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IT'S A TACTIC USED BY
POLICE WITH PEOPLE FACING
CHARGES.
IF THEY TURN IN GUNS THEY MAY
GET LENIENCE.
CBS2 INVESTIGATOR HAS THIS
STORY.
Reporter: WE NEED SOME GUNS,
YOU COME UP WITH GUNS OR YOU ARE
GOING TO JAIL.
SHE SAYS THE DEPUTY MADE THE
THREAT AFTER FINDING CRACK
*** IN HER POCKET AFTER A
VIOLATION ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
SHE TOLD ME THE POLICE HAD
HER AND THEY WANTED GUNS TO
RELEASE HER.
SHE SPENT 13 HOURS WHILE HER
MOTHER TRIED TO FIND GUNS.
SHE BROUGHT THIS ONE FROM A
DEALER ON THE STREET FOR $500.
AS INSTRUCTED SHE REPORTED HER
PROGRESS TO ADAM MURPHY ON HER
CELLPHONE AND SAVED THE TEXT ON
HER CELLPHONE.
YOU HAVE ALL THREE, I WAS
TOLD TO FIND ONE.
THE DEAL WAS THREE, TWO FOUR
YOUR DAUGHTER.
YOU NEED THOSE TO RELEASE
JASMINE.
THEY LITERALLY SENT YOU OUT
TO BUY GUNS?
YES.
SHE BOUGHT THE SECOND ONE FOR
500.
OTHERSHE SAID YOUR MOM REALLY
LOVES
YOU.
SHE CAME OUT WITH THE GUNS.
MAKING ME GO OUT IN THE
STREETS TALKING TO PEOPLE ABOUT
THIS TAKING MY MORTGAGE MONEY TO
PAY FOR GUNS.
THAT'S WRONG.
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
EXTORTED MY CLIENTS AND HELD
THEM RANSOM UNLESS THE FAMILY
OBTAINED FIREARMS SO YASMIN CAN
BE RELEASED.
IT WAS JASMINE WHO SAID, IF I
FIND GUNS WILL YOU LET ME GO.
I THINK CERTAINLY WITH THE
VIOLENCE THAT IS TAKING LIVES,
THEY CERTAINLY HAVE THE
AUTHORITY TO SAY, WE ARE GOING
TO FOCUS ON GETTING GUNS OFF THE
STREET RATHER THAN THE GUN CASE.
JASMINE DENIES SHE IN
INSTIGATED THE GUNS FOR
LENIENCE.
THE INVESTIGATION IS NOW UNDER
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE OF
PROFESSIONAL REVIEW.
OFFICER MURPHY DECLINED TO
COMMENT.
IF THE OFFICER PROPOSE TO OR
AGREED TO IT THEY ARE PUTTING
PEOPLE IN A VERY DANGEROUS
SITUATION TO HAVE THEM GO OUT TO
GET THE GUNS.
THIS IS A MOTHER WHO HAD THE
GUNS AND SHE WAS SCARED OUT ON
THE STREET TRYING TO FIND