There's no alcohol smell in my car. That's not a articulate suspicion unless I was swerving all over the road and if it smelled like alcohol it don't smell like alcohol. >> But that's fine. That is That is a That is the initial That is the initial cause of the the the traffic stop, correct? But But there's no But there's no alcohol. There's no smell. There's no nothing. >> I'm telling you the lights is a sign that people have been drinking. That's why he asked you to >> Okay, but that That's not our That That's not smelling alcohol. That's called a blank lie. That's called a lie. That's lying. That's not He didn't smell no alcohol. He's lying. >> In this video, a driver was pulled over by Omaha police for equipment and registration-related violations, including issues with his vehicle lights and license plate. What should have been a routine traffic stop quickly turned into something else when the officer claimed he smelled alcohol coming from the vehicle. The driver immediately rejected that claim, insisting he did not drink, and questioning why the officer was trying to turn the stop into a DUI investigation. As officers continued asking where he was coming from and where he was going, the driver refused to answer and accused them of fishing for a reason to escalate the encounter. The more he declined to engage in their questioning, the more the focus shifted toward the officer's allegation that alcohol was present. With both sides refusing to back down, the entire stop came down to whether the officer's suspicion would hold up once the driver take a breathalyzer. >> Right now. >> Okay, that's perfectly fine. >> I You know you don't You know you ain't smelling no liquor. >> I asked you if you're coming from a friend's house or not. >> No, you didn't You didn't You didn't You didn't So you don't smell liquor. I don't even drink. What are you talking about? Don't Don't try that. >> Okay. Are Are you going to step out of the car and do a breathalyzer? >> No. What did you say? Do a breathalyzer? >> Yes. >> For What What did So you smell alcohol in here? >> Yeah, I think I do. >> But you But you just said that you did. You have to be You got to be uh sure of what you you know what you're saying and what you're doing. >> Okay. >> so you saying >> Yeah, I will. Okay, thank you. You have any knives, needles, anything on you that's going to poke or prick me if I check you for weapons? >> I don't. >> Okay. >> Yeah, but we all doing all this for a But what am I stepping out the car for for uh >> DUI investigation. >> But DUI for what DUI for what though? Okay, but you ain't got to put me out. >> I'm I'm not putting any handcuffs on you. Do you have handcuffs on you? I'm just checking to make sure you don't have any weapons on >> You're lying. You put the line on me. >> I'm I'm not lying, man. Okay? >> You're lying. You're lying. You're lying. >> Can you step out? >> Oh, yes, I will. >> Thank you. >> Sure will. >> Okay. >> Hey, what's your name and badge number? >> Leggett, 2618. >> Leggett, 2618. Okay, and you smell alcohol in here, correct? >> Okay. Can Can I run >> Smell alcohol in here, correct? >> Can I run a couple of tests on you to see >> I'll take a breathalyzer. I don't want to run no tests and none of that. >> Okay. Okay. >> Run a breathalyzer on me. I don't even drink. >> Okay. Okay, so we got to wait 15 minutes. Would you prefer to wait in the back of my car or close up to the front of the car? >> it I see it right here. Yeah. >> Okay. Okay, can you step up to my car right there where it says 135 right there? >> Yep, sure will. >> Okay, so again, I'm going to ask you one more time, where you coming from? >> That don't matter. It don't matter. I don't have to answer questions. >> No, it it's just a conversation. >> I'm not having a This is That That's You lied. You said that you didn't lie immediately when you when you pulled me over cuz you seen that I was saying >> offensive towards me. You've been verbally combative >> not. I have not. I just didn't This cuz I don't answer questions or I didn't answer your question when you asked me. That does That's not a law that I have to answer your questions when you ask me where I'm coming from cuz that doesn't matter. That has nothing to do with the >> I asked you where you've been coming from for a >> Okay, but you but you said a bar or anything like that, but that But why would you feel that way? >> I need to know. >> you feel that way cuz it's Sunday? Is Sunday or do I look like I was at a bar right now? No, I don't drink. I don't go to bars. I don't go to bars but you're making something up right now officer. You're making something up to try to you know to try to you know manipulate something into Now when I blow zeros all this suspicion that you say No, but now I know if now I know if I don't want to hear if. You feel me? You smell alcohol there's no alcohol there's no cups there's no nothing in my car but you want to say it smell like alcohol in there and I know I don't even drink. >> Okay, I'm just asking. >> But you're asking but that should be you should have a articulate suspicion of something off the odor but but you don't smell odor alcohol you don't either. You don't either but I ain't even talking to you though. I ain't even talking to you though. But I'm not even talking to you. No. No. >> Okay. >> No. >> There's no harm in answering questions today. >> it's no harm in not in not be but alcohol and all that had I wasn't swerving. There were there you don't smell any you know you can do what you do what you're going to do. Do what you're going to do. >> Okay, yeah. So >> I'll wait the 15 minutes. I'll wait. This We're going to do it the We'll do it the in the car. >> Okay, is there any questions I can answer for you right now? >> No, you there's no questions that you need to answer for me. I got my insurance for you too. Yeah, I got it all. Everything. >> can I see that while you got it? >> it's coming. It's coming. Black with these dreadlocks. That's what it is. First thing you're going to say all right you got this you got that. No, why would I have it? If I was a old white woman I was driving down the street would nobody be asking them questions? >> What are you talking about? >> you I ain't talking to you. I sure ain't talking to you. Sure ain't. You got the You got those uh Yeah, you got those going I ain't with it. >> familiar with this? >> saying you know you're trying to you know you put it but you're putting on it but you're putting on a bar bit. You know, barbaric, you know, kind of that's why you're trying to you know, I know what you're doing. You know, I everybody yep, that's my name. >> I'm going to guess it started with the place. >> That's fine though, but I have insurance on my car. Okay, but that's fine okay and she would and she would get attention and she wouldn't be standing outside the corner and wouldn't say she smell like alcohol either. It wouldn't be that. >> You brought up this isn't my driving so I'm not going to comment on >> Mhm. Okay and and you and any of y'all smell any alcohol? Y'all smell any alcohol? >> I can't smell it from here cuz I'm 10 ft away from you. >> We're also upwind. Wind blowing that way. >> Okay. >> But it's different in the car. >> You want to say that? >> It's probably the place that got the initial stop. >> That's fine though. That I have insurance. My I have everything on the car. I got a license. I got everything. So what what what what what you know, that was just to get me out the car. >> Okay, when did you buy the car? >> I don't know. >> You don't? Within 30 days or >> I don't know. I don't remember. He got the paperwork. >> So it was September of last year? >> I'm not I'm not sure. >> No, I'm not. I'm that was a statement. >> I'm not sure. Yeah. >> So, if that's the case then it is an unregistered vehicle on the street. >> Okay, so you can start taking a couple of those big deep breaths. >> 15 minutes out of one tank. Go ahead and take that big deep breath in for me. Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Stop. Okay. You're absolutely right. You blew zeros. >> that. >> Okay. >> I know. And you didn't smell alcohol, either. >> No, I didn't in your car. >> You did. You did. >> So >> There's no alcohol in my car. It's nothing in my car. >> Okay. I'm not citing you for anything related to alcohol. >> that's fine. Do what you got to do. >> Okay. >> Lying. You're lying. >> Nobody loses it. >> Yeah, that's all right. You ain't got to lose. Lying. >> We have We have to have a reason. >> No, lying. Right, lying. >> Do we have articulate suspicion? >> No, you didn't have articulate suspicion. You didn't He didn't He didn't He's lying. That's what it's called. Because it was He was lying from the beginning. Because that's what he wanted to happen because I wasn't answering the question. >> Can I ask you >> Mhm. Yep. >> Why would he lie and we get to this point and you blow zeros? >> Clearly. Clearly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was just That was just a because a lot of people do drink. They are out on the on the weekends. They are doing that. So, that's why it was a suspicion because you thought thought Thinking isn't a law. Thinking isn't is isn't articulate No, it's not. No, it's not. There's no alcohol smell in my car. That's not a articulate suspicion unless I was swerving all over the road if it smelled like alcohol. It don't smell like alcohol. But, that's fine. That is That is a That is the initial That is the initial cause of the the the traffic stop, correct? But, but there's no but there's no alcohol. There's no smell. There's no nothing. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But, these them are them are things that you can you know, you can Yes. Yes, but that but y'all but that's what they Y'all was trying to do. That was That >> was that was what was going on. Oh, you Have you been drinking? Drinking? What? >> I'm telling you the lights is a sign that people have been drinking. That's why he asked you to >> Okay, but that that's not our that that's not smelling alcohol. That's called a blank lie. That's called a lie. That's lying. That's not some He didn't smell no alcohol. He's lying. He's lying. >> Okay, sir. So, I'm citing you, like I said, the lights, the not having your license on you, and then the no license plate on the vehicle. Any questions about any of that? >> Nope. >> Okay. I need a signature from you in this top box. It's not an admission of guilt. It's a promise to take care of this ticket by either showing up in court or paying associated fines. All right? Any questions for me? >> Nope. >> All right. That's your copy. It's got the court date and time and location on there, okay? >> Yep. >> If there's no questions, you're going to hop back in your car and get on your way. All right? >> It's all right. DAMN IT. >> THE STOP ENDED WITH THE DRIVER BLOWING A ZERO on the breathalyzer, exactly as he had predicted from the beginning. Even after the result came back clean, he continued challenging the officer's claim that alcohol had been present. The officer ultimately issued citations unrelated to DUI, but the disagreement over the alcohol allegation remained the central issue of the encounter. What started as an attempt to investigate possible impairment ended with the driver arguing that the suspicion never existed in the first place.