Crazy Toledo Cop Video Goes Viral
BALDWIN: A police officer in Ohio is now on mandatory paid leave after this YouTube video. And I'm quoting the title of this video. It's "Crazy Toledo Cop." This thing went viral over the weekend. A neighbor videotaped part of this encounter in Toledo. You hear the bleeps. This is a lot of colorful language exchanged here. Neighbors say this officer, who you see on the right, went too far after he pulled over this woman for a routine license plate violation. He wound up ordering her family, including her 14-year-old son, to lay on the ground, drawing his gun and Taser. Watch.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nobody</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just shut up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Call</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nobody touched you!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nobody touched you</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you're told what to do, you'll do it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, keep that video rolling.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't get up you</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Um, yes, we need Toledo Police here at 165 Pine Ridge (ph)</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Toledo Police here,</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I asked you to get off the phone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get in.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I need -- Toledo Police here at 165 Pine Ridge in Washington Township. We got an officer - we've got an officer in distress right now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He has my phone (ph).</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, he just put her down. Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're getting them right now</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is ridiculous.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, he's pushing me up against the truck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just keep coming.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, just stop!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.</s>BALDWIN: The screaming, the cursing. Lynn Berry, HLN, joining me. Explain to me how a routine stop turns into what we just saw.</s>LYNN BERRY, HLN ANCHOR: Exactly, Brooke. I watched it and I was sort of like this the whole time. And it really depends on who you ask. OK. So the guy is Aaron Tatkowski. And he says he got home and he saw his daughter being pulled over for a routine traffic stop and he didn't like how the officer was aggressive with her. So he got out of the car and he said to the officer, move your patrol car, you're blocking my driveway and please don't talk to my daughter-in-law like that. The officer orders him back into his truck. He says, when he got back into his truck, the officer dragged him out, cuffed him, cuffed his girlfriend, his daughter-in-law, and put his 14-year-old grandson there on the ground.</s>BALDWIN: Wow.</s>BERRY: Now, the officer, we should say, when you look at this police report, he says everyone involved repeatedly disobeyed his orders and they were charging at him. We should note that the video does not show anything that supports the allegations, but he handcuffed these people after they asked him to move the car. We only see what happened after these people were on the ground. We should also note that the officer is there by himself. He reported to the scene by himself and there were a number of people there on the scene. But, in the police report, it says something interesting. He says Tatkowski asked to be taken to the ER. And when he was put on the cot, this is according to the officer, he looked at me and said, "this act ought to make a good payday for me, thanks." That noted in the police report. So it depends on who you ask in this situation.</s>BALDWIN: So he's on this mandatory paid leave, but the police department, they're standing by him, aren't they?</s>BERRY: They are. He's on mandatory paid leave. They've actually turned the investigation over to the sheriff's department because they want this to be, you know, clear - you know, no --</s>BALDWIN: Clear and separate.</s>BERRY: Exactly.</s>BALDWIN: Yes.</s>BERRY: And they are looking as to whether or not there were any criminal or civil rights violated here with this particular video. But they really said it was important to note the fact that this officer arrived on the scene by himself. He was outnumbered. He felt threatened. The other side of the story is painted much differently. And this video was posted three days ago. It's had hundreds of thousands of hits already.</s>BALDWIN: It's incredible just the -</s>BERRY: Yes.</s>BALDWIN: What's on video, what's on YouTube these days.</s>BERRY: And, you know, you hear Tatkowski say, start filming this, start filming this, to the witnesses.</s>BALDWIN: You do.</s>BERRY: Keep rolling. Keep rolling.</s>BALDWIN: Wow. Lynn Berry, thank you. Stay on it and let us know what happens to the police officer or the other guy.</s>BERRY: We will.</s>BALDWIN: Thank you very much. Coming up, boy, oh, boy, have you heard this one, hundreds of teens throw a party inside the mansion of a former football player. Turns out this guy was watching this whole party unfold live on Twitter. Now he is hunting these teenagers down. He will join me live. Plus, a police officer filing a lawsuit against a fellow cop accusing him of quote/unquote gawking at Whitney Houston's body. Those details are next.