People v. Cabrera CA3

BACKGROUND

In January 2023, police officers responded to the report of a “suspicious male,” later identified as defendant, who jumped a fence to gain access to a backyard. The officers found defendant in a residential carport, put him into their patrol car, and took him back to his father’s house. When they arrived at his father’s house, the officers took defendant out of the patrol car and waited for his father. While they were waiting,

1 defendant said to one of the officers, “ ‘I promise you I will kill you in your mother fucking sleep bitch. And that’s on everything I fucking love [n-word]. I promise you [n- word]. Take it as a threat or whatever the fuck you want [n-word]. I promise you [n- word]. I will kill you in your mother fucking sleep [n-word] bitch. I promise you; I will kill your kids and everything [n-word]. I promise you [n-word]. Your kids are dead [n- word]. Straight the fuck up. I don’t care what you got to say [n-word].’ ” He also told the officer: I will “slit your fucking throat.” After he was identified by his father, the police officers arrested defendant for making criminal threats. As they walked defendant back to the patrol car, he kicked a second…