking questions. Uh he kept his, hands in view and then 1
461 uh ! believe I asked for, his license and insurance. And then i believe they to!d
462 me, they asked for the reason for my traffic stop. And I told Iem the reason was

463 the only, i think i to!d (em the only rea, the reason I pulled you over is because
464 the only active brake !ight working was the rear passenger side brake light.
465 DH Okay.
466 JY And then I received the insurance and then...

467 (buzzing)
468 JY ...i can't remember if I asked for his ID or not but!, 1 know I asked for his iD or
469 his driver's license. And then he goes ! have a gun. And as I'm telling him or as

470 he's telling me that he's reaching down between his right leg, his right thigh area
471 and the center console.

472

DH

Okay.

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JY

And he's reaching down and i believe I'm telling him something along the lines of

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DH

Yep.

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JY

Because usually people that carry firearms carry 'em on their waistband. Urn and

don't reach for it, don't do it. Referring to the, uh the firearm.

or in between the seats and being that the vehicle smeiled the inside of the
vehicle smelied [ike marijuana um I didn't know if he was keeping it on him for
protection, for, from a, a drug dealer or anything like that or any other people

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trying to rip him. Rip him meaning steal from him.

481

DH

Rob him.

482

JY

Urn rob him. Um and I couldn't see uh the area wi, where he was reaching his
hand down towards.

484

DH

Okay.

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JY

And i, believe I continued to teil him don't do it or don't reach for it and he stiil

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DH

Okay.

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JY

As he was reaching down urn he, turned his shoulder kept his left hand on the
steering wheel and then canted his upper body and blocked my view of his right

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continued to move. And, it appeared to me that be had no regard to what I was
saying. He didn't care what ! was saying. He still reached down.

He didn't stop moving his hand?
He didn't stop reaching, for his hand he, he didn't stop moving his hand and it stil!
went down.

hand.

495 DH Okay.

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And, at that point I, was scared and ] was, in fear for my life and my partner's life.

497

And for the little girl in the back and the front seat passenger and he dropped his
hand down and, can't remember what I was telling him but i was telling
something as his hand went down I think. And, he put his hand around
something. And his hand made like a C shape type urn type shape and it
appeared to me that he was wrapping something around his fingers and almost
like if I were to put my uh hand around my gun like putting my hand up to the butt

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of the gun.

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DH

Okay.

505

JY

That's what it appeared to me,

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DH

Okay.

507

JY

And then I lost view of it. Cuz he kept canting his shoulder and then I believe
told him again I can't remember don't do it. And then he still kept moving his
hand and at this point i iooked and saw something in his hand. It was dark inside
the vehicle, i was trying to fumble my way through under stress to look and see

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what it was to make sure uh what I was seeing. But I wasn't given enough time

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and like I said he had no regard for what I was saying. Didn't follow my direction.
And, uh he started reaching out and then pulling uh away from his uh his right
thigh. I don't know if it was in his pocket or in between the seats or the center
console. But i, I know he had an object and it was dark. And he was pulling it out
with his right hand. And as he was pulling it out!, a mUlion things started going

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through my head. And I thought! was gonna die. And, 1 was scared because, I
didn't know if he was gonna, I didn't know what he was gonha do. He Just had
somethin* uh his hands and he, the first words that he said to me were, some of

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the first words he said is that he had a gun. And I thought he was reaching for the
gun. I thought he had the gun in his hand, in his right hand. And I thought he had
it enough to where all he had to do is just pull it out, point it at me, move his
trigger finger down on the trigger and let off rounds. And I had no other option
than, to take out my firearm and, and I shot. Um I shot him. I don't remember the
first couple shots. I, believe I remember the last two shots. And I believe one of
the shots went into his left arm. Urn, as ! was shooting uh !, I kept watching him.

And 1, I remember smelling the gun smoke and the bright flashes from the
muzzle. And then i heard, a couple pops uh from my firearm. Urn and then my

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partner was on the opposite side of the vehicle. Uh watch, looking in and i
directed my gunfire down as best as I could. Away from, not trying to put the little
giri's life at jeopardy or the passenger or my partner because they were, in the

532

line of my fire.

533

DH

Where is the little girl seated?

534

JY

She was seated behi', directly behind the front seat passenger.

535

DH

Okay.

536

JY

But, diagonal

537

DH

Okay.

538

JY

Uh from where \ was standing.

539

DH

Okay.

540

JY

Um, so basically behind the driver. And then, so...

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DH

Behind the driver or the passenger?

542

JY

So if I'm facing the driver.

543

DH

Yeah.

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JY

546

DH

Okay.

547

JY

So she was in my line of fire. Um but 1, made sure that I directed my firearm
down and as best as 1 could and let off rounds and as the rounds were going off 1
thought he was stili moving for his gun and, (sigh) I it just seemed like he was
puHing out the gun and the barre! just kept coming. it seemed like something was
just coming out and I thought it was a gun and I thought it was a barrel Just

548

She was di, she was diagonai from him. Behind the backseat or front seat
passenger.

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coming out it (inaudible)...

553

DH

It appeared to you, it appeared he had his gun in his hand?

554

JY

...had his gun in his hand.

555

DH

Okay.

556

JY

And it, was big. ft was to me it just looked big and apparent that he's gonna shoot

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you, he's gonna kill you. Dm this is your, suspect from the robbery. And uh I let

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off the rounds and uh

559

DH

Do you remember what...

560

JY

! don't remember how many rounds I let off. Urn I remember seeing the, last two
rounds go off and ! remember seeing one of those rounds hit him in the arm. Uh

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his glasses flew off. I'm not sure if it was from gunfire or from him uh whipping his
head back or anything like that. Uh but uh as that was happening as he was
puiling at, out his hand I thought, I was gonna die and i thought if he's, if he has
the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old giri
and risk her iungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front
seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about
me. And, I !et off the rounds and then after the rounds were off, the little girls was

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screaming, i held the suspect at gunpoint. His arms came up into view. And they

were up by his chest I can't remember what I said. But I acknowledged this little
girl first. Cuz i wanted her to be safe and i told Officer Kauser or I toid her one of
the two to go run out of the car and run to Officer Kauser or Officer Kauser to get
her. And then I turned my attention to the front seat passenger. I didn't, point my

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firearm at her. I stiii had It on the suspect. Cuz he was sti)i moving. And he,

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DH

Did he respond to you in any way?

576

JY

She? He did?

577

DH

He, after he, after the shots.

578

JY

He, no he did not respond. Um he just kept his arms up and ! don't remember

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hearing anything coming out of his mouth if he said anything. I just remember

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that...

581

DH

Do you remember seeing anything in his hand?

582

JY

Um, I don't remember seeing anything in his hand.

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 583 DH Okay.
584 JY Um I just know that I saw his hands in view and his hands were in my view and
585 that uh I didn't see anyth', 1,1 didn't believe, I didn't see anything in his hands.
586 And then um. i directed my attention to the front seat passenger with my gun still
587 on the suspect. Made sure she was aii right. i looked back to the little gir! and I
588 think she was in the arms of my partner. And I think she was ail right. And then
589 the front seat passenger was, screaming and then i heard her say something
590 about four shots and then she had her ceil phone out and, I don't know she, she

591 had her cell phone out and I don't know what she was doing with it. But I told her
592 to keep her hands in view. She compiled with my direction. And she kept her
593 hands in view, around the dashboard area and then she, and the uh Roseville
594 officers arrived. Officer Kauserwas the first one to say, go out on the Ramsey

595 County main saying that there were shots fired. I know there was a little bit of
596 confusion because dispatch was (coughs) dispatch uh called back uh for
597 whoever was calling to say, did you say shots fired or something like that. And
598 then uh that's when, a Roseville officer arrived and then uh ! told them that I had
599 the suspect at gunpoint. And two officers arrived behind me. I don't remember

600 who they were but they were Rosevilie officers. And they stood behind me with
601 their guns drawn on the suspect and they took the female front seat passenger
602 out at gunpoint, detained her, put her in handcuffs, escorted her back to one of
603 the squads, (pause) Excuse me, sorry.

604 DH That's alnght.
605 JY And then. I stayed with the driver until I was relieved by two of the Roseville
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officers. And, i re, after urn they were taking care uh of the driver um tending to
his needs, i don't remember what they were doing but they, one of the officers
escorted me to ah, little berm on the other side, away from the scene, away from
everybody, and \ remember holstering my gun and people were across the street

610 videotaping and we called for a ambulance right away, or I assume they, they
611 expected to send a ambulance. I can't remember. But I remember getting on the
612 radio saying that there were shots fired. Urn, and I remember, ! can't remember
613 if I said bring an ambulance urn, um, and then \ said page out supervisors as

614 weli. And then uh, they escorted me over to the other side of the berm and that's
615 when I was escorted into a unmarked Rosevilie squad and I was escorted by
616 Officer Brian An.derson from Rosevjile Poiice Department, urn, in the front
617 passenger seat while he was driving up to St. Anthony Police Department, where
618 I was placed in our, one of our squad rooms and Officer Kauser ended up taking
619 a separate vehicle from us and sitting in.a different room. Urn, we had no
620 interaction. We strl! haven't had any interaction.

621 DH You haven't discussed this with Officer Kauser?
622 JY We haven't discussed this, I haven't discussed this with anybody.
623 DH Okay.
624 JY I.
625 DH Outside of your councii.
626 JY Correct.

627 DH Okay.
628 JY And urn, they took photos of my thumb, 'cuz I had blood running down my hand.
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 629 DH Okay.
630 JY On the inside of my thumb, and on the top of my hand.
631 DH Do you know how that got injured?
632 JY I don't remember how it got injured, but it looks like I may have, as I was drawing
633 my weapon I was trying to get both my hands on the firearm um, and the slide
634 came back and kicked back my finger and.. .

635 DH Cut your finger.
636 JY ... cut my finger.

637 DH Okay.
638 JY And that's what i remember to the best of my knowledge urn, from ail that.
639 CO You did a nice job articulating that. I Just had a couple follow up questions?
640 JY Yes.

641 CO If that's ail right? Um, and I don't know if we urn, might have missed this, what's
642 your badge number?
643 JY My badge number is 151.
644 CO Okay, alright. And um, your, your, we talked about your qualification but you've,

645 you've passed and your fully urn, firearms you currently qualified right?
646 JY Correct.

647 CO You haven't had any issues recently?
648 JY No issues.

649 CO Okay. And we just I think clarified that you have not had an opportunity to watch
650 the video from your squad cam?
651 JY That is correct.
652 CO You have not, okay. And how did you become aware of the robbery suspect um,

653 is that a briefing item is it, or something posted at the PD, is there...
654 JY i was actually dispatched to that call...
655 CO Okay.
656 JY ... ! was the secondary Officer that arrived on scene and...

657 CO So your, okay. So you got, you were one of the officers that got the original
658 description from the victim?
659 JY Correct.

660 CO Okay.
661 JY And I also set up a perimeter with St. Paul, Roseville Police Departments and
662 gave suspect description to a!i them.
663 CO Okay.
664 DH You just, you briefly mentioned that you watched some surveillance video
665 maybe?

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JY

I watched the security cameras inside of 2424 Larpenteur and urn...

667

DH

That's how you saw the...

668

JY

That's, that's how I saw the...

669

DH

Description of the suspect?

670

JY

... description of the suspects.

671

DH

Okay.

672

JY

And then I was also told that by the victim as weli.

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DH

Okay.

674

co

The video on your squad's um, I know how most of them are triggered but I just
want to confirm is yours triggered urn, by hitting the emergency lights or is it

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triggered manually and...

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DH

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co

679

That's correct it's triggered once I activate emergency lights.
Okay. And, and, and in this instance, in this event um, that's what happened

right?

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JY

Um, in the City of Lauderdale; near the intersection of Larpenteur and Eustis,
that's the last main intersection that I initially see, seen um, the suspect vehicle
and suspect.

686

co

Okay.

687

JY

Urn. and then...

688

co

So for my benefit what's the distance in terms of...

689

JY

About two miles.

690

co

Okay.

691

JY

That I foilowed 'em until my backup arrived.

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co

And in your estimation urn, and you may not have an answer to this, but in your

695

JY

! can't say that he did...

696

co

Okay, there's no obvious sign...

697

JY

...but 1, yeah. I, I was behind 'em and it was apparent that 1 was behind (em.

698

co

For a distance of approximately two miies?

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JY

702

co

Okay so there weren't any vehicles...

703

JY

Or between us.

Yes.

Okay. The urn, what was the distance that you followed the subject vehicle until
you, or your backup was close, where, where did you first encounter...

estimation did the, the driver of this vehicle um, have any idea that he was being
followed by a squad? Do you have any feeling about that?

Distance, i wouid, for about two miies and there was probably about urn between

my fully marked squad and his vehicle I would say there's about four to five car
lengths and there was nobody around us.

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co

...between the two of you fora distance of about two miles, is that right?

705

JY

There were other cars in the, in the, in the roadway, I can't remember...

706

co

Okay, at any given point...

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JY

At any given point...

708

co

... there may have been vehicles in between?

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JY

Yes.

710

co

Okay.

711

JY

But! remember from Larpenteur and Fairview that we were the only vehicles um,

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in that area traveling east bound and all other urn, regular traffic was behind us

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and urn, from Fain/iew and Larpenteur to Fry Street and Larpenteur where the
traffic stop took place, um, I would say it's about quarter mi!e?

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JY

Correct.

719

co

That you remember? Okay.

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JY

722

co

Okay.

723

JY

.., the front seat passenger was trying to do anything.

724

co

Furtive movements?

725

JY

Yes. I was looking for that cuz I mean I, i do iook to see if there looking in there

726

Occasionally in your, in your patrol functions you've seen drivers that are aware

that there being followed by virtue of seeing them look in there mirrors but that
didn't happen in this case?

I wasn't looking in the mirrors ! was looking for him trying to stuff anything in the
seats or...

side mirrors or rear view mirrors as well.

727

DH

And you didn't see any of those?

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JY

And i didn't direct my attention to any of those cuz I, my main concern was to see

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DH

Okay.

732

co

Do you know if your car to car channel is um audio recorded?

733

JY

I am not sure.

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co

Okay.

735

DH

And that would have been the Ramsey radio car to car, or Hennepin car to car?

736
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JY

No our car to car is, can be monitored basically by anybody, but St. Anthony
Police Officers just use it and...

738

DH

Okay.

739

JY

... Roseviiie, our neighboring agencies can monitor it...

740

DH

Okay.

if he had, was stuffing anything or reaching down anywhere or dropping his
hands from the steering wheel or anything like that.

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Um, but like I said we have two radios in our squad cars, basically the county
were in, we put our main radio as, so I was in Ramsey County so I had my main

radio, which is at the bottom near my left leg, left thigh, I have that on Ramsey
County and then on the top radio, which we use for um, traffic and just talking car

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to car with our partners. ..

746

DH

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JY

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Um-hm.

... um, have um, the opposite county so which would be yesterday i had

Hennepin County as the main radio ta be primary and I was on car to car urn
talking and advising Officer Kauser of um, my traffic and description and or, ail
the details entailing the, my traffic stop.

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DH

Okay.

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co

I'm gonna go back to the fingers uh wrapped around the, the object and the hand
uh that you observed uh i think that was your wording. How big was this object if
you were trying to quantify that?

755

JY

it was, to me it looked like it was uh wrapped around the butt of a gun so.

756

co

Okay.

757

JY

Of urn...

758

co

The sun...

759

JY

...butt of a gun.

760

co

This is occurring at roughly 9 p.m. is that right?

761

JY

That's around that time. I can't remember.

762

co

(inaudible) has set I mean the lighting conditions is what I'm getting at.

763

JY

Ye- yeah ! can't remember. i...

764

co

Okay.

765
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JY

Around what time it was. i wasn't paying attention to that. My rngin concern was
officer safety and citizen safety.

767

co

1 understand, urn was it hard for you to see because the of the lighting conditions

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uh inside the passenger compartment or was ituh...

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JY

Yes.

770

co

Okay.

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JY

Yes.

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co

Alright and this person in this car as we talked to you today do you know this

774

JY

No, i do not.

775

co

Okay. Do you have any indications that you've had previous dealing with this

person's name?

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person?

777

JY

No, I do not.

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co

Okay and approximately and time is hard espedaily when, when stresses uh
apparent but what was., from the time he mentioned to you that he had a firearm,

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 780 weapon um what was that timeiine? Did he immediately announce that at start
781 moving...?

782 JY I can't remember if he immediate announced it but it caught my attention right
783 away and it seemed like it was split second from the time he toid me, to the time
784 he was reaching down, to the time I gave him direction, to the time he had the his
785 hand wrapped around it and then I gave him more direction and shots were fired.
786 CO Can you describe his ati factor, his general disposition in terms of maybe a tone
787 associated with that uh that when he said something about a firearm?
788 JY 1, I know he said, I have a firearm and then uh as he began reaching for it his
789 • tone in his voice was very subtle and uneasy to me. Um, and as i was giving him

790 direction about what to give me and to keep his hand in view um !ike I said I felt
791 that he had no regard to what I was saying. He didn't care what i was saying. He
792 didn't want to follow what I was saying so he just wanted to do what he wanted to
793 do.

794 CO Did he at any point either make eye contact with you eariy on?
795 JY He was, he made contact with me, eye contact with me initially but then after that
796 urn I do remember distinctly also that he did at ieast one or two target glances
797 down, down by his uh right thigh area where his right hand was. Urn, and to me
798 that's, that's sets off red fiags for me that somebody's trying to hide something or
799 somebody's gonna do something to you and there's a weapon or something

800 down there that they don't want you to find and that's what kind of set me off at
801 first and that was actuaily before urn, before he reached down um I was reading

802 his body language and uh he just. he was, its, his body language was, it
803 appeared defensive to me, that I was just puiiing him over. He may have thought
804 that I was pulling .him over for no reason but I already told him the reason I pulled
805 him over. Dm, the way he mumbled things under his breath appeared to me I
806 could barely hear him. Urn. and I know he said I have a gun and uh then

807 (inaudible)

808 DH (inaudible) dear you told, you toid them that you p.u!!ed them over for the, the tail
809 light issue.
810 JY Correct and then I stili had in the back of my mind...
811 DH But, but really the, the issue that started this is he fit the description of an
812 individual that had been in an armed robbery ... .

813 JY Correct.
814 DH ...earlier.

815 JY I don't teil people that, Just in case. I don't. I don't them to run from the car. I don't

816 want them to do anything stupid or anything like that.
817 DH So the reason you told them about that tail light was an attempt not to escalate
818 the situation.
819 JY Correct.

820 DH Okay.
821 JY Yes. That is correct urn and I kept at, I kept ail those in the back of my mind. The
822 robbery and that! was already gonna pui! tem out of the vehicle cuz of the odor
823 of marijuana.
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 824 DH Okay but you didn't say anything about the marijuana....

825 JY I didn't say anything about that.
826 DH ...(inaudible)
827 JY ! wanted to...
828 DH ...saying you didn't wanna...

829 JY I didn't wanna escalate the situation and I wanted to get everybody's proper id
830 first to see if anybody had warrants or anything like that. Um, but 1 wasn't able to,
831 to even get that information.
832 DH Okay,
833 CO And I understand that you may have had a flashlight with you or on your belt but
834 . it wasn't depioyed or?
835 JY Yes.
836 CO ...or used. Is that right?
837 JY I can't remember.
838 CO Okay. Urn, when you were uh discharging your firearm, what were you aiming

839 at?
840 JY 1 was aiming at center mass, directed down, towards his like the, towards !ike the
841 midsection, chest area, um, to direct gun fire at that area and away from the
842 innocent people in the car.

843 CO Okay.
844 JY The little girl, my partner, who was outside of the car, and the front seat
845 passenger.
846 CO Okay. I Just got one more question. Urn, who, uh who took the photo of your

847 thumb? Was that someone that's on the scene or did that happen back at

848 (inaudible)
849 JY That happened back at the PD.
850 CO Okay.
851 JY And Officer Kauser took the photo.
852 CO Okay.
853 JY Uh because they wanted me to get it cleaned up um so it wouldn't get infected
854 and ! had dry blood on, all over my hand.
855 CO Okay.
856 JY Um there were photos taken with a department urn camera.

857 CO Yep.
858 JY And I'm pretty sure they were (inaudible) to the case and um they asked me if I
859 wanted a ambulance to have it looked at and they asked me if I wanted any
860 bandages and that's ail that was said and then...

861 CO Okay.

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... after the photos were taken um Officer Brian Anderson was with us the whole
time and he then directed Office Kauser into a squad room then me into another.

864

co

So he was your monitoring officer?

865

JY

Yes.

866

co

Which is consistent with the procedures within your department?

867 ' JY

Yes

868
869

co

Okay. Have you been involved in any previous uh critica! incidents uh where
deadly force, deadly force was deployed in your capacity at Falcon Heights?

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JY

Not in the City of Falcon Heights, on the City of St. Anthony I was involved as a
witness at the trailer park shooting, 2501 Lowry Grove.

872

co

Sure.

873
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JY

And I was a!so dispatched to a murder suicide on 39th and Macaiester which was

875

co

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JY

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about 4 1/2 years ago.
Okay.
Urn the shooting was about 2 years ago i think and then, i can't remember

anything eise other critical incidents.

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co

881

JY

No.

882
883

co

Or have you had any indications that you've had previous dealings with that

884

JY

No.

885

co

Okay.

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887

JY

And then I was also involved in a critical incident about 3 years ago where uh
person that we arrested uh tried going for my firearm and put his hands on my
firearm, tried taking it out of the hoister and we ended up fighting with him but we

Okay and i asked you about the driver of this vehicle and ! guess i'm gonna ask
the same question about the passenger, the female passenger. Do you have any

knowledge of who that person is as I speak to you today?

person?

889

were able to arrest without any...

890

co

Was that deploying deadly force?

891

JY

Yeah applying deadly force.

892

co

Okay. Do you have questions for us?

893

DH

I've got one more.

894

co

Okay.

895

DH

896

I got one more. I Just wanna ask you and this is, and this is just an estimate. Um,

when you started firing at this individual, the driver, what do you think the
distance was between you and him?

897
898

JY

Two to three feet.

899

DH

Okay.

900

JY

Maybe.

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 901 DH Okay.
902 JY ! was standing right at, right at the door urn...

903 DH And he was seated?
904 JY And he was seated in the driver's seat.
905 DH Okay.
906 JY So whatever that distance would be. i wouid say two to three feet, two to four
907 feet.
908 DH So less...
909 JY And I can't...

910 DH ... than five?

911 JY Yeah, less than five and I believe uh I don't know I think I dosed distance if
912 you're talking about distance from my firearm to the suspect,..

913 DH Right
914 JY ...then iess than that! think.
915 DH Okay. So your estimate would be two to three feet.

916 JY Yeah.
917 DH Okay.
918 CO Have you in your experience in the law enforcement, have you had an
919 experience before where someone's told you they had a firearm, uh and then

920 what (inaudible)
921 JY Yeah, pienty of times I've had that and, and 1,1 know from hundreds of traffic
922 stops that I've done, peopSe with conceal and carries or that are carrying a

923 firearm, even if it's not on their person they teil me that they have a firearm in the
924 vehicle or they tell me that they have it on their person where, where the firearm
925 is iocatecf. They keep their hands if view. Some people even take the keys out of
926 the ignition, set (em on the dash and they keep their hands on top of the steering
927 wheel and they tell me before I even say anything they tel! me, officer I'm
928 carrying a firearm or I have a firearm in the vehicle. They tel! me where it's at and

929 with that they always teli me that when they're gonna reach for something and
930 where their wallets at or what they're gonna do. It's happened 100 percent of the
931 time. I know that for a fact urn when people have firearms and I've been

932 comfortable with that being on a traffic stop with somebody that has firearm in the
933 vehicle or on their person.

934 CO Okay.
935 DH You've had those people; you've directed those people to provide you with a
936 driver's license.
937 JY Correct.
938 DH Proof of insurance.
939 JY Correct.

940 DH Normal requests during a traffic stop.

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 941 JY Yes.

942 DH Okay, without issue?
943 JY Without issue.
944 DH Okay.
945 CO And... just and i hate to be redundant but (inaudible) as you speak to us today
946 believe that that was a firearm in this person's hand.
947 JY Yes,
948 CO Okay and it was, you described the coior or maybe you didn't but it was uh...

949 JY I just knew it was dark and I could barely see and I thought it was a firearm and I
950 thought he was gonna shoot and kiii me and i thought he was gonna shoot and
951 kill my partner right after that.
952 CO Okay, I understand.
953 DH Okay, one [ast thing ifm gonna ask you to do. Um, I'm gonna ask you to draw a
954 diagram...

955 JY Okay.
956 DH ... of the scene so where his car was urn and III ask you to make his car big
957 enough so you can, you can uh place the people that were in that vehicle, where,
958 you know essentially show us where they were.

959 JY Okay.
960 DH Urn, I'll provide you with a piece of paper here and if you can write, this is not, a
961 not to scale drawing.

962 JY Okay.
963 DH Um, if you couid just write up there somewhere not to scale.

964 JY Okay.
965 CO Yep, right.
966 DH So this is Just free, this is a free hand diagram by you basically just to iay out for
967 us.

968 ?? Orientation.
969 DH Orientation of the traffic stop. You can write what street was what just so people
970 that were not involved in this are able to picture where everybody was during the
971 incident.
972 CO So as you're doing that, I don't know if you can multitask.

973 JY Yeah.
974 CO I know I'm not real great at it. Did uh you run a registration on this vehicle on M,
975 MCD uh...

976 JY Correct.

977 CO Okay alright.
978 JY Yes. I did.

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 979

co

Do you remember who that came back to?

980

JY

No., I do not.

981

co

Okay, alright but it was dear? it wasn't stolen?

982

JY

Correct.

983

co

Okay.

984

JY

Checks came back for, through NCIC saying that there were no warrants or no...

985

co

Okay.

986

JY

...stolen uh hits on the vehicle.

987

(drawing noise)

988
989

co

990

JY

Uh

991

??

(inaudible)

992

JY

Yeah.

993

co

Yes.

994

JY

Yeah.

995

co

Okay and that's where you iearned is through council?

996

JY

Yep.

997

co

A!right

998

DH

That's good.

As you talk to us today do you have information uh whether or not a firearm was
recovered at the scene?

999

(drawing noise)

1000

DH

Can you just show me which way north is?

1001

JY

Alright.

1002

DH

Perfect. Uh so I just wanna go through this with you. This is the suspect vehicle?

1003

JY

Yes.

1004

DH

This is the driver?

1005

JY

Yes.

1006

DH

This is the individual that you said that had a gun in his hand?

1007

JY

Yes.

1008

DH

This is the front seat?

1009

JY

Yes.

1010

DH

Femaie passenger?

1011

JY

Yes.

1012

DH

Rear seats of the vehicle is a female child?

1013

JY

Yep.

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 1014

DH

You have a person over here, that's your partner?

1015

JY

Yeah, Officer Kauser.

1016

DH

Okay and this is you at the driver's side door?

1017

JY

Yes.

1018

DH

Okay, first, first vehicle you're showing behind the suspect vehicie. This is your
squad?

1020

JY

Yes.

1021

DH

St. Anthony Police Vehicle, marked?

1022

JY

704,yep.

1023

DH

And behind you is another...

1024

JY

Officer Kauser's squad.

1025

DH

... squad?

1026

JY

(inaudible)

1027

DH

And that's another marked St Anthony Poiice vehicle?

1028

JY

(inaudible) squad.

1029

DH

Okay. Do you have any questions?

1030
1031

co

1032

DH

Okay.

1033

??

No, we're good.

1034

DH

The time right now is 2:42 and this will be the end of the interview.

1019

I don't. Uh do you have any questions uh do you wanna stay on the record,

council?

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