911 CALL TRANSCRIPT
INCIDENT NUMBER: 18-229506
JULY 10, 2018; 19:27
19:27
Operator: 911, what is the address of the emergency?
(State with a transfer)
Caller: I’m at Minnehaha Falls.
Operator: Okay, where in the falls?
Caller: Um, I’m at the like the river part.
Operator: Alright, that goes through the whole park, can you narrow it down a little bit?
Caller: Um, shoot, I mean I’m right down like when you come down the stairs at like a little beach area,
little (inaudible) area.
Operator: Which set of stairs?
Caller: Um, shoot, (inaudible).
Operator: Is there a bridge number or is there?
Caller: No, you can come down any type of stairs and there’s a big field.
Operator: Are you over by the deer pen?
Caller: Yes.
Operator: Okay. Alright, tell me exactly what happened.
Caller: Um, well there’s these four boys harassing us. Um, they keep pulling out weapons and they just
won’t leave us alone and following me.
Operator: What type of weapons?
Caller: They got sticks, knives, I don’t know.
Operator: Alright, and what are they saying to you?
Caller: They, well one of the little boys had asked one of us for a cigarette, and he was ten years old.
Operator: Okay.
Caller: And I told him no.
Operator: (Inaudible).
Caller: And they got upset.
Operator: Alright. Let me get this. And what type of knives did they have?
Caller: Like I don’t know, knives that you can buy from Ace Hardware, I don’t know.
Operator: Like really, like were talking really large ones, pocket knives?
Caller: (Inaudible). Yeah.

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 Operator: Kitchen knives?
Caller: Pocket.
Operator: Alright, I’m gonna get their descriptions and we take this one at a time, so start with the first
boy, what race is he?
Caller: They’re all Somalian.
Operator: Okay, the first one, how old does he look?
Caller: They’re all about the same age, they’re all probably fourteen.
Operator: Okay, the first one, what is he wearing?
Caller: Um, blue shirt, blue t-shirt, white shorts, white and blue shorts.
Operator: And what about the next one?
Caller: Um, one of them is wearing no shirt, black pants. Um, and then there’s a little tiny boy, he’s got
jeans and a black shirt on. And then there’s another guy with a backpack on, he keeps saying there’s a
gun in his backpack. And he keeps getting in my boyfriend’s face.
(Lots of inaudible yelling in background)
Operator: Okay.
Caller: He’s got black, um, black pants on, black shirt, white, um, white sandals.
Operator: White sandals you said?
Caller: Yup, and he’s actually assaulting my boyfriend right now.
Operator: Okay.
Caller: He’s got like a switch and he’s swinging it.
Operator: Alright, I got help started out there now (inaudible), what’s your name?
Caller: If you can hear them.
(Yelling in background continues)
Operator: I can hear you, but, I can hear them, but that’s not important, what’s your name?
Caller: [Private Data]
Operator: And what’s the phone number you’re calling from?
Caller: [Private Data]
Operator: Okay, I know he’s assaulting your boyfriend, but is anyone else in danger right now?
Caller: Um, me and him. And there’s, ah, like families every (inaudible).
Operator: Alright.
Caller: There’s families, there’s kids, there’s all kinds of (inaudible).
Operator: Are you able to get yourself away from the situation?
Caller: Yes, I’m walking away, but they keep, he just threw a rock at me.
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 Operator: Okay, alright, officers are gonna be dispatched as soon as possible.
Caller: Yeah, well they’ll probably be gone by the time you guys get here. Do you need all this
information right away?
Operator: Yes.
Caller: I mean come on.
Operator: Well ma’am I’m not the one driving, the officers are, I give it to them while they drive. It
doesn’t slow it down.
Caller: Okay, yeah, well.
Operator: It doesn’t slow them down; it makes them more prepared to help in case they run.
Caller: Well they are running, so I mean nothing’s gonna happen now, right?
Operator: Well if we can catch them now based off the information you gave them we can still do
something.
Caller: I know exactly where they’re going.
Operator: Where are they going?
Caller: I can see them walking away, we can follow them (inaudible).
Operator: No, don’t, if they have guns they could.
Caller: I want something to be done about this.
Operator: Ma’am, if they potentially have guns.
Caller: This is not okay. Well yeah, I mean I’m threatened, but I mean I want something done about
this. This is not okay.
Operator: Ma’am, the police, listen to me, the police dept. does not want you following because now
it’s your own risk. We have advised you legally not to follow. We have an officer driving to you right
now.
Caller: Okay.
Operator: And they will be there as soon as possible.
Caller: Alright.

(Call ends)

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