I call him on. I need to call him on. I don't care WHAT YOU'RE DOING. CALL MY MOM. CALL MY MOM. I NEED TO CALL MOM. I don't care what you're doing. Call mom. Call my mom. Call my mom. Are you calling my mom or is this a joke? >> The silver Hyundai was sitting on top of a rock with its front end through a wooden fence at a residential home in Washington state. Deputies had been searching for the vehicle after receiving multiple calls about a woman who had been in a fistfight with two other women at a waterfront park and then fled the scene in a car that matched this description. They found the car. She was [music] 23 years old. She was crying. She was not wearing pants and the first words out of her mouth established the tone for everything that would follow over the next 20 minutes of body cam footage. I have really bad anxiety. I don't know where I'm at. I have literally no idea where I'm at. She did not know where she was. >> [music] >> The officer attempted to conduct a routine post-crash interview. He asked basic questions: license, registration, insurance, what happened at the waterfront park? And Kelli responded to [music] each question with a different crisis. >> I have really bad anxiety. I don't know where I'm at. I have literally like I don't know where I'm at. I'm in Tacoma and my son's home. Everybody I don't know where I'm at. And I like I have really bad anxiety. >> Okay. >> I have really bad anxiety. And I don't know where I'm at. I'm having anxiety. >> Okay. >> I DON'T KNOW WHERE >> [laughter] >> NO, BECAUSE it's really bad. And nobody is listening to me. >> No, I got you. So what? >> That's so many people have not been listening to me. >> So what? >> I'm trying to go home and nobody's listening. I'm trying to go home. >> I hear you. >> I live in You don't live in You live in I'm TRYING TO GO HOME. I LIVE IN BUT I LIVE IN SEATTLE. I'm literally at home from out here. I don't know my area. >> Okay, do you have your driver's license on you? 152, if we can get aid, this is a 13 and I'll take a second routine. She's extremely worked up. >> Can you take this? That's a gift card. I have an actual identity card here somewhere. I'm looking for it. I'm so sorry. >> [snorts] >> I'm looking for it. I'm just like >> Yeah, your driver's license is underneath. And then, do you have insurance on the car? >> I don't right now. I'm literally like stressing. I don't even know what's going on. Like, I literally >> Well, you were in in a collision. You You hit someone's fence. Do you have the registration in the car? What happened at the waterfront park? You had other people in the car? You got Why were you fist fighting? >> Because they fist fought me and set me up. My baby daddy's crazy. >> Okay. >> NO, MY BABY DADDY'S CRAZY. >> OKAY, [laughter] I'M I HEAR YOU. >> The officer asked about the waterfront park. She admitted without hesitation, I got into a fist fight. I left. When he asked why, she said, "Because they fist fought me and set me up. My baby daddy's crazy." The baby daddy became a recurring character in the encounter. >> Do you want to keep looking for the registration? >> No, because why is he doing this? >> Okay. >> NO, MY BABY DADDY'S CRAZY. He's crazy. MY BABY DADDY'S >> [laughter] >> CRAZY. [ __ ] off. Like, what is my baby daddy telling me? >> I have not talked to your baby daddy. >> Yeah, tell me everything. I don't believe that. >> Okay. So you don't have any insurance on the car though? >> What, are you going to arrest me? >> No, I don't know yet. >> I don't KNOW MY BABY DADDY, SO NO. I DON'T HAVE A REST ON MY CAR. I JUST WANT TO GO HOME. >> OKAY, well that's not an option right now. Okay. >> Okay. >> to try to see if a third is available. That would be great. She's very hostile. >> Hello. They're being mean to me. >> Stop crying. >> [laughter] >> Did they call the cops? >> They're at my window. What do I need to do? >> I can't hear I can't understand you when you're >> I haven't said anything. They're at my window. They're being rude. I haven't said a word. Who? The cops? I haven't said a word to them. I haven't said a word to the cops. They're being mean to me. >> Because you're probably drunk. >> No, because I didn't Why are you like that? >> Okay, you're taking the side off. >> What one plate do you got on it? Do you have shoes? >> Do you want me to take my shoes off? >> You're not wearing any shoes. >> a problem? >> I'm asking if you have shoes. >> Do you want me to take my shoes off? >> You're not wearing any shoes. >> Why, are you going to call the cops on me now? >> No, I just want to ask if you want to have shoes cuz I'm going to have you step out and talk to me. >> Talk to me. >> Yeah. >> I tried to talk to you. >> Give me a minute. I'll wait till I get a second. >> I tried to talk to you but you wouldn't talk. >> What's that? >> Why would I talk to you when you didn't >> What? >> Why would I talk to you when you literally tried to arrest me? >> I haven't tried to do anything. How much have you had to drink last night? >> Too much. >> Because you're operating a motor vehicle, so I want to make sure you're okay to drive. >> I wasn't in a motor vehicle, actually. >> Well, you got here somehow, right? >> I'm telling you I wasn't. >> You You So you weren't just sitting in the driver's seat. >> No. >> The officer told her he had not spoken to her baby daddy. This did not register. She was operating in a reality where every authority figure was connected to the man she blamed for her evening. She asked the question that every person in handcuffs asks eventually, "Are you going to arrest me?" The officer said he did not know yet. She did not have insurance. She could not locate her registration. Her driver's license required two attempts to find. >> Well, that's weird. You know what's crazy is my camera's rolling. >> to know what's crazy is you're lying because everything that happened before that, you're lying. >> Oh, okay. That's perfect. Okay. Why don't you go and step out of the vehicle for me? >> Are you kidding? >> No, I'm not kidding. >> What the [ __ ] did I have to sign and tell like campus stuff while I Do you just enjoy like taking people to jail? Do I have kids? >> No, I enjoy doing my job. >> Well, I don't have a [ __ ] kid that I need to go to [ __ ] Okay. Well, obviously you don't. So do you feel right? >> Do I feel >> good? >> Do I feel what? >> About taking like people to this jail? Like do you feel good about yourself? >> Sometimes, yeah. >> As a me? >> As a you? >> take care of my son. >> Okay, I'm glad. I hope so. >> Yeah, so what do you have to say about that? >> Congrats. >> what's up? >> And if what? >> I have to pee. I'm getting a lot of people like Where can I urinate? Sorry if you're on me. But where can I Sorry. I have to really badly. Where can I go in the prison way? >> Um nowhere around here. >> Can I go in like like right here? If you turn around for 2 seconds, I really have to go. >> We're in public. >> I I to go to the bathroom. >> Yeah, but we're in public. >> Okay, well can you ask if you can like fix the public city cuz I have to go to the bathroom very badly. >> So you want me to fix the public city so you can urinate in public? >> No, I don't want you to fix my phone public city so I can go to the bathroom. >> Okay. >> But can I use a bathroom in like a good way to where I can use the bathroom, please? I have to urinate. I'm telling you I'm about to wet myself. >> Connie. >> In a nice way. >> Yeah. No, we're not we're not going to go urinate in public. >> Yeah, that's why I'm asking if I can go in a possible way cuz I really have to go. Like really bad. Like it's going to urinate on my pants. Like I need them to like I don't even care what they say. Here you go. >> Well, we're going to wait for my second unit to get here. >> I can't wait. Can I just go? Are you going to press charges on me if I go? >> I >> I really have to go. Can you turn around for 2 seconds, please? >> I I can't >> Dude, I'm going to urinate. Like I can't control my urination. >> Okay. >> Okay, you're going to urinate. >> You lost money, by the way. It fell out of your car. >> I lost money? >> The distinction between "Do you have shoes?" and "Should I remove my shoes?" was apparently beyond the scope of the evening's cognitive capacity. Then, the urination negotiation began. Connie announced that she needed to use the bathroom urgently. She asked the officer to turn around. He explained that he could not allow her to urinate in public. She asked if he could fix the public city so she could go to the bathroom. >> It's right [snorts] there. >> Look, yeah. Can I please go to the bathroom? >> I I I can't let you go to the bathroom in public. >> Yes, I'm not. But I'm about to urinate on my >> There's people walking that are walking their dogs. There's houses. There's children >> Come back, please. I have to go. >> It's >> not me that I'm worried about. It's kids that are walking and dog walkers. >> But dude, it's so bad. Like people Okay, I don't even >> And now she's peeing in the street. Urinating? >> No. Are you kidding? I helped you. >> How did you help me? >> I had to go so bad. What did you want me to do? Pee on you? Pee on yourself? >> Okay. >> Dude, I literally like messed up my whole I literally pissed. Are you kidding? >> 152 other units can slow. 3 is good for right now. >> I'm warning you. I'm warning you don't be pissing. >> What's that? >> I'm warning you don't be pissing on the ground. I told you I'd pee on the ground, dude. >> Okay. I >> Are you kidding? >> And I told you you probably shouldn't do that. Nothing but argumentative. Raising your voice. >> Can we please take my money? >> What was that? >> Can we please take my money? >> Can we just leave it right there for now? >> No, because I need I asked >> going anywhere so you don't need it right now, okay? >> I asked him if I could pee. >> Okay. >> And he said okay. >> Oh, did I? No. At this point, no. Where are you going to go to the bathroom? >> She just did. >> Oh, she just did. Oh, gotcha. Oh, you said peeing in the street. You're anything? >> He watched me. What was the problem? >> Okay, well just put your money down so you don't lose it, okay? Keep it in the car. What's your first name? What's your Melanie. [laughter] >> Are you kidding? >> What's going on today, Melanie? >> I I don't even know. This is >> Well, it appears that you might have consumed some alcohol. I have a state trooper here. >> I'm going to tell I have consumed alcohol, but I don't want this. Like I don't want some in my life. >> I know you don't want some drama. Would you be willing to participate in some voluntary field sobriety tests? >> Everything will be on camera. >> Okay. >> The officer, with the patience of a man who has heard many things on a body cam, but has never been asked to restructure municipal infrastructure to accommodate a restroom request, said no. [music] She asked if he would charge her if she went. He could not finish his response before Connie urinated in the street. >> All right. >> I don't want to be like I wasn't even involved in this. >> Okay. She said she's >> My boyfriend is literally a piece of [ __ ] I don't want to be involved. Wait, wait, hear me out. He beats me. I don't like like before you say anything, like I need you to like listen. >> Okay. I'm listening. Go on. Yeah, I'm listening. >> He beats me. Don't say that. I do it. >> Did he Did he beat you today? >> He said that. >> Yeah. What [laughter] time did that happen? She said She said she's willing to participate in another single field sobriety test. Yep. Yep. Okay. Where did this Where did this beating happen? >> Literally like right now. Like before the cop pulled up. Like I need to talk to anybody. Like I don't have anybody to talk to. >> What address did this happen at? >> know the address. I have an address. I'll give you my phone. I have it. I don't I just need my phone. Can I reach my phone? >> Uh not at this point, okay? I was just wondering where this >> I'll get it. >> You don't have any weapons in the car, do you? >> I don't. >> No weapons? >> No weapons. No weapons. Nothing. >> We'll just leave the phone where it's at for now, okay? >> Yeah. >> But Kaylin, you like I said, I have a state trooper state trooper >> Well, I can't drive home. Sorry. >> Well, I understand that, but I have a state trooper. You said that you're willing to participate in field sobriety tests. You're going to take them. >> I'm not I'm like I'm not going to jail, but I'll sit here. >> Okay. Well, you said you're going to participate in those field sobriety tests. >> I'll go home with you. Yeah, but I'm not >> Go and step out of the car and participate, okay? >> not >> doing that. >> So, you don't want to do it? >> I trust you I'm not doing that. I trust you. >> Okay, well I'm going to be right here with you the entire time, okay? >> [snorts] [laughter] >> No, this is giving like I'm going to jail. I don't want to go to jail. I just want everything to be okay. >> Is that a yes or no to the test? >> No. >> No, okay. Would you be willing to do a the PBT, the blow test? >> What would that mean? >> That's when you blow in the tube though. Test. >> Would I go to jail right now? >> Well, I'm just asking if you're willing to participate in the test. >> find like failed would I go to jail? >> It's not a pass or fail. >> It's not a pass or fail, [laughter] yeah. >> Hi, can I help you? >> I'm her mom. >> Her mom? Can we talk over here real quick while she's So, what's what's going on? >> Um well, my stepdad called me and told me she got into a wreck. >> Mhm. >> Um I I was I think she's on her way home. >> From where? Okay. She's very obviously been drinking. Um >> Can you just please take her home? >> This We're We're past We're past that point. >> She's right over there. >> We're We're past that point. How old is she? >> She's 23. She has a 1-year-old. >> 1-year-old? Where's the 1-year-old now with you? >> Day care. Um >> Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. >> She's been a lot. >> What's been going on? >> Um just her baby daddy. They just went through a divorce and all. >> Mhm. So, was she gone all night then? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Did she call Did something happen at the waterfront or >> I have no idea. >> I So, she's very angry right now and I think if if she knows that you're here it's going to make it escalate more. >> This is just great right now. >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> A Washington State Trooper arrived to administer field sobriety tests. Connie agreed, then she disagreed, then she agreed again, then she said she trusted the officer but would not step out of the car, then she asked what would happen if she failed. The Trooper said it was not a pass-fail test. >> Who called you then? >> I called my mom. I called her earlier. >> So, we believe that you're under the influence of alcohol and are not safe to drive, whether you participate in field sobriety testing or not. We'll talk about that after. >> I need my mom. >> Okay, so 100 you're under arrest for RCW 4661.502, driving or being in actual physical control. >> listening? >> Are you I need you to listen to me. This is very important. >> I am looking at her and you both. I told you I did. >> All right, do you want to do you want to read it? Do you want her to read it, too? >> I am listening. >> All right, Kelani, so implied consent warning for breath. >> I CALLED MY MOM. I NEED YOU TO CALL MY MOM. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. CALL MY MOM. CALL MY MOM. I NEED YOU TO CALL MY MOM. I DON'T CARE what you're doing. Call my mom. CALL MY MOM. >> SO, KELANI >> CALL my mom. Are you >> Are you calling my mom? Are you refusing the breath test? If you refuse your driver's license, permit, or privilege to drive will be revoked for a year. >> my mom. Call my mom, please. CALL MY MOM. CALL MY MOM. CALL MY MOM. >> KELANI, go to >> This is mom. >> Oh, is it? Well, she's wanting me to call you. She's extremely drunk. Extremely. >> I know, and I told him that if they would just take her home. >> No, we're past that. Absolutely past that. We cannot allow drunk drivers on the road. >> All right, go ahead and face the >> Wait, I have no pants on. Can I put pants on? Wait, can I put my Wait, I have to put my pants on. Wait, my pants. I have in the back seat of the >> Okay, we'll get them in a second, okay? >> Dude, this is really embarrassing. Put my pants on. >> Go ahead >> I need to put pants on. >> Kelani, you're under arrest for DUI, okay? >> Okay, I did it, but I need to put pants on. This is really embarrassing. I need to put pants on. >> I'll grab you the pants in a second, okay? >> This is really bad. >> Okay, where are your pants? WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS? ARE THEY IN THE BACK? >> MY MOM'S GOING TO KILL ME. BRO, my pants, please. It's in the back seat. >> In the back seat. What color [laughter] are your pants? Kelani, do you have your >> THIS IS REALLY BAD. I NEED MY PANTS BEFORE MY MOM FREAKS OUT. I need my pants. My pants. >> Okay. >> My pants. >> What color ARE YOUR PANTS? >> BLACK. >> BLACK. WHERE ARE THEY AT? SHE'S WEARING LIKE A SHIRT. >> PLEASE, a skirt, pants. I don't care what I have on. Pull it down. Okay, pull it down. >> I'll pull your shirt up. >> Pull it, please. Pull it, please. Cuz this isn't real. >> Go to the back of the car so I can do that, okay? >> My mom can't kill me. If >> That's a shirt. There's no pants in there. >> The skirt I'm going >> Okay. So, Kelani, you're under arrest for possession >> socks and pants at? Actually. Sorry for being rude. I'm not being rude. I'm just saying. >> I accept your apology. >> I'm just saying that was a little rude of him to say that was about pants. I said, "What?" Are you serious? You want me to go to jail for some weed? Like, bro, look at my baby daddy. He's worse. Like, are you serious? Why do I get the worst one in this man? >> Go and have a seat. >> But, hey, look, can I at least have a promise that you're going to look for him? If I'm getting Gosh, that's bad. >> Connie's mother arrived at the scene. She approached an officer and made the request that every parent makes when their child is about to be taken away. Can I just take her home? Like, right over there. The officer said, "We're past that point." The mother absorbed this information the way a woman absorbs something she already knew was true. >> I don't even NEED TO SEE MY I'M PANTS. GOD, SO LIKE, WHAT? IS THIS HAPPENING? Can I at least talk for 2 seconds? Do I get to >> All right, Kelani, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in a court of >> silent. I get it. >> You have the right at this time to talk to a lawyer and have him present while you're being questioned. >> and I get it. I have a lawyer. >> afford a lawyer >> Blah, blah, blah. Can I please talk to you? >> at this time to talk to a lawyer, okay? While you're being questioned, keep your mouth shut. Put my record button >> I I asked to talk to Can I talk to you? I asked to Okay. That's what I asked. Period. Can I talk to you specifically? Understood. Can I speak to you specifically? Yeah. Can I speak to you specifically? Okay. My question is How am I in the wrong? >> So, you're under arrest for DUI. You are under the influence of alcohol. You said that you had some alcohol and then you were driving that vehicle and it crashed into a fence. So, that's why you're under arrest for DUI. >> Okay, well >> Okay. All right. I'm going to let you just hang out here for a little while, okay? >> Well, can I go to somebody that can listen? >> Okay. I'll see if she wants her purse to go with her with you. >> Did they call 911? Should I talk to them at all again? >> Them? Um I tried not They didn't call. I tried knocking on the door and no one answered. So, there's going to be a collision report for it. Um and it will leave a card for them to call so we can get them added to it. I'm assuming there's insurance on the car and everything. >> Um I don't know. >> Okay. Is it mostly hers? Did you just >> Yeah, I just co-signed it. >> You co-signed. Okay. I'll uh you just want to wait by your car or right here is fine and I can get you some answers. So, >> She She said that if it's drivable she'll take it home or live there. >> She said she can They literally live right down there. So, we will have to at least get it off of that rock. >> She can reverse it, maybe. >> Maybe, but I don't know. The I mean, is that tire in the air? I don't know. >> Then came the moment that gave the body cam its title. The officer told Connie she was under arrest and Connie, for the first time in the encounter, focused on something practical. Wait, I have no pants on. Can I put pants on? The officer asked where her pants were. She said the back seat. She was wearing a tank top and nothing else from the waist down that qualified as pants. >> Pants in the car? >> Um >> She's not wearing any. Hey miss, I'm going to I'm going to take some pictures if you want to >> Okay. Let me out. Let me out. >> So Kaylani, your mom's going to take custody of your car. She's knows that you're under arrest and she's fine with you going to jail. So just wanted to let you know. >> I don't care. Let me out. >> I have aid coming to check you, okay? Cuz you were involved in a collision. >> I wasn't involved in a collision and I wasn't even >> Hey, how are you? >> Great, how are you? >> This is Kaylani. Um DUI collision. >> Okay. >> Hey Kaylani, so I have um the medical guys here. You were like I said, you were involved in a collision, so they're going to just going to check out, all right? >> I want to go home. I don't give a Let me out of here. Let me out. >> Okay, we'll go AND TALK TO THEM. >> I'M WRAPPED UP. TAKE ME OUT OF HERE. >> HEY. >> Take me out of here. Take me out of here. >> Stop. >> TAKE ME OUT. >> HEY, I'm from the fire department. >> TAKE ME OUT. >> SO >> I DON'T LIKE BEING GET ME OUT OF THE CAR. Can you just take me out? >> I realize that. >> Take me out of the car. >> Uh the cop over there has it. >> Take me out. >> Let us run some >> I DON'T LIKE BEING HANDCUFFED. >> I get you that I >> Don't TAKE ME OUT, PLEASE. >> I understand that. >> I wasn't driving drunk. It wasn't me. >> So >> me out. >> We're going to We're going to do a quick set of vitals on you. >> I wasn't the one driving. Driving. >> Okay, that's fine. >> Don't take me out of this. >> That's for you to discuss with with the police department. >> to discuss anything cuz I know I wasn't driving drunk. >> Okay. Well, we're going to get some quick vitals on you. >> Not me. >> This is Kaylani. >> You're getting vitals on me, John. >> Kaylani, right? Yep, we're just Does it matter? >> You're not taking vitals pressure if I don't have >> You're not going to let us do that? >> Not if I'm dying. >> Well, that's what we're checking. We're making sure you're okay. >> going to die. >> The pants, like the evening itself, were unaccounted for. The officer later told Connie, "Your mom's cool with you going to jail." Mom knew. Mom was calm. Mom had seen this before, and mom was fine with the system doing what mom could not, stopping her daughter from driving without pants through residential neighborhoods and into fences. >> Like even a little. Like I need to like do my >> I cannot copy, okay? We're just waiting right now. >> anything bad. >> Okay. >> Like I'm so sorry that I did it. Like it's him and it's me. Like I have the wrong idea. You're so right, but like I can't like I can't be with him anymore. Like you're not understanding. >> What what what do you help explain to me? What would you like me to understand, Kilani? >> He's not You don't understand about like It's so bad. Like you're not going to get it. >> I can't take off the handcuffs. >> No, because I can't even like tell you because it's literally like It's comprehension. Like it's literally not even like he's going to understand. I don't think it's him. >> [laughter] >> It's funny what I have to do with him. Like are you not getting it? >> I'm kind of getting it. It's kind of hard to track, but I appreciate you trying to explain it to me. >> I'm understanding. What he does to me. Please [laughter] see it. He doesn't see it. He's not getting I'm saying it's like manipulative on your end, but on my end, it's a lot more than that. >> How long have you been in a relationship with him? >> Too long. >> Too long. Are you guys done with your relationship, or are you still in it? >> Not even then. Like >> Do you have a Do you have a child? I see a baby seat in the back. Yeah, how old is your child? >> Two. >> Two? Boy or girl? >> Boy. >> Aw, what's his name? Aw, that's such a cute name. What's his middle name? That's such a sweet name. Is he fun? Is he active? >> He is very active. >> Very? Terrible twos? Yeah. I think that everyone has bad days, but I don't think people are bad. It's just just a bad day, but but this does not make you bad. That's all. I got her calm, and then No, well, I got her calm and now she's back up. >> She was charged. The fence remained broken, the pants were never found, and an officer's words, "This does not make you bad." will be remembered longer than any charge on the booking sheet.