. >> 25-year-old manuel martinez, a self-proclaimed gang member being held on forgery charges, has reached the end of his rope. >> during one of our routine security walks, officers noticed he was attempting to hang himself. pulled him out, put him in the tank back here. so the next step in the process, move to psych, stay there for evaluation and probably end up coming bk. >> you have to watch out. sometimes it could be a setup. they want you to come in and they're ready to take an officer out. >> come here. step out. to your left. left foot up, right foot up, either one. he was down here on all fours with a noose around his neck saying, you know, he was crying, crying, crying for his girlfriend is what it was. and as soon as we started to open the door and came in, he got up and flushed the noose in there. >> i need somebody to talk to. >> he seemed fine throughout the day. no inclination whatsoever that he had problems. it was just like that, he was down. >> it wasn't so much hanging as strangulation. i guess you would say. it's hard for them to hang because there's no place for them to