An officer asks a man in a blue car for his name. The man asks what he did. The officer asks again and the man asks what the problem is. Then the order comes, step out of the car, and it comes four more times before anyone moves.
That window is where this stop should have ended, and it is where a chase, a police dog and nearly two minutes of fighting began instead. By the time the cuffs went on, the drunk in the car was not the only man on the tape with a legal problem.
You are going to see how it happened, in order, and where a fight is supposed to end.
The Setup
The tape is Sterling Heights, Michigan, before dawn on Sunday, February 25, 2024. At 0:47 the narrator lays it out: a 911 call from a young girl saying her mother had been assaulted. When dispatch asked whether the man responsible would fight the police, the girl said maybe.
The man is 36-year-old Gary Young, the woman’s boyfriend and the father of her child, named on the tape at 1:50. He had been drinking. He left in a blue car before the officers arrived, and he came back past the house while they were still inside it.
The footage comes from the officers’ body cameras and the chase cars, and the source channel says most of it had never been seen before. Everyone charged is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and the tape is careful to say so. I am going to be careful to say so too, because by the end the presumption cuts in more than one direction.
This is not a story about a bad man. It is a case study in a decision every driver, every armed citizen and every family with a drinker in the house will face. The decision is where the fight ends, and it gets made before the fight starts or it gets made for you.
I walk the tape in one pass in the episode, pausing six times. Here I walk it in four moves, because the page can put two moments side by side and let you see they are the same moment.
The Walk-Through
A child answered maybe
The officers walk into the house at 1:04 and the story comes out in pieces. She was asleep on the couch. He came at her, tore her shirt, hit her in the nose, and at 1:59 she says he put a hand on her throat.
The officer’s questions come in a fixed order. One hand or two, did you lose the ability to breathe, were you in fear for your life. He is not making conversation, he is deciding what he is writing this up as. At 2:25 he asks whether the whole thing started because the man wanted sex and did not get it.
Nobody in that house is the lesson.
The lesson is the girl. A child picked up a phone at three in the morning and answered a question about her father honestly, and the answer was maybe. She had decided where this ended before any adult in the house had, and she was right.
If there is a drinker in your house who gets violent, the call gets made. It ends up on a tape, and it is still the right call.
The stop was over at the window
A K9 officer sees a blue car pass the house that matches the description, follows it, and lights it up in an apartment lot. Nothing about that is hard yet. The driver pulls over.
Then the window. At 2:59 the officers start asking for hands out the window, and they keep asking. Put your hands out the window, quit reaching around, what were you stuffing down there. Every command is the same command, and every answer is a question.
What did I do, what is the problem, for what.
That is not confusion. A man who just drove away from a domestic call knows what the problem is. He is buying seconds, and he is spending them reaching under the seat, the one thing a cop at a window cannot let a man do. At 3:40 you can hear an officer say out loud that this is going to turn into a chase.
Then it does. At 4:07 the car lunges out of the stop, over the stop sticks, a few feet from an officer who says he just tried to hit one of us. Ninety on a flat, and a turn signal, of all things. Two more tires gone on the I-94 ramp at 6:39.
The turn signal is the tell. Drunk, on the rim, with a K9 unit behind him, some part of his brain was still driving to the rules. Alcohol leaves the habits and takes the man who is supposed to be running them.
A name, an ID and two hands on the wheel end this stop in ninety seconds. Every second under that seat and every mile after it was a decision he could have ended with a brake pedal. Every one of them was a fresh page in the report.
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Where the fight is supposed to end
The chase ends after thirteen miles. What starts at 6:55 is the part of the tape the state is now prosecuting, and the part every armed citizen needs to watch twice.
Guns come out. Put your hands up, I will shoot you. The dog goes in and the word taser gets shouted again and again. Behind your back, get him, get him, get him.
At 7:40 an officer yells that the man just kicked him in the head. It is nearly two minutes from the first command before the narrator can say the suspect is in cuffs.
He fought that stop for two minutes with a dog on his hip, and he was never going to win one second of it.
Now the hard part, and I am going to say it plainly because the episode leaves you to arrive at it on your own. Force is justified while the threat is live, and it stops being justified the moment the other man quits. Nobody hands you a whistle. You call your own stop line, in the dark, with your hands shaking, and a camera calls it again later for everyone.
The Michigan Attorney General looked at this exact stretch of tape and alleged that the dog went on a man who was already on the ground and surrounded. The K9 officer, on the tape at 10:08, says everyone backed off and he put the dog on because the man was not giving up. Both of those can be what each man saw. That is the whole problem with a stop line, it is invisible from inside the fight.
Where the fight ends is decided before it starts, or a courtroom decides it for you, and this tape ended in two courtrooms.
Here is the same point from the other side of the cuffs. At 11:43, on the ride to jail, an officer tells him what a stop line would have cost. You could have told us your side of the story, but instead you ran, then you resisted, then you assaulted an officer. The domestic violence charge was the misdemeanor, and everything after the window was a felony he added himself.
That is the decision. Not whether to fight, since everybody on this tape was willing to, but when to stop. The drunk never found the line, and a court is going to decide whether the officers did. The only person on the tape who set hers in advance was a child with a phone.
The bill came twice
The aftermath is quieter and it teaches. At 8:27 the officers check on each other, and one thinks he broke his hand. The suspect is complaining about a bite on his hip and probes in his side.
He is told what he is under arrest for. At 11:00 the search of a car not registered to him turns up pepper spray and a bottle of some liquid.
Every time you drive somebody else’s car, you are driving whatever is in it.
Listen to what he argues about on the ride in. Not the chase, not the kick, the dog. At 12:17 he says they knew the dog was crazy. A man who cannot see his own hand in an outcome finds the one thing on the scene that was not his fault and builds his story on it.
The jail is told his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit, and it is decided he goes to the hospital to have the bite checked.
Here is what the tape says happened. Gary Young was charged with eight counts and pled guilty to three, fleeing and eluding, operating while intoxicated and resisting arrest. The other charges were dismissed. He got 30 days in jail, impulse control classes, 60 days of community service and three years of probation.
Then the second bill, reported at 14:18 on the tape. In October 2024 the Michigan Attorney General charged both officers, James Sribniak and Jack Currie, with misconduct in public office and assault with a dangerous weapon. The state says the dog went on a man already on the ground and surrounded. Their cases are still ongoing, so every word of that is an allegation. [OUTSIDE FACT: officer name spellings per Michigan Attorney General press release, 2025-09-19]
Two courtrooms out of one traffic stop. A court will decide the second case, but the first was decided at a car window in the dark, and that one is the decision every driver gets to make.
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What Drivers Do With This
1. Your hands are the whole conversation. Next stop, both hands at the top of the wheel before the officer reaches your window, and they stay there until you are asked to move. Second movement.
2. Anything under the seat reads as a gun. Tonight, move your registration and insurance to the visor or the door pocket. You never dig below the seat line on a stop.
3. A name and an ID end a stop. Refusal starts one. Write down the four things you will say at a window, name, license, where the paperwork is, and nothing else. Say them twice this week.
4. Stop driving on a bad night. Decide now who you call for a ride after a fight or a drink, and put that number on your lock screen. First movement, before the officers arrive.
5. Know what is in the car you are driving. This week, empty the console and door pockets of every car you drive. Do not borrow a car whose owner you would not vouch for.
6. Your fight is over when the threat stops. Pick the words that stop you, he is down, I am done, and say them out loud three times this week. Third movement, the centerpiece.
7. Win in the courtroom, not on the curb. Pick the lawyer you would call before you need one, and put the number on a card in the glove box. Fourth movement, the ride in.
Close
If this article made you put your registration on the visor tonight, good.
Every fight has a stop line, and the men on this tape are answering for where they drew theirs. Decide yours before the blue lights, before the drink, before the other man quits.
Thank God a child in that house knew when to pick up the phone.
Bodycam source footage: Code Blue Cam
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Godspeed ,
Chris Heaven, Founder
Survival Dispatch TV
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