Go back TO YOUR CAR, NOW. GO BACK TO YOUR CAR. We're not doing this. Go back to your car. I'll call him for you. >> On July 12th, 2023, what should have been a simple crash investigation in Fort Myers turned into a completely avoidable arrest after a woman accused of leaving the scene refused to hand over her license and decided the real issue was the officer, not the report. From the very first minute, the stop stops being about who hit whose car and starts becoming about ego, escalation, and a driver who cannot accept that a routine investigation still comes with rules. Taking just 2 seconds to hit that like button means the absolute world to me and it truly helps this channel continue bringing you these detailed breakdowns. >> Hello. >> Hello. >> I'm Officer Harmon with Fort Myers Police Department. The reason I'm stopping you is as I'm driving by, she's waving me down saying that you hit her car. >> You can look at my car. It's a white car. >> We'll we'll get it all >> on the phone the whole time. Ain't nobody call your supervisor, too. >> I got >> Call yeah, call your supervisor. >> All right. What do you need a supervisor for? >> I'm calling your supervisor cuz first of all, if she's making a false report, she's going to jail, first and foremost. You're wasting my time. Not only that, I work for the government my goddamn self. So, you think that I'm going to be out here and hit your car and keep going. It aggravated me, sir, because she came through the goddamn thing. She damn near killed me on Ortiz with a ladder, pink Let me hold on cuz I'm talking to the officer. >> That's all So, just like I said, that's what she said. I'm just trying to figure out exactly what's happening. That's all. >> Yeah, that's why I called your supervisor. Pull pull her ass up. If I hit her car, I have a mark on my car and she should have one on hers. >> So, I'm going to Before I call supervisor, I just want to explain to you when I ask for him to come, he's going to ask me for what, okay? So, I need a legitimate reason to ask for the supervisor cuz right now I'm investigating a traffic crash. >> You You ain't investigating a traffic crash because if you were investigating a traffic crash, there'd be damage to her vehicle and mine. >> But I can't hit you if you coming behind me. First and foremost, how would I hit you if you coming behind me? She got a whole a ladder in her trunk. So if I hit you, right? I shouldn't know what's hanging out your trunk. >> That's what she said to me. I'm investigating cuz I got to find out if it is or >> That's [ __ ] and I got something to do. That's why I'm frustrated. Because you playing with a car in traffic. Two young stupid dumbass girls could have killed more than just me. I've been here with my damn thing hooked up. It It's aggravating. It's aggravating. >> So let me go talk to her see what she's saying. Cuz all she told me was she hit me that's why I stopped the car, okay? So give me 1 minute to go figure it out. Let me go figure it out. Are you guys okay? >> Yeah. Shush. >> I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. >> Hello. Can you tell me what happened cuz she's just kind of yelling at me? >> course. Of course she is. So we literally just got off work. We're all getting off the highway 175 on um MLK. >> MLK, okay. >> We're turning onto the cheese. >> Okay. >> She's in behind us. Obviously I have a ladder and we're trying to be safe. So I turn left. She starts swerving. >> It's a merge. >> you know the merge? >> She literally starts swerving to get around. >> There's a car in front of us, too. >> Well, car in front of us. She can't make it around me. So she then she honks at me. Like crazy. Then she swerves and like cuts me off. Literally like I had to stop and brake check and everything. >> Okay. >> Then we took a picture and we tried to take the video of what she was doing. And then >> Do you have those I can look at? >> Yes. And then when um what's it called? We got to the roundabout, she literally was like slowing down cuz she saw that I was there trying to take video of her and then I went to go around her. She had more than enough space. >> Sir. >> Yes. And she literally rammed my car and was like, "Yeah, I got you." And then she tried to drive away. >> And then I was like, "Are you serious? So you're going to hit me and then drive away? You can't even talk to me like a human being?" >> What What side of your car did she >> The left side. I was trying to chase her down after she hit me. Is there damage? >> Where Where did you feel the hit? Back there? >> I don't know, somewhere. Somewhere on this side. >> Can you step out for me and just take a quick look? >> Yes. Yep, that's her. >> So the door right there? >> Yep. And it's just ridiculous, you know, this the fact that people drive crazy. >> back there while we're still trying to figure it out. Okay. Ma'am, you're good. Go sit in the car. Go back TO YOUR CAR, NOW. GO BACK to your car. We're not doing this [ __ ] Go back to your car. I'll call them for you. BUT YOU CAN'T GO BACK TO YOUR CAR, PLEASE. CAN YOU DO ME A FAVOR? You guys can get both of your licenses and the registration so I can do the crash at the very minimum for you, okay? Ma'am. Can I have your license, please? >> No, I want your supervisor. >> He's on the way. Okay. Okay. So stop and listen to me, okay? So So now So now I'm requesting your driver's license so I can so that I can do the crash report. If you do not give me your license, I'mma put you in handcuffs. Go ahead and please Ma'am, step out of the car. >> No, yes, that's fine. >> That's fine. >> Go in the of my car. >> No problem at all. >> Okay. Go in front of car, right here. Take a seat. So, I'm going to explain it one more time. You can give me your driver's license so I can do the crash. I'm going to put you in handcuffs. >> No. >> I'm done because you keep yelling. Turn around. Relax. Like all of your fault. Like all of your fault. Cuz you're going in the back of my car. You'll be detained. Because you are. Get in. Get in. Give me a couple of minutes to figure out what I'm going to do with her. We did not legally detain you. I explained the reason. I explained the reason. I'm doing the crash report. Because they're alleging you hit her. There's a scuff mark where they said that you hit her. There's a scuff mark on their car. Okay. All right. >> You want to roll her roll her window down and I'll try to talk to her. >> I asked you for your supervisor. Yes, you see a supervisor. But you telling me some [ __ ] and you know they [ __ ] Man, that's the part No, because they GOT ME HOT. Y'ALL TREAT ME LIKE I ain't [ __ ] Y'all treat me like I DON'T WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT MYSELF. That's [ __ ] So of course I'm going to be upset. That's [ __ ] >> okay? >> It's I didn't even treat somebody with respect. I asked for supervisor. How long we been here? No supervisor. >> I called a supervisor. >> No supervisor. >> Okay. Just listen to me, okay? >> I can't I can't focus. My my circulation being cut off. I can't I can't focus. I really can't focus. >> I'll fix the cuffs for you, okay? >> THAT'S WHY WHEN I GOT OUT OF MY CAR, YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID? TURNED THEIR HEAD SIDEWAYS AND ROLLED UP THE WINDOW. THEM WAS ROAD RAGING. NOW PULL Y'ALL CAMERAS AT THE JAILHOUSE and you'll see what you dealing with. liars. >> You want to You want to step out real quick so I can fix the >> He knew exactly what the he was doing when he put them this time. >> All right. >> You know what's [ __ ] I've hit that car. [ __ ] I ain't hit nothing. >> It's a little better? >> That Can you put them in the front of me? >> I'll I'll put a second pair on for you. How's that? >> I'm I'm DAMN NEAR FIXED, BUT I I this is so humiliating. This is why people file reports. THIS IS WHY LAWSUITS are made. For [ __ ] like this. This is so humiliating. I'm on side of the road in a pain car and this what I'm dealing with. Right now. Can you see the [ __ ] Look at her. You can see the fake in her eyes. You see that? You can see it. [ __ ] you see him, though? You see him? YOU SEE HIM? THAT AIN'T SOMEBODY THAT'S INNOCENT. >> LISTEN. >> That's a [ __ ] that got mad cuz they couldn't beat me for my car. >> I'm I'm being patient with you, okay? I need you to talk to me, all right? >> I'm aggravated, sir. >> I I I get that. >> I'm out of my car. Real Realistically, he's saying a police report >> to you. >> for me hitting your car. How did I hit your car? >> Let me Let me explain, okay? >> You ain't even investigate my car for 2 seconds and put me in cuffs. >> That's what we're trying to do. >> Why Why he took my phone and any of that? That's not right. You stripping me of that. I know my rights, bro. I work with the government myself. >> Okay. Okay. All my partner got was was laying down by them, okay? >> [ __ ] >> Hold on. That's That's That's I was on the phone with them. I heard them. >> Let me hear. Wait a minute. This This This [ __ ] is How long is your supervisor going to be, sir? >> I'll call him again, all right? >> Please see how long your supervisor is going to be. Please. >> Delta 2 2. >> I'm saying you're sweating like some type of animal. In a car without help. They passed me. They ain't see what >> Somebody get started. I need you to So, when it comes to these types of situations, all right? We got to get both sides of the story. From what I saw when I got here, okay? I was the second officer on scene. You were already screaming at us and at them, okay? We're not trying to be jerks to you. >> He was. Not you. You got a little bit more respect. But for him to take me, slam me against the car for some [ __ ] he know didn't make make sense. If you and two people are in the car and somebody hit you, your first reaction would be to call 911. These people was behind me since Ortega. This dumbass girl came up Ortega, damn near killed two people on the merge. This [ __ ] come through roundabout in front of me. She tried to hit my car. I still made it through the roundabout. We come through the roundabout. We come through the roundabout. This [ __ ] come like this. Wave her hand to the police. They pull me over and say I hit their car. That's [ __ ] There should be pieces of a car and everything in the road. The speed limit 45. Make it make sense. It don't make sense. They full of [ __ ] >> Do you know who this gentleman here is? >> That's my husband. >> That's your husband? Okay. >> So, this is my girlfriend, Laquisha. She's on her way to come get me. >> Okay. >> And doing the I don't know what happened. I guess I don't know what happened. I guess this car claimed that they hit hit them and kept going. >> Yep. >> So, my understanding is she pulled over, correct? >> No, I did a traffic stop on her to stop her. >> Oh, okay. >> Uh there's So, I stopped you right there, okay? There's damage consistent with the crash, right? She's not going to jail for the crash. She's going to jail for the obstruction. Cuz I asked her for her ID so I can complete the crash report, and we were going to leave it at that because she they don't want to press charges. They just wanted a crash report. And then it's everything she did after that. That's why she's going. Okay? >> So, when we come from down 410 to this roundabout. That's the answer. That's what you saying? >> Yes. Yeah, yeah, she's on this side right next to that officer. Wolfer. That's fine. >> Yeah. >> I need to know >> Here's your husband, okay? >> I didn't try to hit anything. I got people I can call to verify. Call 911 and tell them to send a supervisor here cuz I'm being kidnapped. >> I'm being kidnapped. >> It's an abuse of 911. You also go to jail. >> I'm being kidnapped. I'm being kidnapped. >> to jail for calling 911. I'm not playing today. >> Look, he said he ain't playing. He don't want a supervisor here cuz he know he violating my rights. >> call Sergeant Mustafa. >> He he violating my rights. >> Four >> my rights. I have rights. >> BECAUSE YOU TELLING ME YOU accuse me of something never took place. You didn't investigate. You can't investigate a crash in 20 seconds. >> 5 minutes I'll have the person. >> I asked for the arms of the department. >> I called him twice. >> I know that it's going to be something. I'm being kidnapped that you. I'm being kidnapped. Because of what? I asked for a supervisor which is my right. I'm going >> I know ma'am. >> All of this above. All of this above. Because I was lied on. So if I was lied on then y'all can >> All right. Uh my partner actually just said uh hang out for a few minutes. He's finished up the crash report now for you guys. >> Okay. >> Give me a second. I'm going to roll the window up. I'm getting out of the car. >> All right. Round three. >> In the car. Just get in the car. No. Just go ahead. Hurry up and get in the >> All right. You guys are good. Excuse me. You guys are good to go. Thank you for flagging me down and getting me some work. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Drive safe. >> Put my purse in the >> Okay. Close the door. >> Okay. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Relax. That's what I'm doing. Don't >> I got I got it, baby. He's not going to take nothing from you, baby. I got him. Relax. We trying to get you out of here. We watching what's going on with the car. We ain't going >> Do do do you see what I mean by energy? This the energy that got projected. This is what this what I be talking about, man. Every time I get trying to keep that [ __ ] away from I get them. They got a whole lot of them that you >> Uh get We going to walk up here. I got to take a picture of this. Harming you folks. >> I got what's the number? What's the number? >> Um you'll be able to bond her out here a couple hours. >> All right. >> Uh, it's a misdemeanor. It's going to be a couple hundred bucks. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you for being reasonable with me, sir. >> Just call my mama head and let them tow it cuz I got tow on my insurance. >> If they can't, we still going to >> Yeah, do that cuz ain't no need in them towing it. They just doing that being nasty. Damn, you a dick. Dick in a half. I will do that actually to your supervisor. My god-given right. You rat him. Wish you had a told me down like you told me in them cuffs, don't you? >> Have a disorderly female. >> Come at [ __ ] >> She sideswipes another car in a roundabout at a low speed. And then she goes she's acting like this supervisor like grab her, take her to the jail. She's going to continue cuz she's going to try to put her in custody. She started shoving against us again. She just wouldn't listen. We told bring her straight >> This one is a good example of how people talk themselves into jail over the wrong part of the encounter. The original issue here is not some major felony stop. It is a reported hit-and-run accusation with very minor alleged damage. That is the kind of thing that usually begins with basic fact-gathering. Both sides tell their story, the officer looks for damage, gets IDs, writes the report, and then the insurance companies and the legal system figure out the rest. That part is boring. That part is procedural. But the woman at the center of the stop decides almost immediately that if she attacks the legitimacy of the officer hard enough, she can avoid the process itself. That is where the whole thing goes off the rails. Legally, the key thing viewers should understand is this. Once an officer is investigating a reported traffic crash, especially one involving an allegation that one driver hit another and kept going, asking for identification is not optional. That is not some random power trip. That is basic crash investigation procedure. The officer has to document who was involved, what vehicle they were driving, what each side claims happened, and whether there is enough for a citation, report, or follow-up. You do not get to short circuit that process just because you are convinced the other side is lying. Even if she is right about the other driver exaggerating or flat-out inventing the contact, the officer still has to get her ID and finish the report. That is not harassment. That is the job, and that is what makes her behavior so self-destructive. She keeps acting as if demanding a supervisor cancels the stop. It does not. A supervisor is not a magical pause button that freezes your obligation to comply. At most, it adds another person to the scene who is usually going to tell you the same thing in slightly calmer words. That is exactly what happens here. The first officer tells her he needs the license. She refuses and keeps yelling. The second officer comes in and tells her, again, that the problem is no longer just the crash claim. It is everything she did after refusing to identify herself. That is one of the most important legal lessons in body cam footage. The first accusation may bring police to you, but your conduct during the encounter can create a totally separate basis for arrest. Psychologically, she makes a very common mistake. She thinks outrage is evidence. She is so emotionally committed to the idea that the other women are lying that she starts treating anger like proof. The louder she gets, the more certain as she seems to feel, and in her own mind, that certainty probably feels like innocence. But police do not investigate based on emotional force. They investigate based on statements, physical observations, damage, and cooperation. The second she shifts from "They're lying." to "I'm not giving you anything." she accidentally starts making herself look less like the wronged party and more like the person who cannot handle basic scrutiny. There is also a social performance happening here that makes the stop worse. She keeps repeating that she works for the government, that she knows her rights, that she pays taxes, that this is humiliating, that she is being kidnapped, that this is unlawful, that everybody is violating her. None of that is meant to clarify facts. It is status language. It is her way of trying to move herself out of the category of ordinary driver and into the category of person who should be exempt from this treatment. But that kind of argument almost always backfires because it sounds less like principle and more like entitlement. "I work for the government, too." is not a defense to refusing to hand over your license in a crash investigation. If anything, it just makes the refusal sound more deliberate. The officer's tone matters, too. He is not warm and he is not especially patient in the soft customer service sense, but he is direct and fairly clear about the core issue. He explains that he is trying to do the crash report. He explains that if she gives the ID, they can keep moving. He explains that the arrest is not about the crash itself anymore, but about obstruction. That distinction is legally important. A lot of viewers miss it because they stay emotionally stuck on whether she actually hit the car. But the stop has already moved past that. The people in the other vehicle are not even trying to have her arrested for the crash. They want the report. The jail issue comes from her refusal to participate in that basic administrative process. That's the real pivot in this whole clip. Not the accusation, not the yelling, not even the supervisor request. The pivot is when she refuses to produce the license after being told that is what is needed to complete the report. At that point, she is not just an angry driver anymore. She is someone actively obstructing an investigation. And once officers decide they cannot move the process forward with her standing there fighting every step, control replaces conversation. That is why she ends up in cuffs over something that began as a low-speed sideswipe allegation. There is a second pattern here that makes the video especially revealing. She keeps confusing personal offense with legal injury. She says she is being humiliated. She says she is sweating like an animal. She says she is being kidnapped. She says she is being cut off from circulation. She says this is why lawsuits exist. All of that may reflect how she feels, but none of it changes the question the officers are trying to answer. Did you refuse to identify yourself during a lawful crash investigation? Yes. Did you escalate after that? Also, yes. That is why these roadside meltdowns go so badly. The person starts building an emotional case against the officer while the officer is building a procedural case against the person. Those are not the same battle. The procedural one is usually the one that survives. The husband arriving adds another layer because you can hear how quickly she tries to move from citizen versus police to audience management. Now she has someone to narrate the injustice to. Now she can perform the humiliation for a sympathetic witness. And the officers know that, too. That is why they become even more focused on getting the process under control instead of debating her point by point. This is one of those moments where police are not really arguing with the subject anymore. They are managing the scene before the subject's emotional energy infects the whole scene. One thing the embedded commentary gets right is that the woman in the backseat is pure energy. That is exactly what it feels like. Not reason, not clarity, not calm innocence, energy. The kind that keeps a situation hot even when the legal issues are actually narrow. And that is often what officers are really dealing with in scenes like this. Not just the underlying offense, but the emotional force someone brings into the stop. People underestimate how much that matters. A technically minor case can become a serious headache when the person involved decides every interaction has to be a referendum on respect, authority, and personal dignity. There is also a useful legal distinction in how the supervisor frames it for the husband. He makes clear that she is not going to jail because they proved the crash beyond all doubt on the side of the road. She is going because she obstructed. That matters because a lot of viewers wrongly assume officers need to completely solve the original allegation before they can arrest on the newer conduct. They do not. If, during a lawful investigation, you refuse required identification or interfere to the point that the scene cannot be managed normally, that can become its own charge regardless of what later happens with the crash allegation itself. In plain English, you do not have to be guilty of the original thing to talk yourself into custody over the way you handled the stop. The I know my rights material is also worth unpacking a little. People love that phrase because it feels powerful, but rights are not magic words. They are real protections that operate inside real procedures. You can have rights and still have to identify yourself during a traffic or crash investigation. You can have rights and still be detained. You can have rights and still be arrested if you obstruct. I know my rights only helps if you actually know where your rights stop and your obligations begin. Here, she clearly does not. She treats the phrase like a shield against process, and it just is not. And socially, the whole thing ends up looking worse for her because the other vehicle comes off relatively grounded by comparison. Maybe they are telling the full truth, maybe not, but they at least sound coherent, specific, and focused on the report. She sounds like somebody who has already decided that if she is angry enough, the facts should bend around her. That contrast kills sympathy fast. People tend to side with the person who sounds like they want resolution over the person who sounds like they want domination. She never really sounds interested in resolution. She sounds interested in winning the emotional moment. And that is why the stop feels so avoidable. This could have ended with a report number, insurance headaches, and an irritated phone call later. Instead, she gave the officers a cleaner obstruction case than the original crash case. The irony is brutal. She seems absolutely convinced the system is framing her over a fake allegation, but the thing that actually puts her in the back of the car is her own refusal to do the one basic thing that would have let the investigation move forward. The supposed crash did not put her in handcuffs by itself. What did that was her decision to turn a routine report into a personal war. Once she chose that, the whole encounter stopped being about whether there was enough damage for a convincing sideswipe, and started being about whether police were going to let her dictate the terms of the stop. They did not, and that is why this ends with her in cuffs instead of just annoyed.