00:00And now for our third triple play, Sean Larkin, take it away.
00:04Our last one this weekend, guys, comes to us from one of the departments we actually ride with,
00:09the Clayton County Sheriff's Office in Georgia, and a deputy that we have seen many times before
00:14here, Deputy Bryant Ferguson, who happens to be a trained crisis negotiator. And let's just say,
00:21several weeks ago, that training was definitely put to the test.
00:29119, I need you to hold traffic. He's standing on the damn railing. I need 75 north shut down right
00:35now.
00:36Clayton County Deputy Bryant Ferguson is responding to multiple reports of a woman
00:41who's threatening to jump off a highway overpass.
00:44And there she is, high above I-75.
00:49Come here, ma'am. Talk to me. I'm a negotiator. Talk to me, okay?
00:59What's your name?
01:01Tanisha.
01:02Tanisha, I'm Bryant, okay?
01:04Deputy Ferguson begins inching his way towards the young woman.
01:08What's going on?
01:09Everything. Nobody here for me.
01:12Who's not here? Who's not here for you?
01:14My family, everybody. My friend, everybody.
01:19On my way is a problem to everybody.
01:22119. I need 75 north shut down now.
01:29Tanisha.
01:29Oh, we're trying to get to you.
01:31Tanisha, look at me. Look at me, okay? Look at me. Breathe. Breathe, okay?
01:36Hey, Tanisha, Tanisha.
01:38She begins walking away from the deputy.
01:40Tanisha, look at me. Look at me. Look, focus on me, okay?
01:44I'm tired. Okay.
01:46You understand when you're tired?
01:48Okay.
01:49Everybody look at you to be just so strong.
01:53Right. Do you have kids?
01:54No.
01:55Okay.
01:55That's my sister.
01:57Okay. Look at me. Hey, hey. Tanisha, look. Hey, hey.
02:00Tanisha, look at me.
02:01No.
02:02What am I here?
02:02Look at me.
02:04Look at me.
02:04I'm here. Nobody here.
02:06I'm here. Look at me, okay?
02:13Look at me. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
02:18Stop.
02:18Stop right here.
02:19I need 75 north shut down right now. Old Dixie, right now.
02:23Deputy Ferguson continues to move closer to the young woman.
02:27Don't come no. No.
02:29Okay. I'll stop right here. I'll stop right here.
02:32Don't come no more. I'll jump.
02:33Okay. I'm right here. Talk.
02:36Okay. I'm right here. Listen. Look at me. Look at me. Okay.
02:41No more. No more. No more. No more.
02:44No more.
02:46Hey, look at me. Look at me. It's okay. Look at me. It's okay.
02:51I'm right here. Tanisha, look at me. I'm right here.
02:54Is that my sister?
02:56What is your sister's name? What's your sister's name? Talk to me.
02:59I'm right here. I'm right here. What's wrong? Hold my hand. Hold my hand.
03:02No.
03:03I'm here.
03:04No. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.
03:05No, listen to me, listen to me, because I care, I care about you, okay?
03:11I love you, okay?
03:13Don't nobody else do?
03:14I love you.
03:15So why can't I?
03:16I love you, okay?
03:17I love you.
03:18My birthday is Thursday.
03:20Thursday.
03:20I've been 30 years old.
03:2230 years old?
03:24Tanisha, I want to see you for your birthday.
03:26Can I see you for your birthday?
03:26I ain't gonna see me.
03:28I need you to keep looking at me, okay?
03:30No, you're okay.
03:31You're okay.
03:32You're okay.
03:33I got you.
03:33I got you.
03:34I promise.
03:35Deputy Ferguson reaches down and takes her by the hand.
03:39I need another hand, okay?
03:40I need another hand.
03:41Come here.
03:41We got you, okay?
03:42I promise.
03:43I promise.
03:44I promise.
03:45I got you, okay?
03:46I got you.
03:48I got you.
03:49I got you.
03:50I got you.
03:51I got you.
03:52I got you, okay?
03:53You're okay.
03:53I got you, okay?
03:54You're okay.
03:55You're okay.
03:56Unbelievable work by Deputy Ferguson, and now the woman was taken to a nearby hospital for
04:01a mental health evaluation.
04:02Oh, wow, man.
04:04I'm like.
04:04Yeah.
04:05Big time.
04:06Yeah.
04:07But you got to see, right, what we talk about all the time, communication.
04:09And these CITs and these crisis negotiators, they're fantastic at what they do.
04:14And it's all in the power of communication.
04:16That's a superpower.
04:17That's a superpower.
04:18The way that Ferguson handled himself.
04:20I made it.
04:20Yep.
04:21Amazing.
04:22Yeah.
04:22Life saved, man.
04:23All right.
04:24Well, hopefully.
04:25Because we do follow Clayton County, maybe we'll be able to get an update on Tanisha.
04:29Yeah.
04:29That would be wonderful.
04:31Outstanding.
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