Don't have to grab me. I can get out. I can get out. >> I was recording. That's why you stopped, bro. >> I'm recording. I'm recording. >> The video begins on March 19th, 2024 with two Orlando police officers walking up to a parked Mercedes at a gas station lot. The location is a known hot spot for drug activity, and the officers quickly became suspicious about why the vehicle was sitting there. Their concern set the stage for what happened next. The officers make contact with the two occupants and inform them that they are investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle. >> Just got a call suspicious vehicle in the Waw Wall parking lot. So, we're just checking out to make sure you guys are good. >> Oh, yeah. We're fine. I'm just sitting right here and on my phone. >> Yeah. Uh, you're doing what now? >> I'm sitting right here on my phone. >> Oh, okay. Uh, do you have your ID on you? No, I don't. Not right now. >> Do you have Is this your car? >> No, this is my girlfriend's car. >> Okay. Where's she at? >> She's here with me. >> Oh, she's in the passenger seat. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. Um All right. So, here's the deal. Do you have a medical marijuana card or does anybody have a medical marijuana card in the car? >> No, we didn't, sir. >> The man in the driver's seat explains that he and the woman are having a seriously bad day because he had just been laid off from his job. >> Sitting here in his car because I just lost my job. We're going through a lot right now and this is a house of come here bothering us while we're sitting at a parking lot. >> Like this doesn't make any sense. What? So I never heard anybody sit. This is waw wa. It's open 24 hours. >> There people sitting down. >> I just literally >> What is going on? We just got We just came from the store and bought a drink. I just lost my dog today. You don't smell anything? >> So can you please leave from our vehicle? >> We really don't. We don't have anything. So >> And the car is not on. So you cannot sir. There's no smoke. I don't smoke. I don't know. >> An officer claims to smell cannabis coming from the car, which both individuals immediately deny. >> You can you please leave from my car because I'm going through a lot right now. You coming here bothering me, bro. >> So, please just move. >> They're also sitting >> like they sitting over there. Why you not talking to them? They over there smoking and everything. That's probably where you smell weed at and you coming over here to our car. Like, that's illegal. You can't just come out to people car. And I'm going to go in Waw Wa and ask them did you get a call because you're lying and you can't tell me to get out my car cuz this is >> The woman in the passenger seat becomes very distressed arguing with the officer and saying that the car wasn't on and they hadn't done anything wrong. >> Having a [ __ ] shitty day. I lost my do my my job today. I lost my job. >> Keep the window down. Keep the window down. >> Are you serious? >> The window down. Are you put >> Why? Why? >> Because now you're detained for a drug investigation. You're not free to go. Before it was consensual encounter standing. >> The officers tell them they are being detained for a drug investigation. The woman's agitation increases and she repeatedly tells the officers to call a sergeant and accuses them of being on a power trip. >> Told this man, I lost my job today. Why are y'all coming over here bothering us? >> We didn't do anything at all. We're sitting here having a horrible day and you're going to come over here and make it even worse by me just sitting in my car. There's nothing in this car, bro. You can look at my trunk. I have my clothes. I'ming homeless, sleeping in my car. And I got people like you coming over here bothering me. Like I'm Bro, I'm going through a lot right now. Please go find somebody else to bother cuz I'm not doing anything wrong whatsoever. I don't know if y'all bored, y'all want something to do, but I'm not doing anything whatsoever. You know what you're doing is wrong. I'm sitting in my car looking at jobs trying to figure out what I'm going to do to pay my bills so I can have somewhere to lay my head cuz I don't have nowhere to stay right now. I just lost my job. I'm a professional welder. I don't have to steal. I don't have to kill. I don't have to do nothing to take nothing from nobody. I believe in working hard for what I want. But what y'all doing is wrong. You don't come up to nobody car while it's turned off talking about saying, "Oh, you got a phone call." You don't come up to me dictator telling me this is not a free country. How can you come up to this car? We just came out of Walmart, fill this soda. It's cold. >> I just got here. So, I know you >> I literally been here for only 3 minutes. >> We just came out. I literally >> I just came out of there and spent my money and I'm sitting in the parking lot of a store that's open 24 hours. I'm not doing any any suspicious activity. What you're doing is wrong and you know you're wrong. You're going to allow this guy to do this. That's wrong, bro. And this is not no no what's right thing or none of that. That's wrong. That's wrong. What you're doing is wrong. What you call your sergeant over here because we ain't do nothing wrong. >> So here's the deal. I just wanted to do is at least we have a conversation. We can walk up to any vehicle in any public area >> because we ain't do nothing wrong which is a consensual which is a which is what we call a consensual account. Call us. Yeah, but my car isn't You have to call the supervisor and you cannot search this car cuz you're wrong. >> Call the sergeant. Please call your sergeant. Please call your sergeant. Call your sergeant. Call your detective. Call the supervisor. Call the chief. >> As long as it's >> Bro, they're wrong. We ain't do nothing wrong. As long we ain't doing nothing wrong. >> But it's We check out with vehicles all the time. That's not uncom. >> No, you're not taking this vehicle. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Check out with people in your lawyer. If we develop call right now, call Ken. Get Ken on the phone now. Now goes from a consensual encounter to a detention. My god, bro. That's exactly what happened. I'm being detained. >> You're now detained. Initially, everybody in the car and the vehicle. Initially, you were free to go to our sergeant. The time that we developed probable cause to detain you. >> We know our rights, Summer. We know our rights. So, I haven't done anything. No, no, no, no, no, no. >> Yeah. Well, we'll just wait for uh >> call the sergeant. Call the sergeant. >> Yeah, but this isn't necessary, sir. We're not doing anything wrong. Please necessary. I don't know what >> Can you call Stop, Summer, tell them to call the sergeant, please, cuz they know what they doing is wrong. >> There's someone in right now. So, just relax. We got We have nothing flashing us. It's like we are to our car supposed to do. >> Okay. But why? >> This is weird. >> Wow. I'm coming. >> Because you're being detained right now for investigation. >> But what did we do for investigation? Why are you investigating us? Other people cars out here. >> What's the >> the drug investigation? The car smells like cannabis. >> It ain't no cannabis in here. We don't smoke. Bro, >> we're going to search you guys. Make sure. >> No, you're not searching my car. I'm sorry. Get the from around here. And I mean that. Get the [ __ ] from around me, bro. Call the sergeant. Stop talking to them. Stop talking to them. Call the sergeant because they know what they're doing is wrong. They know what they're doing is wrong. Right here on the steering wheel cuz we're going to have to step out. >> No, you're not. Don't touch my car. Move. Move from my car. >> Move from my car, >> bro. Oh my god. Bro, I don't want to deal with this, bro. We're going through a lot right now. These people trying to They trying to Do not touch me. After the woman refuses to step out of the car, an officer physically removes her. A struggle ensues and she is taken to the ground and arrested. >> Oh my god. Babe, >> listen. You are okay. >> Stop. Grab me, bro. >> Can you stop? >> Step out. Step out. Step out. >> It's okay, baby. Get out my car, babe. >> Calm down. Calm down. >> Okay. I'm about to get out. I'm going to get out. I'm going to get a chance. >> He grabbing me, babe. >> Okay. Sorry. Okay. >> You had plenty of chances. All right. I'm sorry. >> No, you got plenty of time. Quit acting like that. Sorry. >> Grabbing me, babe. >> I see. >> Okay. I'm sorry. >> Okay. You don't have to grab me. I can get out. I can get out. >> I was recording. That's why you stopped, bro. >> I'm recording. I'm recording. >> Get in your hand. Give me your hand. >> Okay. Okay, you open me arrest for resisting. >> What did I do? >> I said I was getting out. >> No, >> I said I'm getting out. >> No, you wanted to tense up. You want to make a comment about recording? We don't care. >> You need to comply with >> While on the ground, she accuses the officer of slamming her head. >> Really? What did I do? >> Have a seat. You're resisting. We give you a lawful order to get out. No, that's why I haven't done anything. >> Can I get a female 45 me? >> Oh my god. Can you please >> We're going to have you sit over here and give you privacy right here. I'm not going to touch your chest. >> I can't believe you just >> cover your chest like right here. >> Oh my god. How you have my arms? >> Somebody's going to female officer is going to come over and they can fix it. >> I can't believe you just grabbed me for no re I didn't do [ __ ] wrong. I'm sorry. >> Did you throw my head to the ground? >> No, man. We were trying to get you out of the car. You could have came out. >> You could have pul I'm 10 and something lbs. You could have just grabbed my arm. >> We did. You tried to fight. >> For what? I didn't try. >> You tried to pull water body so different. >> Please, sir. I just told you. Why are you doing this? >> No, I don't have anything. I told you my dog. >> Please. I told you are exposing me. >> Oh my god, babe. We're not doing nothing. >> I'm not going to touch your chest. >> Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. >> Not even from here, guys. >> This could have gone a lot easier if you just would have listened. >> But sorry, we did not do anything. >> Listen. Listen. Stop. Look. Have I been yelling at you? I know you're I know you're Look, you're frustrated. I get it. Stop talking. Stop talking. Just listen. >> Officer is going to ask you to get out of the car. If you just get out the car, you probably won't even be in hand to be honest with you. >> But I'm just going through a lot right now. I just lost my job. Everybody has >> But you're employed. You have a house to sleep in. I'm sleeping. >> You know, I have a house. Do you know what's going on? >> I'm sitting in my car. >> Okay. Well, we got stuff to figure out. So, just chill out. >> Did you stay with that? Figuring it out. >> Yeah. My the body can't show you my head on the ground. I have a lawyer, so I hope you know you're going to hear from me. >> Do you need medical attention then? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> You better let me go. >> Let me go. >> You need to stop. >> Can we get >> You can't have a power. >> What do you need the fire department for? >> You can't have a power truck. >> I'm not getting a power truck. >> You already got what you wanted tonight. You just put your hands on a black woman. >> Ma'am, what do you need the fire department for? >> You feel good tonight, right? You threw a black woman down on the ground. So, you should feel good tonight, right? You feel good? >> You feel good, >> ma'am? What do you need a fire department for? >> I just My whole head just got slammed into the head. >> Yes, I have head trauma. My lawyer, please. Can I please call my lawyer? I don't have a lawyer. >> Do you have a card? >> You have a medical marijuana card? >> Not on you. >> Are you Have you been issued one? Is there a jacket or >> a minute? All right. >> That's your phone, right? >> Yes. Can you get my phone, please? >> I already told you where you going. >> You have a warrant, too. >> Yeah, I know about my >> But what um what did they say I was going? >> Resistant. They were driving. >> Yeah, but I wasn't resisting. He grabbed me out anyway. >> Yeah, I wasn't on that side. I don't know. >> So, Okay, turn around. Talk to that sergeant real quick. >> Hi, Sergeant. >> A sergeant arrives on the scene and speaks with the woman while she is in the back of the patrol car. >> Me on there. >> Um, >> okay. So, >> did you see the um video cam of him saying I got arrested? I was resistant. >> Okay. So, that's kind of what I'm here for. >> Tell me what happened. >> Oh, I I was just sitting in the car and the car was off. I'm just >> He's talking You want to wait or you just want to head over there? >> Right now. So, we've been trying to like figure out the >> sitting here for a little bit until I figured that out. And he just came out of nowhere and asked like what we were doing. And I immediately rolled the window down and I just told him. Um I was like, "I'm not doing anything. I'm just sitting in my car." You can't just do a single box. That's all I told him. And next thing you know, he started talking about, oh, he smells something or like that. And I told him like, it's nothing here to smell. It's it's nothing. We wasn't smoking or anything. Like maybe earlier I was smoking but not anything recent. >> And he just um had some other people pull up and stuff like that. And my girlfriend started freaking out and getting like, you know, she be feeling like cops be on like power trips and stuff sometimes. So she was just like feeling like, you know, overwhelmed. So I'm trying to calm her down the whole time. I'm telling her, "Calm down. Calm down. Calm down." Next thing you know, he's flashing. Him and his other dude is flashing. Like I hope y'all don't have to flash a light in here. There's nothing in here. There's nothing in here at all for you guys to get nothing. Nothing but dirty clothes and stuff like that and all of our personal items. That's it. And next thing you know, he's telling he's detaining her. They detained her first. And I'm trying to calm her down. and I'm on my phone. I was about to start recording. Soon as I started tried to record, he snatched me out the car. >> The woman explains her side of the story, stating that she wasn't resisting and that the officer forcibly removed her without giving a clear order to step out first >> door and start grabbing me out. He didn't ask me to get out the car or anything. Okay. >> And I don't feel like that was right. I wasn't resisting and I was like, "Okay, let me get out on my own." And when I tried to get out on my own, they just grabbed me out and they just slammed me on the floor and pulled my hair. I'm only 120 lbs. They didn't It was no need for them to do that. >> They could have just grabbed my arm really, really hard or something, but they grabbed my arm, slapped me on the floor and everything. I don't understand why >> before they even asked for my name. I know I have a little warrant, but they didn't even ask >> before they did that. >> Okay. Um, so the good >> the sergeant says he will review the body camera footage to determine what happened. >> So I'll review their body check and make sure that your story matches up versus >> Is that right? What he did like was he >> I wasn't here so I'm not going to sit here. There's your side of the story. I'm >> saying hold on hold on me side of the story. >> There's his side of the story. There's what happened on body camera. Everything I'm going to That's what I'm here for to review all of that. Right. So I already got his side of the story. I'm getting your side of the story now. Uh, so first of all, >> when they approach, you knew they were the police, right? >> Yeah. >> They had their uniform on. >> Yeah, I knew. I didn't have a problem with I was I immediately asked I didn't ignore him or anything. >> Okay. When you were getting pulled out of the car like I understand tensions were high and everything like did you pull back into the car and be like, "Hold on, wait a minute." >> No, I said I'm about to get on myself. I said, "I'm about to get out myself." And before I could even get myself out of my mouth, he already grabbed me out the car. He didn't give me a second to get out. He didn't say, "Ma'am, step out of the car." He didn't say anything to me. All he did was just straight grab me out the car. When she got arrested, >> he when she got arrested, he grabbed me out the car. >> Okay. Right. >> I I'll I'll look at all the body cam. >> I'm sorry. Can you put this cover over me? >> I'll put I'll look at all the body cam video and if there's something that needs to be addressed, that's what I'm here for and I'll address it. >> Um, go from there. >> No problem. >> Are you injured? I do have a really bad headache right now and my knee and that's it. >> All right. I see your knee. Oh, he checked you out already. It just uh >> Yeah, they just put a band-aid on it. They didn't put no alcohol or anything sanitized over it. >> I'm going to take a picture of it. It doesn't say on my phone or anything. It goes uploaded into the cloud into our database and everything and that's it. >> Okay. >> Already watching. All right. >> Want a glove? >> I got >> So am I getting just resisting or not? >> Sure. I came here well after the fact, so I don't know exactly what >> told you're resistant and the warrant. >> Oh, okay. So just resisting >> and the warrant. You have to go. You have to have to take care of that warrant. >> Okay. Yes, I am. I don't have a problem with that. I was about to do that tomorrow. >> Like they didn't even slam you down. >> No injuries to your head or anything. I not that I know of right now, but I have a head. >> I was going to take a picture of your head. >> All right. He had it tied kind of real quick. >> Okay. >> I see why you're the sergeant. Cuz you have patience. >> Very much do. >> Um you >> guys need to learn that. >> Anything else? >> Anything else? >> Nope. No, just pass it. I just want to get >> Do me a favor. I understand. Tensions were high earlier. >> We're all calm now, right? >> No, I was never I was it was hyped up earlier when I got here, but everybody's calling now, right? I'm fine. I'm just listening to you guys >> because especially when you get down to the jail, like they don't mess around there. Like these guys are very lenient and everything. When you get down there, they don't mess around there. So, >> I would advise you to stay calm. Do what everybody says. All right. All right. All right. Can I have a hug for her, please? >> I love you. >> Oh, but she has a warrant. >> Get it for her now. >> I love you, Lord. >> I'm going to call you. Do y'all have my phone? >> All right, let's go with you to the jail. >> See, do y'all have extra bandaids? Cuz this mayonnaise just bleeding up and he done took it off. >> Um, we'll get you on when we get to the jail. Victor. >> Yeah, you have to be. That's our apartment policy. And you're under arrest. So, >> I know, but it's >> You want me to take it matter? >> Yeah. Just hold it for you. We get there. >> Appreciate it, bro. >> I'm going to get She's going to jail. Um, she did she comply pretty much when she got in the car? Good. I'm good with whatever you >> She's good. >> Uh, and there's nothing crazy in the car. >> No, just I don't want you to take her to jail. Peace. Yo, >> officer. >> I don't want her to go to jail. >> It wasn't She's cursed. >> I know, but she's sorry. And I'm sorry. We will never do it again. this you make the situation worse for me >> because I don't know anyone here >> unfortunately like I was saying >> you're going to you're going to go um your companion over there she also has a warrant so either way she would be going to jail even if we weren't going to charge her resisting she's going to jail for the warrant okay >> bro >> and we're taking that little bit of weed and destroying it all right >> let's go here >> I'm stuck here, bro. >> Yeah. Well, she can't drive either. She doesn't have a good license. >> I'm stuck here, bro. I think y'all cannot call my brother. >> You can call you want the license. >> Okay. Well, can you give me gas money? So, my brother come one of y'all give me gas. >> Probably not. >> Nobody. Y'all got money. Y'all can't give me gas. >> Like, y'all can't help me out, bro. >> Like, bro, I'm stuck here, bro. What am I about to do now? >> You're free to go. All right, ma'am. You're free to go. No, she's going to jail. No, >> I just want to give her a hug. >> I had things turned out differently and maybe I would be a little bit more sensitive to the matter, but >> please give her a hug. >> All right, we're going to go ahead and uh >> Bro, that's not fair, bro. >> She has the warrant so give her a hug. >> That's it for the warrant. Okay, >> I just wanted to give her a hug. The video concludes by stating that the woman was transported to the Orange County Jail and charged with resisting law enforcement.