Opinion ID: 1608346
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Incident Two911 Call Received at 10 p.m.

Text: ¶ 51. Carmichael testified that, minutes after the officers left her house, Wilson walked back up, knocked on the door and asked Carmichael to drive him to the home of Williams' mother, Annie Walker. Carmichael drove Wilson to Walker's house and dropped him off. Shortly thereafter, Walker placed a call to the Laurel Police Department for assistance. Walker testified that Wilson was very intoxicated and angry. Walker testified that Wilson was talking dirty and cussing and refused to leave her porch, but then moved to the yard after she went next door to call the police. Wilson was on the sidewalk in front of Walker's home when Valentine and Keller (and at least one other officer) arrived separately on the scene. Walker testified that officers spoke to Wilson, placed him in handcuffs and put him in the back of the patrol car. She testified that Valentine told her Wilson was going to jail and that they would not have to worry about him any more that night. Walker and Carmichael both testified that Walker then went to Carmichael's house to tell Williams that Wilson had been taken to jail and that she didn't have to worry any more that night. ¶ 52. The testimony of the officers differs from Walker's account. Keller testified that Wilson was calm, cool, cooperative. He did not make any threatening gestures or say he was going to do anything to anybody. I mean, he was just as calm as he could be. It was yes, sir, no, sir. Both officers testified that Wilson was never under arrest and that they were merely giving him a ride, despite the fact that one of them told him during the first incident, we can't ride you and that they weren't a taxi. Keller testified that he called in to the station to let them know that he had a visitor on board and that he drove Wilson to the station so he could wait for his mother to pick him up. Valentine testified that he would say Wilson was not intoxicated. ¶ 53. The recording of the second incident reflects that Wilson was agitated because he did not have a place to stay. Wilson made a statement indicating that either he and Williams could both go to jail or he and Williams could both go to Carmichael's. Wilson said he went to Walker's because it was not right that he did not have a place to stay because Williams had cut him with a knife and he got put out. Keller then responded that Williams did not cut Wilson with the knife and that Wilson said she did not cut him. Keller said he did not think Williams cut Wilson, but that her fingernail got him. This disputes Keller's testimony discussed previously pursuant to the first incident, where Wilson said he had received the cut at work. Wilson said he did not know whether Williams had cut him or her fingernail had gotten him because he was drunk. Keller asked Wilson if he wanted to go to jail, to which Wilson replied he did not but that he did not have anywhere else to go. The officers repeatedly told Wilson that the Salvation Army was not going to take him because he was drunk. Wilson repeatedly admitted that he was drunk. One officer remarked that he'd never seen anybody who would rather go to jail. Wilson was placed in handcuffs, and one officer said he had to do what he had to do because Wilson could not stay on the street drunk. Then it was decided that Keller would call Wilson's mother to see if she would get him rather than him going to jail. Keller told Wilson's mother that Wilson would be put in jail if she did not come get him and she agreed to pick him up at the station. Keller took Wilson to the station and left him in the lobby to wait for his mother, who apparently picked him up a short while later and dropped him off at or near Carmichael's house.