I am not giving you permission to record me or my voice. >> Okay. So by you doing that, if you're doing that, it's a violation of my rights, which is an arrestable offense. >> Absolutely not. You're being recorded. You're being recorded. And if you get And if you get overly cute and and try to go arrest me or something like this, it's going on YouTube, and there'll be lawsuits and everything else. >> Police approached a man sitting in a parked car, labeling him suspicious and demanding ID without pointing to any actual crime. Even as he repeatedly challenged their legal basis, they prolonged the detention and kept applying pressure. But when they couldn't establish reasonable suspicion, they had no choice but to let him go, walking away in an awkward retreat. >> Perfect. No, if I'm not legally obliged to, I just sit in the car. >> What? If I'm not legally obliged to step out, I just sit in the car. >> obliged. >> What am I being detained for some reason? >> detained. You're stopped, lawfully stopped, so yes, you're being detained. That's what being detained means. So step out of the car. >> No, being detained means there's a charge. So what's the charge? You have an obstructed tag, so yes. I understand. I have a ticket for that, actually, that I got like a week ago. >> So you're aware you have an obstructed tag. >> Yes, and I had 30 days for It's a compliance ticket. I had 30 days to take care of it. >> 30 days to pay the ticket. You immediately have to comply. So you're aware of what infraction you're committing. So you're obliged to step out of the car. >> you want me to ask for a supervisor? I can ask for a supervisor. Do you want me to tell you to state who you are and your and your everything else? It's fine. But you want to just make it tagged? Sir, if you don't step out of the car, you're going to get arrested. >> You're going to place me under arrest? >> Yes, if you don't step out of the car. >> Okay. I'll I'll get out of the car. Call on the phone. Absolutely not. This is I you're being recorded, sir. >> It's fine. I don't care. This Absolutely not. You're being recorded. You have no right to touch me, my car, my child. You have no permission to search anything. I have no questions to answer at all. I'll let you know if I have any questions for you. You let me know when you're done writing the ticket, and you let me know if I'm being detained or if I'm under arrest for any charge. >> right now. Okay. Well, You're detained. You're stopped. >> Okay, then the clock is ticking on that. You follow me with my tag, write a ticket for the tag. Take your time. So what you're telling me is you're not going to perform any exercises for me. So I'm telling you I'm perfectly sober. I've had nothing to drink at all tonight. I don't have to do anything. I'm not acting drunk, looking drunk, being drunk. >> actions really >> Excuse me? What you were just doing, standing on your one leg and touching your your your nose like that, that's not normal. Stand back here from the car for me. Yeah, I'm I'm fine here, sir. >> I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. Stand back here. I'm being harassed. I'm being harassed. I want Sergeant Alexander here right now. I was told I'd be treated with respect, and you guys are bullying me and harassing me. I I told you I came from I don't need to tell you anything. If you have a problem with my tag, write the ticket. I'll be on my way. I have a ticket for that exact infraction. You have my ID. I don't have your ID. >> Okay, well, I gave it to them. >> time It's the first time the conversation is going to be a one-way conversation. I would suggest that you won't say anything else. However, if the officer is requesting that you will do a perform a certain test, and you're refusing, it's automatically basis to suspend your license. You can't just insist on somebody doing a sobriety test when they're they're no kind of drunk no whatsoever. I respect you, and I'm not going to get into a side roadside conversation or debate with you. I am not giving you permission to record me or my voice. >> Okay. So by you doing that, if you're doing that, it's a violation of my rights, which is an arrestable offense. >> Absolutely not. You're being recorded. You're being recorded. And if you get And if you get overly cute and and try to go arrest me or something like this, it's going on YouTube, and there'll be lawsuits and everything else. You guys are absolutely harassing me right now. I can't even believe that I'm standing out of my car. I don't even drink alcohol. It's like hilarious. Like I'm the only one that I know that doesn't even drink. >> Why are you so hostile? Can you roll your window halfway for me? Roll up my window halfway? I mean, why? Cuz I believe your tint to be illegal, and I'm going to check it. You can be more than happy to Fair enough. You make me feel threatened and intimidated. I want you to know that. All right. I need to see what's going on inside your car. >> That's an assault. Don't touch my phone, my property. Don't even touch my car. Hey, man. Yes, sir. >> Can I ask you a quick question? No, really. I'd rather not answer any questions at all. Okay. No, I'm just curiosity about your cat. This is harassment. Just as a matter of fact. And there's there's an amount of time you There's an amount of time you can keep me here. >> to talk to you, and you don't want to don't want to answer me. >> I can talk to you. I can talk to you. I can ask you all the questions in the world. No, no, I'm not saying anything. I'm not trying to be rude at all. But if I have any questions for y'all, I'll ask them. And if you have any questions for me, I have no answers for you. But what I do want to tell you is that there's an amount of time you can keep me here. It's the amount of time that you takes you to write a citation reasonably, or you can conduct whatever investigation if you think I've committed a crime. And then after that, which it's a half hour, I'm free to go. So am I being detained right now? It's not for Let me ask you right now while we're on camera. Am I being detained right now? >> traffic. >> so am I being detained? >> You're stopped You're not free to go, yeah. I'm not free to go. I'm being detained. Okay. Just want to make sure that we know when the when the you know, the time starts and ends on on the detaining me on the side of the road when I have my son to take home right now. Am I free to go? No, sir. Oh, sir, are we done writing the tickets or I did. What are we doing now? We're writing tickets? What's going on? A couple tickets being written, so it takes a little while. And then and then what And that's it? We're good? Okay, so those tickets are How long do you think is a reasonable amount of time for? What we got? 10 10 and uh Spring court said 20 25 minutes. Okay. Don't you think this is like a little borderline, you know? I'd I'd like to take my child home. If I take it off now, would that save me a ticket? No, I just don't want you to keep getting >> Listen, if you want If you want to skip the ticket, I'll take it off right now. If you have a screwdriver >> with people. You're going to get another one. It's not a problem. I'll happily do it. If you have a screwdriver, >> Oh, thanks. Are you going to pull me over again before I make it home? I'm not, no. No. Well, you got four of you. I have one of the four. Anyway, listen, I don't know why I'm I'm talking to you for. I don't know why I'm talking to >> You're talking to a person below nice people. That's why you're talking to me. >> Yeah. You're a bully, and you're making me feel harassed and threatened. You would have never been stopped if you didn't have your tag like >> Yeah. like that. Yeah. Turning up the air for my son. Okay, that's fine. But I want to see what you're doing in there. I don't want >> to see what you're doing. Go get a paycheck. Go do something worthwhile. Go do something where you can look at yourself in the mirror and feel good about yourself the next day. >> I feel fine about myself. >> Yeah, I'm sure you Yeah, I don't think you do. I don't think you do. >> sure you don't have any chance not to >> feel fine about yourself, actually. I really don't. That's just a guess. >> you feel that way. Oh, I'm Don't be sorry. I'm sorry. Ben is starting to talk. Ben, yes, sir. >> just uh He's going to tell you the same thing I'm going to tell you. I'm just asking you to listen. I'm not asking you to reply or or give me any kind of a reaction. Okay. You can react, but just listen to what >> go ahead. Get to it. Yes. What I want you to do is to listen to what he tells you. He's going to give you a couple of citations, the officer. Okay. Okay? Yes. And after you listen to him, you're going to follow the night. Okay, great. >> That's where you can take the child home. You >> All right, what do I need to listen to? Can you write the citations and hand them to me? If you need a signature, just give me a pen. He's done. He's all set. >> Okay. So all I need is a pen. Actually, I don't even need a pen. These are compliance tickets that you can leave them on my on my windshield if I wasn't even here. >> it to you. Okay, that's good. >> to give it to you, and then and then I'm ready I'm ready to receive. Thank you. That's it. That's all I wanted to tell you. All right, thanks. Appreciate it. See you there. What Why? Why? I'm a free I'm a free person. I am not under arrest. I can just I'm detained I'm not detained to sit in a seat. You can sit in the seat. If you ask me, I can if I feel like it. If I feel uncomfortable. Listen, I'm not I'm not going to come any closer to you. I'm not I have no weapons. I'm all good. We're hanging out, okay? I'll stand right here. In fact, you know what? Just because my son is in there, I'd much rather hang out with him than you. I'm going to go back in the car. Thank you. No, no, no. Don't thank me. It's not for you. Ben, your license, registration. Uh-huh. You want to pay for the half hour?