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In this body cam footage, New Jersey officers initiate a traffic stop after observing a vehicle speeding and swerving between lanes. The driver, visibly agitated, claims the car was recently purchased, but struggles to provide valid documentation. When officers detect signs of impairment, they proceed with field sobriety tests despite the driver's objections about a foot injury. Watch as the situation escalates to an arrest for suspected DUI. Is there a reason you were driving so fast and coming to stops where there's no stop signs? You were driving fast. I still need your registration and insurance. I just got this car like two days ago. Good. I'm not taking all of those documents. Find your registration insurance. It goes back to a I just got his car. You still need to have your registration insurance. I just got his car two days ago. Like you're scaring me. You need to have your registration and charge. That's customary for anytime you have a motor vehicle. Okay, then retrieve it. Have you been drinking today? So, why are you acting so erratic? Cuz you're like scaring me for no reason. I have contacts on, so my eyes are red. You must ask. Not why I'm asking. I'm asking because I can detect this odor of an alcoholic beverage on your breath. So, how much did you have to drink today? Three cups. Three cups of what? Uh, wine. Okay. I just got two days ago. Okay. You know what? Step out of the car for me. All right. Step out of the car for me, please. Walk to the sidewalk corner. Sidewalk right over there. Put your documents on the hood of your car. Right here. My phone, your documents, and everything. Yes. Just put it on the hood of the car. Please walk to the sidewalk. 12. 12. Come over here for me. Right here. Step on this line, right? I'm going to be conducting this line. [Music] Just keep your hands out of your pockets for me. Keep your hands out of your pockets for me. Okay. We're going to be conducting field sobriety to determine that you are capable of driving this motor vehicle. Get your hands out of your pockets. I hear you. Safely and without possibly causing injury to anybody else or yourself. Aside from your glasses, do you have any other or aside from your contacts, do you have any other problems with your eyes? No. Okay. You see my pen? Uh, turn the lights off the car. I have loyal. You see the pen? What color is the pen? What color is the pen? What color is the pen? Black. Okay. As soon as he turns those lights off the car, we're going to conduct the test with your eyes. You're going to follow my pen with your eyes. Your eyes only. You're not going to move your head for the entirety of the test. You understand? Okay. Follow the time with your eyes. Your eyes [Music] are follow. No. Do not turn your head. Told you not to turn your follow with your eyes and your eyes open. Do not move your head. Look at the pen. Stop walking away from the pen. Please look at the pen. Please look at the pen. Please stop looking away from the pen. Maintain your eye contact with the pen. Look at the pen. Continue looking at the pen, please. Okay, we're going to try that again. Look at the pen, please. Without moving your head, keep your head straight looking at me. Turn. Use only your eyes. Stop moving your head and stop looking away from the pen, please. Ma'am, I need you to comply with the test so that we can conduct this test. Stop looking away from the pen and stop moving your head. Look at the pen. I'm not doing that. No, you're looking directly at me. You're not looking at the pen. Okay, we're going to try this one more time. If you continue to fail to comply with the orders that I'm giving you, I told you I had lazy eyes. Ma'am, you're looking with both your eyes completely away from the pen. Okay. If you continue to ignore the instructions that I'm giving you, we're going to have to place you under arrest. You are still looking directly at me. I'm looking at the pen. I don't know what you're looking at. I'm looking at your eyes. Let me look at the pen. Okay. Continue to look at the pen until I tell you to stop. Stop turning your head. Stop moving your head. Please look at the pen. It's Harford prison with lazy eye, but okay. Do not move your head. Which eye is the lazy eye? Since you keep saying that it's they're both lazy eye, if you must know. Okay, which is possible. Okay. Continue to look at the patent until I'm done with the test then cuz you keep turning your head to look away from the pen. Because I have that has nothing to do with you moving your head. Okay. Ma'am, I need you to focus on what I'm telling you. This test is important to determine whether or not you're going to be placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated. So, I need you to really focus right now so we can conduct this test. And the sooner we're done with the test, the sooner we can make a determination. If everything's okay, you can go back to driving on your merry way. If it's not, you're going to be placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated. Do you understand what I'm telling you? Yes, I hear you. Okay. So, I need you to comply with what I'm telling you. But do you understand how hard this test is for me? I have a lazy eye in both eyes. It's not like I have Is that Do you have problems with your vision? Aside from that, because I asked you this question without my contacts, yes, I have. Okay. Are you normally able to follow things with your eyes? What do you mean? Are you normally able to look at things without moving your head and follow things with your eyes with with my contacts? With or without your contacts? I have these eyes. I don't I don't tell you. I don't I'm not We're going to continue the test. Okay. Look at the pen. Do not look at me. You're deliberately looking at me. Um, it's my lazy eye. Okay, continue the test. Stop moving your head. [Applause] Okay, the next portion of this test is going to be the walk and turn test. Do you have any problems with your legs that I should know about? Yeah, I just had a accident two weeks ago. Okay. On my right foot. Okay. Does that prevent you from walking in any way? Yes. How so? I just sprain my foot. Okay. Are you still able to walk though? No. You're not able to walk. So, we just walk from your car to here. You're not capable of walking in straight line? No. Okay. Well, we're going to attempt a test nonetheless. So, what you're going to do is you're going to put your foot on the line, your left foot on the line. You're going to put your right foot in front of your left foot. Hands down at your side. Put your foot heel to toe. They have to be touching. This is the broken foot, but okay. Okay. So, this test is going to be the walk and turn test. For this test, you're going to take nine heel to toe steps forward. At the end of that nine steps, you're going to take a series of small choppy steps on my broken foot. You're going to conduct the test. Yes. Okay. I didn't say to start. I didn't say to move. At the end of that nine steps, you're going to take a series of small choppy steps. But I went, for the record, on my broken foot. Okay. From two weeks ago on an accident. Okay. But okay. So, nine steps, right? When I finish giving you the instructions, I will let you know. You can relax your foot for now so you stop moving around. At the end of those nine steps, you're going to take a series of small choppy steps to turn around. And then you're going to take a series another nine steps heel to toe back to your original starting point. I'm going to conduct a test of a de a demonstration of the test right here. I'm going to take three steps. You're going to take nine steps. So the test is going to look like this. One, two, three. You understand? I have a broken foot. Ma'am, I am giving you the instructions for the test. I will allow you to tell me what you have to tell me at the end. You're going to take the small choppy steps like so. One, two, three. Again, I took three. You're going to take nine. I'm cold. Once we are done with the test, we will situate you somewhere that is warmer. Do you understand the instructions that I gave you? I hear you. Do you understand the instructions that I gave you? Yes or no? One, two, three. One, two, three. That's not what I said. You are going to take nine heel totoe steps. Do you need me to give you another demonstration? Okay. Do you understand the instructions as I gave them to you? Okay. Get into the starting position that I asked you to get into before. Foot on the line. Right foot in front of the left foot. Right foot in front of left foot. Hands down at your side. You may begin the test. Headquarters 134 and 19. Okay. The next test is going to be the balance test. For this test, you're going to stand on the foot of your choice. the foot of your choice. So that could be the foot that's not broken. I hear you. Okay. You're going to elevate it approximately 6 in off the ground and you're going to maintain that position until I tell you. Don't you want that I had an accident two weeks ago and I can't run it. Okay. You said you couldn't lift or you couldn't move one foot. Yes. So you can stand on the other one. Yes. That's not fair. But okay. I Okay. We're not going to argue whether or not that's fair. Correct. So again, as I'm going to instruct you for the second time, you're going to raise the foot of your choice approximately 6 in off the ground, and you're going to maintain it there until I tell you to stop. During the course of this test, you're going to stand at the starting position like so. Heels touching, hands down at your side, and it's going to look like this. One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, so on and so forth until I tell you to stop. Do you understand? Okay, please put your hands down at your side and get ready for the test. Near my phone. Wait one second. We're almost finished. [Music] [Music] All right. Do you still understand the instructions I gave to you? All right. So, stand, hands down at your side, feet together. During the course of the test, if you put your foot down at any time, just re-ra it. Okay? If you put your foot down during the course of the test, just pick it back up. How many seconds? Until I tell you to stop. That's confused. Are you ready? You may begin. Hands down at your side. I can't. I mean, seriously, my foot's broken. It's very cool. Wait, my foot's broken. Like, seriously. Put your foot down. Turn around. Being placed under us. We're driving along. Are you serious? Are you serious? Yes. We'll see. The whole [Music] thing we have one female [Music] 10 in your pockets. We have to search your pockets. We just have to search you. I understand that. If I know somebody, can like you let me know? Walk to the car, please. I told you my name. Want to roll a book for the car, please? All the paperwork she gave us. Come with us. Yeah. Uh, just her driver's license. All right. Yeah. Yeah, it's fine. Let me see in the [Applause] vehicle as well. Cell phone as well, probably. Yeah. All right. And then just stand next to our car. I have to search our car for intoxicants. Okay, come on. Come on, [Music] [Music] go. All right, these guys are going to stand by. Yeah. All right. What? Officer Aaron Font badge number 51. Officer Kimaskki 221 12 transporter one female 1025 the headquarters starting mileage 5025.325.3s The key should be in the car. ID ID phone. So we got the headquarters. Uh you can do the arrest report. Okay. Uh the the log book and who DVD or no just the arrest log book the arrest plotter. Okay. I'm going to see if they let me stand by that. I want to see the other four parts under the uh under the invest. Um well that's why I'm giving you things to do now so that you can maintain a presence there. Um, do you have a summon work? Yeah, I do. Tickets. Um, we'll do well the regular two DWI regist. Yeah. Um, we will issue her for that not coming to a complete stop with that stop sign. I believe that was Tentham Bloomfield. Okay. Um, and then we'll see if he does the uh test and then we'll uh have you also get started on trying to get her somebody who can come pick her up. Yep. So once we get we'll uh we'll have a female searcher. We'll begin observation and all that. We all hurt. [Music] What's this? No parking spots. 128 HQ. Any mileage? 5026.2 5 2 612. It's a bad vehicle for me. Be careful. The ice coming up here. Okay. Yes. I have to keep my arms in contact with you. That is our policy and procedure. Just step into the [Applause] [Music] room. Go do your Step into this room for me. This [Music] wall. Uncuff your hand, Ryan. Uncuff your hand. Put it on the wall for me. Turn to face towards me. Sit down. Secure the bench. Security to the best we have to do.
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