Bodycam footage show Miami-Dade police director Freddy Ramirez was handcuffed and questioned by Tampa police hours before attempting suicide. WTVJ’s Kim Wynne reports.
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Sad….
Extremely interesting and informative.
His mental health needs have to be addressed. Hopefully he will be removed from duty if he is able to function moving forward. Death is a permanent thing. Hopefully he gets the help he needs.
Death is temporary in the grand scheme of the universe
@Osvaldo Rubalcava No, actually death is permanent.
Well he did pull the trigger probably like nothing
Dudes probably going to be eating crayons and wearing adult diapers for life. If he comes out of this without brain damage it’ll be a miracle.
The police are so incredibly useless.
Trash taking itself out 🙌 good riddance piggy
Hes playing frogger, he might make it. Oh noooo, Splat.
Too bad she lied to the cops at the hotel huh.
Shhhhh….we’re trying to make the man the villain here….
He could have been honest himself too…
@hello he as the one with the mental problem. She lied to the cops. I’m sure she feels the responsibility she holds.
Well this is exactly the type of level-headed sane person you would want to be in charge of the police.
@MrNiceGuy If Retail employees have to keep it together, I’m sure this guy could as well. Especially with his position. Stupid.
@noanyobiseniss7462 you’re just assuming he was always like this. Could be a new development. Most people never know what it takes to break them. People like you and I, for example. One day, that thing happens, and you’re like this fellow. Then people on YouTube who think they know it all say things like “whoa, these are the people in power?” It’s a really lazy way of thinking.
@MrNiceGuy Don’t want to and don’t care. He needs to be removed and thats it.
do you think you can do better?
@Meat Gravy Lard your comment was about worthless as spit
time for that Brittany Spears song……..TOXIC
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Florida…..
When covering up your police buddy goes horribly wrong smh
Exactly.
Yup, looks like she knew how to push his buttons.
Nope. He was crazy and the cops let him lose. All the cops fault for not properly doing their job
insecure men like you are so funny 😆
Swine..
Why can’t toxic couples just get down the road split all the junk and move on. 80% of people are nutso these days and abstract behaviors are just ignored and most counselors are just as nuts as everyone else trying to over sympathize criminal behavior.
Usually both parties go to jail for domestic violence, but some people are above the law.
The guy gets arrested 90% of the time
Yelling at each other is not considered domestic violence
@Bobby Ledgerbc men create 90% of the violence in the world.
@LL HLL Domestic disturbance
@Hugo Penaloza again having an argument is not domestic violence. Domestic disturbance can be anything. Neighbors yelling at each other etc. this was. not domestic violence. They said they were arguing.
Psych evaluations should be done on cops every 6 months. As much as they deal with on the job and have the stresses of family life, it’s necessary (as any cop would say) for their safety as well as our own.
@billythekidder7182 “Billy!”Billy!”Billy!”Billy! “Billy boy!”
Billy is the Aramaic word for “Dah!”
@Edelmira E Caballero I agree.
@T Bolton I’m on your side now.
@billythekidder7182 hey “Billy!” GO, have a bud!
Vaxxed jabbed and boosted
Poor aim 😂
Or a fake attempt. For attention.
Marital bliss
They should have taken him in. But you never know what someone will do though. Our police officers mental health needs to be more closely monitored
Now we have the real history…no cover up !
Cops arrested him but later they let him go !
What a negligence…
So we should just throw everyone in jail whether or not there’s any actual evidence just because? Or just because he’s a law enforcement officer? Your logic makes no sense.
@Melissa Connelly Jones …your stupidity makes no sense !
For less than that anyone can be thrown in jail !
When he said : I’m the Miami Police Director they let him go.
Magic words…
So don’t be such a sheeple.
He knows and saw horrible things that the police department are involved with and couldn’t handle working and being a part of the cover ups, so he wanted suicide.
You just make up things without any knowledge of facts.
No hes right, the miami dade department is under fire for horrific abuses of authority, incompetence in validation of intel, cronyism, blatant corruption, mishandling of evidence, racial discrimination, witness intimidadation, excessive use of force, & maintaining a pattern of unaccountable & harmful behavior thats akin to spitting on the constitution they swore to uphold and protect. Theres also cliques and small gangs in metro. Not all are bad. However their existence itself leaves room for potential wrong doing. The department down in miami is poisoned. I dont know if anyone out there is capable of fixing it.
@ViciousVice that’s very interesting and I didn’t know about all that but the original comment doesn’t know why he killed himself. Speculation is dangerous and hurtful. We may never know why he did what he did but guessing isn’t knowledge.
😢us 2😢
1:15 so he got out the car on to the highway?!?!
1:47 but the gun is inside on the console?!?!
2:25 so he awake enough, after a point blank gunshot wound to his head, to overpower the wife from administering first aid?!?!
I told you this is fisher than a bulk case of “chicken of the sea” inside the pantry of the sunken Titanic… I’m going tell you like Howie Mandell told me “🎶Fish don’t stink🎵 Underwater the fish don’t stink 🎶” and… we are not underwater… so I can smell it whenever it’s fishy…
This is wild, so is he dead, yall said he shot himself in the head? But she says he wont let me help him, so he survived?
Such a bizarre story…doesn’t add up.
Which something usual of law enforcement to happening such things as anything as humans
He’s a victim of mental emotional abuse. But it cannot be considered.
Oh my, a reasonable outlook! Yes, although many of the commenters on this video seem to want to place blame on the man because….well….he’s a man, and therefore the villain. Yet, there is a chance that the woman was being verbally abusive to the man (she was the one intoxicated, whereas he was not). There is the possibility that the woman simply degraded him until he attempted suicide.
@Braylon Maverickwitnesses said they were both screaming at each other.
soldiers, cops are prone to trauma they should check them!
Cool beans
**whisper voice** “This is the part when you call Mayor Eric Adams to make fun of him and tell him shame on the NYPD” bwahaha
I AM THE MASTER!!!
I AM THE PRINCE OF THE UNIVERSE!!!
What’s wrong with the drinking water in Florida? Everyone there is Crazy.
Cop cant even end himself. You would think he would know where to aim. Wife looks like a skeleton. FloriDUH!
BOTH NUTCASES !
So bc she lied to cops that prevented him getting the help he prolly needed 🤦♂️
Nobody can possibly know the whole situation but I think going through the humiliation of being detained and handcuffed contributed to his suicidal feelings. Law enforcement interventions, while obviously necessary at times, often can only add to the stress, frustration and humiliation of a challenging situation and I think frankly we need to figure out better and calmer ways to intervene in nonviolent conflicts.
It makes regular people feel that way too.
@hellostop making sense. Your lucidity is galling.
Suicide is extremely violent. Perhaps more violent than murder.
Example of a woman getting drunk and and complaining and creating problems
Everything is mechanical in your country. Including the brain. So it doesn’t have logic or feeling. Been there seen that.
Sounds political. What’s the use of even working it out in toxic marriage. They are just surprised of being caught and someone or everyone knew their marriage had problems. Their closest enemies was just waiting for an opportunity and they got it. Again, why be in a relationship that’s always toxic.
Bet the family appreciates this.
Why did they let him go?
Was it his service weapon or was it a private one?
He shouldn’t have access to firearms.
I believe that “wife” is a narcist of a woman. She might have caused him to shoot himself!
Cops helping cops
If you won’t do it they will make you want to commit suicide they play so many mind games that while you’re sleeping and trying to recover to go to work did devising how to ruin your life don’t marry a woman in the United States of America go to another country find a decent woman and with a family and guess what that’s what you do when you have over there and you retire over there you cannot find women in the United States that basically men they run the country
They should have admitted him to the hospital. If people said he threatened using a gun then officers should have taken that seriously. People wouldn’t lie about that .
People wouldn’t lie about that? You must jest. You can’t possibly be that naïve.
Will she be charged with aiding his death 🤔
I’ am angry at the balls of this guy to do that with his wife there! Coward!!! Absolute Coward! People may get mad at my comment. And if that’s the case be it. Anyone that commits suicide is a coward. Don’t give me a song in dance about they are in pain or they have Mental health issues. I’ am dealing with the Metal health aspect 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I’ am trying to keep a person alive that knows better. And it has been stated not on my watch. But they have tried and worse. Which I don’t want to give out details. People around them their loved one’s and friends or relatives. Need to realize if it does happen it is not your fault that it happened but the person who did it. And if you are mad at the world or yourself take a break it’s not that bad. Life is great and all you need to do is reach out and talk to someone. Because when your dead, dead is dead there’s no talking anymore. If given the change to look down from heaven or wherever you go. You’d say how stupid you were to do it.
Im not a police officer, taking you’re own is NEVER the answer. Please for others, seek help for your sake and your families. I’m Manic depressive and on Disability for it so i struggle with depression myself.
1 less pig to worry about …..exellent
Why didn’t they take the gun of him… for good… far too dangerous for psychologic instable people to have weapons… very devastating for his wife aswell… very sad
mental health care is woke
What if she seen the chance and took her shot
I bet she shot him
It’s the wife’s fault, lock her up for being a 304🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
He was such a freak.
Being detained law enforcement or not nothing to be embarrassed about, a couple having a alcohol fuel argument happens to all of us. On the officers part think more to iit. But its their personal business not our.
Good..
Never push the buttons of an unhinged person. Why people continue to do so, is plain crazy, especially troubled couples who argue, and fight more like siblings, or kids on an, improperly, supervised, Elementary playground, than anything else.
Kinda makes me wonder if that’s what his wife was angling for…
Bro, your energy is infectious. Can’t help but get pumped up! 🤘
The stress of dealing with his wife got to him. Men suffer in silence
Toxic couple
Don’t need psycho cops carrying guns in the public.
If you believe in God, pray for him and his family. If you don’t, then just wish them the best. These snarky, judgmental, holier than thou comments are completely unnecessary. EVERYBODY is going through SOMETHING. And we don’t even know the whole story. Life can be SUPER difficult. Why would we judge a stranger?
Pushed his buttons all the way to the end.
i’m assuming he survived l…
Why can someone not take their own life and leave everybody else alone do people understand that they are pain worse than death, take for instinct chronicle cancer or other kinds of’ pain, nobody knows what someone’s going through with so much pain and what happened to them, if it happens to them there might have a change of heart who the heck wants to keep on suffering I’m a person that has been shot stabbed beating almost to death, and none of that is as painful as some physical pain it’s funny when people say you took the coward way out , most people they find themselves in the situation that they can bear the pain they’ll do the same thing
KEEP SINGLE, ENJOY THE LIFE, GO TO VACATION ALONE, DANCE, WHY COMPLCATE MY LIFE WITH SOMEONE, NEVERRR.
vile woman
Jesus Christ coming repent John 3 vs 16
Amen
What if she shot him ?
Especially since the weapon was found on the console afterwards.
You never know.
Honestly only thing shocking here is that he didn’t try to off HER first. That’s usually how it goes.
He did it to himself. His body his choice.
She definitely knew how to push his buttons. There’s more to the story.
she probably wanted a divorce so he shot himself.
❤❤He killed himself because he didn’t want to be held accountable and getting his “jacket” torn (removed from being a cop) by his fellow officers for Domestic Violence, he even played the “I am the director of Miami-Dande” he did it because he didn’t want to loose power on the job. Glad this psycho took him self out . ❤
Regardless of whether or not it was “accidental,” “negligent” or “self inflicted” don’t give him back his gun and badge. And also, when an independent panel will begin investigating law enforcement domestic violence cases? Police can’t investigate police, it has been proven. DO NOT let the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) aka Police union to get near his wife, they will try to persuade her to give different statement or story!!
Shes just as guilty for the emotional abuse as him. I bet thats half the reason he killed himself.
You’re going to carry this weight.
He had had enough of her drunken verbal abuse that he attempted to take his own life?
Selfish. You sure showed her huh? Your parting gift to the world is another gun ptsd victim. I hope she marrys her yoga instructor.
What kind of bot name is intheshell35ify. Go back to Russia, troll.
there is no such thing as mental health it does not exist.
It shouldn’t matter WHO you are your job your position your title your gender both parties should be immediately separated detained for a period of no less than 24 hrs.. Had that been done this officer might still be alive. We’ve learned nothing from what happened with Gabby P & Brian L
She killed him
I felt sorry for the man
I have had 3 suicide attempts. I must say that my anger and depression are not the problem… it is what is causing the anger and depression….ie toxic people. Stay away from people who make you feel that you are hard to love and you will feel better, I promise.
Thank you
Glad you survived. Always know youre worth living.
Freak show.
gun loving Republican cops
WHAT!!!
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$1000 says she pushed him to do it probably berated him.
When the blueline gang cover up domestic violence by their blue brother ends badly.
This is what happens when cops look the other way to help fellow cops avoid accountability.
I think that anyone who shows signs of suicidal tendencies or have mentioned or attempted suicide should be held for 72 hours. Just because he was some police official, should not have been the reason why they let him go home.
I blame his wife
Ok
Ohh sad!
At least the 🐷 offed himself instead of someone else. Ummm 🥓
Sad ❤
This is ine case where Justice is actually served. FTP
Plano Tx police did that to me after they had two racist white confidential informants spray paint a stairwell and the mgr was instructed to blame me PS They just threw a rock at my wall for posting this
Such ignorance. ALCOHOL is the cause of all problems.