I'm giving you the option to step out so this is the less violent. Hey, hey, what are you going to stop? Don't be reaching for stuff. Don't Don't be reaching for stuff. >> Why did a routine traffic stop escalate into a sudden threat? Let's analyze the footage from the beginning. During an August patrol, Florida police pulled over a speeding driver in a school zone, unaware the suspect would claim diplomatic exemption. >> Hello, how are you? >> Hey, how are you? >> Hey, I'm Officer Rosa with traffic. The reason I stopped you on 34th near the schools zone, the speed limit is 20. You were 14 miles an hour over the speed limit, okay? Do you have your license, registration, proof of insurance with you? >> Um actually, I'm diplomatic. >> Huh? >> I'm actually diplomatic. >> What? For what? Do you have your driver's license? Do you have a driver's license? >> I'm diplomatic. >> Do you have your driver's license? I need your driver's license, okay? >> Am I being um >> Yes, you are. >> Okay, then can you read me my rights? >> Dispatch, I'm 10-55. >> 10-55. >> We're not going to play the sovereign game, okay? Can I get a routine 44? I'll be 10-12 with the sovereign. May I please have your driver's license? >> If I'm being detained, may I have my attorney? >> Ma'am. >> I'm in custodial arrest. >> I understand that. Ma'am, we're not playing the sovereign game, okay? I need your driver's license. If not, you I'm going to remove you from the vehicle and you're going to go to jail. All right? Please hand me your driver's license. I've asked you three or four times now, okay? Please hand me your driver's license. >> May I please speak with your uh um whoever your um whoever's over you, please. Can you >> You'd like to speak with a supervisor? Yes, I can get one of those here, but can I please have your driver's license? >> I'd like to speak with a supervisor first. >> Hm? >> I'd like to speak with a supervisor first. >> I understand that, but he's not He's going to tell you the same thing I am, okay? >> I'd like to remain silent. >> Dispatch, I'm going to need a 35. >> If I'm under custodial arrest, then I'd like to remain silent. >> May I also have a supervisor, 51, please? >> 10-21. >> Okay. So, let's do this. I've done everything you've asked. Now, please hand me your driver's license. >> I'd like to >> Are you refusing to identify yourself to me? Driving is a privilege in this state. It is not a right. I understand you're going to say you have the right to travel, all that stuff. Okay. But, driving on the public roadways is a privilege. By that privilege, you have to have a driver's license with you. So, I'm asking you to give me your driver's license. >> I'm not going to give >> Okay. I understand that, but I I need your driver's license. I'm trying to be as nice as I can. >> Thank you. >> Given you every opportunity to give me your driver's license, okay? So, do you have a driver's license? >> Can I have my company ID? >> This? No, I'm going to hang on to this now, in case something happens. So, if this at least has your name on it, then >> Yeah, that's >> It's okay. All right, that's fine. I'm going to hang on to it right now, then. All right? So, what I'm asking you as a driver is, do you have a driver's license? I can't I can't hear you. I'm sorry. >> If I'm under custodial arrest, then I'd like to remain silent. >> You're just being detained right now for a traffic violation. It's a civil infraction. It's all it is. So, >> custodial arrest. >> So, what I'm saying is you can give me a driver's license. I can issue a citation. You can be on your way. If not, we'll have to go down a different route. Now, I've already explained to you what that route is, okay? So, >> I'd like to remain silent. >> Okay, that's fine. So, you just don't you're not going to give me a driver's license, nothing like that? >> No, please just >> Okay. All right. We'll just wait for somebody else to get here, okay, then? All right. So, So, per your request, the supervisor is here, okay? So, he's actually walking up now, all right? So, here he is. >> Good morning, Sergeant Robert 7. How can I help today? >> Good morning. Um uh this officer here he pulled me over and then he asked me to um for his driver's license and I explained that I didn't have it. And I gave him my identification uh for myself and then he is continually insisting that I give him a driver's license. I like I said, I don't have the document and then he asked if I was on under the control of arrest or am I free to go. And he said that he's being detained, so I assume that that's under the control of arrest. So, I elected to invoke the right to remain silent. >> Okay. So, you don't want to have anything else to say? Did you want to identify yourself to this officer then or with the driver's license? >> This is not a valid identification card, ma'am. >> It is. >> It's not a valid identification card. Mhm. It is not recognized in the state of Florida. >> Okay. I'm not in the state of Florida's jurisdiction. >> Okay. Okay. Good. Okay, I'm letting you know what's going to happen. I'm giving you the option to step out so this is less violent. Hey, hey, what are you doing? Stop. Don't be reaching for stuff. Don't don't be reaching for stuff. >> As primary officers engaged the suspect, backup arrived with non-lethal deterrents to secure the scene. >> I would prefer you don't start reaching for stuff. Do you have any weapons in the vehicle? Okay. Do you have a name and date of birth you'd like to provide for the Can you stop reaching for stuff? >> Just >> Do you have a name and date of birth you'd like to give this officer? >> Um I did give him the >> This is not valid, ma'am. I've already told you that. Okay. Okay. >> I'm waiting a moment. Um my name is Christine. >> Ma'am, this is not a valid identification card. This was it's not it's not recognized by the state of Florida, okay? This is not a valid ID, okay? So, you just go You want to go that route? You want to give me your name and date of birth? >> Well, like I said, >> Ma'am. I I'm not a very patient person in general. I don't really need to be cuz we've given you opportunity to provide this information and you're basically saying you don't recognize it. So, we can either ask you to step out of the vehicle or I'm going to pull you out of the vehicle and I have no problem with that. And you'll be under arrest. Okay? So, to save the heartache of maybe even breaking this window cuz we don't want to have to do that either, you can step out of the vehicle and save yourself some trouble. >> Give me your whole license. >> Turn your vehicle off for me. Step out, okay? Just turn your vehicle off. Just turn your vehicle off, okay? Come on. Step out of the vehicle, okay? Come on. Turn your vehicle off for me, all right? Come on. Okay. Well, come on. Let's just hop out. Just step out for me, okay? >> Just step out. All right, I'm going to end up taking that phone and setting it down though. >> Yep. Go ahead and put your hands behind your back. Right here. >> Why am I being arrested? >> I'll explain to you. Okay? >> No, I mean that's not a crime. I didn't do anything. >> You refuse to recognize the state of Florida's authority over whatever your vehicle You have an insinuation. The state of Florida >> requires a driver's license to drive a motor >> vehicle or travel in a motor vehicle or whatever verbage you like to use. >> Come back here for me. So, any phone before me, okay? >> Sit right here. Lean against your car. I just explained that to you. Which words did you not understand of that sentence? >> I don't understand why I'm being arrested. >> Okay. So, the part where I just explained it to you where you're driving a motor vehicle and not having a valid license in the state of Florida. Besides your reasonings for not recognizing that law and authority, is there any other reason why you may not understand that sentence? >> I'm going to email my dad. >> I'm not in that jurisdiction. I'm in God's law. >> besides that, cuz I realize you don't recognize our jurisdiction. Because if you don't recognize the jurisdiction, you're not going to recognize the law, and you're not going to understand why you're being arrested, and I can't explain it to you. >> I didn't injure anyone. >> But I didn't say you did. >> God's law, the Bible. >> Okay. >> Common law, that's what that's what everything is based off of in this country. >> I'm just going to have her hang out until Angie gets here. I'm not going to put her in the back of the car cuz we haven't read her her rights or anything yet, so. >> Okay. >> Okay, as soon as she gets here, all right? >> Yeah. The only reason you're being arrested right now is for driving a motor vehicle without a license. >> But that's why >> If you can't comprehend this thing without cuz you didn't identify yourself to me. >> That's fine. >> I understand that you can't comprehend that law. >> I have never said that. >> I have eight kids. >> I don't see any of them. >> I have eight kids. >> Okay. >> I didn't do anything. Like, I'm a good mom, and I didn't do anything. I was literally just >> I haven't called you a bad mom, and I haven't said you're a bad person. But there is a law in the state of Florida, okay? But we enforce Florida law. And just because you don't recognize Florida law doesn't mean that we can't enforce it. >> Did those YouTube videos you watched that justified everything you're thinking of? Cover this part, this part? Or did they just fast-forward to the court where everything got dropped and magically went away? >> This is biblical. >> Oh. I don't remember motor vehicles covered in the Bible. It's been a while since I read it, though. >> Imprisoned is biblical. Being Imprisoned for following God is biblical. >> Okay. But >> believe in the Bible? >> Sure. And I've read it a couple times. I don't remember motor vehicles >> Here's the thing, you're not you're not being arrested for following God. You're being arrested for refusing to identify yourself to me. That's why you're being arrested, okay? >> I'm standing on the truth that I'm following God's law and not people's law and >> Well, we're not judges, we're not executioners, we're simply abiding and enforcing the laws that we're employed to do, okay? >> Satan's law. >> So, remember when I told you that driving is a privilege in the state of Florida, it's not a right? So, in the state of Florida, it's a it's a privilege. >> God said subdue the >> I don't think God talked about driving vehicles. >> God said subdue the earth. Do you know what that means? >> To do the earth? >> Subdue the earth. He mean He means to travel over the earth and >> You can travel all over the earth all you want, you just can't travel in a motor vehicle. You can travel by plane, train, horseback, bicycle, scooter, but to travel on these roadways in a vehicle, it is a privilege. The state of Florida pays for these roadways. The The The municipalities pay for these roadways. That's it. That is You can travel, you just can't travel in a vehicle. That is driving. You cannot drive on our roadways unless you abide by the laws. It's that It's that simple. Okay? You can travel, you have the right to travel. You can travel to a different city, a different county, a different state, all over the United States, but just not in a vehicle unless you do it the right way. >> Do I have any due process to have someone get >> all the due process you want. I am a huge fan of due process, okay? >> come pick this up. >> Nope, nobody's going to come pick this up. Yeah, you're being arrested, so your vehicle's going to be towed incident to arrest, okay? >> Yes. >> Your vehicle's going to be towed and it's going to be inventoried. Your due process will come when you at your time in court, okay? That's when your due due process will come. >> But it's not mine. >> The vehicle's not yours? Then the registered owner can come pick it up, that's fine. >> Then can I call them? >> We will notify them, yes. What is their phone number? >> 921 >> Hold on 1 second. Will you hold this for me? >> You got your notes? >> All right, appreciate you. This is Officer Quintero, she's going to go ahead and search you real quick, okay, before we put you in the back of the vehicle, all right? So, she's going to go ahead and do that. >> Please leave my property in my car. >> I'm not going to take your property. I'm just going to inventory your vehicle, that's all. >> Lean against the car, please. I'm sorry. Hey, lean against the car. Where are going? Let him going to search you regardless. >> I'm just inventorying it. That's all. You didn't have time to put your license plate on? >> This isn't my vehicle. >> Oh. Papers, water bottle. Nothing crazy. One second. What's the current address for you? >> I don't know. >> Is it South John Young Parkway? Is that where you live now? Where do you live? Where do you rest your head at night? Where do you sleep? >> God's land. >> Huh? >> From God's land. >> Okay, so which one is So, Orlando or is it the the one on South John Young Parkway? Is that where you live? South JYB? >> I don't have an address. >> Okay. All right. Do you have a phone number? >> I don't have >> You don't have a phone number either? Okay. All right, thank you. >> In assessing this body cam footage, the suspect's repeated invocation of pseudo-legal sovereign citizen theories illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding of jurisdictional authority. Operating a motor vehicle on public roadways is unequivocally classified under statutory law as a privilege, not a constitutional right, requiring compliance with state licensing requirements. When a driver actively refuses to provide identification or acknowledge the lawful commands of law enforcement personnel, they instantly escalate a standard civil traffic infraction into a criminal offense. The officers demonstrated considerable restraint while repeatedly explaining the legal obligations before lawfully executing an arrest or resisting without violence. Ultimately, the judicial system systematically rejects these sovereign defense strategies because they lack recognized legal precedent. The defendant's subsequent chose to plead no contest directly acknowledges the validity of the charges, reinforcing that subjective interpretations of the law cannot shield individuals from the statutory consequences of their actions.