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I was listening to a true crime podcast and noticed that so many of the cops they interviewed were using the simple past after an auxiliary instead of using the past participle:

• He had saw
• She had went
• He had drove by there
• May have came upon it
• Could have went out
• Had came home
• He had ran off
• Had went off the road
• Had went off the edge
• Instead of being took to the station
• If someone had came to the door

FWIW, none of them otherwise sounded remotely like AAVE speakers (I'm Black with a speech-language pathology degree, and can tell you this construction is considered normal in some varieties of AAVE). Just sounded like white dudes who think you slap "had" before all of your past-tense verbs.