For what? I don't want to go to jail. I might be arrested. But all I did WAS TALK TO THE SPIRIT. >> Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood International Airport, Florida, May 24th, 20125. A missed Spirit Airlines flight turns into a heated confrontation and deputies [music] are called when a passenger refuses repeated orders to leave. Minutes later, she's in handcuffs facing [music] a trespassing arrest. All captured on body cam. >> There's two gates on it. >> You can ask what ma'am. Let's >> ma'am what? I haven't done anything. I'm speaking to Spirit Airlines about my about my flight. >> Okay. >> About my flight. >> It's going to go two ways. >> No, it's not going to go anyway cuz I haven't done anything violent. I haven't done anything. All I did was speak. All I did was speak. >> Brian County Sheriff's Office. What did you come over here to do when I'm talking to Spirit Airlines? I haven't I'm not disrupting anybody. I'm talking to her. >> I'm not distrusting anybody. I'm talking to her. >> I'm distracting anybody. I'm talking to her. >> I understand. And I'm trying to get some information. No, I'm getting clarification. But it's okay. Come over here when I'm getting clarification about my business matters. I haven't done anything wrong. I haven't insulted her. I haven't cussed her. I haven't touched her. I haven't done [laughter] anything. I can stay right here and talk about my flight. You coming over here and trying to intimidate me ain't going to do anything cuz I haven't done anything illegal. >> I look intimidating. You're the one that's looking. >> I didn't do anything illegal. So you coming over here to come in my business to do anything? >> So she's done. So you got she got to leave. >> No, I'm talking about my flight. >> I'm talking about my flight. I'm talking about my flight. >> All right. All right. >> No, don't touch my stuff. >> Listen. >> We're going to give you 10 seconds. >> Let's go, please. Let's go. Come on. No, you know what you're not going to do is touch me. I haven't done anything. >> Let's go. Come on, ma'am. >> Have I done anything, sir? >> No, no, no. Don't touch. Please don't touch. >> You cannot touch me. >> You do that. It's going to be I'm not even going to walk or not. You going to walk? You going to walk or not? >> I'm not doing anything. I'm not doing Am I being arrested? AM I BEING ARRESTED? AM I BEING ARRESTED? Am I being arrested? Am I being arrested? Am I being arrested? Get arrested. Am I being arrested? No. But am I But am I being arrested? But am I being arrested? Am I being arrested? This is against my Just go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. >> Am I being arrested? Am I being arrested? Am I being arrested for what? >> For what? For what? >> For what? I don't want to go to jail. >> Am I being arrested? But all I did was talk to the spare airline. And I asked you not to forcefully touch me. >> That's good. Now we're done. All right. That's it. >> Simple. >> I haven't forcibly done anything. I haven't touched anybody. I talked to spirit. You're for You're arresting me. >> I didn't I haven't I didn't do anything. >> I didn't do anything. You're going to forcefully arrest me? >> Yes. For trespassing weird. >> I have a spirit airlines ticket. >> I'm not being disorderly. I'll call you. I am talking. You're arresting me for being what? >> I I can't repeat it over and over again cuz you need to be on the police camera. I focus very on talking to her. I didn't say anything. I wasn't cursing her. I was not being citizen. I asked her about why she closed the gate earlier. You guys are forcing me because I'm talking to Spirit Airlines and you're arresting me through the airport. I can talk to you as much as I want to. I'm ask you, what am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for, sir? Sir, what am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? What am I being arrested for? >> What am I being arrested for? >> I'm going to go back and get her name. >> What am I being arrested for? >> Put up for trespassing. >> What am I being arrested for? Why are you trespassing me? And I have a Spirit Airlines ticket and I'm supposed to get on board. Why would that be a trespassing if I had a Spirit Airlines ticket and I was trying to get on board? How would that be trespassing if I was Air Airlines ticket and I was trying to get on board? How was that trespassing? This is a public space. This is the airport. Huh? I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Don't Don't Don't tighten up your grip on me. You are calm down. >> Sir, you're hurting me. You are hurting me. You're hurting the book. >> You're pushing me. >> I'm not holding it. >> Let it go. Let it go. PUT IT DOWN. YOU'RE HURTING ME, >> SIR. Put it down. Just put the arm. Relax me. Why are you trying to be forceful? Relax it. Relax it. Relax it. Relax it. Relax it and relax it. You're hurting me. You're so hurting me, sir. You're still hurting me. >> You're still hurting me. This is not You are. Can you put your arm down a bit? Because you're straining my hand. I still don't know what I'm being arrested for. arrest. I have other Stop [ __ ] holding on. Hey, you're squeaking it. You're hurting me. He's hurting me. He's hurting me. He's hurting me. He's hurting me. He's hurting me. He's hurting me. HE'S HURTING ME. I'M NOT pulling away from you. You're hurting me. How you're hurting me. How you're hurting. If nothing works on me, it's on you. I'm not pulling away. I still I'm still missing. Stop pulling my arm. >> You are. Stop. >> All right. Stop. >> Huh? >> Yeah. Get this. >> Now get your And you're still squeezing my arm. Stop squeezing it. Stop squeezing my arm. >> You are squeezing it. Stop squeezing it. >> You're squeezing it. >> You are. Stop. female. Yeah, just leave there. >> Get your handsale, >> please. He's hurting me. He's hurting. >> You see how you're holding me? You're holding it loosely. He's tugging me on purpose and then he's pulling my arm. Look how it's falling. It's hurting me. >> Now I got two hands on me. >> Three. >> This is a security advisory. When your receive baggage unattended, unattended baggage will be removed and may be discarded. >> All persons must maintain control of their personal property, >> including carry on baggage and check baggage. Any disregard on terminal 4? >> Carrying firearms through a TSA screening checkpoint of an airport is prohibited by federal law and regulations. Check all carry on baggage for firearms. Is it 3500? down in the throat. Ma'am, this church, >> please help us get fire rescue. >> Yeah, let's get out. >> Can we get fire rescue also, please? >> Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood International. I don't think she's feeling well. She's throwing up. So, we'll just get a check. >> Exactly. >> She got to wait out anyway. So, just set her against put suspicious behavior so that law enforcement officials can thoroughly investigate. Pay >> attention to this important issue. 10. >> I'm sorry. I told you guys when you guys got a chance just to give them a call, please. >> Just explain to me so I know what >> she did tell you more. >> Who? >> Cuz she was the gay agent. I had to run. >> So what happened? Just tell me what happened so I know. >> Oh um Paola closed the gate, closed the door at 14. Okay. >> Okay. She walked in and then soon as she walked in, see this lady sprinting. Okay. >> And she came to the counter. I'm like, "Ma'am, you're going to have to go to class from G10 to the rebirth." before I even get to finish my sentence, she started getting all around, >> calling me names, telling me, "You're going to [ __ ] get me on a [ __ ] flight, da da da da." And then I called her and she didn't hear her screaming >> when she was coming down. She just kept getting hot like >> Can I get a picture of your little thing? >> You want this one or the spirit one? >> Doesn't matter. >> I don't need your I don't need your all the information. I just put this spirit 3181. She's my mother. >> Yeah, I'm going to tell you. >> 8:3181. >> All right. So, basically, she came here already had an attitude, >> but she was late. >> She said she was at the wrong day. 8. Yeah. Whatever day she was at. >> Okay. >> E3. >> No, that's in terminal 3. >> No, we don't have E3. >> Oh, no, not 8:13. But yeah, it's in terminal 3. >> Yeah. But I'm trying to explain to her, ma'am. Well, that's what the person said when I walked out of TSA. >> No one said that. >> No, no one said that. >> So, okay. So, and then when I came to talk to her, she wouldn't get allowed. So, I knew I already knew what was going to happen. >> So, okay. >> That's it. >> All right. >> But I needed her name cuz I wanted her to document. So, before you come, that's what she was trying to give me cuz I said, "Can I see your boarding pass?" >> Yeah. How long you going to be here for? >> Till 1:00 a.m. I got to this side. >> Oh, so you going to So, you going to be here in 20 minutes? >> Yeah. >> All right. All right, I'll get a name for you if you want to. >> All right, >> and make sure my phone is okay. >> Terminal 2 criminals everywhere. all of these criminals and drug dealers all over South Florida and you will be arresting someone who is missing their flights >> based on PRIDE >> BECAUSE YOUR PRIDE IS HURT. >> BSO is literally up all these criminals all these criminals all around the world and BSO wants to arrest someone who missed their flight Mr. You're a >> You wanted to arrest me from behind bars. Go ahead and do it. I'm supposed to do >> the 21. >> They gave me the wrong gate to go to. They told me E8 and I to now run >> to go to gate G. And I asked them WHY WOULD YOU CALL ME 1051 to um please someone told me to go to the wrong PLACE >> AND BECAUSE THEY CLOSED THE GATE EARLY AND BECAUSE I ASKED TO SPEAK to airlines. >> Yeah, some temple >> and now I'm being arrested. >> I didn't touch anyone. I didn't cuss anyone. I didn't jump over anything. I DIDN'T THREATEN ANYBODY. I ASKED TO SEE A SUPERVISOR AND I SAID I WASN'T GOING TO LEAVE UNTIL I SEE A SUPERVISOR. NOW I'M IN A BACK OF A CAR GOING TO DOWNTOWN. >> I have 1066. They found their wallet. >> You got kids. I pray they go through this >> and you have to succeed. I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> All this over something minimal if NOT WORSE. I PRAY THAT RAINS ON YOUR FAMILY'S HEAD. >> They shall never rest because of this here. >> And you look like you might know what the I'M TALKING ABOUT. I REIGN ON YOUR HEAD, your kids head, your kids kids, your kids kids head. I reign on the generations before you that they will never rest over this night. >> They will never rest. They will never rest. They will never see anything good in their life over this night. Because you want to arrest someone, they will never >> see anything good. >> Number 380. >> Never. >> AS IN ABOVE, SO IS BELOW. AS I SAY IT AS IN IT IS DONE. >> So that happened now. You sure? cuz I don't I don't feel like I don't I don't want to be looking around for that immigration paper. They have it there. >> Yo, they have it right there with property. I didn't see it download. >> Yeah, I got to I got to fix this PC. Hold on. Give me a second. You got You need her name. You need her ID or No, you got it. Is that why you just wasting your time with my hands behind my backy feel like you can go ahead and just be doing other stuff >> because I asked to go to downtown. You're going to make sure that you stretch out the time for me to go to downtown. >> You said you're arresting me. You're detaining me. You're taking me to downtown. For the past hour, you've just been sitting here doing your paperwork for other things. Other cases. I'm looking at your computer and I'm seeing other cases from earlier and you're just sitting here in the car doing other cases. >> Just put it there. Sign the >> tit right here. I can't sign the rest. >> Okay. All right. All right. Put in the mail. All right. That's fine. >> You left and you said we're going to downtown. You now circle back to come do your paperwork. Can you please drop me off so I CAN GET THESE HANDCUFFS OFF my hands? I'm losing circulation in my hands. Can we get to downtown? >> Can we get to downtown arresting me? No problem. >> I'm being detained, right? >> You're just kidding me in the back of your cop car while you're doing your paperwork for the day. Okay, ma'am. >> You're keeping me IN YOUR COP CAR WHILE YOU'RE DOING YOUR PAPERWORK FOR THE DAY. I'm watching you do it. You just asked for them to bring paperwork for other cases. >> I'm watching you sign paperwork for other cases. >> Can you please take me to downtown? Cuz what I thought is you do this paperwork downtown, not here in the car within me in the back reading other people's stuff, reading your text messages, reading the personal text messages you're making while I'm sitting HERE IN THE BACK WAITING TO BE waiting to be delivered to downtown. You got the wrong [ __ ] one today. >> Okay. >> You got me back here for HOUR INSTEAD OF GOING DOWNTOWN >> SO I CAN EXPLAIN MYSELF TO THE PEOPLE DOWN. >> YOU CAN SHOW ME. SORRY, she's kind of loud, but you can show me 51 to uh the main jail. Sorry mileage. 35491. >> Do you need to do you need me to call them out of this group? >> No, I can handle it. I'M LOSING CIRCULATION IN MY ARMS. You say you WANTED TO ARREST ME AND DETAIN ME FOR THE NIGHT. Can you please TAKE ME TO DOWNTOWN SO I CAN GET DETAINED? Is it a city at me have me out here in the FRONT OF THE AIRPORT SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE THAT I'M ARRESTED AT THE FRONT IN THE FRONT OF the airport for NO REASON AT ALL? WHILE YOU DO YOUR PAPERWORK FOR THE DAY, YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE. >> Sitting here watching you do text MESSAGES ABOUT PEOPLE AT PARTIES. I'm busy. I'm handling BS right now. Personal text messages while you're supposed to BE TAKING ME TO DOWNTOWN. DOING ALL YOUR PAPERWORK FROM EARLIER TODAY, MR. RODRIGUEZ. I'M WATCHING ALL YOUR WHILE YOU'RE DOING THE PAPERWORK THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EARLIER TODAY. TAKE ME TO DOWNTOWN. YOU'RE SITTING HERE DOING it on PURPOSE JUST TO AGGRAVATE ME. YOU WANT TO BE FINE. TAKE ME TO DOWNTOWN. LET ME REPORT you and Mr. Powell. Oh, you guys are very incompetent and full of take me to downtown. You going to remember this night for the rest of your life. Watch this. And if you ever want anything to ever change, you going have to find me and say sorry. Watch this. If you want anything to change, it's all going to go left for today. You going to have to say sorry. Watch this. Do you know what my last name is? Oo. It means and you can check this in means honorary event. >> That's what I do. >> Just leaving the airport on a federal highway. And then retirement home. >> Yo, tell them. Let me get a female deputy to get her out of the scar. >> No, >> listen. I'm trying to avoid me. Y male. Just have someone to take her out. >> That's it. One of them to take her out or or a male or or whatever cuz if she hits me, it's going to be a problem. So, I'm trying to avoid that. So, >> no one ever said I wouldn't touch you. I will never touch an officer. I don't have to touch you. I don't have to touch you. >> I'm not I'm not I'm not doing >> You can get out yourself. I'm not going to touch you. >> Somebody needs to help me out. >> It's hard to do. >> You can't do that. >> No, she's so bad. >> All right. You pull my legs. >> Yeah. Okay. Hold on now. Don't pull me now. Oh, okay. >> Go ahead. Oh, you're going to go ahead. >> Go ahead. >> Just No, no, no. Stand over there. Stand over there. >> Not trying to deal with that. I'm not trying to deal with that. Ma'am, stay over there for the last time. How >> how many times? >> Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. >> No problem. >> All right. So, I'm going to let you know. Um, I'm going to say it once and once only so you can listen and stop talking. When you get out, you're going to go to our station. Okay? Our station is terminal 2 and Delta. Terminal 2, Delta. You're going to go to the first door. You're going to say sheriff's office. You're going to knock. You're going to say, "Hey, I've been arrested. I was arrested uh Saturday. I need my luggage." >> I have to go and get my luggage from the sheriff's office. >> If you don't get your luggage from the sheriff's office, it will go to the evidence unit and it's going to take forever for you to get yourself. Okay. >> See what you did, Mr. Um, let me let you know. >> No problem. I hope you have a nice life. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> 3100 31 over over this flight. This is supposed to go down this flight. I'm so sorry. You're going to have to put these on. If you don't do it, they'll do it in there. >> This arrest wasn't about missing a Spirit Airlines flight. It was about refusing repeated lawful orders to leave after deputies were called to the scene. According to the body cam footage, officers gave multiple opportunities to comply before placing her under arrest for trespassing under Florida law. As the situation unfolded, she was handcuffed and later evaluated by fire rescue after reporting she felt unwell. If you enjoy real body cam breakdowns with the full legal context, subscribe to Redefining Justice and turn on notifications for