Dr. Insanity - A Racist Cop Doesn't Realize He's Being Recorded

Episode Date: December 27, 2025

This is Officer Ashlynn Pluff, and she just punched this black woman in the face. What’s worse is that this is a pattern for her, and she’s well known for using excessive force on people of color. These are times racist cops didn't realize they were being recorded... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All I said, she's squeezing my hands for no reason. When you quit, f***, movie, stop fucking cussing that. This is Officer Ashland Plough, and she just punched this black woman in the face. What's worse is that this is a pattern for her, and she's well known to use excessive force on people of color. Up to this point, she and her department have gone unpunished. But there are countless cases of racist officers who forget they're being recorded. Like when a cop repeatedly shouts slurs at an innocent black man. For being f***ed up.

But first, let's look at a cop who did something so racist. It got him fined $100,000 and fired from the police force entirely. Hey, I'm black and f*** out here. That's what the issue is. Yeah. The incident happened in San Diego when he approached Amari Johnson for smoking in a non-smoking area. The only problem, Johnson didn't have a lighter, cigarette, or vape on him. Even if he was smoking, do you think that warranted this treatment? He can't off me, bro.

What is you grabbed me for it, bro? I already told you this is coming straight. You look goofy as hell, bro. Stop touching me, bro. Obviously, nobody's going nowhere. Hey, hey, hey, what I tell you? I told you I'm waiting for somebody to come here? Okay.

They're right here, bro. Oh, my God. You're tough as f*** up. Hey, you're tough as fuck up. Stop. Hey, we don't care me. Stop. Bro, you're goofy as hell, bro.

Hey, Mr. Dadges, you're making a big-ass deal out of nothing, brody. You're the one that's a big ass deal out of nothing, brody. Sit down. You're real big, though, huh? Hey, you real big. Hey, you're real big. Sit down. Hey, you're real tough.

Okay. Thank you, bro. Thank you. I have no reason to be detained by you, bro. Sit down. Stay seated. Get on the ground. What am I doing?

Y'all are funny as hell, bro. F***'s as funny as hell, bro. Hey. That's fine, dude. You've already put your hands on me. Bro, I didn't put nothing on you, bro. It's on camera, so you can check me. Bro, y'all is hella goofy, bro.

I'm talking to you, and you smacked me. Bro, nobody smacked you, bro. Where I smacked you. You did it? Where I smacked you. It just claims that this treatment was because John and slapped his hand away, a moment did not clearly caught on his body cam. What the fuck, bro?

Do you know what's going on? I just got here, man. This fool is in the fucking wrong. He tried to come up on him, like he's not doing shit. He's waiting for me to get back from the store, right? When I come back, instead of him just apologizing, being like, oh, you're right, I get it. He tries to grab him and choke him and put him on the fucking thing.

Obviously, my friend is going to put his hands back. This fool's in the wrong and he could just say that and let it go. Instead, he's trying to fucking, I don't know what the fuck you should do, I'm trying to figure out what's going on, man. Bro, he's being a whole ass of f***is, bro. Oh, God, and you know you're wrong, bro. This guy would be an awful lot more helpful if he wasn't so aggressive, but he's exactly right.

Johnson was simply waiting for him to arrive in this spot when he was approached by Dages and was exhibiting no suspicious behavior whatsoever. But in the conversation that followed, he accidentally reveals the true reason for this stop. He looked at my name like 30 minutes ago, bro. Why am I still here? I don't got nothing on me. I'm doing nothing wrong. I'm being a citizen.

So, you know what I'm saying? That's why I'm brushing. It's not as hell, I'm sitting outside for no reason. You know what I'm saying? You really don't get it though. You don't get it. It's cool. I understand you're being epithetic.

I appreciate that, you know what I'm saying, but you don't get it, bro. I already know what it is. Hey, I'm black and fucking out here. That's what the issue is. Yeah. I get it. Ages agreeing to this almost seems like a joke. Even if this was a sarcastic comment,

it speaks volumes that this is something he feels comfortable joking about. If the cops let it go at this point, all might have been forgiven. Johnson was understanding and the female officer was polite, but they just decides he's not finished and moves in to arrest him. He's all for you know it's on film, right? How far you think this is going to go? Hope you don't shoot me in his back of his car or some shit. Because you got their fucking corrupt officers.

You're for sure corrupt as corrupt. Because I'm not supposed to be in the back of the car in the first place. Dege's searches, Johnson, then sits him in the back of his patrol car before taking him away to be charged. He also allegedly lied on his police report, saying that he observed Johnson smoking and that he took a fighting stance when he was approached. But Johnson wouldn't stand for this and decided to sue the city of La Mesa and Deges himself, citing excessive force and wrongful arrest. Around a month into the lawsuit, La Mesa agreed to pay a sum of $125,000 to Johnson. None of this money would come out of Dage's pocket, but he was swiftly fired from the La Mesa Police Department just two years after he joined.

Ashland Pluff, however, punched a black woman in the face, and her entire police department were just as bad and were all caught clearly on camera. You know, before they were by cameras, I wonder how many surges would just light this thing open, like empty this tank. Ashland's police department were dispatched to a house party in Toledo, Ohio. Guests at the house weren't causing a disturbance, and they didn't seem violent or rowdy whatsoever. So when the cops decided to move in to arrest them seemingly at random, it raised serious alarm bells. Hey, who lives here? Who's the owner I can talk to? Who lives here? He's ain't got nothing to do with us?

I'm asking who lives here. You do? All right, arrest him, him, him, and them too. Hey, don't you get to go in my house. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I ain't even do nothing. Dude.

What are you pushing me off the porch? Get on the ground. Go, stay back. Don't stay back. Failure disperts, everybody. The cop tells them that they're getting charges of failure to disperse. And in the state of Ohio, this charge can only be given out when the suspect's presence creates a high likelihood of physical harm or public inconvenience. In this scenario, the cop is clearly just looking for a way to get the guests and coughs.

All right, let's see, he has in the back of cars. Why? Why? Okay, I'll explain to you. I stood here and I told everybody to go in the house. Listen, are you going to let me explain or you're going to talk over me? I stood here. I told everybody in here, either go in the house or leave. After I said that, nobody moved. I said you're going to jail if you don't move. Nobody moved. The precise reason that nobody moved might be difficult for this cop to comprehend, but it's actually because he never asked anyone to go inside the house. He simply asked who lived there and then started arresting people.

It should also be noted that if this call, was for public disturbance, the commotion has increased dramatically since the police arrived, and it almost seems like they're the ones that caused it. But if you think the cops are about to stop there, you're dead wrong, as this officer decides to take out his weapon to threaten the residents. Guys, let's go! Time to move, let's go! Who else wants to do in jail?

Because you're about to go. Go! Go! Why don't you listen, just go home? I don't have patience. People go to jail. when I'm around. You know, before there was bi-camera, I wonder how many surges would just light this thing open, like, empty this tank.

These snarky remarks from the cop are frankly terrifying, as he's essentially admitting he'd open fire on everyone here if he had the opportunity. He's drunk on power, and he's not the only one. Ashland Pluff is also on the scene doing exactly the same thing, only her story ends in an even more violent manner. You're not walking back up to that house, turn back around. I don't care. No. No. You live here. Go.

Hell no. You're not here. Go then. You can't test. I can take her ass to jail. I don't give a f***. What I'm doing? Failure to disperse.

Get the f*** out now. Go! Tensions are clearly extremely high right now. However, what makes the following footage even crazier is that the girl we're about to meet is professional boxer O'Shea Jones, an Olympic level athlete who should be respected. and admired for her talents, but instead, she was assaulted, plain and simple. Back up! Go! Go! I'm asking for her! I don't care! Back up! I'm asking for his back!

I'm asking for his back! You heard that, okay? Give me a firm. Give me a phone. You can't do that to her phone. Back the f*** up! What is wrong with y'all? You can't do that to her phone! Back up! Okay, give me her phone. Okay, that's her phone, so she's got to keep it. Okay, let me give my phone. No, you're not giving your phone to anyone.

Breaking my wrist! Then stop moving. Hey, angry, calm down. You angry. She's angry. All I said, she squeezing my hands for no reason. When you quit fucking moving, stop fucking cussing that. She just hit me.

You all just hit me? I'm not. She just hit me. I'm up. Ma'am, bam, bam, ma'am, bam, ma'am. You just see that? You see that? I got, I got, I got it right here, right here.

She ain't just sitting in my cell. She's supposed to be an Olympic box. I am. I asked for your badge number. Mine, you were talking about mine, it's three-five. There's no way to justify this attack. O'Shea was surrounded by officers and restrained, and Ashland punched her for no reason other than anger and hatred.

However, unlike the officer from before, it seems that Ashland had completely failed to consider the fact that every cop here was equipped with a body cam, and she was in plain view of all of them. But in a tragic twist of fate, prosecutors found this use of force to be justified. They posit that O'Shea, Shea was resisting arrest, and the punch was a compliance technique.

Instead, she was verbally reprimanded for her use of profanity in the incident, but received no criminal charges. But there's no better example of racism than yelling racial slurs at a suspect, and that's what Officer Tim Garcia was caught doing on July 14, 2018. The suspect, Duane Robinson, was allegedly getting aggressive and confrontational with mall patrons using vulgar language and threatening them, After Robinson was asked to leave, he complied, but the guards continued to follow him and eventually detained him. They were like, you understand? I said, look, man, I went like that. I said, look, y'all already told me what it was.

I was like, I'm already walking up. So I tried to go back that way. I was like, I thought there was an exit. And they grabbed my bag. I said, look, man, don't grab my bag like that. All they had to tell me was like, look, sir, there's not an exit over you. And it was like, all right, we want you to exit tomorrow. I was like, look, man, I'm not about to exit tomorrow, bro. I said, look, I want the cops to come here and let y'all know to come. To recap, Robinson has basically said that he was confused why security asked him to leave, but he complied until they started to get physical with him. He then asked them to alert police to try and work everything out. But as it turns out, this would be a huge mistake.

The cop would soon turn out to be not just rude, but derogatory and insulting. My question to you is, if they tell you to leave the ball, you're going to leave them off? No, I didn't want to. I understand you don't want to. But if they tell you, are you going to leave them all? I'm not asking for what. Okay. They don't have to tell you.

If they don't want you here, you're not here. Okay? That makes no sense. Okay. Here's the deal. Now you're going to get argumentative with me. They won't put you in jail. I'll put you in jail.

Is it cool all that? Yeah. Okay, cool. You have your ID? Let me just get your information. I'll get their information. All right. Y'all take my information.

I feel like they're talking about they want to give you a criminal trespass. Yeah, they might give you a criminal trespass. But look, I didn't even did. Why y'all give you a criminal trespass? What you mean? What you mean they came? Two. No, okay, here's the deal.

I'm gonna ask you to do something, and tell you that I'm gonna make you. Let me go, bro. Go ahead and let you go, go. Stop fencing up. Yes, you were. You know what?

Now you're under arrest. What? Oh, go. You got a . Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.

Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down Now you're under arrest for criminal trespass After Robinson allegedly refused to hand over his ID The cops decided to arrest him

At this point, they have decent reason for this Robinson did refuse to leave the property when asked And if Garcia is to be believed He even took up an aggressive stance when he was asked To hand over his ID But that's not the important part That comes when Robinson is on the ground cuffed and helpless As the cops start to become more blunt and abusive

You say, look, give me ID So I was about to give us to you grass No, no, no No. You took it back. What do you mean, bro? It's all on camera. Dude, look how old I am.

You think I act back? I listened to all your stupid shit for like five minutes. Look, brother. And I said, you said, look, before I give you all my ID, can y'all tell me, like, why would I get a criminal trespass? And I told you, if you're not shopping here, they don't want you. All right, look. And they didn't even have criminal trespass.

You do now. Now you're going to jail. Do you have my arm, bro? I got your question. I'm not your fault. I'm nothing like that. I'm not sure. All I did was ask a question.

Right. And we asked your idea. And you're saying, look, can y'all tell me? All right. So, look, I'm about to give us. Disturbing the peace. Yeah. This is peaceful.

It was. We don't want to give us your arms. Man, that's what you were. The way you were raised is bull. Tell me how I'm right. I'm telling you how you raised. Well, you got me. Yeah, you are .

Police officers are supposed to do nothing other than protect the public and de-escalate escalate tense situations, but it seems that Garcia has absolutely no concern for his image whatsoever, as he decides to take it up a notch by using slurs and acting blatantly racist. Hey, here, here, look, there's a police, to the police, you, fucking you. How do you like that? Police said, say it right back to you. I, I, obviously, I don't. On camera, I'll say it.

Do I look like you own, uh? Well, I'm only three points. 3.4% African. What is it? What is it? I'm 3.4% sub-Saharan African. There you go. Say it right.

Put an R at the end. If you're going to say it, don't call me . Not only did the cop just say all of that completely unapologetically. He did it all right after acknowledging that he's happy to do it on camera just to prove a point. But he wasn't done yet. Why am I doing that? For being... Look, y'all just trying to speak, man.

I'm just trying to get it right. I'm trying to get it right. And you have put it to my . Where you want me to go, man? That way. Everything was going good. We had a, you and I had a good rapport. Yeah, y'all, y'all just talking about kids.

I'm trying to f***ing in. Your life, I think you, I think you, I think you f***ed your life up. I can do that. The verbal abuse should have been far more than enough. But once the cops got outside and close to their patrol cars, they decided it was also time to throw some physical abuse into the mix too, completely unwarranted.

What are you doing? Stop, I'm trying to take your shoes off. Just stop. Quit that kind of . Because I have to search you. All you do is behave. Why can't you just behave, dude? Why can't you just behave, dude?

Dude, you keep tensing up, you keep getting it. There you go. If you don't keep the back of my fucking feet, you'll... Because we've got to make sure you ain't got nothing in there. If you think it's unusual that the cops are taking Robinson's shoes off, you'd be completely right. He's being arrested for trespassing,

not a drug charge, not a weapons charge, and nothing dangerous whatsoever, especially when you realize that the cops didn't even search his shoes and forced him to walk on a hot pavement in the middle of July, barefoot. Hey, bro, can you stop harassing me? This all would have been over if you would have just handed me your ID. You pulled it out of your wallet.

You were fixing it, fixing to hand it to me, and then you pulled it back, and you just didn't want to cooperate, man. You had it. You were there. All you had to do is give me your ID. We're going to stand up. We're going to stand up.

Ready? One, two, three. You're not going to put my Yep You're not going to put my back in my motherfuck They're going to go with you They're going to get

Watch your head, watch it What you Robinson was brought back to jail on charges of trespassing and resisting But it's what happened to the officers After the event that was so interesting And gives us a clear window Into the corrupt insides

Of a police department An investigation was of course launched into Garcia and Garcia's sergeant wrote that he thought a written reprimand would be the appropriate punishment. According to him, Garcia didn't use the word in a racist manner or directed at anyone. He simply repeated the word back to Robinson. Two lieutenants also reviewed the incident, and they concurred with the recommendation of a letter of reprimand.

Thankfully, though, the deputy chief saw the footage and believed that the banter, escalation, and use of profanity was extremely unprofessional, and forwarded the incident to internal affairs for a formal investigation. Eventually, the video made its way to the San Antonio Police Chief who recommended an indefinite suspension for Garcia. He said it was by no means reprimandable conduct. This whole thing was as wrong as it can be. In a last ditch effort to defend himself, Garcia topped all his actions off with a final derogatory and insulting statement, claiming that all he did was use a similar language as a means of communicating his point,

repeating his language back in order to speak a vernacular he would understand. And in January of 2019, Garcia was indefinitely suspended from his role with the San Antonio Police Department.