All you have to do if he just brings the medical everything's back to normal. >> Can you Can you go to your doctor tomorrow? >> Tomorrow's Monday. Tomorrow's Monday. Can you go to the doctor? >> No, sir. >> No, you can't. >> All right. Watch. I have the paper. >> Okay. >> Give me your hand. >> Give me A HAND. DON'T RESIST. >> DON'T RESIST. TAKE HIM DOWN. TAKE HIM DOWN. DON'T RESIST. DON'T RESIST. >> Don't resist. Put the truss on him. Don't resist. >> Don't resist. Stop resisting. Give me your hands. October 12th, 2025. Officers respond to a Shake Shack inside Orlando International Airport. A Spanish-speaking employee refuses to leave after management demands a doctor's note for the protective glasses he wears post eye surgery. Police are called. What follows raises serious questions about employer law, trespass, and use of force. Management tells officers the employee claimed laser eye surgery and had been wearing the glasses for over a week. Initially tolerated, then suddenly a policy violation. HR orders him sent home until he produces documentation. He says the clinic is closed. Nobody explores alternatives. A Spanish speaking officer is requested and still 5 minutes out. >> Somebody called us. The manager. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Is the No, we're going to go to the back door. >> All right, we got another officer. >> Yeah, we got another officer uh coming cuz they they requested a Spanish speaker. >> Oh, okay. >> So, show us where we are and we'll wait out there. No problem. We're going to be around the corner by the NEM. >> I don't know, but I know he's supposed to be I know. >> What I've known right now is that he needs to leave and come back with a doctor's note, >> but then they spoke they spoke some more and then back from there. I don't know. >> He's still here. >> Are you you're the manager? >> I'm one of the managers. >> We can go. He said he's still 5 minutes out. >> Okay. If anything, I'll look for him and I'll bring him around. >> Okay. >> Yeah. We do have we we do have a Spanish speaker on here. So if there's any translation, >> sir, good morning, sir. >> How you doing? >> How you doing? >> Good. What's going on today? >> He um so he's got the glasses on, his prescription glasses, but they're not allowed >> something. Any of you guys speak Spanish? We have somebody coming that does these fans. You got 5 minutes out. >> Sir, I don't have a problem with nobody. >> Okay. >> I don't have anything to do with nobody. >> So, I need work today. You understand? >> Okay. >> See, >> um he's um he said, you know, he doesn't have problem with nobody. He needs to work today. But the situation that we have and then we he saying that we're we're being addressed to him. >> We've been doing this for um weeks apparently >> since He's sorry. >> Okay. So, what's the problem though today? Like what's going on? Cuz we it came out as someone got fired. >> No, he's refusing. >> So, so he um he wore So, these glasses he um he said that he told us after he had gotten like a laser corrective surgery. So, we were like, "Okay, you can wear the glasses like a little >> Sir, back up. I don't want He's backing up. He stop getting closer to >> Sorry, sir. I don't have a problem. >> We keep stepping back and you're too close to us. >> I know. >> We have a problem with you coming too close to us. >> I don't have a problem with nobody. >> Are you not? Are you listening? >> Are you listening? >> Stop walking forward. >> Don't take a step forward, >> sir. No, no, no. We don't need to wor for a few days and then we're like then after a few days we like we don't need to take them off after the surgery. We just >> We need a doctor's note to know like >> I don't have a problem. >> Nobody. Back up. >> You're getting too close to us. >> Back up. Do you understand? Back up. >> Back away from us. Stop coming closer to us. >> I know. I don't have a problem. >> It's the police. >> If you don't if you I'm going to put you in cuffs if you don't stop. >> Back up. >> You can't get >> Does this hard on this? Don't come towards me. Back up. >> Yeah. Just >> look. You We started over there. Oh, please don't don't go home. >> So, what what are we doing today? Is he allowed to stay here and work? >> He needs to go home and we're telling him to go home. He doesn't >> absolutely >> at the end of the day. Are you guys >> Are you guys firing him or you sending him home for the day? >> Just Just until he can bring us a doctor. >> Is there a reason you can keep stepping closer? I know you don't have a problem with us, but I don't like how close you step anywhere. >> Sir, I don't have a problem with nobody. >> I understand. But if if they're telling you you have to go home, you can't stay here any longer. >> You want to know? >> Okay. >> Hey, can you tell us in Spanish? He's not understanding to stop. >> He understand. I know you understand English. >> Okay. Before who's the supervisor? >> Both of us. All right. Let's go that way. Let me give you the circumstances and then I'll talk to what happened. Um it's like for him what >> his um the sunglasses at first it was like he's had them on for like a week and it's not a big deal it's just sung he had got a surgery and he that's what he told us he had a surgery and that he had to wear them a little a few days after just to avoid the light. So then after the few days we were like um hey we to keep us on you have to provide us a doctor's note you can't be wearing the sun it's against the company policies and then yesterday he told us he couldn't work the grill anymore because of the heat and we're like okay no problem and it's like just you have to give us a doctor's note and then you're completely fine >> so >> and he's saying he doesn't have notes so then our HR they told us to just send him home for the day >> send him home >> and he's going to be on the review until the termination >> no until he just brings a doctor's note >> okay >> until he brings a doctor's All right. Thank you. Okay. No policy there. I don't have a problem with nobody. >> You tell him that he >> No, I told him that if he doesn't doesn't comply that he they asking him to go home >> and bring a doctor's note and within then it's going to be reviewed. If you don't comply, you will get arrested. >> That's what I told him. And then you're going to get fired and you're going to that's it was it's already been explained in in Spanish numerous times. He understands a little Spanish. >> I'm trying to help you out here. Okay. >> He's not suspended. We never suspend him. We don't What do we want the He just brings the medical everything's back to normal. >> Can you Can you go to your doctor tomorrow? >> Tomorrow's Monday. Tomorrow's Monday. Can you go to the doctor? >> No, sir. >> No, you can't. >> All right. Why? I have the paper. >> Okay. >> Hey, give me your hand. >> Give me YOUR HAND. DON'T RESIST. DON'T RESIST. TAKE HIM DOWN. TAKE HIM DOWN. DON'T RESIST. DON'T RESIST. DON'T RESIST. PUT THE TRUSS ON HIM. DON'T RESIST. [screaming] >> DON'T RESIST. Stop resisting. Give me your hands. Stop resisting. Give me a hand. Give me a hand. Stop resisting. [screaming] Stop resisting. Put your hand behind your back. Stop. [screaming] >> Stop resisting. >> Look back. [screaming] >> Look. [laughter] >> All right. All right. All right. Get him up. >> Stand up. >> STAND UP. STAND UP. >> STOP. >> Stand up. >> All right. down my other side and let's score him out. He's trying to >> Who's that? Don't worry. I got it. Go. Yes. Yes. [laughter] >> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. >> Let him relax. Let him relax. You got >> Do you have a cider badge or anything you need for him? >> Yeah, I need a bag. >> Stop moving. Hey, >> stop moving. >> You got a knife. Take this off. >> Yeah. >> Watch your fingers. Watch your fingers. What? >> Trying to help you. >> Take a picture of this. Take a picture of this. >> Okay. Okay. >> Too late. >> You understand? >> Put your arms behind your back. already talked to you. You didn't want to listen to me. I was trying to save you. You understand? Perfect. I'm going to hold it. No. No. ACT. NO. Let's take him out. >> We might need to get a wheelchair. >> All right. >> The lead officer approaches. The subject speaks broken English. He keeps stepping forward, not aggressively, but without understanding the space being demanded. No gesture, no physical demonstration of distance, just repeated commands in a language he barely speaks. The communication failure is visible in real time. Graham versus Connor established that force must be judged from the officer's perspective at the moment of decision, not with hindsight. Three factors apply. Severity of the crime, whether the subject is a threat, and whether he is actively resisting. At this point, misdemeanor trespass, no weapon, no flight attempt. The calculus matters for what comes next. The Spanish-sp speakaking officer arrives, and this is the turning point. For the first time, the subject understands what is actually being asked. Leave, get the note, come back. His response, the clinic is closed. That answer is never engaged. No alternative timeline is offered. The conversation ends there. Under Florida statute section 810.08, trespass in an occupied structure requires a lawful warning and a refusal to leave. Both are now present in the subject's native language repeatedly. The charge is technically supported. But the bigger question remains. Should a workplace accommodation dispute ever have reached this point? Here is the legal core of this case. The ADA requires employers to engage in an interactive process before denying an accommodation request. The EEOC's 2023 guidance on visual disabilities names sunglasses explicitly as a valid dress code modification for postsurgical light sensitivity. The employee verbally disclosed his condition. He worked in the glasses for a week. Calling police rather than extending even one business day may itself constitute a failure under federal law. The employer handed a disability dispute to law enforcement before exhausting the process Congress designed to resolve it. Can you go to the doctor tomorrow? No. Give me your hand. That transition takes under 3 seconds. No intermediate warning, no escalation step. for a misdemeanor trespass with a confused nonviolent subject. The speed of that shift will face scrutiny under any proportionality review. >> Give me a second. >> Hey, >> give me a second. If you want to go inside, go the other way. [screaming] >> What is it? What's going on now? >> Stay there. >> Stop kicking. Stop resisting. >> Stay down. That's >> not going to stand. >> What is he doing? >> Stand up now. >> He wants to get up now. Let him up. If he wants walk him up, he doesn't walk. He wants He's just going dead. That's his. >> Yeah. Put it in there. You don't want to wear his sneakers. >> He's got his social security. All right. Please. Please. Too late, man. Too late. Just left. Jesus. >> Come on, man. >> You going to sit? Where's the nearest car? >> Too many people. >> Come on. >> You guys want to sit down, bro? Sit down and relax. Let's reel them out. You got a patrol car over there or >> on the air side? >> No. No. On the other on the air side. >> Stay down. >> On the air side. >> Stay there. >> You got You guys got a car on the air side? >> No. I mean, I could run and get it. >> Yeah, run. We'll take care of it from here. >> We're going to go to the front. Right there. In the front. >> Hey, if you want, >> you guys don't have any on the air side. Cuz we can take them straight downstairs and we can >> Where is right here, right? >> Yeah, I can take them out. >> Take it to the airside. Right there. Where's the What's the door? >> I know the one between Universal Universal. Mike, you know where I'm talking at? >> Yeah. Uh, yeah. >> Come out here. It's right downstairs. >> Yo, just come here. It's that gate. Uh, you can't miss it when you go around. I'm telling you can't miss it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Go. Go get the car. Let's go. Obama. >> Eric, come on this side. Come on this side. Push him back and I'll put the wheelchair. >> Stop resisting. Stop resisting. >> All right, let's do it. >> Hey, get the follow that way. >> Ray, right? Ray right. Where you going? Stop resisting. Stop resisting. >> Stop resisting. >> Stop putting your feet on the floor. >> Stop resisting. >> Maybe what it needs to be. Stop. Please go for >> I tried to give you a chance, man. I I was trying to tell you go to the doctor tomorrow and this is it. This is simple >> right now. You took it to that level. I was just there. I told you. >> Let's go straight. >> I'll push it. Grab his leg. Watch his legs. >> Wait. Wait. Don't pick it too low because you're putting pressure on my forearm. >> Yeah. Let him take it. Let him take it. >> No. No. I got it. You're putting pressure on my forehand when you lift it that high. You want to go that way. >> Okay. Right here. Hold it. We're going to stay right here until somebody go upstairs and >> radio to your guy. Uh, I told him, >> give him the nearest point of view. Uh, go. Hell, Eris. >> 240. Tell him 24. >> Tell them 248 where the construction building. I'll call them. >> All right. >> I got to make a point. >> They don't break. >> You going to call them? >> Yeah. Yo, we're going to be like right outside. There's a door by 240 alpha. >> Yeah, no, I know. >> All right. Right. >> Yeah. No worries. He's calm like the second. >> I'm on I just talked to him. >> Yeah. >> Like he kept we were talking. I'm like just back up. And he kept stepping. I'm like back up. >> You don't listen, >> right? >> You don't listen. >> We told you. >> Yeah. Go home. Get your doctors know. Then you can have your sunglasses. Green green card. Okay. No. Sir. Mango. Oh my god, bro. Confirm that we are. >> Let him walk from here. We got to walk from here. You guys down there? >> No, we didn't. I just burged. Yeah. >> Okay. Put his social in there, I guess, if you want. Got that right there. Stop moving. Sir, >> stop moving. Don't move. >> No, that's his body. >> Open the window. >> Officers take the subject to the ground. He is handcuffed on the floor. The physical force itself falls within acceptable parameters for a non-compliant subject, but one officer speaking Spanish compares the subject to an animal. That remark is on body cam under 42 USC section 1,983 recorded derogatory conduct during an arrest can form the basis of a federal civil rights claim. One comment, significant legal exposure in the wheelchair. The subject cries out me do well. It hurts. He is told to act like a man, to stop behaving like a child. He calls out Dios God repeatedly. Officers are frustrated, understandably, but frustration expressed as contempt on camera is never tactically sound. The Spanish officer delivers the full consequence in blunt terms. Badge revoked, airport access gone, may not be able to fly from Orlando again. If he wants to go back to the Dominican Republic, try Tampa. These are real lasting consequences from a dispute that began over a pair of sunglasses and a doctor's office that was closed, charges filed, trespass in an occupied structure under Florida statute 810.08, a firstdegree misdemeanor up to 12 months and $1,000 fine and resisting an officer without violence under Florida statute 843.02. Final court disposition not confirmed at time of analysis. separately. The subject may have a viable EEOC or ADA title one complaint against the employer independent of the criminal case. Officers B minus requesting a translator before engaging correct and professional. The trespass charge legally supportable once the warning was given, but the takedown had no verbal bridge and the derogatory language on body cam is inexcusable professionally and legally. Requesting a translator and then using that language in the same breath is a contradiction that undermines the entire interaction. Management C. Asking for medical documentation lawful in principle, but the ADA interactive process requires good faith, time, and dialogue. A week of employment with a verbal medical disclosure is not the same as no disclosure. Calling police before the clinic even reopened suggests the process was never genuinely engaged. That decision may cost the company far more than one doctor's note. The subject C plus he had a real medical condition and a legitimate grievance. But once a Spanish-sp speakaking officer spelled out the consequences clearly, the right move was to leave and fight this through proper channels, an EEOC complaint, an employment attorney, a labor advocacy group. Staying on the premises did not resolve anything. It only added a second charge to the first. What can everyone learn from this? This case did not need to end in an arrest, a one-day extension, a phone call to the clinic, a written accommodation request form handed to the employee. Any one of those steps might have closed this without handcuffs. Instead, every party escalated at precisely the wrong moment, and a man lost his job, his airport access, and possibly his immigration standing over a pair of prescription glasses. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like us to cover in the comments below. Thank you for watching.