6 Haunting Moments Recorded on Police Bodycams

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00:00On December 25th, 2020, a 63-year-old man named Anthony Quinn Warner drove his RV to Nashville,

00:06Tennessee's 2nd Avenue and woke up nearby residents with the sound of a robotic,

00:10digital female voice coming from his RV, warning everyone around the vehicle to evacuate the area.

00:30Soon, the female voice repeatedly mentioned that the RV was going to detonate,

00:39and a little after 6am, the voice became more and more insistent, announcing that the vehicle

00:43would detonate in 15 minutes. In the body cam footage that was later released by the authorities,

00:49a group of Nashville police officers can be seen walking around the downtown area,

00:53urging any stragglers to evacuate for their own safety.

01:00But there is something serious happening down the roadway.

01:03Go for 11.

01:04Do you mind going down to 2nd?

01:06Where do they need to go when they are evacuating?

01:13That's so rude. That's like some shit out of a movie.

01:16Like The Purge?

01:17Yeah.

01:21Keep watching the air.

01:22I'm out.

01:30The robotic voice and its ominous warnings give the whole scene an extremely eerie vibe,

01:38like as the police officer mentioned, something out of the movie The Purge.

01:42Strangely, the RV also broadcasted snippets of the 1964 hit song Downtown by Petula Clark,

01:48which is a song about how if you're ever feeling sad or lonely, you should go downtown

01:52and you'll feel better in the hustle and bustle of the city.

01:55Unfortunately, the robotic voice wasn't bluffing, and just 15 minutes later, the RV detonated

02:00near the AT&T building, causing damage to more than 50 buildings and even collapsing

02:05a few of them with its massive blast radius.

02:08In the aftermath of the incident, the cops can be seen assessing the damage and moving

02:11nearby pedestrians to safety through body cam footage that can only be described as apocalyptic.

02:16Second across.

02:17Command 425, are you going for it?

02:19No, I guess.

02:20Are you guys okay?

02:21No, I guess.

02:22Where's your car?

02:23Are you doing?

02:24Okay, go to your car.

02:25Let's go.

02:26I'm not going.

02:27I'm not going to go.

02:28I'm not going to go.

02:29I'm not going to go.

02:30I'm not going to go.

02:31I'm not going to go.

02:32I'm not going to go.

02:33Command, make sure all units are direct.

02:35There may be ammo in the keys, but we don't need anybody coming up the second avenue

02:38and closed.

02:39You okay?

02:40Yeah, I'm good, man.

02:41I appreciate it.

02:42I'm not going to go.

02:43I'm not going to go.

02:44You okay?

02:45Yeah, I'm good, man.

02:46I appreciate it.

02:47Even though the explosive inside the RV was extremely powerful, the cops managed to evacuate

02:52most of the nearby residents, and thankfully, nobody outside the RV lost their lives.

02:57Although three people were injured and had to be hospitalized after the vehicle incident,

03:01the only person who lost his life was Anthony Warner himself, who was still inside the vehicle

03:05at the time of the detonation.

03:07After the incident, the authorities started digging deep into Anthony's past to figure out

03:11what could have caused him to do something so insane, and what they found was pretty

03:15disturbing.

03:16As it turned out, Warner was pretty much a paranoid loner obsessed with conspiracy theories

03:20about shape-shifting alien lizards that were trying to take over the world.

03:25It was also revealed that 16 months before the explosion, Warner's girlfriend had called

03:28the cops to report that Anthony had been building explosives inside the RV outside their home.

03:34Even more disturbingly, less than a week before Christmas, Warner's neighbor had reportedly

03:38asked him if Santa was going to bring him anything good for Christmas, to which Warner replied,

03:42oh yeah, Nashville and the world are never going to forget me.

03:46But despite the clear desire for attention, the cops never managed to truly figure out Warner's

03:50motive, and it was eventually concluded that he probably didn't want to hurt anyone, and

03:54that a fatal cancer diagnosis mixed with other factors had contributed to Warner's declining

03:58mental health.

04:03On March 9th, 2023, at around 12.30pm, an anonymous caller dialed 911 and told dispatchers

04:09that a man that had just run into a food market on Cleveland's Central Avenue was claiming that

04:13he had just been kidnapped.

04:15As soon as police arrived, they were able to talk to the alleged victim, and the jarring

04:18conversation was captured on one of the cops' body cams.

04:41Disturbingly, the zip ties and duct tape that were used in the kidnapping can still be seen

04:45on the man's body as he explains what happened to him.

04:48As the victim mentions to the cops, the perpetrators forced him into his own van, robbed him, and

04:53then held him for ransom before he managed to escape.

04:55As the cops later found out, the main perpetrator was 51-year-old Ahmed Johnson, whom the victim

05:00had been in federal prison with at some point in his life.

05:04After digging deeper into the case, they uncovered the whole story of the kidnapping.

05:17As the victim mentioned in the video, the kidnapper had hired him for a plumbing job, and when he

05:22arrived at the house in Cleveland's Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood, he was led downstairs where he

05:37would allegedly be shown the leaky pipe that he had to fix.

05:40Once downstairs, Ahmed led the victim to another room, where another man jumped out and held

05:45him at gunpoint.

05:47After stealing his phone and Apple Watch, the kidnappers bound the victim and put him

05:50into the back of his own van.

05:52As the perpetrators drove the van towards the city's central neighborhood, they made the

05:56victim call a friend and bring around $15,000 to a nearby gas station in exchange for his

06:01return.

06:02But as the van slowed down, the victim somehow managed to jump out and ran down East 49th Street.

06:07Breaking quickly, the victim ran into a convenience store, where he would be protected by the

06:11public eye, causing the suspects to drive off.

06:14Two weeks later, the cops managed to make an arrest, and Ahmed Johnson was charged in Cleveland

06:18court with aggravated kidnapping.

06:21As of today, there have been no further updates to the case.

06:28On September 9, 2019, an Albuquerque Police Department officer saw a young man performing

06:32a traffic stop on a gray Nissan SUV.

06:35Strangely, the man wasn't dressed like a police officer at all.

06:39In fact, he was dressed as an ordinary citizen in jeans, a black polo, and an Air Force cab

06:44as he wrote down the driver's information.

06:47Sensing that something was off, the officer pulled the man aside to talk to him, and from

06:50the beginning, the man seemed a little on edge.

06:54Okay.

06:55I'm sorry.

06:56How you doing?

06:57How's it going, man?

06:58Talk back here real quick.

06:59What were you looking for?

07:00Really, a kind of trip's on.

07:01Oh, okay.

07:02I know, I'm under-equipped.

07:03Okay, because normally if you're out here, man, if you're making a traffic stop, you're

07:05just going to have to stop.

07:06All right.

07:07Do you have an idea with you?

07:09This is all I got on me.

07:10Like I said, I'm under-equipped.

07:11I was just heading over there to the courthouse.

07:12To the courthouse for what?

07:13To get my crap.

07:14Okay.

07:15I know, it makes no sense.

07:16I caught him going 120 down I-40.

07:17Okay.

07:18Why do you have lights on this vehicle?

07:19Personal.

07:20I know.

07:21Do you have an idea with you at all?

07:22No, I keep it on my uniform.

07:23No, I keep it on my uniform.

07:24I keep it on my uniform.

07:25I keep it on my uniform.

07:26I keep it on my uniform.

07:27You keep it on my uniform.

07:28I keep it on my uniform.

07:29If you're making a traffic stop, you're just gonna have to stop.

07:31All right.

07:32Do you have an idea with you?

07:33I'm under-equipped.

07:34I'm under-equipped.

07:35I'm under-equipped.

07:36I was just heading over there to the courthouse.

07:37To the courthouse for what?

07:38To get my crap.

07:39No, I know.

07:40Do you have an idea with you at all?

07:42No, I keep it on my uniform.

07:44The man claims that he was on his way to the courthouse when he pulled over the driver

07:47of the great Nissan.

07:49Suspiciously though, he claims he doesn't have any sort of identification on him because

07:53he allegedly left it inside his uniform.

07:55After a bit of questioning, the man says his name is Brendan Wazinski and confesses that

07:59he was using his personal vehicle to pull over civilians, but insists that he's been

08:03an officer of the law for three years.

08:05And I'm not here to mess with you, man.

08:08It's just the thing is, yeah, he was speeding, dude.

08:11You could have called it in.

08:12And...

08:13Because if you get into shooting, you're speeding.

08:16Right.

08:17All right, man.

08:18I understand.

08:19All right.

08:20This...

08:21For starters, I know this looks really bad.

08:23This looks really bad.

08:24This screams whacker.

08:26Right.

08:27How long have you been on?

08:28About three years.

08:29Okay.

08:30I've been on for like 13 years.

08:32All right, so...

08:34After checking the database, the officer notices Brendan's name doesn't pop up on any nearby

08:38law enforcement agency's list.

08:40And at that point, his only option is to put the suspect in the back of his vehicle while

08:43he waits for his supervisor to figure things out.

08:46Less than five minutes later, Brendan gets cold feet and confesses that he's not a real cop.

08:51What's up, man?

08:52All right.

08:53I'm just going to be straight up honest with you.

08:54I'm not a cop.

08:55Okay.

08:56Okay.

08:57Okay.

08:58I'm just going to be honest.

08:59I bought it offline.

09:00Offline.

09:01Okay.

09:02Do me a favor.

09:03Stay in here, okay?

09:04For a second.

09:05As soon as his supervisor arrives, the officer briefs him on the situation and they decide

09:17to arrest Brendan for impersonating a police officer.

09:20After putting him in cuffs, the sheriff arrives to assess the situation.

09:23I honestly don't know how long Brendan was expecting to be able to get away with pulling

09:27people over pretending to be a cop, but it seems as though he was hoping to play vigilante

09:32with no consequences forever.

09:34Even though he didn't have a weapon in his belt at the time, it's not uncommon for people

09:38like Brendan to start using guns and handcuffs as intimidation tools once they get more comfortable

09:42and start thinking they can get away with it.

09:44Obviously, it's incredibly dangerous to have random people driving around the city pretending

09:48to be cops when they really have nothing to do with law enforcement at all, which is

09:52why the officers have no other choice but to bring him into the police station.

09:55After arriving at the station, the cops try to get Brendan's full statement, but the suspect

10:00contradicts himself a bunch and lies to try to get the officers' sympathy.

10:03Brendan says he was on his way to work when he saw a guy going 1-20 on the freeway and

10:08confesses that he freaked out when the cop asked him about his identity.

10:11Strangely, he alleges that the badge he used to fake his identity used to belong to his

10:16dad, who supposedly used to work with the sheriff's department before he was killed

10:19in the line of duty 5 or 6 years prior.

10:21As it was later revealed, this was a complete lie, and the truth was that he bought the

10:49badge online as he had initially confessed when the cop interrogated him.

10:53It's hard to imagine that he thought he was going to get away with a lie like that when

10:56there was video evidence of him saying that he bought the badge online less than an hour

11:00ago.

11:01During the interview, it was also revealed that Brendan was only 18 years old, even though

11:04he said he was around 25 when the cop initially pulled him over.

11:08This makes the fact that he said he was married and needed to call his wife even more sketchy,

11:12and it's hard to tell which details of the story are true and which ones are completely

11:15made up.

11:16A few seconds later, things get a little scary when Brendan confesses that he had a loaded

11:20weapon in the glove compartment of the vehicle, which wasn't initially visible in the video.

11:25Considering he's a compulsive liar and an irresponsible teenager, it's pretty horrifying to imagine

11:30what he would have done with the handcuffs and gun had he been given the chance to play vigilante

11:34for a few more days or weeks or whatever.

11:37In March 2020, a judge sentenced Brendan to a year of probation.

11:41But just a few weeks later, he failed to report to his probation officer, refused to get a psych

11:46exam, provided a false address, and missed a scheduled meeting.

11:50As a result, the judge tightened his probation conditions, and as of today, there have been

11:54no further updates to the case.

11:59At around 8pm on September 30th, 2021, three children ages 6, 6, and 7 were reported missing

12:06in the Flamingo Lake neighborhood in Montgomery, Texas.

12:09According to the parents, the kids had gone missing after they went into the Sam Houston

12:13forest and wandered off the main trail to go play in a creek.

12:16After the disappearance was announced to the public, the authorities launched a massive

12:20search that included helicopters, dogs, drones, off-road vehicles, and hundreds of police

12:25officers from multiple law enforcement agencies.

12:28The next morning, an anonymous good Samaritan who was very familiar with the layout of the

12:32woods decided to take matters into his own hands and went into the national forest by

12:35himself to find the kids.

12:37At around 9am on September 31st, the man found the kids and called 911 to bring the children

12:42to safety, and the whole rescue was captured on Sergeant Jason Smith's body cam.

12:46Come out.

12:47Can y'all come to me?

12:48Come to me.

12:49Yeah, come to me.

12:50There's an opening right here.

12:51Come on, kids.

12:52Come to me.

12:53They wouldn't let me in over here last night.

12:54So I just took off around the back.

12:55I've been looking all night long.

12:56Yes, sir.

12:57I have all three children.

12:58Ain't Jesus good?

12:59Ain't Jesus good?

13:00He's good.

13:01Kids.

13:02I'm the police.

13:03Are y'all ready to get out of the woods?

13:04Come on, buddy.

13:05Let's get out of here.

13:06You got cheeseburgers in your car.

13:07We gonna get something to eat.

13:08Okay.

13:09Hold my hand.

13:10We'll get out of here.

13:11Even though the kids were found just a little over a mile away from where they entered

13:31the woods, they'd still been lost for over 24 hours, and pretty understandably they were

13:36hungry.

13:37As it was later revealed, the kids had spent the night in the forest sheltering themselves

13:41under a fallen tree until the volunteer came to rescue them, which is why they had leaves

13:45and branches in their hair in the footage.

13:48Here, let's pick this.

13:49Grab ahold of that.

13:50There you go.

13:51You're really strong.

13:52Am I really strong?

13:53I don't think I am.

13:54You lose your shoe?

13:55Nope.

13:56I don't know.

13:58Ah!

13:59I gotcha.

14:04Even though they had spent the night with minimum shelter and hadn't had anything

14:07to eat for 24 hours, the children still seem to be in pretty good spirits as Sergeant

14:11Smith escorted them out of the woods, and toward the end of the video he can be seen

14:14guiding them to the clearing where a bunch of cop cars sit waiting for them.

14:17Thank you, fellas.

14:18Y'all got it?

14:19Come on, kids.

14:20Let's come out to the road.

14:21Come on.

14:22There you go, buddy.

14:23Look at you.

14:24You made it.

14:25It's honestly pretty terrifying to think that if they hadn't been found then and there,

14:40the kids would have probably ended up succumbing to the elevator.

14:45But thankfully, they were able to get back home to their parents.

15:00On January 30th, 2017, New Mexico police received a disturbing call from a witness in Nevada who

15:07claimed he had seen a woman being taken out of her Las Vegas apartment by a man and put

15:11into a white van with a Texas license plate.

15:14After receiving the alert, the cops are able to locate the van in question less than 24

15:18hours later and arrest the driver and passenger.

15:21Driver.

15:22Put the hands in the window.

15:23Passenger.

15:24We got it on the side.

15:29Keep coming.

15:32Keep your hands up.

15:33Keep coming back.

15:37Once the suspects are out of the vehicle, the cops approach the white van, and that's when

15:41they find something incredibly disturbing.

15:44The cops find a woman named Jane who is chained to the floorboards of the van by the suspects.

15:49And as soon as the officers sent her freezes, she gives them her disturbing testimony.

15:50According to the victim, the man who was driving the getaway van was her

15:54ex-boyfriend Jack who broke into her apartment and took her.

15:55Even though she fought hard to escape, Jack was trained to be able to find a woman who

15:57was chained to the floorboards of the van.

15:58And as soon as the officers sent her freezes, she gives them her disturbing testimony.

16:02According to the victim, the man who was driving the getaway van was her ex-boyfriend Jack who

16:07broke into her apartment and took her.

16:09Even though she fought hard to escape, Jack was trained in mixed martial arts and was a

16:13lot heavier than her.

16:14And it didn't take him long to take her out of her home.

16:15Jane assumed it was her neighbors who saw the altercation and called the police.

16:16And it was thanks to that 911 call that the cops were able to rescue her.

16:17Once inside the police car, Jack doesn't seem all too distressed that he's about to be put

16:18away for a long time.

16:19And he can even be seen interacting pretty calmly with the officer driving the vehicle.

16:20Asking him if he has a favorite him and singing the words to

16:24Amazigh's ex-boyfriend Jack, his ex-boyfriend Jack, who broke into her apartment and took her.

16:26Even though she fought hard to escape, Jack was trained in mixed martial arts and was a lot

16:27heavier than her.

16:28And it didn't take him long to take her out of her home.

16:30Jane assumed it was her neighbors who saw the altercation and called the police.

16:33And it was thanks to that 911 call that the cops were able to rescue her.

16:38Once inside the police car, Jack doesn't seem all too distressed that he's about to be put

16:41away for a long time.

16:42And he can even be seen interacting pretty calmly with the officer driving the vehicle.

16:46Asking him if he has a favorite him and singing the words to Amazing Grace as he's taken to jail.

16:55You got a favorite him?

16:56What's that?

16:57You got a favorite him?

16:59No, I don't.

17:00Why not?

17:02I don't know, I've never been into them.

17:05What about you?

17:07What about Amazing Grace? You like that one?

17:09I'll take it.

17:22As it was later revealed, Jack's accomplice in the kidnapping was 19-year-old Samuel Brown.

17:27In the other cop car, Samuel asked the police officer to have a conversation with him, claiming

17:31that he's scared of everything that's happening.

17:32Is it okay to talk?

17:33Is it okay to talk?

17:34What's that?

17:35Is it okay to talk?

17:36Talk?

17:37Yeah.

17:38Anything.

17:39I'm just kind of scared.

17:40Okay.

17:41What are the police going to ask me?

17:42During the investigation, the police found that Jack and Samuel had planned to take Jane

17:59into a cave in New Mexico that Jack had dug into the side of a hill where they would later

18:03brainwash her into marrying one of them, according to the police report.

18:07After the horrifying incident, Jack was sentenced to life in prison and Samuel to a little over

18:12five years in prison.

18:14It's pretty disturbing to imagine where Jane would be if that 911 call hadn't been placed

18:19and the cops hadn't intervened.

18:23On April 8th of 2021, police officers from the city of Whitehall, Ohio, about six miles

18:28away from Columbus, received a report that a man was allegedly impersonating a police officer

18:32at a traffic stop.

18:34Upon arriving at the scene, they found a 26-year-old man named Casey Donovan Williams asleep in what

18:39appeared to be a Whitehall police cruiser.

18:41When he woke up, he told the cops that he was an off-duty cop working a special-duty detail.

18:46At first, the officers bought his story, but when they were told there was no special-duty

18:50assigned at that time, they returned to get the real story, and the exchange was captured

18:54on the cop's body cam.

18:56But you have no ID from them, all right?

19:00No.

19:01And have you ever been sworn in by them?

19:03I've talked to the chief.

19:04No, no.

19:05I'm asking you a direct question.

19:06Have you been sworn in by them?

19:07Now, it's very important you answer this correctly, because being a former police officer or someday

19:11a current police officer, you know if you lie in this situation, you go directly to jail.

19:15No, I'm not.

19:16So I'm going to put that right up.

19:17Listen, I'm not trying.

19:18So if you are telling me you are a police officer right now, is that what you're telling

19:21me?

19:22No.

19:23So you are not a commissioned police officer?

19:24I have spoke with the chief.

19:25That's not what I'm asking you.

19:26Okay.

19:27I'm asking you one question.

19:28Are you a commissioned police officer through the state of Ohio?

19:31I have an opuda certificate.

19:32That's not what I'm asking you.

19:33That's not what I'm asking you.

19:34I'm explaining to you.

19:35No, no, no, you're not.

19:36You're not answering the question.

19:37You're avoiding the question.

19:38It's very simple.

19:39Are you a sworn police officer anywhere in the state of Ohio with any department?

19:42That means commission.

19:43Not currently.

19:44Okay.

19:45That's not.

19:46As soon as the cops start applying a bit of pressure, Casey confesses that he's not

19:49an actual commissioned police officer.

19:51And when the cops mention to him that he risks going to jail if he lies, he decides

19:54to call one of the officers who supposedly gave him the job to try to save himself from

19:58the consequences.

19:59Okay.

20:00Uh, one second.

20:02Would you be willing to speak to the supervisor from the company?

20:05From?

20:06From Watchman.

20:07From Watchman?

20:08Yes.

20:09Is he an actual police officer?

20:10You are an actual police officer, correct?

20:12Uh, okay.

20:13Okay.

20:14Okay.

20:15Yes, he is.

20:16Where are you, where are you commissioned at?

20:18It doesn't matter.

20:19He's not here doing anything.

20:20Yeah.

20:21I don't care.

20:22I don't care if he's the superintendent of the state highway patrol.

20:24That's irrelevant to the situation.

20:26Even though he seems to have a pretty intricate series of excuses to justify his actions, the

20:31cops sense there's more to the story than Casey's letting on.

20:34After mentioning to the cops that he was just trying to make a little extra money by allegedly

20:38working for the Glenwood Police Department, he realizes his chances of getting out of an

20:42arrest are pretty slim.

20:43And that's when he resorts to asking the cops for mercy.

20:44That's all I was trying to do.

20:45Please do not.

20:46I'm asking you for courtesy, man to man, please do not ruin my career.

20:56Please, please, please.

20:57Okay.

20:58I think you did that kind of on your...

21:00Oh.

21:01Throughout the exchange, it seems as if Casey either doesn't realize the severity of what

21:05he's doing, or he really thinks the cops are going to let him get away with showing

21:08a fake badge and even carrying a weapon while pretending to be an officer of the law.

21:12Still, things were about to get a whole lot worse for Casey, because after he was put

21:16in the real police officer's cruiser, the cops searched his vehicle and found a loaded

21:20AR-15 rifle, a tactical vest, a loaded handgun with 15 rounds of ammo, a taser, two

21:26pairs of handcuffs, and pepper spray.

21:29It's pretty disturbing to think of what could have happened if the cops hadn't arrested

21:32Casey then and there, because even though he didn't seem to have any bad intentions

21:36at first glance, Casey could have used a badge, vehicle, and weapons for some pretty nefarious

21:40purposes if he wanted to by simply convincing people he was a real police officer.

21:45From kidnapping to extortion and everything in between, a fake cop can be extremely dangerous.

21:51As it was later revealed, this wasn't the first time the suspect had gotten in trouble

21:54for trying to pull similar stunts.

21:56Although at one point he had been a corrections deputy at the Pickaway County Jail, he was

22:00forced to resign after trying to enforce his authority as an undercover cop at a fair when

22:04he hadn't been instructed to do so.

22:06After the incident in Whitehall, Casey was charged with impersonating a police officer,

22:10a third-degree felony, and improper handling of a gun in a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree

22:14felony.

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