Last night, we told you about the allegation of abuse against the controversial commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, Inspector Mark Flowers. As we reported, 2 young women are accusing him of roughing them up as well as a group of children while under the influence of alcohol on Sunday night.

 Flowers categorically denies it, but these women swear that it happened, and have gone as far as to report him to the Police internal affairs. Last night, we spoke to them about the incident a few minutes before news time, and we were forced to air their comments mostly unedited.

 Tonight, we revisit that story to highlight the most important parts of the allegation. Daniel Ortiz has that story:

The cellphone footage captures Inspector Mark Flowers standing in front of a vehicle, and he's signaling a vehicle to pass by. It's Wilson Street, and the position of his pickup tells us he has driven up-stop, against the flow of traffic.

Victim #1

"We were greeting Britney for her birthday and I notice that a car was following them from I was coming up the street, but I wasn't paying it any mind and the car came down one way follow behind them and it stopped."

Both sides agree up to this point that this was the sequence of events. But the stories begin to diverge when the confrontation actually started.

Victim #1

"The man came out and start to clap and chased us home. We didn't pay it any mind because he was high and so we continued to talk."

That's a matter of opinion, Flowers has categorically refuted this. Though, it must be noted that this young lady, her sister, and a few of the children who were there all say the same thing. So right now, it's their word against Flowers'.

Victim #1

"And that was when he came out of his car and he string-up one of the kids. That was when I said "sir you don't have to do that." I said it two times and then he came and push. When he push me the first time I didn't move and then he push me again and then a third time he pull out a gun from his side and then this guy jump in front of me. When the guy jumped in front of me, he put the gun back in his pocket and string-up the guy into the chain-link fence and the afterwards that's when the children got frighten because they shouted "gun" and then I got afraid and went and call my sister from the house and they came to the front and so my sister call the police and then he got on his phone and said 'this is the commander of GSU Mr. Flowers, I need a Trooper.' He didn't know the name of the street because he was drunk and I said Wilson Street and then police came 5 minutes after and they ask who made the report, we ask who did they get it from and they said Tamika Wade, my sister said that me and she explain the story."

The young ladies say that after they explained the entire story to the responding officers, they became outraged. The male police officer who was driving the vehicle appeared hesitant to press the issue on their behalf. That would mean that no criminal action was going to be taken against Flowers.

Victim #2

"The driver was talking to Mr. Flowers at the same time at the corner, we don't know what they were talking about. He came back and he tell the female officer in her ears that they can't take us to the station because it won't make any sense, so she told me that they have to take them, because as you look at the man you can see that he is drunk. I mean to say if the police officer could look at him and see it, why did man (driver) can't see it. Thinking that he would have listen to her and took us to the station, they put us behind the truck and drove right around the lane and told us to come out. The man said that they cannot take us to the station because nothing will come out of it because he (Flowers) is higher than us. That doesn't make any sense. If something like that happen they would have taken any other individual at the station. Why didn't they took him? He (Flowers) just drove off in his car and gone."

Victim #1

"They told all of us to get in the car and so we said that we were going to the station to make a report - not knowing that they would drive us right down the lane and they told us to get out of the vehicle and that they will not take us because they said that it will not make any sense because they are the GSU and they are higher than us and so the case is not going anywhere. You could see that the man (Flowers) is drunk. We told them that we wanted to make a report, but the driver don't want us to go."

After Sunday night's experience, the women say that they are afraid of the Commander of GSU because he allegedly pulled his weapon at them and was aggressive.

 

Victim #1

"I went to make the report today and I spoke to Mr. Rivero and he was very nice and he explained to me that they had already spoke to Mr. Flowers and that they scolded him. I really want it to go more than that because we were frighten because he had a gun and somebody could have gotten shot, or knock and I was really scared, I actually cry. I really want something get out of it and that just because he is high in GSU - I want him to be treated like a normal person because if it was somebody from the gang members or a normal person - they would have to go to spend their 3 months or however long because of a gun. I want them to treat him like that."