we have two guests that are clearly drunk and they're being very aggressive towards other people and they already start hitting people so I want to get them out if they listen so if they want you to leave you have to leave that's all it is if they don't leave you have to go to jail are you refusing to leave the property yes turn around please is it because I'm a Trump I don't have I don't know what is it is that why you're upset with me politics have nothing to do with anything on February 15th 2,024 the town of Palm Beach Police Department responded to a disturbance call at the Four Seasons Palm Beach Hotel two guests Monica Hendricks 62 and her daughter Keeley Hendricks 24 had been asked to leave the property by hotel management both refused both were arrested the legal consequences that followed were entirely predicated on that single decision we have two guests that are clearly drunk and they're being very aggressive towards other people and they already start hitting people so I want to get them out of here again are they are they uh did they stay at the hotel yes but we're kicked them out and we export them out that they refuse they are there they are guests they are and you are and they evicted out of here they are alright okay relax okay I got this open I'll take care of it I know but just let me I know I got the story already let me do my job hold on hon okay this listen I promise you right now okay it's just my mom we don't need drinks okay hi how you doing today I'm Officer Freeman OK I'm Monica how are you OK the story listen OK I I don't drink alcohol my daughter do it fair do it fair do it my daughter don't do it don't let me talk let me I just let me talk let me let me I'm gonna talk I'll let you talk but I wanna do it outside because I can't hear in here let's walk outside but listen let's let's walk outside Hon I don't want not inside I don't want to talk inside wait hon please I want I want to say it because we don't drink alcohol well let's talk outside please come on Hon please come on let's just talk out I don't want to disturb anybody else OK yeah okay stop that that's why I wanna bring it outside I mean that's just what's gonna happen okay what do you get you got your ID what you got no cause we didn't wait what you had to oh that oh that's for ID that's all Mikey you know we left it in the room cause we didn't think somebody get OK not a problem listen we've gone through a really bad time right now I'm telling you I can hear I'm right here I'm right here I can hear you OK but I don't know who you are so I gotta know who you are first so what's your first name OK two people I'm on magic here OK one person let me tell you just what I saw OK all of a sudden these people just so mean and just like um OK knock me over and wait in the in the dining room yeah and and and listen I'm like I'm in the travel business and and she's with me my daughter and I was knocked down and but listen I didn't care about that and then um she and then she was over there um when you when were you checking out tomorrow no I'm here I just checked in today okay well they not gonna probably want you to stay here when they got that right wait what of course cause these people are f*cking liberals wait man what happened they have a right if they don't want you to stay here they give you a right well I just came today no that's police is not you know what if you're gonna talk don't curse all right wait I'm not I'm not gonna curse to you don't be rude everything's being recorded everything you say is being recorded I cannot hear two people talking at once if you she's gonna talk you can't talk also knows I can't pick up what you're saying when she talks hang on I did nothing wrong whatever we'll be reported though I don't know what I did if you report I don't know what I did OK we did nothing wrong OK well it's gonna happen we did nothing we came to a hotel OK whatever well I wasn't here tonight treated like sh*t oh well then you know what then it's time what we came from well you did not know alright well I understand but this like go check the doors in there I asked you not to I don't talk shh OK sorry if you're gonna keep on cursing I apologize for the cursing I apologize well you don't think so I can't understand why people I apologize for well that's the dirty mouth like that doesn't impress me okay it really doesn't I apologize but it doesn't it's a private property to have you leave the property illegal are you telling me I'm f*cking arrested I don't give a f*ck are you telling me I'm leaving the hotel are you telling me I'm leaving the hotel this is not okay whatever you're doing it's not okay okay wait we did nothing wrong like I don't care what you say hang on hang on shh are you telling me I'm leaving the hotel you heard I I had no alcohol I don't drink I don't that that that listen that that I did I whatever it whatever it's not it's I don't care what you did I need to know when you're in your report well you're acting in you're acting you're right now you're acting aggressive and you're loud and you're intoxicated okay no I didn't drink I don't drink why smell it on your breath so I don't know how alcohol got all over your breath I don't drink I smell so much why you smell it I don't drink alcohol I haven't in 15 minutes well your behavior in here is the reason they don't want you in here were you and your daughter's behavior 15 years I've never changed that's fine so I need to know now what yeah I haven't drank in 15 years but you know we're gonna go into a really big problem well you could you could you could see oh yeah we're gonna be I wanna know now why you're telling me I can't because the hotel does not want you on their property the hotel does not want us where okay so let's let's try to get you guys another hotel no no no no they they didn't they want to get you guys another hotel the people at the hotel are whatever it is I am not doing anything I'm I'm not gonna move OK so I'm not gonna do anything I'm sorry I'm sorry so listen listen if they listen so if they want you to leave you have to leave that's all it is if they don't leave you have to go to jail so why are we paying so much money well so I'm going to jail hey sl*t if they don't want you if you if you listen listen to me I'm sorry you have to stand here and watch me go move away please this is the worst some people watch where's your stuff at we're gonna try to I need to get this stuff right from their room they're not coming back in here we can go grab their stuff well I'm not that's why I'm trying to get you to do I need to get their stuff they're not gonna leave then they're gonna end up going to jail but if you don't want them here we have to get a statement from you what well if you don't mean so you're right if you don't want them to be here we don't okay then then we're gonna have we'll get them out if they refuse to leave they're gonna end up going to jail so and we'll get them trespass from here we can we can ask them yeah the first legal framework at issue is Florida Statute Section 5 0 9.141 the innkeeper's right to eject guests this statute grants licensed public lodging establishments the absolute authority to remove any guest for disorderly conduct intoxication or conduct that disturbs other patrons critically this right does not require the guest's misconduct to be proven or adjudicated the hotel's institutional judgment not the guest's self assessment is the operative legal standard the subject's repeated insistence that they had done nothing wrong is emotionally understandable but legally irrelevant to the trespass question under this statute once the hotel invokes Section 5 0 9.141 the next statute that activates is Florida Statute Section 8 to 10.0 to 8 trespassing a structure or conveyance this statute is straightforward a person who remains on private property after a lawful warning to leave commits a criminal offence Officer Freeman issued that warning multiple times in plain language with explicit explanation of the legal consequences the subject's refusal stated directly and on camera established probable cause for arrest both subjects invoked profanity and political accusations throughout the encounter under city of Houston versus hill and Cohen versus California profanity directed at police officers is constitutionally protected speech Officer Freeman correctly declined to treat the political commentary or the profanity as independent grounds for arrest this is sound constitutional practice the arrests were predicated on trespass and disorderly intoxication not on the content of speech the First Amendment analysis therefore does not invalidate the charges this is how you act all the time what time is happening at just now or about what time in the past 20 minutes so they came in here but had they came in checked in went to the wrong room they got agitated upset who who went up there they came back down here to tell right is that where it happened at one of them did yes this happened in the lobby most of the stuff happened in the lobby no it happened upstairs who went up there Talia who where is she at she's downstairs OK I got the car OK and when when did you get involved in this shortly after she calls for security where upstairs or here upstairs so you went upstairs yes and they were doing what yelling screaming stuff yelling screaming they hit Tilly in the arm they punched her in the arm then they yanked her arm and said let's go you're coming with me the daughter said that yanked Thalia's arm said you're coming with me we're going to the lobby Tilly said don't touch me she got mad she ran down to the lobby she wasn't even walking she was running she ran down to the lobby she started complaining to our ram right here then she came back upstairs when I went upstairs to talk to mom so she's the mom's up there still and and and yes the mom did not want to come downstairs alright I'mma buy the elevator is that on video anywhere should be yes then down here on the lobby floor lobby level she kicked me again okay um so she's like more the violent one the other one is just a loud mouth yes the mom is just alright well we're gonna just try to get him out of here that's what you want which uh you guys cannot stay here you're gonna be trust you're gonna be issued trespass warnings what do you mean I'm telling you this is what's gonna happen you don't you can want me all you want I'm talking slow and in English I'll I'll just go inside right now you cannot go back in that whole you cannot go back in you can okay this story is the hotel is private property they have the right to have you leave their property it's like if it's like if I came to your house and you wanted me to leave I would have to leave this is private property I don't care I didn't do anything wrong but the hotel still has a right to deny you access to their hotel to their property and that's what they're doing they do not want you here they're gonna get your stuff from the room and they're gonna ask you to leave okay and and f*ck who doesn't want us here treated us like sh*t Democrats no reason it's just not women Democrats who don't I asked you before not Democrats I asked you before not to touch me I wanna know who doesn't want us here I mean we're OK get it on go get your phone right now I mean we're putting this on video right now hurry up you're not going back in the hotel I'm getting on I mean I will you don't give a I will OK I don't care if you arrest me I don't give a f*ck this is not fair we are paying for this hotel are you we didn't do anything wrong you're a f*cking Liberal Democrat you're a f*cking Liberal are you guys refusing to leave you're a Liberal no are you yes are you refusing to leave the property the most consequential legal development in this footage is Monica Hendricks striking Officer Freeman during the arrest sequence under Florida Statute section 7 8 4.07 battery on a law enforcement officer during the lawful execution of duty is a felony a significant enhancement over the underlying misdemeanor trespass charge this single act transformed the entire legal profile of Monica's case what could have resolved as a misdemeanor citation became a felony arrest record when Keeley Hendricks refused the arrest command and pulled away from Officer Freeman the use of force analysis shifts to Graham versus Conner 1989 The Supreme Court established in Graham versus Conner that the reasonableness of force all must be evaluated from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene not with 20 20 hindsight the court identified three controlling factors the severity of the crime at issue whether the subject poses an immediate threat to safety and whether the subject is actively resisting or attempting to flee Kelly was being arrested for trespass compounded by prior battery allegations against hotel staff she was actively pulling away from the officer all 3 gram factors support the ground control technique applied equally significant is what did not happen no OC spray no Taser deployment no pain compliance techniques no strikes officers operated at the lower end of the force continuum throughout Monica's repeated claims of being unable to breathe while in the patrol vehicle require separate legal analysis in a post custody context any stated medical complaint must receive an immediate officer response officers responded correctly opening the vehicle window and verbally engaging Monica to assess the claim her continued ability to speak at sustained volume and confirmed an unobstructed airway but the response itself was the correct one regardless neither subject invoked their Fifth Amendment right to silence at any point in this footage both produced extensive verbal records across 16 minutes of contact with law enforcement Monica's in custody statements including her denial of alcohol use her threats about her husband and her political accusations were all potentially admissible and none of them advanced her legal position on the question of potential civil liability under 42 United States Code Section 1 9 8 3 a federal civil rights claim requires a showing that officers deprived the plaintiff of a constitutional right while acting under color of law based on the footage no viable section 1 9 8 3 claim is present here probable cause existed for all charges force was proportionate and no clearly established constitutional right was violated yes turn around please no turn around please no no no don't don't no no no oh my God get away no don't move don't move don't move don't move mom I don't care it's my mom your mom's fine it's my mom give me the other hand give me the other hand I can't be all sitting here you're sitting here you're watching us give me the other hand you're watching us hey take a picture of that ah OK ready these are like these are like I'm trying to help you up now you you hit me you're going to get another charge she already got the charge she's gonna get she got a felony charge right here for hitting me I didn't do anything yeah he punched me in the face OK ah ah get up ah ah ah take a picture now shh Sophia ah ah mommy ah ah take a picture now mom mom take a picture now stand up mom I know no it's my mom I don't care I won't leave her I don't care take a picture now you can hurt me my mom hurry up hello my mom you wanna stand up stand up stand up get up I'll get up but can I stay with my mom no yeah you will but we're gonna bring you to the car I'm gonna bring you to the car no I don't wanna get in the car that's my mom please stand up somebody help me now somebody help me now hello you're just sitting there looking at me no stop and let it go now it's over whatever you said your piece already you said your piece okay she makes she makes stand up stand up stand up ah ah stand up stand up alright alright stand up you gotta stand up stand up stand up one you ready one two three stand up stand up oh my God where's my daughter we're going with you together oh my God I'm throwing the car I'm thrown in the car I am thrown in the car she's in the car behind you is this one competitive stuff well I got here now stop it I can't breathe I can't breathe I can't breathe OK stop yelling stop yelling listen what's your first name you can talk you can breathe look at me I'm telling you right now get out no no I'm telling you no you're gonna listen to me I'm telling you right now there's something big going on I will not be treated like this ever take a deep breath okay I'm letting you talk right you just talk take a deep breath alright I was locked in here for a long time I know I don't drink alcohol I never have and I've got these things on my back well what happened tonight nothing alright my daughter's with me right now I mean we did nothing wrong some idiot just I don't know alright alright you know what listen I honestly listen that's your daughter over there so listen I need you my daughter's with me and listen okay so my daughter had nothing to do with anything no no tensions are high right now I can't get my hair out of my mouth do you get it no I'm not gonna touch your mouth touch my freaking get it out of my hurry just talk just talk I can't do you match my tone okay don't worry about it I can't do this no no no you're not gonna be able to but I can't get my I can't I can't talk you can talk you're doing a great job of talking just talk to me alright listen we're talking like adults here we're all adults just the situation right now okay thank you just take it easy I'm not gonna take it easy you're doing a good job you are taking is it because I'm a Trump I don't have I don't know what is it is that why you're upset with me politics have nothing to do with anything I'm not upset with you at all but this can be a really big problem right now because if you don't get if you don't get these things off my back my husband I swear to God it's gonna be really bad like within 10 minutes if it these are off my back I can't even I can't I can't even breathe I cannot pull you can't breathe I can't pull I can't pull I can't pull I I mean search it up I can't breathe alright I can roll the door hurry I gotta hurry I'm serious I'm so I can't breathe OK there you go oh my God no I can't breathe I can't breathe the the window's open I can't breathe the window's open I can't breathe following the incident Monica Hendricks was charged with battery on specified personnel trespassing resist officer without violence and disorderly intoxication in a public place causing a disturbance Kelly Hendricks was charged with trespassing disorderly intoxication and resist officer without violence both cases were resolved through the court process no disciplinary action against the responding officers was reported the footage was published by Body Cam Edition in January of 2025 and reached hundreds of thousands of views within days Officer Freeman receives an a minus his de escalation execution was consistent and disciplined across an extended provocation heavy encounter he correctly identified the legal basis for removal communicated it repeatedly with clarity declined to treat protected speech as an arrest predicate and applied force only when active physical resistance was offered the grade reflects one documentable lapse the comment about speaking slow and in English which while contextually understandable introduced an unnecessary communication variable in a high visibility incident Monica Hendricks receives a d the trespass charge was avoidable multiple points throughout this encounter the felony battery charge under Florida Statute Section 7 8 4.0 to 7 was entirely self generated striking a law enforcement officer during a lawful arrest is never a legally defensible response to a disagreement about being asked to leave a property Monica also produced an extensive verbal record without invoking her right to silence denied alcohol use in direct contradiction of the officer's contemporaneous observation and made on camera threats that served no legal purpose Keeley Hendricks receives a C minus her alleged battery against hotel staff was the precipitating event that established the hotel's legal basis for requesting removal under Section 5 0 9.141 her active resistance to the arrest command provided the factual predicate for the ground control technique applied by Officer Freeman unlike her mother Kelly avoided a felony battery charge but the charges she did incur were entirely avoidable through compliance The Town of Palm Beach Police Department receives an a minus the departmental response reflects well calibrated use of force policy and de escalation training applied under genuine operational pressure officers maintained constitutional awareness throughout refusing to act on protected speech providing proper trespass advisements and responding correctly to in custody medical complaints the grade mirrors Officer Freeman's individual assessment the slow and in English comment is a training level communication concern that does not diminish the quality of the overall response this encounter illustrates four principles applicable beyond this specific incident first a paid reservation does not suspend a private property owner's right to remove a guest under Florida Statute Section 5 0 9.141 a hotel contract and a trespass statute operate on separate legal tracks second verbal expression including profanity and political speech directed at officers is constitutionally protected arrest based solely on offensive speech would constitute a First Amendment violation under clearly established federal precedent third the Fifth Amendment right to silence exists at every stage of a law enforcement encounter not only after Miranda warnings invoking that right in Monica's situation could not have made her legal position worse not invoking it demonstrably did fourth every point on the force continuum carries legal consequences in both directions officers face liability for force that exceeds the Graham standard subjects face felony charges when they initiate battery against officers executing lawful arrests both outcomes are legally predictable neither is unavoidable let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic that you would like us to discuss in the comments below thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more content on police court interactions