Abusive Wife Gets A Brutal Reality Check After Playing The Victim

[00:00:00]On July 29th, 2025, officers responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment in Chicago, Illinois. What started as a dispute over suspected cheating allegedly escalated into a physical altercation leaving both individuals with visible injuries including scratches, bite marks, and other wounds.

[00:00:21]>> Chicago Police.

[00:00:23]>> Hey, what's going on, boss?

[00:00:24]>> Yeah, just stay here with me. Stay stay right there. Just you just stay right here, okay?

[00:00:28]>> Okay.

[00:00:29]>> Just stay right here. Keep this door open for me, okay?

[00:00:32]Keep this door open for me. All right.

[00:00:35]>> All right, boss.

[00:00:36]I'm going to stay right here, okay?

[00:00:40]Just stay here. We're going to get everything figured out. All right. Just stay right there for me.

[00:00:46]Okay.

[00:00:47]Wait for my partner to get here. He'll come out. He'll talk with you, okay?

[00:00:50]>> That's fine.

[00:00:51]>> Can you just stay with her, please?

[00:00:54]>> Hello.

[00:00:54]>> All right, boss. We're going to take a walk downstairs, okay? That way we're a little bit further away, all right?

[00:00:59]Come on.

[00:01:01]What's going on here today?

[00:01:03]>> Okay.

[00:01:05]>> What's going on?

[00:01:07]>> The police came at the door.

[00:01:08]>> Go down with him. All right, what's your name?

[00:01:11]>> My name is Taylor.

[00:01:12]>> Taylor?

[00:01:13]>> Yes.

[00:01:14]>> Okay. Taylor, what's your last name? Why are the police being called here tonight?

[00:01:17]>> Cuz we had an argument.

[00:01:19]>> Anything physical happen? Anything >> an argument.

[00:01:22]>> Is there going to be any marks on him?

[00:01:24]>> No.

[00:01:24]>> Okay. Are there any marks on you?

[00:01:27]>> No.

[00:01:27]>> Okay.

[00:01:28]Is this your apartment?

[00:01:30]>> This our apartment.

[00:01:31]>> Do you both live together?

[00:01:32]>> Yes.

[00:01:33]>> Okay. Boyfriend, girlfriend?

[00:01:34]>> Yes.

[00:01:34]>> Any children together?

[00:01:36]>> No.

[00:01:36]>> You ever been married to him?

[00:01:38]>> No.

[00:01:39]>> Okay.

[00:01:40]Just give me an idea of what happened. I don't I >> You guys shut up. I didn't call you.

[00:01:45]>> Okay. It was somebody in the building cuz they heard what was going on. Did you guys put hands on each other? If you did, how?

[00:01:50]>> Well, I don't want to say anything cuz I don't want to get him in trouble.

[00:01:53]>> Okay. That's fair.

[00:01:54]What's uh how long have been together?

[00:01:57]>> A year half a year.

[00:01:58]>> For a half a year?

[00:01:59]>> Almost. No, one. No, almost a half a year.

[00:02:03]>> Half a year.

[00:02:04]>> Yes.

[00:02:04]>> Okay.

[00:02:05]>> Almost.

[00:02:06]>> Do you need any medical attention?

[00:02:08]>> No, not right now. I feel I feel all right.

[00:02:10]>> Well, well, you don't have to leave just yet. What do you need to do?

[00:02:14]>> Use the bathroom.

[00:02:14]>> You need to use the bathroom?

[00:02:16]Okay.

[00:02:18]>> I'm pregnant.

[00:02:25]>> Um give me 1 minute before you go do that.

[00:02:28]Sorry. That's just I don't know what's going on just yet, so Okay.

[00:02:33]What else happened?

[00:02:36]>> I'm pregnant.

[00:02:38]>> What was the argument about?

[00:02:40]>> About a girl.

[00:02:43]>> About your crib?

[00:02:44]>> About a girl.

[00:02:45]>> About a girl?

[00:02:46]Girl he's seeing? Another one?

[00:02:48]>> Yeah.

[00:02:49]>> Okay.

[00:02:50]Okay.

[00:02:51]Are you pregnant at all?

[00:02:53]Okay.

[00:02:54]Okay. No kids together, never been married, you both live here.

[00:02:57]>> I just got asthma.

[00:02:59]>> Just asthma? Okay.

[00:03:00]>> Yeah.

[00:03:00]>> You don't need an ambulance or anything?

[00:03:02]>> No.

[00:03:03]I'm fine.

[00:03:04]>> What's the mark though there on your arm?

[00:03:06]Right there on your hand.

[00:03:10]Anything else?

[00:03:12]Did you do anything to your hair?

[00:03:16]Okay. All right, just give me 1 second.

[00:03:18]I got to have another officer come talk to you.

[00:03:20]Did you do anything to defend yourself?

[00:03:23]Did you do anything to him?

[00:03:25]Cuz I know you said he was on he was on top. Yeah, how did How did you get him off?

[00:03:31]If you did.

[00:03:32]Or if you didn't, it's all it's all right. But Where did all this Where did all this happen at?

[00:03:40]Was it in the apartment?

[00:03:42]>> Yeah.

[00:03:43]>> Were you guys anywhere else inside the >> No.

[00:03:46]>> the complex here?

[00:03:47]>> No.

[00:03:47]>> No, just just everything was in here.

[00:03:52]Let's say for example, right now we were to just leave. Like let's say what would happen, do you think?

[00:03:58]>> Wait, where were we going to leave?

[00:04:00]>> No, no, like let's say right now, hypothetically, that's not what's going to happen. I'm just saying cuz I want to get an idea, at least in your mind, your thoughts. Right now, the police, us.

[00:04:09]You two are still here. We just walked away.

[00:04:11]>> We were going to We were actually even out the door when you guys were coming.

[00:04:15]>> Okay.

[00:04:16]Well, I guess where I'm trying to get at is would anything violence-related continue?

[00:04:22]>> I don't know.

[00:04:23]>> Would you guys be arguing more, fighting more?

[00:04:26]>> I'm calling.

[00:04:27]>> So, if something were to happen, who would you call first?

[00:04:30]>> Now I'm calling.

[00:04:31]>> Have we ever been here before between you both?

[00:04:33]>> No.

[00:04:35]>> Yeah, okay. All right. I'm not familiar with either of you. I don't think I've ever met you, so I don't I don't know your both of your guys' stories, so.

[00:04:44]>> All righty, ma'am.

[00:04:46]>> So, I'm sure you've already told him everything that happened here today. Do you mind just going through it again with me? Is that okay?

[00:04:51]>> That's fine.

[00:04:53]>> This is our marker.

[00:04:54]>> And you got something on you?

[00:04:55]>> Just it's just a few.

[00:04:57]>> Okay.

[00:04:57]>> I'm done.

[00:04:58]>> So, so what happened today?

[00:05:00]>> So, he got physical with me.

[00:05:03]>> Yeah?

[00:05:03]>> Because of the violence um >> Okay.

[00:05:07]>> He pushed me to the floor and >> Physical physical how? How did he physical?

[00:05:11]>> Pushed me down.

[00:05:13]And then he tried to push me out the door and lock me out.

[00:05:16]>> I'm I'm sorry, you got to speak up for >> He pushed me down and tried to lock me out.

[00:05:19]>> Okay.

[00:05:20]Okay.

[00:05:20]>> And then >> Where was he holding you down at?

[00:05:24]>> Right here.

[00:05:25]>> Like right here in the kitchen?

[00:05:26]>> Yeah.

[00:05:26]>> Okay.

[00:05:27]So, he's holding you down.

[00:05:28]>> Yeah.

[00:05:29]>> Did you manage to escape from that or >> Yeah, we were on our way out the door when you >> When we got here?

[00:05:34]>> Yes.

[00:05:35]>> Basically, what's going on is he's cheating.

[00:05:38]He's got another girl on his phone.

[00:05:40]>> Yeah, he was cheating and I found it on >> You found it. Okay. And then did you confront him about it?

[00:05:44]>> Yeah.

[00:05:45]>> Yeah.

[00:05:45]>> That's what I said.

[00:05:46]>> And then what happened from there? Just >> And then, um we got into an argument. That's it.

[00:05:52]>> You got into an argument. Okay.

[00:05:54]>> And then, I pushed him and he tried to hold me down.

[00:05:58]>> He what?

[00:05:58]>> I pushed him and he tried to hold me down.

[00:06:00]>> So, you pushed him and then he tried to hold you down.

[00:06:02]>> And then, that's when he called I don't want to get him in trouble, but and after he pulled back from me, I hit him in the head with my >> You head butted him?

[00:06:11]>> Yes.

[00:06:12]>> Cuz he was holding you?

[00:06:13]All right. Was he holding you from behind or from the front?

[00:06:15]>> Um he both kind of had his hands on me.

[00:06:17]>> Just kind of like a cross out.

[00:06:19]>> He was I was trying to get up from >> Okay. So, he's also got some marks on him, too, like some scratches and stuff like that. [laughter] Where >> him being >> That's what you trying to get up from, from him being on you?

[00:06:28]Okay.

[00:06:32]Okay.

[00:06:33]Do you have any marks or anything like that on you? Like chance? I know you got I see that on your hand right there.

[00:06:38]This one on on your right hand.

[00:06:40]>> And my elbows hurt.

[00:06:41]>> Your elbows hurt?

[00:06:43]Okay. Yeah, you skinned your elbow a little bit over here, it looks like.

[00:06:46]>> He took a bite right here.

[00:06:48]>> So, there's a bite?

[00:06:49]>> Yeah.

[00:06:50]>> Yeah, I can see a little bit of Did he bite you while you were on the ground?

[00:06:54]>> Yeah.

[00:06:55]>> He was on your leg? Okay.

[00:06:58]>> I can see it on my face.

[00:07:00]>> Hm?

[00:07:01]>> I can see it on my face.

[00:07:02]>> You >> Sorry.

[00:07:04]>> No, it's okay.

[00:07:05]Well, time to throw these away then.

[00:07:09]So, you're on the ground, on your stomach, I'm going to guess if your hands are behind you like that.

[00:07:14]>> And I was trying to get up.

[00:07:15]>> You're trying to get up, so you you threw your head back and you head butted him a little bit.

[00:07:19]And that got him off you?

[00:07:21]>> Kind of.

[00:07:21]>> Kind of, and then you guys started switching up.

[00:07:24]>> And then he switched I wasn't switching.

[00:07:25]I was trying to get up. He was switching.

[00:07:26]>> Okay. Well, here real quick, do you mind if I take a picture of your hand? I Listen, I'm going to have to docu- I I I know. I know, but I have to document everything anyways.

[00:07:35]>> I don't want to get him in trouble.

[00:07:36]>> is, I've already taken pictures of the stuff on him.

[00:07:39]Okay? So, I need to take the pictures of the stuff on you, too.

[00:07:42]Okay?

[00:07:43]I Listen, this is going to be documented no matter what. I just need to have the pictures of everything that's on each other. Okay?

[00:07:51]And is that Is that the uh the little marks right there?

[00:07:55]Or is that a Yeah. So, that right there is that just like a That's old.

[00:08:01]And then yeah, do you mind if I see the Okay. And then do you mind if I see your elbow real quick?

[00:08:07]This elbow real quick. Yep, perfect.

[00:08:11]>> What's on my elbow?

[00:08:13]>> Looks like you have just like some scraped skin.

[00:08:17]Here, do you mind just turning for me?

[00:08:21]Keep turning just that way I can take a picture of the side. Okay, so basically I'm just going to run through this one time. What happened is you guys is you find out that he's cheating on you by his phone. Did you ask him for his phone and all that?

[00:08:34]>> Yeah.

[00:08:35]>> So, then you got the phone from him.

[00:08:37]From there.

[00:08:37]>> Yeah.

[00:08:38]>> From there, you guys start arguing and the argument escalates to him holding you down.

[00:08:44]And then while you guys are kind of scuffling on the ground, he gets the little scrapes on his arms. He did say that you did headbutt him, so that's the tooth.

[00:08:52]Right? Okay, but you said that >> was already chipped.

[00:08:55]>> Well, this one was. Yeah, he's got another chip now on this side, too. This one over here. He's got that one. This is all happening right here on the ground, right?

[00:09:03]>> Yeah, that's right.

[00:09:04]>> All right here. And during that, you get your elbow scraped up, you get bruised on your leg, you cut your hand a little bit.

[00:09:10]>> Yeah.

[00:09:10]>> Okay. Did you bite him at all by any chance? Yeah, you bit him, too. Where did you bite him at?

[00:09:16]You don't know, but he bit you on the shoulder.

[00:09:19]Okay.

[00:09:20]Here, just sit tight for me, okay?

[00:09:24]Okay.

[00:09:25]All right. So, he's got to work.

[00:09:27]>> He's got to >> He's got to work.

[00:09:31]>> What are your thoughts?

[00:09:34]So, here >> Mhm.

[00:09:37]>> This is This is someone has to go. home.

[00:09:40]>> That's a 342. That's us.

[00:09:42]>> I mean, all I saw on her was blood.

[00:09:44]Yeah, so she's got to go.

[00:09:46]I I don't want to go there.

[00:09:48]>> Yeah.

[00:09:49]>> Especially because of just this just this huge just this situation. You know, I get where her head needs to go.

[00:09:56]If she's into the phone or anything like that, I have to see it.

[00:10:00]I can't see her.

[00:10:02]It's a little So, here's your laptop.

[00:10:05]From their story, like what I'm seeing here is not as consistent as his. It looks like I think I think he's more truthful than she is.

[00:10:13]So, I I would think she would be your best bet. That's my best That's what I'm thinking.

[00:10:17]>> So, I'm just going to ask him something real quick.

[00:10:18]>> Okay.

[00:10:20]>> That was their stop.

[00:10:21]>> Thank you. I'm just going to talk to both of you.

[00:10:22]>> 495th and Broadway, Edward George, 70462.

[00:10:26]>> What's your name by the way? What's your name?

[00:10:28]>> Ashley.

[00:10:29]>> I'm Tay.

[00:10:30]>> Taylor.

[00:10:30]>> Okay, Taylor. So, what's going on today?

[00:10:32]>> Yeah, so I do a little grab and she >> That's the 2707 station.

[00:10:37]>> Okay. So, you went through his phone, you woke him up cuz you caught him cheating.

[00:10:44]>> Yeah, I had to really watch him to get the face out of him.

[00:10:46]>> I got you. Okay. So, his phone was locked, you you weren't even on on his phone. You're like, "Hey, wake up."

[00:10:53]>> Yeah.

[00:10:53]>> So, you know, open it up for me. I want to see something.

[00:10:57]And that's when it kind of went Okay, back and forth. And he was like, "No, I'm not opening it up for you."

[00:11:02]>> Mhm. Yeah, he wouldn't open it immediately.

[00:11:04]Cuz I got >> he messed up.

[00:11:06]>> Okay, and then he opened it. So, he willingly gave you the phone?

[00:11:09]>> Yeah.

[00:11:09]>> Okay.

[00:11:10]>> That's how Yes.

[00:11:12]>> That's how you read the messages. Okay.

[00:11:14]Now, who Who initiated what first? Did you >> He tried to grab the phone from me.

[00:11:19]>> He tried to grab the phone from you after you caught him cheating.

[00:11:25]And then when he tried to grab his phone >> That's the 2707 station.

[00:11:29]>> Does this happen often between both of you guys?

[00:11:31]>> What?

[00:11:32]>> This is a >> Yes, I always fight. Just >> just in general.

[00:11:36]>> Is like the first time you guys actually gets physical like this?

[00:11:43]Now, let's say that like do you I know you said you stay here or you live here with him hypothetically.

[00:11:50]Let's say we Do you feel like you guys are going to be okay with that or you guys think you guys are going to continue fighting?

[00:12:03]The hell are you?

[00:12:08]Who is that? Who is speaking?

[00:12:13]Okay. All right, so it looks like you guys obviously need some time alone.

[00:12:17]Separation. Did you drive here at all?

[00:12:20]>> I drove.

[00:12:21]>> You did?

[00:12:22]You drove?

[00:12:23]>> No, he has a car.

[00:12:24]>> You do like Uber or Lyft?

[00:12:26]>> No.

[00:12:27]>> How how do you get around then?

[00:12:29]>> I don't. He said he has a car.

[00:12:31]>> So he normally drives you?

[00:12:32]>> He has a car.

[00:12:34]>> So where are you staying at now besides here?

[00:12:36]>> I live here. I've been living here since the first of last month.

[00:12:39]>> Okay, so this is your you don't stay nowhere else?

[00:12:41]>> No.

[00:12:41]>> All righty, ma'am.

[00:12:43]So I talked to him, I took the pictures of his injuries like I did yours. So in the state of Illinois when there is sign of domestic battery, okay, and we can identify an aggressor, they unfortunately do have to be brought into custody.

[00:12:58]Okay?

[00:12:59]So what I want you to do right now is take the purse off your shoulder.

[00:13:03]Okay?

[00:13:04]Go ahead and turn around for me. Can you put your hands behind your back?

[00:13:12]Right now you're being placed into custody for domestic battery, okay?

[00:13:17]Do you need anything, clothes or anything from >> I mean >> Would you like me to bring your purse to the police department?

[00:13:24]>> Can I get my Can you get my wallet out of there?

[00:13:26]>> Just just your wallet out of the purse?

[00:13:28]>> know. I don't need nothing else.

[00:13:29]>> You don't need nothing else? What about like do you have a phone or anything like that?

[00:13:32]>> real quick?

[00:13:33]>> I can get your phone. Yeah.

[00:13:34]We'll get it We'll get it for you, but we're going to take you out, okay?

[00:13:37]>> me to go and get it cuz I really can Is that fine?

[00:13:40]>> Yeah.

[00:13:43]Yeah, just tell me where it is and then we'll have an officer go and grab it.

[00:13:46]>> That's where I can you see?

[00:13:47]>> Which one?

[00:13:48]>> The black one.

[00:13:48]>> The black one on the charger?

[00:13:50]>> Yes, that's where it was.

[00:13:51]>> Okay.

[00:13:53]Do you mind taking her wallet out of her purse?

[00:13:56]>> Okay, it's okay. You can I don't need it.

[00:13:59]>> You don't >> Take the whole thing?

[00:14:01]>> We can just take the whole thing. All you got to do is come back to the police department and just grab that.

[00:14:04]>> I don't need it.

[00:14:05]>> You want to leave it here then?

[00:14:05]>> No, I don't want to have to come back to grab it.

[00:14:08]>> Just the phone then.

[00:14:09]>> I could I could take that with me.

[00:14:13]>> So, with the phone, you do have to come back to the police department after court tomorrow to come and get that, okay?

[00:14:18]Just so you know, but if you have any phone numbers, we can write them down on your arm with like a sharpie or something.

[00:14:22]>> So, wait, say it again.

[00:14:24]>> So, your phone, we'll let we'll let you take it to the police department, but when you go to court tomorrow, okay, you can't bring your phone to court.

[00:14:32]>> Right.

[00:14:33]>> So, what we can do is we can give you a chance to write some phone numbers down.

[00:14:36]>> After court, I can get my phone?

[00:14:38]>> After court, you can get your phone.

[00:14:39]Yes.

[00:14:41]We're going to walk this way. We're going to go around the building and I'll bring you to my car, okay?

[00:14:48]>> But I wasn't the aggressor though.

[00:14:50]>> I'll explain everything to you when we get to the police department, okay?

[00:14:53]>> Okay.

[00:14:54]He was holding me down.

[00:14:56]>> Like I said, we'll explain everything at the police department.

[00:14:58]>> Okay.

[00:14:59]>> Move forward. Just Up.

[00:15:03]Yeah.

[00:15:05]I'm pretty sure it's 2B.

[00:15:06]>> Okay, what?

[00:15:06]>> Okay, real quick, I'm just going to pat you down, okay?

[00:15:10]Okay.

[00:15:12]All right, go ahead and take a step up into the squad for me.

[00:15:24]>> All right.

[00:15:25]Take your seat belt off here.

[00:15:28]Okay.

[00:15:30]Okay, go ahead and take a step out for me.

[00:15:33]>> After the investigation, officers determined that Taylor was the primary aggressor in the incident. She was placed under arrest and transported for booking on a charge of domestic battery.

[00:15:44]The case was then forwarded through the legal process where the allegations and evidence would ultimately be reviewed by the court.