If you do not stop tensing up, I'm going to take you to the ground. >> Turn around. >> Turn around. >> This is tumble sh. You do not have to put me in cuffs. I will comply and go sit my hands back down >> around now >> and bump me again like that and I'm I'm trying to get I'm >> I told you to stop. >> What the [ __ ] are YOU DOING THERE, SON? On September 6th, 2025, a woman walked into a Walmart [music] in West Palm Beach, Florida, and left in handcuffs after a ground takeown over merchandise valued at approximately $22. The real issue here is not whether she stole a purse. It's whether the force used to arrest her was proportional to a [music] $22 misdemeanor. >> Ma'am, push the car inside the store. >> I'll put my car inside the store before I snap. >> Oh, wow. >> All right. All right. Go ahead and pull your card up over here for me. >> Okay. So, what is y'all talking about? What? What is it? Because it's 2:30. >> Do you have an ID on you? >> No. No. No. But I can. >> So, so let's stop right now. Okay. >> I'm stopping you for shoplifting. >> If you want to leave out of here, you're going to change your attit stop. Stop. If you want to leave out of here, you're going to change your attitude. Okay. >> If not, I'll just take you to the county cuz I really don't care. >> I don't go to jail. >> You don't? Cuz you can't today. >> I tell you, I I don't go to jail. I don't have a record. But what I'm telling you, >> right, but what I'm telling you is today you can make your way to the county. >> What did I make? >> Number one is this purse and also the clothes in this cart that you bagged up at the register. >> So let's let's let's change the tone. >> Okay, >> let me tell y'all something. I scanned my [ __ ] panties and it's an employee here that [ __ ] seen it. If you saying I shoplifted my [ __ ] panties, they're $3. I I I done sit up there and [ __ ] front all of this. That's why exactly I don't come here. I don't do not come to this Walmart because y'all be on [ __ ] If that's the case, you could have easily said, >> "Okay, first of all, stop. Back away. Back away from the cart, ma'am. Back away from the cart. >> I'm backing away giving you >> Where's your receipt at? >> My receipt is right here." >> Okay, give me your receipt >> cuz I have two transactions. >> Okay. Excellent. There's that, Miss Daisy. >> Okay. [clears throat] This purse does not belong to you. This purse belongs to the store. I watched you take this off the shelf and tear the tags off. These do not belong to you. This does not belong to you. I watched you put this inside the purse. Please don't grab any of the stolen merchandise. >> Anything but >> don't grab anything out of the purse. Okay. >> All right. Go ahead. >> You got that. Thank you. I can go into my wallet. >> No, you cannot. Not right now >> because I've stopped you for a lawful reason. No, you cannot go into your wallet. I don't know what's inside your wallet. Please step over here. Okay. >> Okay, that's it. >> Miss Daisy, I'm I'm going to walk her down to the office and then we'll Can you Can you Can you just tell her to put me put my money back on my card? Hold this for this. Put my money back on my card. >> You'll get this in a second. Walk this way. >> I I would tell you. Let's walk this way cuz I I don't want it. >> Ma'am, leave everything in the car and walk this way. >> $300 for all my stuff. Walk this way. >> Please don't be aggressive. Walk this way. >> Please don't be aggressive. >> Pay attention to what I'm telling you. Then >> I am paying attention to what >> Please walk this way. >> That's frustrating. >> You tell me what you saw, what you watch. Okay, you got what you wanted. >> Let it go cuz everything else I paid for. I have never never >> been into a No, not been called. You being top. >> Yes, I am. >> Glad you picked up on it. Step inside. You going to have a seat over here on this bench. >> Step inside. Have a seat on the bench. Step inside. Have a seat on the bench. >> I'm only going to tell you one more time. Step inside. Have a seat on the bench. >> I'm going step inside and you going to let me out. >> I'mma step inside. She got what she wanted. And that's the case. Here go my food stamp card. Give me back all my money on them and I will leave. I will simply leave. I don't want [ __ ] from Walmart. I'll go to Walmart on 441. Period. I'm not writing down. I'm not my name. Nothing because I ain't do [ __ ] >> Have a seat. No, you're going to have a seat. >> Can you please refund my money? So everything up in your car and nothing was taken out. >> Now have a seat. I'm sir. I'm ready to go. I >> You're not going anywhere right now. >> And I'm tired. What is this? You need to communicate. >> I've already told you what you've been stopped for. >> Okay. You said shoplifting with the purse and you didn't pay for your pennies. >> That's correct. >> And I pay for everything else. >> Okay, that's fine. So, they're going to go through the car. >> You want me to pay for the pennies? Swipe my card. >> No, I said go ahead and go ahead and just refund me my money back and I'll go somewhere else. It's simple. >> It's common sense. >> That's why usually people come in and they pay for the stuff and they get the lead. >> My stuff, sir. Don't don't don't come at me like that because I'm not the [ __ ] thief. I don't have a record being a thief. >> Okay. But you got caught stealing today, right? >> I got caught stealing today. Okay. If that justifies your situation, cool. >> No, it justifies your situation. Ma'am, >> let me go. >> No, it doesn't work that way. >> What doesn't work that way? >> You don't just get to leave. >> Why do I not get to leave? because you're being stopped. >> I'm being >> I don't I don't understand why this is so hard for you to understand. >> I have your wallet. >> Okay. Can I have my wallet? >> No, you cannot pass. >> Okay, you can keep that. I I'll get something >> because what I want to do, don't bump me, ma'am, because I didn't I didn't do nothing to stop and have a seat. >> Okay, I am going to have Stop. I'm going take you to the ground because you're hurt. >> Stop. I'm going take you to the ground. >> Sir, first of all, sir, I'm a licensed medical. I'm going take you to the ground. pinky. That's all. >> I'm telling you right now, if you do not stop tensing up, I'm going to take you to the ground. >> All go sit down. >> No. Now you're going to get put in cuffs. >> For what? >> Stop tensing up. I'm going to take you to the ground. >> Turn around. Turn around. >> This is some boy [ __ ] You do not have to put me in cuffs. I will comply and go sit my hands back down. >> Turn around now >> and bump me again like that. And I'm I'm trying to get I'm >> I told you to stop. >> What the [ __ ] is YOU DOING THERE, SON? YOU SITTING UP HERE. NO, YOU'RE NOT. You're not You not YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SIT UP here and put ME IN MY [ __ ] FACE AND I'M A [ __ ] WOMAN. >> YOU You broke something. >> On the ground now. On the ground now. >> On the ground now. >> On the ground now. >> LET GO MY ARM LIKE THAT. >> ON THE GROUND NOW. >> Oh my god. >> On the ground now. Call my [ __ ] lawyer. >> Call my daddy. >> Call my daddy. I did not try to break over. >> Get off me. And I cannot breathe. >> You'll be able to in just a second. >> Off me. >> Give me your other arm. >> I'mma give you my other arm when you want something. Sir, you're open now. You don't lost your mind. What is your name? And my name IS OFFICER. COME OUT MY [ __ ] MOUTH. >> MOVE. >> Stand up. >> If I can't, if you wait. >> Stand up. >> Damn. Okay, give me a second. [ __ ] you going to make me hit my [ __ ] 9268 West Palm. Start supervisor. Have a seat. She's sticking something in my mouth. My >> tooth. >> Have a seat. >> May your best while I'm sticking something in my [ __ ] mouth. Broke my [ __ ] pinky. What the [applause] >> Have a seat. >> Give me my refund. Give me my refund so I can get out of [applause] here cuz I got to go to work tomorrow. Give me my refund now. I'm g the way you slap me on my [ __ ] face. >> Have a seat. >> Why you slap ME ON MY FACE? MY FACE. HAVE A SEAT. Have a seat. My face is killing me. >> Have a seat now. >> Don't bump my head. >> Have a seat. >> DON'T BUMP MY HEAD. >> Have a seat. Are you going back ON THE GROUND? >> DO NOT BUMP MY HEAD. >> HAVE A SEAT. >> You You [ __ ] aggressive, BRO. TO THE WRONG [ __ ] PEOPLE. >> Stay seated. >> I am seated. >> And do not get up. >> All right. Uncuff me again. You ain't even supposed to handle a woman like that. >> Wait, how are you? >> I'm good. >> Good. >> Yeah. >> Good, man. >> Yeah. Refusing to comply. >> Okay. >> Uh, it's not >> trying to put her in cuffs. Wanted to keep pulling away. >> Okay. >> Tried to walk out of the office. >> You body slam me. You should have done my arm. Take a deep breath. We're good. We're good. real. >> Have a seat. >> Have a seat. >> Over here again. Have a seat. >> You see what I mean? >> Have a seat. >> Sit down. >> Sit down. >> Just sit. >> You are not free to do what you want to do. >> I'm not doing what I want to do. >> Like I said, GIVE ME MY [ __ ] and y'all can give me back my $375. I [ __ ] as [ __ ] And I'mma get the [ __ ] up out of here. my pennies in a [ __ ] purse. >> Hotel November 16. >> That's not even no PETTY STUFF. I NEVER BEEN ARRESTED FOR ANY [ __ ] thing, >> man. Get this [ __ ] up off me. He got this cuff in my hand and I swear to God, I will call my daddy. That's a lawyer and you will regret it. >> Take a seat, man. >> Sit down. >> Y'all let me have an inside 15 division. >> Take your card. Give me my money back. I'll go somewhere else. Take my card. Give me my money back. Straight up. Cuz what you not going to do is ban me and act like I'm not going to do [ __ ] about it. >> Cuz if you was my man, I'll slap you dead in your [ __ ] for putting your hand on the females. You got me [ __ ] up. >> I ain't never been in [ __ ] trouble. I'm not trouble. All right, I'll add onition. >> Can you move cuz it's bad enough she buck [ __ ] I drag her. So I'm telling you right now, you can sit down. You can pose if you want to call your granddaughter or whoever you want cuz I guarantee you I ain't going to lose. Can you give me my stuff? >> No, I'm shopping no more and I will speak to him. >> Don't worry about it. That's our teeth. >> Oh, I know what that is. >> All right. It's a residence. No one's here. Do you mind giving her a call back? >> Like a bridge? A bridge or something? >> Pretty much. >> Okay. >> I like your nails. >> Thank you. >> Oh, yeah. You're welcome. >> I'm just ready to go. >> She got what she wanted. They got what they wanted. All they wanted was their pennies. Have your bag. You want me to pay? That's fine. Let me go. I pay for everything else. They're calling two Bravo 6 >> and he still have not yet loosened his go. >> So if I cut up and I act a fool, it's on you. >> No, [clears throat] it's on you. >> It ain't on me. >> No, it is >> because I ask politely to un loosen my cuff. >> The cuffs are all right, man. >> To un loosen my How? >> What you mean? >> Do you see this? >> They're not my You see that it's eating me? >> I can't I can't see. >> YOU SEE THAT? I GOT RED MARKS. >> NO, I can't. I don't see it. >> Your shirt over. >> Okay. >> Your shirt over. >> It ain't my shirt. my jacket because he slam me in my face. That's why he made my flipper come out cuz I'm over him straight up. >> What kind of medication is it? >> I don't take no medication. What do you mean? >> You're not diagnosed with anything? >> No. >> Do I look like I'm diagnosed with anything because I'm a black woman? >> No. Your brother or your sister? >> He She is and she's very pissed off. >> You said that you're diagnosed with some kind of death or something like that. >> What do you mean? I have anxiety. >> I don't know. I'm just trying to be >> I'm happy right now. >> You are. >> I'm ready to go. >> I ain't never been back there no office. None of this never happened. I just sat up there and talked to the girl at the [ __ ] front desk that she seen me ring up every [ __ ] thing. And you talk about, "Oh, I didn't ring up all my fies." [ __ ] they're 350. Oh, in the verse. [ __ ] out my face. If that's the case, you want me to pay for the first, I'll pay for it. Get me the [ __ ] up out of here. >> You don't do no ladies right there. I'm not one of them ghetto [ __ ] I'm very [ __ ] classy. And intelligent. Don't play with me. I hope your wife like it. >> I don't like women. >> Yeah, I bet you don't. It show. >> I love my mother and my great grandmother. >> Mhm. I bet you do. That's the only love you going to get. >> And where's my purse? >> Your wallet's right here. >> No, my purse. >> That purse belongs to Walmart, ma'am. >> Dude, I >> Your other purse is still in the store where you set it at. >> Okay, go get it. >> I'm not going to do that. >> If you're not going to go get it, then what you want me here for? >> I'm not concerned with the purse that you came in with. >> Okay, what do you want me here? Answer my question >> again. You're here for shoplifting is what I told you when I first stopped you. >> Not shoplifting cuz I ain't scared three pennies in the purse. >> Honestly, right before >> I did everything else. >> What you want the money for? Let me go. >> Doesn't work that way. >> It's not even petty theft. You supposed to steal a 100 or better. That's nothing. I don't even [ __ ] steal. >> Petty theft is anything under $750 now. >> It is $750. How much How much money that was that you got? >> 22. 22. I'm calculating it for you. >> Does she have family out there? >> Uh, do you want the guy and the ladies you're with to take your stuff? >> What do you mean >> to take your wallet? >> They're going to take your wallet. Do you want your family to take your wallet? >> For what? >> Cuz you've been arrested, man. >> Cuz you're being arrested. >> Been arrested for what? >> You're going to jail? >> Yeah. >> Why am I going to jail? >> It's an easy question. Do you want your family to take your personal property or would you rather >> take my personal property >> or would you rather put it in a bag and have it taken to counting? So, what do you want us to do? >> I'm telling you, what am I'm going to jail for? >> The legal turning point is the moment the officer attempts to handcuff her. She tenses up, pulls away, refuses to comply. Under Florida statute 843.02, resisting an officer without violence, that conduct alone is a first-degree misdemeanor. Still, the underlying offense matters under Graham versus Connor, the Supreme Court standard that requires force to be objectively reasonable based on severity of the crime, the immediate threat level, and whether the suspect was actively resisting. Pettit theft secondderee sits at the very bottom of Florida's criminal ladder. That gap is exactly where this encounter gets legally complicated. When the officer took possession of her wallet and refused to return it, a separate Fourth Amendment question opened up. Courts draw a line between briefly controlling access during a safety check and indefinitely withholding personal property during a minor misdemeanor detention. While officer safety justifies a brief hold, the duration here pushes against that boundary. Loss prevention operated under Florida statute 812.015 015 subsection 3, which gives a merchants's employee the right to detain a suspected shoplifter when there is probable cause. The LP officer witnessed the purse being taken and the tags being removed. That direct observation is the probable cause anchor for everything that follows. >> We've been arrested for shoplifting and resisting. >> How? I didn't even resist you. You're lying. You need >> You need to delete that. I did not resist arrest. I will never resist arrest on the street, man. >> I do not resist. I do not resist arrest. What are you talking about? You need to delete that. >> No, I saw he actually had a clear bag. You're >> You need You need to delete that. >> You can give me my You can give me You can give me my family myself because that's a [ __ ] lie. And I need to get my stuff out my [ __ ] purse and take my [ __ ] medication before I [ __ ] snap. >> I'm telling y'all right now. I'm not going to jail. You might as well run. >> Tackle me. Kill me. [ __ ] just tell my kids I love them. Simple as that. >> I don't give a [ __ ] cuz what I'm not gonna do is go to jail. >> I can tell you that now. She don't have a problem. And just in case, pay for the purse. Why is it a big problem? That's you. You You're talking about something that's over under $25. You're not even trying to help. You're talking about you coming in here to fix the [ __ ] problem to get it resolved. And then you talking about I'm resisting arrest. How the [ __ ] I'm going resist arrest when you slap me on my face, man? Call the >> call. >> Take a seat, man. >> Call the EMT now before I buck out this door and I give y'all a real reason to arrest me. >> You're not going to do that, man. >> I swear to God, I am on my dad ass mom. >> What's your >> And my mama death anniversary is on the [ __ ] 21st. I'm not playing with y'all. It's Saturday. >> Calling the medic. >> No. No. I got to go to work tomorrow. Are you not listening? You say you want the medics. I have to tell them what your complaint is. >> My complaint is what you did. Tell them what you did. >> You know what the [ __ ] you did. >> Don't talk to me. >> Okay. >> Cuz you sitting under the line saying I resisted arrest. Why wouldn't I resist a [ __ ] arrest? You ignorant. And you want to sit up here and do this? I'm not going to jail. I'm telling y'all that. I'm not going to jail with them. Take a seat, man. I'm not going to jail. I got to go to work tomorrow. I'm not going to lose my job. I just got this hotel job. I just got my [ __ ] urgent care position. I'm not doing this with y'all. [ __ ] Friday. >> Take a seat, man. Please, man. >> No problem. What is your uh >> ma'am? Please. >> I appreciate you. >> I'm I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm gone. >> Why are you arresting me? >> Explain to you, man. >> You said shoplifting. I did not do any of that besides one [ __ ] thing, sir. Nobody goes to jail with anything like that unless they spun or STOLE ALL THAT [ __ ] >> Going with family. This is family, right? >> Yeah. It's going with my family, man. I'm going to get the [ __ ] up out of here. I'm telling you that. And my ear. I got to go. >> I got to go. I'm not taking [ __ ] I'm not going to jail. I got to go to work tomorrow. I'm like I'm not going I'm not >> Take take a seat, please. Ma'am, >> sir, I'm tell you're going to have to kill me. I'm ready to die. >> Don't say that. >> I'm ready to die. No, don't say that. Your kids need you. Why would you say that? >> No. >> You said you you said you miss your mom. YOU DON'T THINK YOU DON'T THINK YOUR KIDS GOING TO MISS YOU? >> HOW I'M GOING TO SEE MY MAMA? I'M IN JAIL. How I'm going TO GO TO A GRAVE SITE? HOW I'M GOING TO WORK BOTH OF MY JOBS? How >> you should have thought of that, man. >> I don't want that on my record. >> Okay. Well, let's go one step at a time. All right. >> He's going to [ __ ] up my whole career. >> Let's go one step at a time. >> No, I'm done with this. I will never come here again. >> Can I get up and speak to my brother? >> No, ma'am. Not right now. >> Then tell my BROTHER TO COME HERE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? >> HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SEE WHAT THE [ __ ] IS GOING ON. >> NO, MA'AM. He does not. >> Yes, he does. >> No, ma'am. >> Because he's my authority. >> He's your what? >> He's He's my authority. He's whatever I need him to be. >> Cuz that doesn't matter. He's over me. He's older than me. He knows. I don't trust being here with y'all and y'all not listening. >> And then he said resisting arrest. How the [ __ ] can I resist the rest? You trying to make me a criminal cuz I'm a black woman. Bro, I'm tell you if I was white, you would have let that hoe go. Let me go. Let me go. >> Not true, ma'am. >> It is. >> It is. I'm running. >> I'm running. >> No, ma'am. >> I swear to God, you're going to you're going to kill me today. No. >> You're going to kill me today. >> Just take a seat, ma'am. Please. >> You're going to kill me today. >> No, ma'am, we're not. >> You're going to kill me today. >> No, ma'am, we're not. >> Go ahead. >> I need my anxiety medication before I pass out. >> Take a seat, please. Man, you're making it worse by standing up. You got to sit down so you can breathe a little bit. >> I'm not going with y'all. I'm telling you. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Cuz this is ridiculous. I never had this in 30 years. In my entire life, I'm not doing this. If you want somebody to fix your situation, all you had to do is say, "Fix it. Pay for it and keep it moving. Leave me alone." You want to put up here, "I'm resisting arrest." Do you know how bad that is? >> I do. >> So, what do I supposed to do? >> Comply when the police tell you to stop. >> I did. >> You did not. >> Yes, I did. After that, sir, you don't have to do that. I'll go sit right down. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You f to get it. You fa to get it. Pl me on my [ __ ] Hit me in my face again. Boy, one thing I don't play about is my face. >> I just want to go. >> I just want to go. >> I know you do, man. >> They want to put resisting arrest. He can grab my wallet and I'll pay for it. Tell the lady I apologize and she will never see me again. >> I want to go. >> All right. I'm advising you that from uh this day for up to a year, you are trespassed from uh Walmart here. >> I don't want to be here. >> That's fine. You're just being advised that you trespassing for a year. I'm not signing [ __ ] >> Not asking you to >> and I'll be in here again. >> Okay. And you'll be arrested. >> They don't know me. >> Okay. I'll be here. I will arrest you. >> You can't be here and you don't know me. >> I will arrest you. >> I changed my hairstyle. You wouldn't even know who I am. >> Okay. >> Is EMT coming? >> Yeah. >> Where's the EMT at? >> Okay. Where where at? We're at where at in the parking lot. Where? So I can go and show them this and I can show them that my need >> You want to go out this door? I can open this one up. >> This one open. >> Oh, I can open this one. >> Where my brother at? You can go through. I'm scared. You can go through and I'm going to let them know that I am where they at. Where's the EMT? >> In the other corner of this parking lot. You got to be patient. >> What? What other corn? I don't even I don't even I'm not I'm not. No. Call my brother now. Call my brother now, please. Call my brother now. Call my brother now, please. Because you DIDN'T EVEN >> YOU DID NOT EVEN CALL M. >> You did not even call M. I don't WANT TO GET IN HERE. I DON'T WANT TO GET in here FOR [ __ ] WHAT? >> FOR WHAT? For what? For what? No. Don't put no seat BELT ON ME. DON'T PUT NOTHING ON ME. And y'all hurting MY [ __ ] HAND. STOP GRABBING ON ME. I YOUR HAND off my [ __ ] neck. You better GET YOUR [ __ ] HAND OFF MY [ __ ] NECK. >> Stupid ass [ __ ] >> You want to hobble or no? >> What do you think? >> Want her smacking her head on the wall. That's what I'm >> No, she's out of the seat. >> Okay, we'll hobble her. Do you have a hob's truck? >> Uh, no. >> Yeah, cuz this is uh Garrick's truck, right? >> Uh Garrick. Yeah. >> Get me out of here now. >> You got one. >> Get me out of here now. >> Oh, here it is. >> Get me out of here now. >> Come on. >> I'm not over there. You're not [ __ ] You're not going to [ __ ] >> Let's keep DOING THIS SOMEBODY. NO, CUZ Y'ALL NOT RESPECTING WHAT THE [ __ ] I SAID. >> LISTEN TO ME. >> NO. NO. IF YOU DON'T STOP, >> we are going to hobble your feet. >> No. No. >> You understand that? >> No. No. No. Tell them I want an MG right now. >> You are going to see the nurse at the jail. >> I don't WANT TO SEE NO NURSE. >> OKAY. >> I don't want to see no. >> The nurse has more training. The nurse has more training than a paramedic. >> No, they don't. >> Yes, they do. >> I'm a licensed. It >> is a registered nurse. Then you should know that a registered nurse has more training. You got my arm over here. >> You could have put You could have put THE HANDCUFFS IN THE FRONT. >> What am I gonna do? >> Well, I'm gonna do in the front. Now listen to me. My knees hurt. If you don't stop, we are going to hobble your feet. That means that we are going to take this cord and lock your feet together. >> The jail is 10 minutes away. You can sit back here for 10 minutes and go to the jail. >> Because y'all did this AND THEN YOU'RE SAYING, "OH, I RESISTED ARREST." Why would you say that, >> Miss Hearnen? >> Why would you say that? Why would you say that? You You're not going TO GET OUT OF JAIL. I HAVE >> I'M NOT GETTING you out of jail tomorrow. I'm not getting you out of jail. >> I HAVE TWO JOBS TOMORROW. >> Why would you not do that? WHY WOULD YOU NOT DO THAT? >> PLEASE DON'T push on me. You already push me. >> Open that door so we can pull it around the frame. >> Don't touch me. I don't need y'all TO PUT DON'T DO ANYTHING. I'm fine. >> Are you So, are you Are you going to relax back here? >> Leave me Just leave me alone. Leave me alone. It's the safest >> cuz I'm not going in there. >> I mean, she's saying she's going to relax. >> I'm not going in there. Get these cuts from behind my back into the [ __ ] front. Cuz when you sling this car, you're slinging my wrist. And if my wrist get broken, it's >> Yeah. If she's saying she's going to go, we don't got to wrestle with her. >> All right. >> Wrestle with her. >> Let's see. Yeah. I mean, you put the seat belt on. If she took the seat belt off, >> that's on her. >> All right. That said, the subject produced receipts for other items purchased that day. Legitimate purchases don't erase the alleged theft, but they do establish this was not a walk out with a full cart situation. The scope of the theft matters when evaluating the proportionality of the response. After the arrest, a trespass warning was issued under Florida statute 810.09, banning her from that Walmart for up to one year. Verbal advisement alone is legally sufficient. She was not required to sign. Her statement that she would change her hairstyle and return unrecognized is not protected speech. Acting on it would add a separate first-degree misdemeanor. During transport, she alleged a hand was placed on her neck and reported a broken pinky, facial impact, and hyperventilation. Under the 14th amendment's due process clause, once a person in custody communicates a medical need, officers must take reasonable steps to address it. EMT was called that satisfies the immediate constitutional requirement. But the neck contact allegation, if substantiated, carries serious weight under post George Floyd use of force scrutiny, regardless of how the base arrest is evaluated. She raised a racial discrimination claim stating she would have been released if she were white. The 14th Amendment's equal protection clause prohibits treating individuals differently based on race, but proving that violation requires both discriminatory intent and disperate treatment of similarly situated individuals. The footage alone cannot resolve that claim. The officer had a solid legal foundation. Loss prevention's eyewitness account is textbook probable cause. Supervisor notification and calling EMS were both correct procedure. Where it breaks down is proportion. Responding to a minor misdemeanor detention with sarcasm, then a ground takeown before exhausting softer options does not reflect deescalation standards. The subject produced receipts and offered multiple times to pay for the disputed item and leave. Those were the right instincts. Where it went wrong was physically pulling away during handcuffing. Under Florida statute 843.02, that single act adds a misdemeanor charge, regardless of how unjust the situation feels. The legal remedy for a wrongful detention is a courtroom, not resistance at the scene. Three takeaways. First, know what a merchant detention is. Loss prevention can briefly hold you, but once police take over, you are in a full Fourth Amendment encounter and different rules apply. Second, $22 of theft plus one act of resistance equals two separate criminal charges. The dollar amount does not cap the legal exposure. Third, if you believe a detention is unlawful, state your objection clearly, comply, and challenge it in court. Physical resistance locks in the resisting charge before a judge ever sees the original case. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like discussed in the comments below. Thank you for watching.