We want my arrest. >> We want my arrest. >> Please tell me please tell me. >> Okay. Calm down. Calm down. >> Calm down. >> It's okay. >> Henry County, Georgia. A mother calls police on her own daughter. 14 minutes later, that daughter, 17 years old, leaves in handcuffs, charged as an adult. >> On May 5th, 2025, officers were dispatched to a residence regarding a reported domestic disturbance. >> All right. I'm Officer Langley. How's everyone doing today? >> Good. >> How you doing? Step aside. >> So, who's involved in this? >> Mom and daughter. >> Mom and daughter. >> Okay. And you guys are grandma. >> Uh, some niece. >> Mom. >> Yeah. Um Oh, >> okay. >> Mom, um we're going to have you step outside. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Do you want to tell us what happened? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. What happened? >> Nothing really. She just me and her keep getting into it and she basically just said >> like what do you what do you keep on getting into it about? >> Like me stuff about me getting drunk in school or whatever. He was like, "She never take a massage. She never like I don't know." She basically said, "I I [laughter] can't go home unless I give her my phone." But this is lines like this. She said, "I can't go home unless I get my phone." So, I'm like, "Okay, well, can I go get my stuff?" And then my daddy or somebody come get me. And my daddy answer the phone. So, I'm just waiting on my dad. But she keep >> So this is a matter of you getting in trouble at school. >> Yeah. But it's like it's not even like nothing major being in trouble. It's like she makes everything bigger than what it really is and it don't even be that big. Like that's what it is. Like I'm just >> like I just really just want it really to be nothing. I really just want to go get my clothes and then I can just go. >> Okay. So you're when you say you're trying to leave, you're trying to leave. Like does she have custody of you or is it joint custody? >> Yeah. I do with both of them. >> Okay. >> She she want to take my stuff from me. It's like why are you trying to take my phone? I'm 17 years old. And now she's saying that um either I got to give her my phone and she go home or I stay here and I keep my stuff. But all I'm asking is I go home get my stuff and she just like we going to bring it back. But it's like I got the doctor. >> This is your 17-year-old daughter >> that you're having issues with. >> Yes. >> I I would like to tell you it gets Is she your oldest? >> Mhm. >> I would like to tell you it gets better. Uh but it is very hard parenting children as they get older. >> I thought it was going to be easier. >> Everybody say Everybody say this is has been an ongoing process. She's in 11th grade now since like seven seventh grade. Probably got like 15 police reports of her running away doing doing the same stuff over and over. >> It's almost like them hormones kick in and they lose all their common sense. >> Now, at any point in time, did you guys break anything? Was anything broken? No. Did you guys go physical with each other? Did anybody try? No, you didn't grab her. She didn't grab you. Hit >> So, it was just a argument. verbal argument. So, pretty much what it came down to is that you you guys were arguing over school. Okay. What's going on in school? >> Assistant, trust me. >> Gotcha. If >> you don't like me, I don't like him. Just keep it like that. >> How you doing, miss? >> By chance, do you have an idea on by chance? >> This is my first day seeing her cuz she she ran away. I brought I brought her here from from school and um when she hopped out the car and ran off. I haven't seen her or talked to her or heard from her until um I didn't even see her in school today. I seen her when I came came here after school because I work to I work to school. She had to come home to tonight since she's here and I told her that she's not bringing her phone in my house. That that's her punishment. That's that's the whole problem, the issue. And of course she tried she tried to run off. She kic she kicked me first of all cuz I we tried to get the phone from her and she tried to run run off and that's why my mom called that's why my mom called the police for all this because she she don't want to she don't want to turn the phone. >> Okay. So this is all because she with her stems from her cutting class getting suspended. She kind of um she your mom I'm assuming that's your mom. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. kind of like all had said that you know your mom went a little bit more detailed but as far as the kick-wise goes now your mom was saying that it looked more like a kick that she was trying to push you away than a kick than it was to try to >> Okay. All right. >> So when she kicked you, how did she kick you? night she was sitting on the table and and she just used her to push you back. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> And it was when you were telling her that she couldn't bring the phone into your house. >> Yeah. I went over there to get the phone. I told her to hand me the phone and she snatched it away from me and I had to grab the phone and she hit me. >> Okay. Now, did they explain to you on how the phone situation is because she pays her own bills and that's it. You don't provide the phone for her, right? >> Mhm. Yeah. Not anymore. She pays. >> Okay. So, she pays her own bill. So, you really couldn't take it from her because she's also in that area where she's not fully an adult, but she's kind of like in that right to passage area where 17's like >> I understand that, but that's also her paid property and everything else. If it was underneath your family bill, like if you guys were underneath the family plan, then you you can cut her off and there's nothing that can be done about it because you're paying the bills and she still has access to her phone. because she's the one that has her phone. >> So basically, she grown and she can do what she want to do. She she don't have no pun no punishment. I can't I can't punish her cuz the the phone is only punishment at this point. >> And and that's >> and I don't want I don't want her with with the phone in my house. She can leave it to my mama house. >> Yeah. So unfortunately Yeah. >> Essentially in this matter >> essentially if this was me and I don't know about you, I would just write it up. But I would tell mom because she's having such issues with her. [sighs] Um >> because even though she could say she wants to leave >> and she's 17 and we can't count as a runaway technically, if she comes back, mom is obligated by law to allow to have to allow her back into the home and provide shelter. >> But what mom can do is mom can go to the juvenile court system >> and file for delinquent juvenile that way. >> Yeah. And then if the girl kicked at her, if she made contact, it would be simple battery DVA. If she did not make contact, it'd be simple assault DVA. Um Simons is going to pull up her phone just to make sure um that that they're not changing their story. And in that case, the daughter would be the predominant aggressor. So, >> Georgia Code section 174 20.1 governs every decision in this encounter. When an officer responds to a family violence call and identifies a predominant physical aggressor, the statute does not offer discretion, it mandates arrest. The predominant aggressor determination requires officers to weigh four factors: prior history of violence, relative severity of injuries, potential for future injury, and whether either party acted in self-defense. The mother initiated physical contact by reaching for a phone the subject purchased independently. Seizing another person's property without authorization can constitute theft by taking itself a family violence offense under Georgia code section 19131. Because the mother never completed the taking, the theft analysis did not attach. Without theft, she was not the predominant aggressor. The subject's physical response became the operative act. Under Georgia Code section 16523, simple battery requires only intentional physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature. Visible injury is not required. The mother confirmed contact on camera. Probable cause was established. A procedural failure occurs before the arrest. Officers question the subject about the physical contact before issuing any Miranda adisement. Under Burkimer versus McCarti, warnings are required before custodial interrogation. The subject described her contact as a defensive reaction, a statement subsequently used to confirm probable cause. Those admissions were made without knowledge of her right to remain silent. Their admissibility in court is contestable. >> So, it's going to be a 1095. >> Yeah. Go watch her her thing with her real quick. Okay. So, if we wind up having to arrest her, are you going to like fight us or anything like that? >> No. Okay. >> Um, if if you never took possession of that phone, then it wouldn't be theft bite. It would be Did she make contact with you when she kicked at you? >> Um, like she was bucking at me and when she kicked me, that's what she did. >> When she kicked me, did she make contact with you? >> You mean like did she touch me? >> Yes. >> Okay. That's that's what I needed to know. the daughter saying that she tried to take the phone but never took the phone. >> Yeah. I asked her like at any point in time today did she take that phone from you? >> And she said >> she said no. She had possession of it the whole time. >> Okay. So >> So we have simple battery. >> You have simple Yeah. So mom's saying she made contact. So since she made contact, it's simple battery DVA cuz if they wouldn't make contact, it's just simple assault. >> Yeah. >> So what do you want to do? >> You know, at this point I would want to see with the parents on what they want to do. Yeah, because I mean Yeah, >> that's a trick question. >> I know cuz if he can determine a predominant aggressor, you >> I saw what he was doing. That's why I didn't say anything. >> Which means he's he's either not reading his policy or he's not reading his law. >> Well, we'll see what he does. But >> level 17 is about to be really upset. >> Yeah, >> it's good because for our policy, you don't have a choice. If you can determine a predominant address, you have to make it. Okay, good. Yeah. What he was going to do or why he was going to do it. If he would have said because his mom said yeah, I would have like it doesn't even matter. >> All right. My >> Georgia code section 163 one defines the most consequential fact here. Georgia treats 17year-olds as adults in criminal court. One of only three states alongside Texas and Wisconsin that has not enacted raise the age legislation. A first conviction for simple battery family violence carries up to 12 months incarceration. A permanent adult record mandatory 24-week intervention program and under federal law, a lifetime firearms prohibition under title 18, United States Code section 922 subsection G9, Georgia code section 16320 recognizes reasonable parental discipline as a defense in battery cases. The responding officer correctly identified this on camera and stated he would personally write a report rather than make an arrest. The statute ultimately overruled that judgment. >> I'm going to have to have you stand up for me. Okay. [snorts] I'm going to have to have you place your hands behind your back for me. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Be careful. Watch your hands. [music] >> Watch your legs. >> There you go. >> What happened? >> So, >> what happened? Turn around. Hold on. Just trying to arrest my arrest. >> Wait, why am I arrested? >> Please tell me we're going to talk to you. >> Don't get arrested. Please >> calm down. Calm down. >> Calm down. You're okay. >> It's okay. >> We're going to explain. >> We're going to explain everything. >> You're my arrest. I'm arrested. >> Stop. Come on. Let's not do that. >> Where am I? I'm going to explain everything to you how the process goes. Okay. No, >> I didn't. That's not violence, though. I didn't touch her. >> So, we have two statements from your mom and your grandmother that both said that you kicked her. >> Oh, no. I didn't kick her. I promise I did not kick her. Stand right here. >> I didn't. It was like trying to get her. It was like trying to get her off of me. >> Search her. Gotcha. >> Yo, I didn't kick her. It was like trying to get her off me cuz she was trying to grab me. I didn't kick her. I swear to God I did not kick her. Yo, I promise you I did not kick my mama. >> How I didn't Could y'all get my grandma, please? >> Okay, come here. Sit down. >> Can I call my dad? >> Let me just call somebody cuz this is not right. I did not like mom. I didn't like act like I literally put my hands on her like beat her up. I didn't. I promise. >> Touch somebody and they don't >> No, I didn't touch her. I didn't. I was listening. You're not listening. >> I start to talk and you instantly start to yell over me. Okay. I'm sorry. >> So, if I come up to you and I'm not an officer and I'm not acting in a legal manner and I put my hands on you and it's unwanted touching, >> you don't want me to touch you. Listen, listen, listen. Right. >> I understand what what you're saying, but but based off Yeah, I'm good. But based off of what your grandma said, based off of the statements that you've made, and based off statements that your mom made, the officers have probable cause to make an arrest. >> No, y'all. She literally just said she >> then this is something that you have to talk to the judge about. >> She just said my grand >> Our decision has been made. >> Y'all my grand she just on camera that she said that you that you did before. >> I didn't I promise I did. >> Yeah. Right now your phone. >> So and because you are under arrest, we cannot talk anymore about about any of this. Okay. >> Please, ma'am. It >> it's already been decided, ma'am. She was charged as an adult with simple battery DVA. Officer Langley, grade B, correct protocol, strong legal reasoning on the predominant aggressor standard, deducted for failing to advise the subject of her fifth amendment rights before substantive questioning. Senior officer grade B plus precise real-time statutory analysis, sound supervision. Same Miranda gap applies as a minor deduction. The subject grade B+ cooperative throughout, complied with arrest despite distress, did not physically resist. Voluntary admissions before rights advisement were legally costly, a product of age and circumstance, not intent. The mother, grade C++, full cooperation with officers. However, physically reaching for property she had no legal right to take, was the act that triggered the entire sequence. Henry County Police Department, grade B minus. officers applied the law correctly. The grade reflects a mandatory arrest framework that eliminates contextual judgment in parent child discipline cases of statutory gap, not a field failure. Three takeaways. First, in any family violence call, statements made before Miranda can establish probable cause. Invoke the right to remain silent before answering questions about physical contact. Second, in Georgia, a parent reaching for a child's personal property without legal authority may initiate the contact chain that leads to the child's arrest, not the parents. Third, until Georgia enacts raise the age legislation, any 17-year-old charged with a misdemeanor domestic offense faces a permanent adult criminal record. The law does not distinguish between a push and a punch. 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 check out our second channel, Street Body Cam, for even more police interaction and courtroom content.