Person detained after refusing to show hands in street, Springfield IL


Police tracked a person moving slowly through residential streets using GPS. The individual refused to show his hands when approached. Officers prepared with shields and less-lethal options for safety. The person was taken into custody on a street near 13th and Linux.
Audio|Source: Sangamon County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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GPS monitors showing him moving between 5 and 7 miles an hour, right?
00:10
Where are they showing it up?
00:19
They're saying he's on Linux 780.
00:25
He's showing near East Linux currently, still moving though.
00:33
East Linux.
00:40
GPS has him near 13th in Linux, still westbound 5 to 7 miles an hour.
00:48
Westbound 13 in Linux.
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CM-784, channel 2.
01:03
3-1.
01:06
Go ahead.
01:09
You just know it, I'll take it for me the drone is down.
01:13
No for him.
01:17
Sam-7-3-2. We're... keep the updates coming. We're gonna try and get out with him.
01:29
732 from 667. It appears he stopped there at 13 from Linux now,
01:34
near a car that is in a carport, or near a carport along that street.
01:45
10-4[1] west or east side of the road.
01:51
They're able to describe it as a White House with a brick foundation.
02:03
He started moving.
02:05
He is now northbound on 13th.
02:09
He is now northbound on 13th. It is...
02:16
I see him at the intersection.
02:18
He's walking back, uh,
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southbound.
02:21
We're in all of our clothing.
02:26
How it looks like he's westbound on Linux.
02:31
Thank you very much.
02:37
7.32, I'm here at 11 at Lemmix. He said, get out with him.
02:43
Yeah, we're trying to do a team after. I mean, I got a shield. I don't know if anybody's got west lethal, but I wouldn't jump out with him by yourself.
02:50
Do you have eyes on me?
02:52
That's south of Linux on 11th. I got a left leaf old in my trunk.
02:57
All right, I got eyes on. He's just west of 13th, walking on the north side, westbound.
03:09
Confirmed by GPS, that's him.
03:17
1943.
03:22
Good.
03:24
Myself and about three other city cops are sitting here at 12th and 1x and I am less lethal.
03:31
Definitely.
03:35
29, I'm 12th in Lange.
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29 I'll be out with City, Lennox, and 12th.
03:47
No one.
03:49
Nine, can give me the channel for a second.
04:00
The channel one is closed for 319.
04:08
19 just further, I don't know, we're a 1-0-mrat, but he's refusing to show his hands, hands there in the oisman.
04:15
Stafford.
04:17
24, put me back on that take.
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7-4, 505 to drift traffic.
04:40
Springfield 619 information.
04:45
619, go ahead.
04:48
3 in custody here at Casey's in Fittsville, Fittsville PD's technology on, secure me another hour.
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Location mentioned:
S 13th St & E Lenox Ave, Springfield, IL 62703
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