BECAUSE I'M TAKING, I'M NOT RESISTING. You lying. >> No, no, don't pull it. Get out. >> I wasn't even [ __ ] resisting. Y'all sitting up there lying. I wasn't even resisting. I told him, "Well, let me close my door." He stood in the way. >> On May 29th, 2025, Palm Beach County deputies stopped a driver for a seatbelt violation and an obscured license plate. Both infractions satisfy Florida's reasonable articulable suspicion standard. The stop itself is legally sound. >> Good morning. Deputy before Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. >> What? >> Well, maybe if you turn your radio down you can hear me. >> What you say? >> I'm Deputy before Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and I'm pulling you over for a couple reasons. For one, you don't have your seatbelt on. You passed me. Two, the license plate cover you got on the back, you can't have that. Do you have your license, registration, insurance? >> I ain't have none when I passed you. You should have stopped me then. >> That's what I'm doing right now, miss. Do you have your insurance on you? Say it again. >> I said you going to let me find it. You making me late for work. >> Give me a minute. I'll be right back with your few tickets, all right? Here you go. What you say? Yeah. Hey, you stay in the vehicle for me. Stay in the vehicle. Stay in the vehicle. Stay in the vehicle. >> Don't touch me. I'm >> No, you going to stay in the vehicle like I told you to. Do you understand? You put that down. >> You better get away from me. >> No, go I don't want to I don't care. Shut up. Come on. You got the right one today. >> I don't give a [ __ ] >> You got the right one today. >> I don't give a [ __ ] >> Get out of the car. Get out. >> take it. I can't >> I'm going to put your handcuffs on you and you go to jail. HOW ABOUT THAT? >> FOR WHAT? BECAUSE I'M TAKING I'M NOT RESISTING. You fighting me. >> No, don't pull it. Get out. How about it? How about it? Don't fight. DON'T DON'T FIGHT. YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. Get out of the car. DON'T RESIST. >> OH MY GOD. >> Turn around. Turn around. >> I was trying to close my door. >> Yeah, you don't hit me with the door. What's wrong with you? >> hit you with the door. Oh my god. >> So silly. >> For a seatbelt ticket? I ain't going to go to jail today. >> I was trying to I just said, "Let me close my >> Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's all good. >> I need to call my mom. >> No, you don't got to call nobody. >> Yes, I do. >> When you get to the jail, you call them. Don't worry about it. >> I opened the door. >> Well, you should have thought about that, huh? >> Hey, Siri. >> I'm going to go over here for a >> Siri, y'all weird as >> Yeah, it's crazy. You can open the front of my car. I got to search it real quick. >> All I did was I closed >> Relax. Relax. It doesn't work like that. >> Yes, it do. >> You don't want to search it. >> Sure. Let me get the car. Stop fighting. >> I don't want you to search me. >> I don't care what you want. >> I don't want you to search me. >> I'm going to search you. >> Officer, all I said was let me close my door. >> Well, when I tell you to do something, you don't do it, that's when it becomes a problem. >> Because I said I wanted to take the ticket. >> Okay, yes. >> You don't dictate what goes on here. Here, I'm going to have to search you right here for a minute. Turn around. Sit on the push bumper. >> I'm not going to >> No, sit on the push bumper. I'm not going to ask you again. Otherwise, you're going to go to [ __ ] my car. >> Y'all trying to take me to jail cuz I tried to close my door. Y'all weird. >> You don't get to close the door on us. Okay? You don't dictate what goes on here. We do. It's a traffic stop. You are detained. You don't get to do whatever you want. When you get pulled over, all you have to do is give them your paperwork. >> I did it. He threw it at me. like He threw it at me. >> Okay. Well, that doesn't mean you can just close your door on him while he's No, you pulled your door closed. >> And I told him while I was pulling it, I was going to >> No, that's not how that works. >> He gave me a ticket. He should have stopped me way back there. >> It doesn't It doesn't matter where he stopped you. He can pull you over in your [ __ ] and write you a ticket there. It doesn't matter where he pulls you over at. He can pull you over 10 miles down the road. You committed a traffic violation. There's no like area where he has to pull you over at before it's void. >> Like I said, he see I already have my [ __ ] on record. You should have stopped me back there. >> It does not matter. >> me back there. >> It doesn't matter. >> to tighten up. Y'all worried about me >> No, >> driving. [ __ ] it's people out here doing other [ __ ] It's way more other [ __ ] out here that need to go on, right? >> He's a motor unit. His job is to enforce traffic laws. He's doing his job. Okay, again, >> You know what? Just stop talking to me, sir. >> I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking Well, then stop talking. >> I can talk to myself if I want to. I'm grown, 35. >> Okay. Well, if you're going to talk, I'm going to talk, too. >> Okay, don't talk to me, but my talk to him. >> No, I don't want to Okay. You don't You don't dictate what goes on here. If he asked you to take your hands off the wheel, you need to take them off. >> He didn't have to ask me [ __ ] I could have got out and took it off if I wanted >> Hey, Josh. I'm sorry. I heard my she's going to jail, bro. >> Florida statute 316.614 makes seatbelt non-compliance a primary offense. No additional justification is required. Florida statute 316.605 mandates that license plates remain fully legible and unobstructed at all times. Under Pennsylvania v. Mims, 1977, officers may lawfully control a subject's position during any lawful stop. The subject's decision to exit the vehicle before being ordered to do so created the first point of legal friction in this encounter. >> Please stop No, listen. Can you stop my car? Listen. >> She want to make a simple traffic stop to all this. Go ahead. You good. >> I'm not making no simple traffic stop nothing. ALL I SAID ALL I SAID WAS >> DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. >> YOU TOLD MY CAR >> NO, your car going Your car going to get towed. Towing that, too. >> You towing my car? >> I'm towing that, too. >> You You towing You towing my car? >> I'M TOWING YOUR CAR. I'M TOWING THERE YOU GO. NEXT TIME YOU LISTEN. >> OH MY GOD. NASTY, BRO. They nasty. They nasty. Oh my god. I [ __ ] awful freaking, bro. He towing my car, bro. For what? For [ __ ] what, bro? We don't have no money for that. I don't even have no money for that, bro. >> [laughter] [laughter] [snorts] >> I don't even have no money for that, bro. I don't. I don't. I don't have no money for that, and it's hot in here. Can you please call my manager? Can you please call my manager? Mr. Gonzalez, can you please call my manager? Hello. >> I already shut your phone off. >> Well, turn it back on so you can call her so she can come open the store. Oh my god, this is so [ __ ] nasty. Nasty for nothing, bro. Bro, nasty for nothing, bro. Nasty for nothing. Y'all being nasty to me for nothing. And he got me in this hot ass car, bro. He [ __ ] my money, bro. Lord, please let them let me out, Lord, so I can get to work, Jesus. Please let them let me out, God. I can't do this. I'm [snorts] I'm having a rough day, bro. Already, bro. Can't believe it. They doing the most right now, bro. Bro, they [ __ ] with me, bro. >> [clears throat] >> They ain't teaching me bro. Lord, please let them let me go. Please, Jesus, let them let me go. I got to go to work. I got to go to work, please. I got to go to work. My birthday literally was to go dog. Bro. Can you please call my manager? Oh my god. He's so rude and he ignoring me and [ __ ] I hope this black guy get out and walk over here to this car. I don't even know what people going through and they [ __ ] people. I don't even know half of what people going through and they people. >> What did you find on >> How much is it going to cost to get my car out of the tow [ __ ] yard? How much is it going to cost to get my car to your tow yard? >> I honestly have no idea. >> Because y'all y'all bothering me and [ __ ] but y'all don't even know half of what I'm going through. Like I'm literally trying to pay my bills. Like I Hang on a second. What the Y'all locking me up because I wanted to close my door. I just want to go. I just want to get the [ __ ] man. I just want to go to [ __ ] work. I just want to go to work. Can you please call my manager? Can you please call my manager? >> I will try to get the phone number when I get there, but right now the property bag is sealed, so I can't even get get your phone out of the bag. >> I tried to tell you before you sealed it so she can get to the store and open the store. So I'm trying to tell y'all. >> if I call the store >> Ain't nobody going to be there. That's why I'm telling you to call her. >> the phone number when we get there, okay? >> I need to call my daughter and stuff. Yeah, I need to call my daughter though. She She at home by herself. I got to let her know I'm not coming home. She's 15. No, it's not. She's 15 years old. It's just me and my daughter and my son. What? You don't have to call DCF. She old enough to be there by herself. It's just the point. It's just a simple fact that I'm her mom and she calls me all day. So what's the charge? >> Resist without >> I wasn't even Y'all sitting up there lying. I wasn't even resisting. Y'all What y'all lying for? Not now time did I resist. Not now time. >> Okay, well, you hit my partner >> I did not hit him unintentionally. I said just let me close my door since I can't get out. >> You can't close it and say it as you were hitting him with the door and then expect that Oh, okay, no big deal. >> I didn't say it was no big deal. I My intention was not to hit him. My intention was to close my door since he told me I couldn't take the black but the the cover off my tag. I could have took the cover off my tag. >> Well, what you intended to do actually did >> Well, he told me not to do it. So I went back to my car to sit down and when I I told him well, let me close my door. He stood in the way. I mean, be serious. Y'all Y'all don't know what I got going on. I got a sick mama, a sick grandma. I got a teenage daughter, a little boy. We just moved into our place. We've been homeless for forever. Y'all messing with my money. I just bought my car a few months ago. No, y'all is because y'all want to arrest me because I I I can talk. I have freedom of speech. I can say whatever I want to say. You did. You said, "Oh, if you keep talking, I'm going to put you in the back of my car." That's what you said. Yeah, but I can talk. I can talk, though. It But it don't matter. This crazy Y'all taking me to jail for some crazy [ __ ] For some bull Y'all taking me to jail for [ __ ] And you won't even let me call my manager. I tried to call her before y'all put my phone up. Y'all nasty. If y'all trying to meet a quota, just say that. [ __ ] I don't want to be part of y'all quota. >> That's 33010 Congress Park Drive, apartment 113. You good? Hey, there. >> I'm not good because they arrested me for some >> I'm sorry. >> I'm just here for a minute. >> I know that cuz I told them I don't want them to touch me cuz they men. I know that. >> I don't blame you. Yeah, they shouldn't have They were trying to touch me. I don't like that. >> Um do you do you have anything any sharp objects or anything like that? >> No, I just got I just got this. >> Oh, what's that? Oh, your AirPods. Okay. I'll grab that in a second. Turn around uh wait for me. I'm just going to just double-check, okay? Spread your uh feet apart for me. >> Her AirPods just dropped. If you grab them for me. >> Yep. >> Turn and face me. I'll put it back. I'll put it back. I'm not going to have you going to mess up. >> She's good. >> All right. >> Hold on. I'm almost done. >> Oh man, my hair's sticking up on my head. >> We got to take it off. >> take it off anyways in the jail. >> Oh man, y'all going to give me a comb? >> They'll probably give it to you in the jail. >> You just got to ask them. >> Yeah, they'll give it to you. >> I need you to call my manager. >> Okay. >> You keep saying okay, but you're not doing it. >> Okay. >> I have to see the receipt. >> I don't have to see the receipt. >> Okay. I got stuff to do. What's your name? >> Well, I hope you're not going to leave me in this hot ass car again. >> I got the AC on. >> You didn't have it on the first damn time. >> Okay, well, I didn't realize that I was going to have somebody in the back of my car. I turned it on when I realized it. >> Yeah, well, you saw me in there burning up, burning up. >> Hey, look, what's your phone number? >> For what? >> For the arrest paperwork. >> What do they need it for? >> Cuz it has to go on the arrest paperwork. >> Yeah, but that's not you telling me why. >> Because it's a requirement on the arrest paperwork. It's a required field that we have to put in. >> They never They didn't ask me that the last time they arrested me. >> Okay, well, if you don't want to put it either, that's fine. Uh single, married, divorced? >> I'm separated. >> Okay. Separated. Where do you work at? >> I work at Domino's. >> Domino's. >> What number do I call you at? >> Okay, sounds good. I'll see you in a minute. >> How long is this going to cuz I got to pee? >> Uh he said he's almost done. >> I got to go to the bathroom. >> Okay. >> I I'm not going to be able to hold my pee that long. I need to go to the bathroom. >> Well, he's almost done. All right? He said he's about to finish paperwork and >> I'm telling you I don't I can't hold no pee that long. I got to pee. I got to pee. You need to help You need to tell him come on cuz I got to piss. >> Oh, speak of the devil. I think this is him. >> I hope so cuz I got to pee. I'm got all day. Take it too long. >> The central charge resisting officer without violence under Florida statute 843.02. The statute requires willful resistance, obstruction, or opposition to an officer in the lawful execution of duty. The operative word is willful. Intent is a required element, not merely inconvenient conduct. The factual dispute did closing a car door constitute willful obstruction or routine act misinterpreted under stress. A court must weigh the subject's stated intent against the officer's testimony and observable evidence on camera. Critical audio captured, "I'm tired of her mouth. She's going to jail." This statement triggers First Amendment analysis. The Supreme Court held in City of Houston versus Hill 1987 verbal challenge directed at police is constitutionally protected speech. The freedom to verbally oppose or challenge police action without risking arrest distinguishes a free nation from a police state. An arrest motivated by frustration with protected speech rather than legally sufficient conduct constitutes a retaliatory arrest. Retaliatory arrest violates the First Amendment regardless of whether probable cause for another charge technically exists. The 11th Circuit governing Florida has affirmed this principle in multiple post-Hill decisions. Use-of-force analysis applies under Graham versus Connor. 1989 reasonableness is judged from the officer's perspective at the moment. The subject was unarmed, not fleeing, and posed no threat escalating beyond verbal defiance and a disputed door movement. Multiple officers were present. De-escalation options existed. Physical extraction was not the only available response. PERF de-escalation guidelines require officers to consider time, distance, and communication before physical intervention. None of those conditions were meaningfully applied before the decision to arrest was executed. Deputy McCoy grade C+. The stop was legally justified. Execution was not. Captured audio indicates the arrest decision was driven by personal frustration, not by a legally sufficient factual predicate. The First Amendment does not permit officers to convert verbal irritation into a criminal charge. Subject grade B-. Her assertion of First Amendment rights was legally accurate. However, exiting the vehicle unprompted and sustaining aggressive verbal confrontation created unnecessary legal exposure. The prudent approach, remain in the vehicle, provide documents, and contest the stop through proper legal channels afterward. Palm Beach County, so grade B- administrative procedures were followed. Training gaps were exposed. A seatbelt stop producing a criminal arrest, a towed vehicle, and a potential First Amendment claim reflects a proportionality failure. Key legal lessons. Know the difference between lawful order and unlawful retaliation. Officer's frustration with protected speech is not probable cause. Every arrest decision must rest on conduct, not tone. Citizens asserting rights verbally is protected. Physically contesting a lawful order, even a wrong one, is legally dangerous. The correct remedy for an unlawful stop is a lawyer in a courthouse, not a confrontation on the roadside. If If officer threatens arrest for speech, document it. Comply physically, challenge legally. That sequence protects your rights. 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