Don't forget, are you going to give me your ID or not? >> No, I'm not. >> Okay. Why? >> Why? Because I haven't committed a crime because you asked me to leave and I said I will leave, but I also was like, I don't see a sign. >> Education. >> ID for what? >> Education for listen. >> ID for what? >> Legally, at the end of the day, you can record. when newly recruited police officers step onto the streets with a badge on their chest, but their understanding of the law hasn't caught up yet. >> Right now, you are trespassing. >> Okay, but in order to be trespass, I have to first be warned and then not take that warning and leave. >> Want to ask me for ID? >> Yeah, I still need them. >> ID for what? >> They have to know I'm speaking. Okay. >> Put you can put down a good person. >> The problem doesn't always come [music] from bad authority. Sometimes it comes from inexperience just for stopping to charge his car for a few minutes. A man was suddenly detained and asked for identification despite not committing any crime. And from there everything spiraled out of control. >> Being detained for no suspicion or reasonable articulate reason why. Do you have a camera on right now? >> Yes. Camera is on right now >> because I don't I'm going to request that because since you said for me to leave and I agreed with you and I was going to leave but your vehicle's in the way and then you asked to see my ID after I agreed to leave. Because technically speaking, right now you are trespassed. >> Okay. But in order to be trespassed, I have to first be warned and then not take that warning and leave. >> The first thing I said after the first thing you said after I told you had to leave was where does it say I have to >> Exactly. I can ask you where it is post that says that because I didn't see it pulling in or anything >> cuz I came this way. >> Comes up to them and said, "Hey, by the way, you can't be here. You got to go." >> Okay. And excuse me. >> Yeah. >> That's tyrannical. [music] This was no longer a normal conversation or a simple warning and move along. A citizen was being labeled without anyone clearly stating what he had done wrong. But the real escalation didn't stop there. As Jay continued to stand his ground, justifications began to surface and vague accusations started to take shape. >> I'm going to ask you again, are you going to give me your ID or not? >> No, I'm not. >> Okay. Why? >> Why? because I haven't committed a crime because you asked me to leave and I said I will leave but I also was like I don't see a sign and this is a car rental by the way. I work for Uber and I was just coming over here to charge because that parking lot is filled and I'm waiting for rides. >> But once again >> I'm not giving you my ID so please give me the crime that I committed. >> But I [music] said I would leave just because I asked you cuz I don't see a sign. I'm not going to argue. >> Okay. And I'm not going to give you my ID. >> My supervisor. >> Okay. >> I did say I would leave, but then as soon as I said your vehicle's in the way, you asked for my ID >> because you became confrontational with him. Yes. >> I can talk to you any way I would like to. asking as why you are currently here >> and I said I would leave but your vehicle was in the way and now you're asking for my ID. I'm going to be filing a huge complaint now with your department. >> Backtracking at this point, >> miss. You can say whatever you would like to, but I'm going to be filing a complaint against you. >> I don't >> I know. I know I will. >> But you are currently trespassing. >> But you told me to leave and I said I would leave, but your vehicle's in the way. Your camera's on. So, we can go over that. >> Fine. >> That's fine. We can absolutely go over that. >> I said I would leave >> first. I asked you. I didn't see it was posted because I just wanted to charge my car cuz I'm an Uber driver and I >> told you that I'm investigating why you were here after dark and you were refusing to give me your ID >> because I didn't commit a crime. >> You are currently harmed by trespassing and refusing to. >> But there was no sign coming in and then once you told me to leave, I said I would leave. But then you I said your vehicle's in the way. You didn't ask for an ID until you said I want your ID. >> You became confrontational with me. >> I can talk any way that I would like to talk. >> Vague concepts are introduced and civil rights are gradually pushed aside. No one says what crime he has committed, but no one allows the situation to end either. And just when it seems like a deadlock, a new figure appears and changes the course of the story. >> Nighttime >> and a public charger with an electric vehicle. Here's your email. >> But I didn't commit any crime. >> I I'm not even going to go to the crime part. But when we have a conversation >> Yes. >> And if I'm being disrespectful and confrontational from you, from me to you, like that's not cool, right? >> Look, but I know my rights. And first I have to be >> I I get I get that. I know my rights thing, but as humans, as like normal people that exist in the world, you're hi. Hey, dude. How's it going tonight? Hey, listen. Could you maybe >> I'm sorry. That light's really just shining right in my eyes. >> Not for nothing. When she says somebody's uncooperative, I come over here. I don't know you. All right. >> Fair enough. >> Sure. The thing is, if she's asking you, >> can I just move over there so that light's not in my eyebrow? >> I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Listen, but but at the end of the day, you're a human. I'm a human. We talk to each other like humans. I understand. She's not trying to write you a ticket. She's not trying to arrest you. It's it's not a I know my right thing at this point. We're just trying to have a conversation. If she has to say that you're being uncooperative and I have to drive over here fast, that's a problem, right? >> I actually asked for a supervisor. That's why she called. >> No, she said uncooperative. That's what I heard. Okay. >> Okay. Well, I asked >> But the thing is though, I I understand what you're saying. What are you being arrested for? Are you being arrested for something? >> Am I'm asking am I being detained right now? >> Am I being detained? >> That's what I said. And I said, okay, but your vehicle's in the way. And after I said that, she was like, "Show me your ID." And I'm going to be asking for the body cam footage of it so I can prove that >> for what? >> Well, I'm just saying if this is escalating cuz I got four people with guns right now in [music] front of me. >> At this point, the tone changes. The hard commands are gone. But the ambiguity remains. Instead of clear answers, the narrative is pushed in another direction. New reasons are introduced. New risks are mentioned. But where does the truth really lie? In what they say or in what they avoid? >> Be I need I need to see your ID and I did something wrong. Sometimes we just want to have a conversation, right? And generally that's all. She's probably looking to see who's parked here in the back of the lot. People have overdosed and died here. Okay. >> People have walked into wood and just >> people have been lost. We have to check because it's unusual for somebody to be parked here. I understand you have a electric vehicle and you're maybe parked to charge your vehicle, but your vehicle is not plugged in >> because I unplugged it when she came. All right. Thank you. >> I don't know. I'm just I'm giving you a scenario, right? And I'm just at the at the end of the day, we're just trying to make sure everybody's safe. >> Okay. Can Can I just ask something right now? Of >> course you can. >> Am I detained? No. >> Then I'm going to leave. >> All right. So, let me let me uh let me say one thing. All right. Because actually on the app on the app I'm not >> I'm not trying to give anything but on the app itself for this charger says public accessible. It doesn't have a time frame on it. Maybe one of you guys since so this problem doesn't come around again. So I'm going to bring this attention up to the town of Colony. >> I'm I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to stop you for one second. Nobody's going to stop checking vehicles back here because we do it for the safety of the individuals that they lost doing drugs back here and overdosing. Maybe somebody gets, you know, into a situation that's not good with somebody that's underageed, which we've had before. So, the end of the day, man, we're not we're not here to do >> Excuse me. Really >> do things unlock >> really. >> Right. >> I'm just going to look for the sign that says this. >> I did not see any sign. No motor vehicles. No, no, no sign over here that says park is closed in a certain time. >> In the end, when the truth is confirmed, the balance of power shifts? The person who was detained turns out to be the one who was right all along. But the biggest question still remains. When the police are wrong, who is held accountable? Citizens may file lawsuits against officers under section 1,983 for violations of constitutional rights. Officers who violate the law can be held financially liable, disciplined, or even terminated. Up next, just a camera on a public sidewalk. Yet, it was enough to send an entire bank into panic. And from there, a chain of unbelievable reactions began. >> This is a bank, >> okay? And we respectfully ask there's customers in there doing their business. You cannot record them >> to know that they are doing transactions in there if they don't feel comfortable. >> So I don't know what the recording is all about. >> Okay. >> But you're going to have to move from this window cuz they're doing their banking. >> I wasn't measuring. Look, let me show you what I was looking for. >> You already got your pictures. >> I didn't get all my pictures yet. >> Okay, sir. I'm respectfully asking you to move along. Hopefully you got the pictures that you need to get. So, while my customers are at the ATM and in the bank, they do not feel comfortable with you taking pictures of them doing their thing. So, if you want to come back when we close, we close at 1. You can take the whole building. >> Well, I wasn't going to be long. I was only going to be here until >> right now. You cannot film them. They don't feel comfortable with people knowing where they bank and having their images on your camera. >> Well, I mean, I can't help people if she don't if she don't feel comfortable. Do I She told me to move. Do I got to move? >> Call 911. >> Why would you call Why would you do that? >> Respectfully asking you to come back to get all the pictures you want. >> But why? Because you don't see >> But why 911? I'm not breaking no law. >> What is 911 going to do? >> They're not going to do nothing. They're just going to tell you. They're just going to tell you that I got the right to be here and take pictures. >> You guys taking pictures of me. Look, there's a camera right there that you guys taking pictures of me. >> A polite request slowly turns into pressure. The line between a request and a threat begins to blur. When law enforcement steps in, the situation doesn't calm down. A sensitive demand emerges and the reaction that follows is what truly gives viewers pause. >> How you going to sir? Name badge number. Officer D. Smith. >> 30. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, sir. Officer Dan Smith, badge 30, y'all. >> How you doing, sir? >> I'm good. Name and badge number. >> Officer Smith Police Department. >> Hopefully Officer Smith, y'all brothers or something? >> No. >> No. >> Okay. You got your body cam on? >> Yeah. >> You got your body cam on? >> My question to you is what's going on today? >> I was walking by. This is what I was doing. Let me show you. Look, come over here. I was walking by. >> I started counting these stones here, right? >> Once I started counting them, she came out, interrupted me, said she was calling 911. So, I stuck around and waited for you guys. >> Counting these stones, >> man. I count stones. I count lights. I count bricks. I count sewers. I count street lights. I count everything. >> Do you have any identification? >> I do for what? >> Education for business. >> No, listen. >> I do for what? Legally, at the end of the day, you can record. >> Exactly. Thank you, sir. >> But their issue is however your camera was facing, somebody was doing something right there. All right. Listen. >> They got to put curtains up. It's not It's not on me to protect their privacy. >> You see, look. You see how they got curtains here? That's what they need. They need blondes and curtains. So, so the issue with that is right >> you can record anywhere >> but private properties and situations where the information can be seen. >> But look where I'm standing here. Listen, you're not >> I told them I had no intentions of going in or off. You see what I'm saying? >> You're not in the wall for recording. >> But if your fa if your camera's facing information they're putting private information that they're not giving you any access to, you can't do it. They don't have to put curtains right now. So if you're if you're with >> they want privacy. Let me ask you a question since you want to ask me for ID. >> Yeah, I still need that. >> ID for what? >> They have to know I'm speaking. Okay. >> Everything veers off course because of a small but sensitive request. A question is raised, but the answer isn't simple. Just when clarity seems close, tensions escalate and the line between right and wrong grows fragile. You know I'm exercising [music] my rights out here to record in public on the public side. The only time you can ask me for ID and demand ID. The only time this man can ask me for let let your partner know. >> Becomes you harassing other people. >> Let your partner [music] know before he calls the city a lawsuit. Please let your partner know. >> Sir, I'm just advising you the law. >> I'm advising you my rights. >> Let them know. Call your sergeant out here. >> Get it out here before you make a mistake, man. Well, I don't want you to make a mistake. >> Am I being detained right now? >> Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm just walking around. I ain't going nowhere. I'm standing. >> Like I said, >> I have the right to record. This a public sidewalk. If I'm walking by want to take pictures. >> Yeah, but he demanded ID and >> What did I say when we came? >> Yeah. You You weren't respectable. I respect you. I respect you. before but when it come to privacy just for future you can't even like that you can't it can become another issue because that person recording >> I can record anywhere my eyes can see I can record that's what you don't understand anywhere I can see I can record if I see somebody naked down there I can record them from the public sidewalk anywhere I see I can record I can stand right here and record >> that's the sergeant Lieutenant, that's him. >> That's why when you pulled up right here and you seen me recording, >> you should have been like, "Listen, this man ain't doing nothing wrong. Standing on the public sidewalk minding his business." >> You do have an open container of beer. >> Open a container of what? How you know this beer? I said you do have open. >> It's a open every some people. She got an open container, too. Look, it's a open container. She got You going to arrest her, too? No one was charged. No clear crime had been committed. Yet the pressure continued to build. And just when it seemed the situation had reached a dead end, a new voice emerged. The atmosphere shifted. And from that moment on, the course of events turned in a direction no one expected. >> Y'all called the right guy. How you doing, sir? >> What's up? How you doing? >> What's the name? Badge number six. >> All right. We got to go somewhere else with that. All right. >> All right. But listen, Officer Sharief, >> uh, Lieutenant Lieutenant Sharie, remember I met you over there at the recording the car before. >> Listen, can you please explain to your officer that he cannot ask for ID and demand for ID for no reason? >> Not necessarily no reason. >> He come up demanding with no crime. It's the fact that we had to come here on a call and speak to you and it's okay to come. Hold on. It's just the document that we came in contact spoke to you. >> It's not anything. We don't run your record or anything like that. >> You can't demand ID though. >> Just so that you don't come back later on saying that you were >> Oh, you might see me later. I'll be all over. >> No, no, no. You ain't listen to me properly explain. >> Okay. >> It's so that you don't go make a complaint, I should say, saying that you are necessarily stopped and spoken to by the officer case may be documented that you for a reason. That's all that was about right there. >> All right. Are we going to throw you on the car and lock you up for not present your ID in this particular matter? No. But we would like to document everything and see what we can and not see. But >> yeah, but without a crime without saying that we spoke to you. That's all. >> I get that. I told you he put me down this good guy in in in New Jersey. >> Yeah. We can't put that on. >> There you go. >> All right. Other than that, >> but other than that, we cool, man. You cool, man. You learned something today. You learned something today, though. You learn. You just can't offer ID. And this guy right here, this guy right here been the good guy. I appreciate you, man. I app. >> In the end, when a commanding officer stepped in, the tone shifted. The story took a different turn. But what lingered was one lingering question. If no one was in the wrong, why did everything become so tense? On October 24th, 2024, Long View PD officers stopped a man for an allegedly unreadable registration tag. But what began as a routine stop quickly escalated into a dramatic arrest. >> I couldn't read the tag back there. Okay. >> Yeah, there's a carrier on there. That's the reason. >> I know, man. I just couldn't read it. Okay. >> Okay. >> Have you got a license? >> You see the tag now? Do you see the tag now? >> No, I I don't see the tag now. >> No, I'm talking to you. Where's your license? >> Do you see my tag? >> Do you hear what I'm saying? Where's your license? >> Reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime. Tell me what your reasonable articulable specific crime is. >> Where's your license? I'm not going to >> Did I break the law? What are you doing, dude? >> Get out of the car. >> I didn't break the law. >> Get out of the car. Face car. Face car. >> MASON, FILM THIS. >> STOP. STOP. STOP. >> FILM THIS [ __ ] pig. >> Stop. >> Stop. Sam, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't break the [ __ ] law. >> Quit pulling on me, dude. I've got PTSD. You ain't figured out. >> Goddamn rep. Mason, GET YOUR PHONE AND FILM THIS [ __ ] KID. LOOK, there's my tag. >> It's not against the law. I'm allowed to have that carrier on there. >> Mason, read this. >> No need to yell. >> [ __ ] you, man. What do you mean no need to yell? >> Hold on. >> I didn't break the [ __ ] law. I don't want to talk to you. I hate cops. I hate every one of you. Every one of you. I wish the worst for you because you do [ __ ] like this. >> I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't BREAK THE [ __ ] LAW. >> Hold on, man. Hold on. You have any other weapons? >> God damn right. I've got weapons all over me. >> But you got a gun on me? >> Absolutely. I always have a gun on me. There's the tag. You said I didn't have a tag. There's the tag. >> Hey, give me a favor. >> That's my son. He's going to record. >> That's all right. You just stay. >> I didn't break the law. I do have a license. It's in my pocket, but I didn't break the law. I'm a constitutionalist. What do you mean, Sh? I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't break the law. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> No reason? >> Yeah. >> You're kidnapping in my house and I didn't break the law. Officers ordered the man out of the vehicle and used force to detain him despite failing to inform him of the reason for the arrest. Their misconduct didn't stop there. >> You from anywhere. >> I didn't do anything. >> You good? >> He detained me unlawfully. >> He said I didn't see a tag and there's a tag on my truck. >> Sorry. >> Let me talk to you real quick. >> I don't want to talk. Dude, >> I don't want to talk. You didn't see my tag. The tag's there. >> Look at that truck down there. Look at this North Carolina state law. If I have a carry on, >> you escalated this really. >> Well, that's what they did. I I didn't break the law. >> Screaming, not resisting, not wanting to get >> I didn't resist. I didn't resist. >> You have anything else on me? I >> I might have a pocketk knife, dude. Don't do this [ __ ] Write me a [ __ ] ticket. That's what you want to do. But I didn't I didn't break the law. >> Can I talk? And now you want to take >> I didn't break the law. Let me find it in [ __ ] court. Isn't that what court's for? What do you mean? Time for what? He's good. >> I didn't break the law. >> I didn't break the law. I didn't break the law, man. >> Spread your feet out, >> dude. I'm old. >> Stand up. >> What the [ __ ] are you doing, dude? >> DUDE, >> I CAN'T STAND UP. >> STAND UP. >> WHAT THE [ __ ] DUDE? Why'd you call this beast? I didn't do a [ __ ] thing. >> Beast. >> Yeah, dude. >> Bigger than >> picking on a [ __ ] that's handcuffed and handicapped. >> Really? Get you some of that. >> I've been doing this 11 years. >> I didn't break the law, guys. I didn't break the booking law. >> When When were you nice? >> We're done. Put your feet in there. [laughter] >> But put your foot in there. >> Give me a second. I'm trying to poke myself in my shoulders just to let I'm going to need to You [ __ ] me up, dude. I'm scooting, dude. Just stop. I'm an old [ __ ] man. >> I'm an old man. Just stop. >> What's your dad's name? I'm an old [ __ ] man, dude. I've been through more [ __ ] than you could. >> No. What's his name? >> The man admitted he was carrying a black powder firearm, a historical weapon, and stated that under North Carolina law, it's not considered a modern firearm requiring a permit. Still, the officers remained suspicious and appeared intent on stacking charges. >> Oh, dude, why do you keep saying that? >> Cuz I'm a constitutionalist. made a law. I'm not here to have a debate. >> If you'll just read the statute, I'm not here to have a debate with you. >> So, you just pull people out of the regular. >> You can't even look at me in my freaking eyes while I'm talking to you like a man. >> It triggers my PTSD, dude. >> I don't care EMS over here to see you. You are acting up. >> A man with a gun pulls me over in my driveway for for nothing cuz you couldn't see my tag. That's why I said, "Can you see my tag?" I said repeatedly. I never refused to ID. I said, "Can you see my tag?" You didn't have to call Thug. I wasn't fighting you, dude. I don't fight cops. I don't break the law. I don't run. I knew you were going to come after me as soon as I passed you in the curve. It didn't matter. It doesn't matter. I knew you were going to get me. I had a feeling all the way all the way down the road. I had that feeling. I said, "Something's wrong. My freaking phone's almost dead. I know something's off. I didn't This is the first time I didn't record a video coming home, dude. Cuz I knew this was going to happen. And it wouldn't m it didn't matter what I do. It didn't matter if I kissed your ass in the driveway, dude. It's all recorded. >> And concealed weapons that charge on that, dude. It's not a gun. It's considered an antique weapon. Just read the statute. Please don't stack charges on me, man. >> So, I'm going to hurry something up. Put your feet >> I won't get out. I don't have We don't have money to get me out. Dude, >> put your feet in the door. >> You're not going to put your feet in that door, >> dude. I'm trying. My feet are in, dude. My body don't move like that, dude. Can I just stand right there? Just let me lean up against the truck. I won't move. >> All right. Now, >> intentionally stacking charges to coersse or retaliate may constitute abuse of authority, violations of the fourth and fth amendments, and could lead to a civil lawsuit under 42 USC 1983. Possible consequences include termination, internal discipline, or even prosecution of serious harm results. >> Is he good to go on that? Is he good to get online? >> Yeah. Okay. Hey, if you want to right hand seat on the bed. >> Oh, yeah. 223. >> Can you sit and hook me first? It's going to hurt too bad sitting down like this on there. >> Hold on. Have a seat on the bed. >> All right. Now, bring your legs around. The officers could face accusations of violating the first and fourth amendments, abusing authority [music] under 42 USC. SS1983, unlawful arrest, misconduct, and obstruction of justice, particularly if evidence was concealed. The victim has stated intent to sue and is collecting body cam footage, internal [music] messages, and emails as evidence. A routine traffic stop turned into a civil rights nightmare when officers used force without cause, silenced body cams, and tried to justify the arrest afterward. This case is a stark reminder to know your rights and hold law enforcement accountable for abuse of power. Society does not become safer when civil [music] rights are violated. It becomes truly safe only when the law is understood correctly, applied properly, and enforced with restraint, respect, and conscience. Hey everyone, what do you think about this [music] situation? If you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, subscribe, and [music] support us with a donation. 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