Supplemental
Narrative of:
Field
Training Ofc. Robin J Peacey
On 05/19/15 at approximately
1545 hours Officer Wyche and I, working in a
training car, were dispatched to a report of a disturbance
between males.
NORCOM advised that 3 males
had been involved in a fight; however, they had all returned to their
respective homes.
The reporting party ZD advised that he lives at REDACTED.
Officer Wyche and I arrived
at REDACTED, and contacted CD and his brother ZD.
CD explained that he
had grown tired of listening to one of the neighborhood boys blast his stereo in his car and run the stop sign at the end
of the cul-de-sac he lives on.
CD stated that he has
filmed the 17 year old male that
drives a black shiny car with a spoiler
run the stop sign and blast his music on numerous occasions.
CD advised that the male,
later identified as B. Bhamber, left his home today 05/19/15 at approximately 1500
hours.
CD stated that he
heard the music and then watched as B. Bhamber rolled through the stop sign with out stopping.
About 20 minutes later B.
Bhamber returned, again with his loud music and CD decided to confront B.
Bhamber about the music and his driving.
CD stated he grabbed
a recording device (phone or camera) and walked
over and confronted B.
Bhamber and filmed his interaction.
CD stated that B. Bhamber
hit his camera that he was holding nearly knocking it out of his hand, and so CD slapped B. Bhamber in the
head/face.
CD then stated that B.
Bhamber called for his brother to come outside.
CD indicated that he then
called for his brother ZD to come out and call the police.
CD stated that he
continued to film the entire incident and both B. Bhamber and his brother continued to advance on
CD and ZD as they walked backwards away from them.
ZD indicated that at some point they
all ended up on the ground and B. Bhamber had him by his head and neck.
CD showed us scrapes to both of
his knees and scratches on his chest and stomach.
Officer Wyche took pictures
of these injuries and booked them into evidence.
ZD stated nearly the same events
took place.
ZD stated that he did
not want to fight, but he had
to defend his brother from nearly being
choked out.
ZD stated that he is trained in fighting
and knows where the carotid artery is located and knows that with enough
pressure you could kill someone.
He watched as B. Bhamber placed his arm
around his brother's neck, and CD started to turn blue.
ZD stated when he saw this he was in fear for his brother's life
and elbowed B. Bhamber in the head and
temple region one or two times until he released CD.
ZD also indicated by pointing out
on his brother that the arm of B. Bhamber was more along the jaw line and
verbally stated it was "one inch above his carotid".
CD stated that he had
the whole altercation on film, and offered to show us the video.
The
video shows a person walking
through grass out towards the street.
CD identified this
person as him.
He walks towards a black vehicle and confronts a male driver, B. Bhamber.
CD is immediately confrontational and
demands to know where the driver lives.
CD gives a brief
commentary as he walks around to the back of the vehicle
and films the license plate number, he states
that this is the person with the loud music and doesn't stop for the stop sign.
The video then returns to
the B. Bhamber, who is out of the car now, and
continues to be verbally hostile
towards B. Bhamber, and holding the
camera towards
B. Bhamber.
You can hear B. Bhamber ask if that is
a video camera and the push CD's hand out of the way.
At
which time there is a jostling of the camera and B. Bhamber yells for
"Jimmy".
CD is also advising someone to call the
police.
Two other males enter the
video at this point,
Jimmy, later identified as
Jaspreet Bhamber, and ZD.
These two males were obviously trying to calm the situation down.
On the video you hear
CD say that he struck him, B. Bhamber, and he will hit the other male
too if he gets closer.
CD is doing most of
the yelling on the video and then there is
commotion and the
camera is on the ground and all you can see is a back and
feet.
The fight is short lived,
15-30 seconds and then everyone in on their feet and CD is yelling that
they, Bhamber brothers are going to jail and they are cowards.
CD stops the video and states that he wants to press assault
charges
against B. Bhamber.
Officer Wyche provides both
ZD and CD with witness statements and asks for a copy of the video.
As we are leaving the house
to go and talk to the Bhamber brothers Officer's
McGuigan and White arrive.
We all walk over to contact
the Bhamber brothers at their residence.
B. Bhamber stated that he
arrived home and was immediately confronted by a male, CD.
B. Bhamber stated that
CD hit him in the head and B. Bhamber called for his brother because he
could see another male, ZD, coming and he thought that they
both were going to fight him and he wanted his brother there.
B. Bhamber stated that the events were
all a blur to him and that he ended up on the ground along with his brother and he tried to get CD off of his brother by grabbing his head and
trying to pull him off but they had his leg.
B. Bhamber's sweatshirt was
ripped and he stated that it was ripped during the altercation.
Jaspreet stated that he heard his brother yelling for him and he
went outside and saw two males advancing on his brother and he went to stop a
fight.
Jaspreet
stated he didn't even have
time to put on his shoes.
Jaspreet
stated that he doesn't
know what happened other than they all ended up on the ground.
Jaspreet stated that he felt bad about the whole incident and if they had known about the music they would have turned it
down.
Jaspreet stated that he was going to go over there later and apologize
for the incident getting out
of control.
I thought that because CD was
still very agitated about the whole incident that Jaspreet might want to
have the police present while making the apology.
We
all walked over to the Dorsett residence and ZD and CD along with their mother came to the door.
Jaspreet apologized and CD was rude and swore at Jaspreet and became confrontational again.
I told Jaspreet to return
to his house and we would contact him there.
I explained to CD that his
behavior was very hostile and uncalled for.
He interrupted me and stated that he
was still upset from the assault and very agitated still.
Officer
Wyche tried to
explain to CD that based on the totality of the
circumstances
that no charges would be
filed and B. Bhamber was not going to
jail.
Both CD and ZD began to yell that it wasn't the correct decision.
I explained to
CD that he placed himself in a situation and created a
hostile confrontation with B. Bhamber, where any normal person would have been
placed in the defense by his actions and manner he approached B. Bhamber.
CD again interrupted me while I was trying to explain that there was a better way to handle the whole
situation.
I told CD the reason
that he gets himself into these kinds of situations is because he doesn't listen.
He didn't listen to Jaspreet asking him to calm down and they could talk about things, he continued to yell and threaten to
hit people.
I also advised CD that he should
be cautious in audio recording people, as Washington is a two
party consent state.
He
didn't know what that meant, and I explained to him
that when he was audio recording someone he should advise them that they are
being audio recorded.
He didn't believe me and retreated into
his home.
ZD continued to want charges of
assault 2 to be filed for the choke hold that B. Bhamber placed on his brother.
I explained to ZD that the
description that he provided with the arm along the chin line, was not a choke
hold.
As
I was trying to explain to
him that there was not B. Bhamber did not try to choke CD, he advised he
was merely trying to remove CD from being entangled with Jaspreet;
however, I was unable to say this as ZD interrupted me and stated that I
must not know the assault law very well.
An argument continued between Zachary
and I for a few moments.
CD returned to the front yard
and went to hand me his statement and I
explained that I was done talking to
both CD and ZD about this
incident.
Officer Wyche collected the video and
the witness statement from CD.
Zachary
did not have his completed and stated he would mail it in.
Officer
Wyche provided ZD and CD with his business card including
the
case number and we left their residence.
We returned to the Bhamber
residence and provided both Jaspreet and B.
Bhamber with witness statement forms to fill out.
As of 2130 hours on 05/21/15 we have
not received either of their statements or ZD's statement.
Officer Wyche reviewed the entire confrontation and decided based on the fact
that CD chose no other means to
solve the music and driving issues other than this one confrontational
contact with B. Bhamber he was going to charge CD with disorderly conduct and provoking an assault.
See Officer Wyche's report for further details.
This concluded my
involvement in this case.
RJP
reviewed by Casey P Hiam
