TPD: Friends Record Man High On PCP Interacting With Officers

Friday, October 28th 2016, 10:30 pm

By: News On 6

Tulsa police say a group of friends admitted to sending one of their own, high on PCP, out of the house just so they could videotape what happened when officers arrived.

Police say they hope this doesn’t become a trend.

Through an open records request, News On 6 received a copy of an email sent by a Tulsa corporal to his chain of command about an incident that happened in a parking lot in the 1900 block of South Garnett Road early Wednesday morning.

They got a call about a man wearing nothing but his underwear, running around the parking lot and into the street, acting strangely.

They say when they arrived it was obvious he was on something.

They say he didn't really follow their instructions, or their commands, but said he really wasn't doing anything bad either.

They say they pulled out their bean bag launcher and threatened to shoot him with it and that's when he got on the ground. Police say they got him an ambulance and some help.

While this entire thing is going on, the officers noticed a group of people in the parking lot videotaping the whole thing on their cell phones. They say one woman walked up to them, while still taping, and said “this is our friend. He's been doing PCP with us all night and we decided to let him out of the house so we could film it and post it to the internet.”

The officers thought that was a very dangerous thing to do, not only for the man but also for innocent citizens.

Corporal Brian Collum said, "It's not like they were a citizen just driving by and said ‘I'm going to film a guy walking around in his underwear.’ They created the situation by letting him leave."

He said the people were complicit and actually set up the whole situation, and had something bad happened, they could've been held accountable for it.