Now, now can I stand up? >> No, you can't. Stay right there. What What What have I done? You're kneeling down for officer safety reasons cuz I don't know if you're going to run away >> I don't have I don't have any weapons. No, I'm not saying I'm I'm saying if you're going to if you're going to under duress under duress, I'll identify myself. If you're threatening me with criminal charges, I will identify myself. But once I see you're not going to respect my rights, I will comply because there's no Police stopped a man's vehicle and quickly began pressuring the passenger to provide identification, even though he repeatedly insisted he had committed no crime. When the man calmly refused to cooperate without a clear legal basis, one officer suddenly grabbed his recording phone, pulled him out of the vehicle, handcuffed him, and forced him to kneel on the ground like a criminal. But instead of backing down, the man continued challenging the legality of the officers' actions and questioning their authority. In the end, unable to justify their behavior or the aggressive escalation, the officers were forced to return his phone and release him. >> I just step out and talk to him. Is that a order? Is that a lawful order? Bro, is that a I'm not detained. He's detained because But I just step out but just cooperate with them. All right. I'll step out and talk >> Because you know what I mean at this point, we're just going to be filing our complaints. We're just going to be filing our complaints at this point. I don't have to speak to you. I don't have to speak to you, sir. I don't have to What What For what? Oh, so you guys are going to search us? You're going to search us? Okay, I'll get out. You're going to search us? I'll get out. I'll get out. I'm not going to Get out of the car. Now, let me tell you before I give you your phone That's okay to record, but if I see you dialing for somebody to talk come over here, then we'll take him away again. That's a safety issue. So, you can record us all you want to, but if I see you start dialing, then I want to take the phones away from you for because for all I know, you're calling someone over here to come and interview with you guys, okay? All right, can you state your name and your badge number? Sergeant Pete Herrera, ID 767. 6117 6117 Okay, thank you, sir. Where's your ID, sir? My ID? Yes. I was just a passenger of this vehicle. Sir. I do not lawfully have to identify myself. I've committed no crime. I do not have to identify myself. Okay. I've been through this before. Okay. You're being detained for investigative purposes. That's why you're being detained for. Okay? Well, I've committed no crime. I'm here. I'm a passenger of this vehicle here. I don't I do not have to identify myself unless I'm suspected of committing a crime in the act of committing a crime. Now Now can I stand up? You can't. Stay right there. What What What have I done? You're kneeling down for officer safety reasons cuz I don't know if you're going to run away and identify yourself. >> I don't have any weapons. No, I'm not saying I'm I'm saying if you're going to if you're going to under the arrest under the arrest, I identify myself. If you threaten me with criminal charges I I will identify myself. But once I see you're not going to respect my rights, I will comply because there's no you know, there's no cooperation with corrupt with corruption. Are we free to go? Am I still being detained? >> detained for investigative purposes. Okay. I'm cooperating with you. I've done nothing wrong. Where's your ID? My ID's right here in my pocket. No, sir. I can give you my name if you're going to I can give you my name, but I'm not going to give you my identification, my address, and all that because as soon as you run it in your system, it's going to go to the fusion center. If you're going to threaten me with criminal charges or you threaten me You're being detained for investigative purposes. I haven't committed a crime. I have not You're free to walk away here. All I'm asking for is an ID. I'm not going to identify myself because I haven't committed a crime and I don't have to legally. That's That's not a lawful request. And you're not complying with my I don't volunteer anything. If it's consensual, no. If you don't mind, I mean, I'm cooperating with you. Can I stand up? Can you know, can you treat me like a man? You know, can you know, treat me like an animal? I don't want to be treated like an animal right now. You got me kneeling down on the ground. And you have your video I don't >> have any weapons. I don't have any weapons on me. I haven't been threatening to you. You don't have any reason to suspect me of being a threat to you. I'm not threatening to you guys. So, why why do I have to kneel down? I'm not a threat. Can you just write them their tickets and you know, just let us go on our way. My knees are hurt My knees are hurting right now. I'm in pain. Okay. Thank you. I really don't have any respect for you. Okay. As an officer none of that, you know, like All right. There's people out here really doing crime. I've done nothing. Officer Ham here, she came up. She was a the She was the first one who showed up on the scene after the call was made for backup. So, we appreciate you responding and just standing your place. Appreciate you standing in your place and doing your job. This officer here, I don't know I don't feel like she treated us that well because she didn't even give us a chance to even talk to her. Like, we just was recording her. She backed up away from the scene. We called for backup like there was a problem. That window was down, but as soon as we saw how she was treating us, we rolled the window up. And that's why we didn't want to really respond because of the way how she handled the whole situation. So, the thing is she can smell stuff. And when we asked you guys to step out, you know, we already have probable cause to search your vehicle. in the vehicle as you can see. We searched your vehicle. Right. But but but now that I understand that. And now but now that I understand that. You know, what I'm saying? So, that's why we responded the way she She would have said, "Okay, I smell something in the car. You know, can I search the vehicle? I have I have every every right to all of that probable cause if she smells something." We'd be like, "Okay, fine." You know, we can't really cooperate with someone who doesn't give us any kind of response. You know what I mean? Have a good day, guys. Right. And that's called the Walker saying. That's called the Walker saying right there, man.