you don't have my authorization to have you in the state of Georgia please no consent were you at the sun gas hunt earlier no it's not looks just like you got you on video you don't have me on video do you oh yeah we do yeah we do yes I do no you don't she took some Gucci's too you can come and show me on camera where you are oh yeah let's do that let's do that let's do that that's when she grabs them yep there she goes she put them in her pocket see she just put them in her pocket ON MAY 11TH, 2025 AIRPORT POLICE IN SAVANNAH GEORGIA RESPONDED TO A REPORTED THEFT AT A RETAIL KIOSK THE SUBJECT REPEATEDLY INSISTED OFFICERS NEEDED HER PERMISSION BEFORE RECORDING HER ON A BODY WORN CAMERA UNDER GEORGIA LAW ON DUTY OFFICERS DO NOT NEED A SUBJECT'S CONSENT TO RECORD PUBLIC INTERACTIONS ON CAMERA she um I told her she had to flip stuff over and she said I just wanna look and I was like ma'am you're welcome to look if you like and then the older lady that came in with her wanted to get me on that side of the room so I'm it's missing it's like obviously missing so OK I'm just gonna pull it up I was waiting on the internet here oh there we go we're gonna watch it together okay and see where it went see either her or her and she really didn't touch much that's the lady she was with that's when she grabs them yep there she goes she put them in her pocket see she just put them in her pocket yep please I got it she may still be here she sticks them in her pocket and pause but out the door because I had like four people in here at the same time and I knew she took something because she went way too fast out of my store yep how long ago was this it was at Georgia so she left her like this behind not that long ago okay let me see if I can find her alright thank you I'll come back to take more information if I can't find her yep okay we got her on video stealing sunglasses walked out the door she's over here to my left at southwest gate between 2 and four we got her on video yep it's got the Georgia Thing and the Air Force Ones yep one pair of sunglasses we saw her take it off the shelf put it in her pocket and leave could can you hang and watch her I'm gonna go back to sunglasses and let him know we got her OK and to get the video ready OK her mom stole a Gucci too oh really do you have that on video I can pull it up in a second okay get ready to do that without them okay yeah it's red it's red and blue it's really noticeable okay um if they return it it's right there in that hole if they just give it back do you want to still proceed I'm gonna prosecute cause it's over 500 okay she's moving hi ma'am I need to speak with you for over here for a minute you too ma'am I need to speak to you over here okay you can talk to me right here alright that's fine were you at the sun gas hunt earlier no it's not looks just like you got you on video you don't have me on video do you oh yeah we do yeah we do yes I do no you don't she took some Gucci's too you can come and show me on camera where you are oh yeah let's do that let's do that let's do that and it's a way that y'all like the way the officers is killing people and stuff and protest in a better manner than you do yeah I I don't know what you mean you know what I mean by that I I don't get it either but I wanna show you the video because your description fits exactly and we have you grabbing some stuff and putting in your pocket so let's show you and then the glasses that I picked up she told me to put them back and I handed them to her that's fair enough and then you'll show that dialogue when we do the video let's go ahead and proceed please okay first of all here is your stuff because that's the flight that I'm taking okay good okay so would you like to bring that stuff with you when we go down there yeah I can grab my stuff yeah see that's the thing you can't leave your stuff by itself listen up you can't leave by yourself even though someone's watching it's it's gotta be yours you can't just leave us there have someone else watching and then I was on my way to the restroom to change my tampon can I change my tampon well there's a restroom right down there I have blood on my pants so I want to change my tampon and then you guys can gladly wait right out here there's a restroom down here because if you ever no she can't go to the bathroom now cause what she what she discards herself I'm sorry I said I live in upstate New York I'm not going nowhere you don't have to be out of my phone well here's the concern I have if you have any property that doesn't belong to you at this time this is a good time to go ahead and discard it so let's look at the video first OK I'm about to pee and change my tampon then we can go you can wait right here until I get no you're under an investigation right now you're being contained no and I'm bleeding you're being contained we have a bathroom downstairs well I'm bleeding we have a bathroom downstairs for you I have to make it home to my grandmother I know we have a bathroom we have a bathroom downstairs I have it's private it won't even be any okay well go get a woman go get a woman cause you can't tell me I can't pee and I'm bleeding and I got we're giving you a bathroom we're giving you a private bathroom right now there's a private bathroom I don't trust that let me use the bathroom where everybody around can see me okay so so so first things first you know what you know why we're stalking you right no I don't know but I have you told her yet I need to pee and then I told her that we have we can address it she's been alleged and that we have not been OK so can you take that out for me whatever that was that was taken from the store show to me before you go inside because I don't know what you're gonna be doing in there I'm going to go use the restroom right so how can I trust you that you can't trust us yeah he's sitting up here talking about me they say that me and mama stole something mama gone I'm trying to go pee and change my tampon they making it a big deal she's been she's been accused of shoplifting and we have it on video so what's the so I'm so she wants to go say she used bathroom but the problem is is that we can't control everything that she has so we're gonna bring her into the private bathroom downstairs where she'll be all by herself we won't even be in there but how can you tell me when I can and can't pee would you like to come with us he getting on the same flight as me yeah that's exactly what I'm saying for your comfort well I gotta pee and y'all not I'm about to go pee y'all can stay right here ma'am you're under investigation detention right now you can't do anything like that right now you're gonna go to a secure bathroom or when it's no I'm telling you you can use I'm telling you you can use the bathroom and the secure location and it's just right downstairs you cannot just sit here and tell me that I gotta wait yes I can you're under an investigated detention right now you are not free to go you may use the bathroom in our private area and this person who seems to you have trust may escort you but you're gonna go into a private escorted area with your own privacy so I am allowing you and giving you the immediate opportunity to use the bathroom do you understand that now if this escape further I may have to put you in handcuffs exactly so would you prefer not being handcuffs or handcuffs THIS DETENTION RESTED ON TERRY V. OHIO THE 1968 CASE SETTING THE STANDARD FOR A BRIEF INVESTIGATIVE STOP THAT STANDARD REQUIRES REASONABLE ARTICULABLE SUSPICION BASED ON SPECIFIC FACTS NOT A MERE HUNCH REV SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE SHOWING CONCEALMENT OF MERCHANDISE SATISFIED THAT THRESHOLD BEFORE ANY RESTRICTION OF MOVEMENT BEGAN ONCE DETAINED FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT MAY ONLY BE RESTRICTED TO THE DEGREE REASONABLY NECESSARY TO CONFIRM OR DISPEL THAT SUSPICION GEORGIA COURTS RECOGNIZE ESCORTED RESTROOM ACCESS AS A PERMISSIBLE MIDDLE GROUND DURING AN ACTIVE DETENTION IT SATISFIES A BASIC NEED WITHOUT SURRENDERING CONTROL OVER POTENTIAL EVIDENCE I don't gotta do sh*t like this they got set up to stereotype no one's stereotyping you that's what I'm doing right now so I won't miss my flight so I'm gonna ask you a quick question so saw you on camera grab an item so where is it I don't have it sir i'mma tell you the truth so where so so where did you put it I put it back she I handed it to her and we watch the video you can check me and everything I don't have no glasses so we watch the video and I swear to god I wouldn't understand I wouldn't even risk it you don't understand because I do you understand that you will be here I know I know but I know but I am hearing you out but you didn't let me finish so I'm gonna give you some information we watch the video camera we did see you take the glasses we did see you put in your persons and we saw you walk out we didn't see you go back in and give it back to her so my next question is where is it where did you put it I handed them back to her not point to the video you walked out you can't tell me OK so where is it so so I'm asking you where did you put it I didn't put him nowhere I gave him back to her not according to the video footage well I gave him back to her not in the video footage what I don't have no glasses I might have a look alike or something but I don't have no glasses it says you just see Georgia Bulldogs you got blue shoes exactly but you can't hold me accountable for something that I don't got so we could because on video when it shows you walking out with it never come back and you never gave it back to her she said when you touch the glasses give them back to me for sanitary purposes I handed her the glasses back for her to you know what this could be easily resolved we're just gonna look at the video and then you can recount your side of the story and then we'll be done but if you said you already seen the camera then what is you taking me back over there for I don't have no glasses I want you to explain to me that hey no this it it looks like that but if you notice at this frame I passed the glasses back to the attendant explain it to me prove show me in the video where you did all that so we can get this clear so what are you guys trying to do take me to jail I'm not trying to do anything I'm trying to investigate this allegation so you handcuffed somebody down no we're still investigating my fight I don't have the time to so I'm just so the more we keep talking the less time we have to get you on that set you already seen the camera so yeah so so show the process so you're gonna go set sunglasses out show where you were how you did it and how you can it back cause you're telling me I can't visualize a picture I'm not up there you actually said you told me that this is what you did I picked some glasses up and she was like so show him upstairs and she was like here if you can't get it in there I don't I have a baby you know this is America and you get to face your accuser and we're gonna get this thing straight and I can I have my vape in my hand is what went in my pocket cause I've been vaping okay that's what was so let's go ahead and talk to her then come on I'm gonna look good OK so come on in excuse me ma'am when I pick those glasses up you may have thought that I put glasses in my pocket but I had a vape in my hand well this song got you on camera right here and I got the vape in my hand you see me put this is the whole thing you see me put something in my pocket but it was my vape and the lady that was with you she took them too well I don't know what anybody else has going on she's got it too and that she concealed it under her shirt you just put them in your bag I didn't put what how can I fit anything in this bag you wanna watch the video yeah let's go ahead and show her cause she's saying that she can explain it show me it's show me put it in my bag she says that she gave the glasses and return them to you and if it don't show me put it in my bag get out of her because she's she's discriminating I'm about to sue the f*ck out of her because I know for a fact I didn't first and foremost you don't have to use any foul language we're all civil here where's my phone so I can call my lawyer I'm not sure I don't know where your phone is oh god you want some extra that *ss sh*t on some racism and I'll never come back here get my identity off your phone that's another lawsuit okay just go ahead and bring up bring up the video get me off your phone you don't have my authorization to have you in the state of Georgia please no consent that's right that's from the camera you can't record the camera no girl you didn't record that the more we argue the longer it's gonna take nah because she p*ssing me off cause she really wants some racist sh*t let her do her thing so we can get you moving no they said I have rights to be in here yes and they can show it to you though whenever they want I got it out but if you if you talk back to her like that we're not gonna show I'd like her escorted out though please okay you got to go turn around ma'am give you guys the video you're under arrest for theft for shoplifting turn around ma'am please so I'm missing my flight I don't know if I don't know when your flight is but turn around please my flight is at 6:40 but you should ma'am turn around please for me OK I know we don't want to deal with that OK so no you're under arrest now for a retail theft top lifting but you're moving right along what there you go you found those tampering with evidence as well tampering with evidence Roger are those it that's them yes sir okay ma'am you've been charged with shoplifting and tampering with evidence THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINST SELF INCRIMINATION APPLIES DURING A TERRY STOP A SUBJECT MAY LAWFULLY DECLINE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS WITHOUT THAT SILENCE ITSELF BEING EVIDENCE OF GUILT SILENCE AND NONCOOPERATION HOWEVER ARE LEGALLY DISTINCT FROM CONCEALMENT THAT DISTINCTION PROVED DECISIVE AND HOW THIS CASE WAS ULTIMATELY CHARGED UNDER GEORGIA CODE SECTION § 16-10-94 TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE REQUIRES KNOWINGLY CONCEALING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE WITH INTENT TO OBSTRUCT PROSECUTION DISCARDING RECOVERED MERCHANDISE INSIDE A RESTROOM AFTER AN INVESTIGATION WAS ALREADY UNDERWAY MEETS THAT STATUTORY DEFINITION ON ITS FACE WHEN TIED TO A FELONY INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ANOTHER PERSON TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE IS ITSELF A FELONY CONVICTION CARRIES A SENTENCE OF ONE TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON SEPARATELY GEORGIA CODE SECTION § 16-8-14 DEFINES THEFT BY SHOPLIFTING ITS FELONY THRESHOLD IS SET AT MERCHANDISE VALUED OVER $500 these are demonstration glasses but they're still the same price as a live working pair okay well can I find my family so I can let them know what I think they know you're here but they'll probably see you on the way out did you want to report that though yeah I'll let him deal with that so I'm about to go to jail down here that's what it is are y'all serious it's a misdemeanor cause I don't think she's gonna pursue the the felony charge what would you do give me a ticket or you taking me to jail oh yeah they'll they'll rebook you easily enough we can do that would you so are you taking me to jail or write me a ticket I'm not sure at this point we're trying to I'm gonna let him go in sir I don't get in trouble I don't do nothing and I have a son's waiting on me to get home so who's your friend in the red shirt that's grandma and that's the she had the red and blue beauty she's put under her shirt and then she'll put it in her bag you see it where it goes on the shirt and then the bag yeah I showed them it's I broke it into two videos just because it paused on me so I had to restart it but that's where she puts it in the bag so am I going to jail or can I get a ticket and pay it like what what can I do it's not in Chatham County it's it's not a ticket so you are gonna get booked I hate to say it and I'm gonna be blunt as possible sometimes actions got consequences and this happening one of them but but unfortunately hey listen in Oklahoma if it's under $1,000 they aren't required to take it so this is not Oklahoma this is Chatham County Georgia Georgia's different can my brother pay some money right now before for me to not get booked in can he pay yeah he can probably take care of can can my brother pay right now where I want to go not right now what do you want to do with grandma try to locate and yeah recover the property property yep okay so um would you like to give this to your brother yeah like I can't I can't believe that that y'all trying to put me in jail like why would I not why would I not be I ain't got my phone or nothing like I'm miles away from home like why like I can't get a ticket yeah I don't work that way here for that charge please get that get that tell the other person to get away free y'all blame me what other person is that there she said that I was in there with somebody oh yeah we don't have her but the flight hadn't left yet what's that yeah who's she with who's she related to you in the restaurant I don't know her but she said that it was two of us in there on the camera at the same time so why is she blaming me if she saw so we so we found you first but we're gonna look for her now I didn't get to hit my vape well they won't let you take it to jail okay I didn't get to hit it so that's what I said that's something to try and get a hit I got one I don't know where the other one is she's kind of like she went totally gone once we started tracking her but she's got a flight to catch so she's probably up there is he still in here what's that yep we caught him when she went in the bathroom she discarded the stolen glasses poops found it it's those are glasses um with the recorders on the video over 300 over 300 yep oh and the and the other it's a misdemeanor I know what do you what do you what options do we have set a bond for her it's like it's pretty low anyways yeah cause she doesn't she doesn't want to prosecute so we're trying to find her she's a it's got a Red Jacket shirt on you see you see her yeah so I can't I can't see her on the concourse area THAT THRESHOLD IS NOTABLY LOWER THAN GEORGIA'S GENERAL THEFT STATUTE A DETAIL THAT SURPRISES MANY FIRST TIME DEFENDANTS GRADING THE RESPONDING OFFICER A SOLID B HE ESTABLISHED REASONABLE SUSPICION THROUGH REVIEWED VIDEO AND CLEARLY STATED THE SUBJECT'S DETENTION STATUS HE ALSO OFFERED A PROPORTIONATE RESTROOM ACCOMMODATION RATHER THAN AN OUTRIGHT DENIAL HIS ONLY SHORTCOMING WAS LETTING THE EXCHANGE GROW ARGUMENTATIVE DURING UNRELATED DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS GRADING THE SUBJECT A D MINUS VERBALLY ASSERTING HER RIGHTS WAS LEGALLY SOUND BUT DISCARDING THE EVIDENCE CONVERTED A MISDEMEANOR LEVEL ALLEGATION INTO AN INDEPENDENT FELONY CHARGE THE LESSON FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REPEATED CLEAR NOTICE OF DETENTION STATUS PROTECTS BOTH PARTIES LEGAL POSITIONS THE LESSON FOR CITIZENS SILENCE DURING A STOP IS A PROTECTED RIGHT BUT CONCEALING EVIDENCE IS A SEPARATE CRIME IT ONLY COMPOUNDS THE ORIGINAL CHARGE RATHER THAN RESOLVING IT LET US KNOW IF THERE IS AN INTERACTION OR LEGAL TOPIC YOU WOULD LIKE US TO DISCUSS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND DO NOT FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL FOR MORE CONTENT ON POLICE COURT INTERACTIONS