Fallen Officer

Welcome to 30 series podcast. My name is Officer India. I was a street police officer in Detroit police and I was then inducted to a specialized unit named 30 series. We handled high felony crime, paranormal activity and demonic possession. The stories you've heard and are about to hear are stories from my journal and my life of 30 series. The story that I'm getting ready to dive into I call Fallen Officer and it's pretty personal. It's very close to home and the Fallen Officer that

I'm talking about was part of our 30 series team. I actually worked with him for a little over six years and we became really close, really basically blood and that whole time when I was serving with him there was a secret that I wasn't even aware of nor was I ever privy to until one day he decided to kill himself with his service revolver. Now I want you to be jump man on this story and jump man is

what we call a person in the car. Somebody that jumps out when we're chasing somebody, a person taking the report, a person being affected just as much as a driver in that unit. Now picture this. You are indigent to a specialized unit named 30 series. You're a swore to secrecy and before you hit the pavement they put you in a basement

and this basement I can't disclose where it's at but it's in Detroit. It's an abandoned building and it's falling apart and when you go inside this abandoned building you see this abandoned building is not so abandoned. It's actually fixed up and it's a base. It's home base. It's the chapel is what we called it. The chapel is hidden from prying eyes and it's guarded very,

very heavily and now once you're in the chapel you are then led to a room. This room is no different than any other meeting room that you've probably seen in your life in your sat-down and you watch video recordings from old VCR sort of real the real film of demonic exorcisms being performed by the Vatican and everyone in that room is looking around trying to make sense. Why are we watching this?

And then the commander walks in who we've all had some sort of connection with and starts to explain that these are the kind of cases that we're going to be handling.

I open right? You got to be kidding me right? This is only on movies and TV shows. I mean I've experienced my fairer things of paranormal activity when I was growing up because my father who was estranged to me all my life he he dabbled in the dark voodoo practices and that's one of the reasons why my mother loved him and so to see this as a full grown adult it's pretty mind-blowing.

As I explained earlier there's five of us four men and one female. A female in the team she was just like one of the guys she would go toe to toe with the best of them and if you had to get in the fist fight or a gunfight she was right there she didn't high tail it out of there.

As of my experience I've had a female officer partners prior to joining 30 series who literally would run away from the situation and I even had one after a firefight decide that this is not the job she signed up for but again it is Detroit.

So the fallen officer's name is TJ and TJ was a good looking guy African American male and he resembled things I watched him a lot and what I mean by that is that he had no problem picking any woman in the club or bar they would actually flock to him like a mock to a flame and it is very well spoken very well decorated and very much caring but TJ got fucked with a lot when we would run into these demonic possessed people they always targeted their

attacks at him and we couldn't figure it out and we didn't know because he didn't tell us and it's just one of those crosses that he carried that we weren't aware of and I wish we were maybe we could have done something different maybe we could have been there more for him maybe we could have talked him out of it a whole bunch of what if what if what ifs I really don't know I thought we were close enough that he would have told me but I didn't find that out later and so the story goes

we dealt with this demonic possession where this young teenage girl she couldn't have been more than 16 years old she locked herself in the upstairs attic of the house in Detroit and her mother called us and we went there thinking it was just a simple domestic violence which we don't normally attend to but since we were around the corner why not because Detroit receives a lot of runs and cases like this sort of gets overlooked or not even dealt with and I figured why not we're around

the corner let's go check it out and we arrive talk to the mother and she has scratches on her face and her arm and there's just something heavy as I explain when you know there's something evil in the house and it also has that smell of sulfur it's just so distinct as I said before if you've ever seen a dead body or a smelt one you'll never forget that smell a lot with demonic cases it has that sulfur smell that you always remember and you might not smell it for years and then one day you get

that whiff and you're like I know what that is and it brings you right back to that moment it had that and so I said ma'am where's your child she says she's upstairs in the attic and I said attic she was well we converted our attic into a bedroom and she's up there that's where she stays and so we went upstairs and just kind of draw a picture of you it's dead heat of summer in Detroit this house is probably built in the 1960s so it doesn't have any air condition whatsoever the only area you're

gonna get out of this house is probably the fans that are stuck into the window seals or they're circulating fan that's on top of the ceiling and it all it does is probably gonna wash around hot air there's no way it's really getting cool but we went into that attic it was no different than walking into a freezer and that door didn't open up first because it was just locked tight and then it finally came open and we all walked in and the second that we walked into that room

we already knew that oh fuck here we go here it is so we made contact and it's very subtle because again it's a kid and we have a role about kids and women right we explained that earlier and so the last thing we want to do is hurt a kid and I ask what is your name and the little girl tells me her name and I go no what is your name because I know you're here and then she starts to rock on the bed now the room gets colder we see the breath in front of our lungs or our face I should say

and it starts fogging up a little bit because it's getting that cold

and I have a st. Michael's charm always there was blast by the pope and I take it out and the kid stops rocking on the bed and looks at me and she gives me this very very chilly look and says in the man's voice why have you brought that here and I said this child is a child of God you have no control over her I command you to release her and then the little girl starts to rock again and the demon in man's voices not before I'm done doing what I need to do

and when it says something like that I'm thinking it's going to cause this kid to hurt itself or hurt one of us and you know I want you to picture that it's 1990 and the only form of weapons that we have are guns knives pr-24s and mace and after that it's cuffs and fists and feet so we just didn't know the direction that was going to go and it looks past me it looks past two other officers and it beads on tj and says I'm here to talk about you and your hidden skeletons in the

closet you think you can exercise me you you know use that word which I don't want to use and we were all like in our minds thinking you kidding me tj gets more ass and everybody else in this room put together that's just another assault that it's doing and then it starts to tune into tj and tuning into him so much he starts talking about how he likes men and it's no surprise to us because we know that these entities like to use different trickery to sort of throw you off from

trying to exercise it from that person and it starts laying on him and it said something just made tj leave the room and that thing said do you think god will forgive you for what you've done do you think god is here with you do you think god makes mistakes and he says it again do you think god makes mistakes and tj exits the room and then he turns his attack on someone else saying different things about fornication and we had enough of

her mouth and we all rushed her at one time and it took four of us and we finally subdued her and conveyed her to the Detroit receiving hospital and in the basement the Detroit receiving hospital is a mental ward and that mental ward is where they perform exorcisms and this is the first time me disclosing this because I think it's important for you to understand that this thing is still happening but to get back to what I was telling you this kid gets the exorcism performed on her

because we all validate that this person indeed is possessed and again we don't have the power to perform the right passage because we all sin constantly whether it's causing or hating wanting and needing it uses it against us in so many ways and for some reason after years and years of dealing with these things I think tj just had the last straw that broke the camel's back and I remember um leaving the hospital and the unit just feels drained

as I explained before anytime you deal with these entities it drains the life force out of you you just feel so exhausted and so there's a few of us that headed back to the chapel but I knew that something was heavy on tj's mind and I stood back and I'm like hey you all right and he was like yeah yeah I just can never get used to these things and I I didn't see it you know I just know that we all had our challenges and continued to have our

challenges but um that night I wish I was keep keyed in a little bit better maybe I could have stopped tj from killing itself I don't know but um I remember him telling me yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna take some uh court time and what court time is is um there's times where instead of getting paid overtime you get court time and you build your court time hours and if you have enough hours you can kind of take them as a leave of absence but paid or if you build it up

to like 200 hours and you get this big check after 200 hours that they cut you out because you could only build it up to like 200 hours and he said I'm gonna take some court time for the rest of the day and to sort of get back on the saddle tomorrow and I was like all right I get it I mean because I've I've have taken court time cop time a few times just sort of recompose myself and get my bearings again um because we're not only attacked on the job but sometimes it comes home

to you right so the day comes to an end as normal I um hold myself a tall glass of wine and kick my shoes off pet my dog and kiss my girlfriend who's my wife now and sort of meditate and think about the day in front of my fireplace because I always burn fire the fire in the fireplace because it's one of my things that I love to do it's the way to um sort of get back to myself and I fall asleep and then the phone rings in the house and it startles me and jump up and I see the time on

the wall because I have a big picture uh clock on the wall and it's 3 20 a.m. in the morning now the witch an hour right three in the morning it's not a thing and fuck is that a real phone call or is that thing fucking with me and so I go to the kitchen down the hallway and I answer the phone and I hear dead silence and I go who is it and then I hear the commander's voice you need to get to the chapel tj killed himself and I doubt it and I go stop fucking with me and he said no tj killed himself

and so I lose it I recompose myself and take my unmarked police unit to the chapel where I see the rest of the team in tears and it's my confirmation that that phone call was real and but LT said it's he goes up and we still didn't know and you're probably wondering what we did now we ended up finding out that tj was gay he hit it first hit it from everybody I never saw it coming because I would see him leave women and women would flock to him like

moths to flames and I never suspected it I didn't see it coming we only found out because at the eulogy the person that he was in a relationship with who's I'm still in contact still to this day um he made that announcement and he didn't know what jade what tj was um into because again we hide the secrets from our families and loved ones and now this the corner will go out and he'll understand why he wasn't even able to disclose things and I hope it brings him peace

and I hope that he has his way to happen because he helped many people and looking back at it it really affected the team because whether what your beliefs are being gay or not gay it it doesn't matter tj was human he was my friend he was a partner we spilled blood in the same mud and I will honor him and continue to honor him I support his lover when he needs it when he calls up on there because that's what we're supposed to do for fallen officers be there at all times and

some day that doesn't go by then I don't think about him and think about what I could have done differently and um can't imagine the horror he went through on a day by day basis I mean we all went through it but his had to be elevated because the whole timing he was probably questioning his reality can you imagine that you are told that the devil doesn't exist and that god is fake and now you're face to face with it and you're like fuck am I wrong for being who I am I don't think you are

I don't think God makes mistakes you are who you are because he made you the way you are I miss you tj rest in peace again thank you for supporting my podcast there'll be more to come