in this truck specifically. I'm not in the road. You are in the ement. Look, if you look at that sign right there, parking the ement, it's still city property. Turn around. Yeah. Turn around. Officer Bennett's investigation relies on a false claim that Andrew Martin's truck is obstructing the roadway despite his radio call to dispatch stating, "Truck isn't in the road at all." Under the Fourth Amendment, officers must have a reasonable basis for believing that a crime has been committed. Yet, Bennett spends 45 minutes insisting the truck is in the road, contradicting his initial observation. This deliberate misrepresentation escalates a welfare check into an unjustified intoxication investigation. By fabricating the basis for his inquiry, Bennett abuses his authority, violating Martin's constitutional protections against unreasonable searches. [Music] How you doing? Not bad. You okay? Not bad. So, what's going on? Just sitting in your truck. Okay. You got anything to drink today? No. You want any kind of medication or anything? Where you coming from? Okay. What are you doing here? What are you doing in prior? What brings you here? Where you headed north? You know anybody in prior or you just happen to Well, I mean, you're kind of pulled off here in this parking lot. A little bit weird. You're a little bit in the roadway. So, somebody called somebody called in on you. Is there a crime? I mean, now standing in the roadway. That's what that's what term is for it. [Music] Yeah. So, I get here. I mean, you're you're drooling all over yourself. I I started medical. I knocked on your window a couple times. Look at your shirt. Okay. So, I started medical because I come up here and you're whenever I got here, you were actively drooling on yourself and I knocked on the window. I got no response. So, I knocked again. I mean, so the crime of that is you're partially obstructing the roadway. You're pulled off here on private property. You have no business being here. So that's loitering. Somebody called me. I don't know who called me. Dispatch one called me. Somebody called dispatch. doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's private property and you have no business here. Well, I've asked you and you haven't told me. So, well, I'm investigating a possible crime. So, if you're intoxicated, passed out behind the wheel if you're taking something. Yeah. Like I said, you're partially obstructed in the roadway. you're asleep in your vehicle, which is okay. I don't have a problem with that. If you're just if you're just taking a If you want to play the Why don't you go ahead and step out of the vehicle for me? Yes, sir. Appreciate it, dude. If you want to, it's up to you. You want to leave the door open or you want to shut it? It's up to you again. You have identification on you. You do not. So, what is your name and date of birth? A N R U Martin 9 18. So where's the What's your date of what's your date of birth? One more time here. What's your date of birth one more time? 1880. So So this is the road here. Yeah. I mean or is this the road? So the city maintains the roadway all the way to here and then they have an easement over here and then that's private property. So you're on private property. You have you have private property that you have no business being on and then you're and then you're partially in the roadway. Where does the easement begin? Say it again. The ement begin. The easement begin? Yeah. I don't know where the ement begins or ends. I know where the road begins and ends. I don't know where the easement begins and ends. road again. So, do you have a driver's license in any state? Oh, yeah. What state do you have your driver's license in? Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Do you know where the road is? A really weird question. It's a weird question. Not when I'm being ticketed for you. Haven't been ticketed for anything. I've tried to ask you a matter of simple questions so I can tuck my investigation. All you want to do is be difficult. I don't want to be difficult. I mean, you're being difficult. I was minding my own business and you're bothering me. I don't know how that's me being difficult. We wouldn't have showed up here if we didn't have a call here. So, on you. Well, that first of all, that's not true. I can So, I can call on you and that that doesn't mean that someone's going to come and investigate you. Yes, it does. Exactly how this works. Well, I can investigate it cuz he told me that you're good to do whatever you need to do. Hulk, I'll be right back. Bennett and Officer Flood claim Martin is loitering on private property despite him being legally parked in a private lot. In Oklahoma law, loitering is defined as remaining in a place for no apparent reason. But this applies to public spaces, not private property, where Martin has a reasonable expectation of privacy. The officer's confusion, evident in Flood's history of mistaking apartments for public property, reveals a pattern of misinterpreting legal boundaries. Their insistence on criminalizing Martin's presence without evidence of trespass or intent demonstrates how authority is weaponized through ignorance or deliberate mislication of the law. All right, Mr. Martin. So, the condition that you were in when I got here, like I said, you were pulled off the road here asleep. Looks like Do you live at Meadow Trace Apartments? No. You don't live there anymore? It's the address that shows on your driver's license. Where do you live? Nearby. Nearby, though. The address. It is. That's I'm literally I'm asking you because you're sleeping in your truck right here and I don't know that you're going to be safe to drive anywhere. So yeah, it's absolutely How would I not be safe? So am I safe to drive? What's your address? What's your address? Drive. What's your address? I don't know what that is. It's going to be like this the whole time. Yeah. So you can you can continue to obstruct our investig. So here's the thing. I can I can leave you and let you comply with your investigation. You're not required to comply with our investigation. I'm going to assist you. I mean, you have to answer our questions if if we're conducting an investigation. Otherwise, otherwise, you're obstructing our investigation. Really? Is that how does it know? Do you know your names? I don't think you do. Okay. So, I can put you through a couple standard field sobriety tests and see if you're good to good to drive. And if you are, then we'll get out of here and we'll let you drive. Okay. and we won't ask you any more questions. Sitting in a vehicle uh for yeah somebody calling in because they were concerned about you uh because you were partially on the roadway a lot closer to harassment on your part. We can go to the jail and we can do this in front of a we can have that conversation there. If that's what you want to do, that's absolutely fine. I don't want to do that. If I wanted to do that, I would have driven to I don't want to do that either. If I wanted to do that to a parking space, see the difference? I mean, if I wanted to arrest you, then a parking space for driving to a park. There actually is a law against sleeping in public. Really? Yeah. Public the park like you just said. I didn't say the park. Maybe I said a parking space. Okay. Still public public access. So, do you do you live in these apartments? Do you do you live in these apartments? Do you? No, I don't live in these apartments. Do you? I answered your question. You going to answer mine? You're giving me a ticket for being in the road. Have I given you a ticket? Investigating? No, cuz you can't for being in the roadway. I can't. Well, you told me. Well, I mean, you could, but I give you a ticket for I could I mean, I could pick for being on the roadway or loitering cuz you're on private property that you claim to have no business being. I'm sure that I can go in front of the judge case. fairly uh successful rather quickly and easily by uh and that's fine. If you want to go and argue your case in court, if you want to go argue your case in court, that's fine. But I'm not going to argue with you here on the side of the road. Okay. So, you can you're going to give me a ticket for being unsafe when I'm when I told you exactly what I did. He's going to conduct a couple of tests, field sobriety test. Are you willing to Are you willing are you willing to comply with some field sobriety test? What are my opt options to go to jail? Are you willing to comply with the field sobriety test threatening you at all? Nobody threatened you. I'm here to do my job. So I don't ask I'm not ready to go. No, you're not ready to go. We're still conducting our investigation if you allow me to finish conducting my investigation and you will here's what I don't understand. I'm not refusing [ __ ] Okay. Okay. So you'll agree to take the safe stand. What I don't understand is what indication that I'm intoxicated I've given at any point in this other than I sleep. Is that against the law? It's uncommon at 3:00 in the afternoon for somebody to be asleep behind the wheel of their vehicle. How many places not legally parked in a parking space on private property? So you do the same thing in the middle of the night. We do the same thing 24/7. Will you comply with the field sobriety says or not? For what? For what? Yes. Yes or no? Do you remember me, don't you? No. Yes or no? You do. Okay. Now I feel like this is harassment. Is there supervisor available? I'm the supervisor. Where is your supervisor? He is the supervisor. I am the supervisor. We had this same conversation. Was that you? Were you there? I don't believe so. I don't believe I've ever met you before. I don't even know where I would have met you. It's yes or no. Yes or no? See, we had we Yes or no? You didn't understand what private property was when you were in an apartment complex, but that was public property. Do you remember that now? You live in this apartment complex? No, he doesn't. I I'm familiar. So, I think we should just go to Maze County Jail. I'm going to go to the county jail for obstruction at this point. All you want to do is sit and argue. I'm not arguing. He was intoxicated then. No, I wasn't. And that's what I feel like. He's intoxicated now. Otherwise, you wouldn't be passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle. I wasn't passed out. I was asleep. That's why I woke up with a knob. I told you I drove to this parking space. I'd like to speak to a supervisor. You are speaking to a supervisor. Your supervisor. They're all out right now. That's weird. That happens every time. I want to speak to a supervisor. There is There's one supervisor assigned. Supervisor right here. There's one supervisor. There's one supervisor assigned per shift. Okay. That's me. So then at 6:00 this afternoon, there will be a different supervisor here. Violating people's law. I mean, that's a conversation you can have with the You don't have a constitutional right to speak to a supervisor anyway. Okay. Right under your phone. No. No. I am trying to work with you here. We've tried. We tried to ask you. You don't have a ticket in your hand. Okay. So, am I free? You No, you've been asked if you will comply. were sitting in the car taking a nap when I told you I'm taking a nap because I'm too tired to drive a little bit further to go and I was tired. And you won't even tell me how far that is. I was making too tired to drive. You said you should keep on going over somewhere safe to sleep. Somewhere safe to sleep. I mean, I don't think that that's where somewhere safe. I mean, legally parked. We could argue that even though this isn't isn't we've gone over this and over this and over this. You're not even in a parking spot at all. Not either. You're not in a parking spot. We got called here because of you specifically in this truck specifically. I'm not in the road. You are in the easement. Look, if you look at that sign right there, part of the ement still property. Turn around. Turn around. Yes. Turn around. Martin's questioning of the officer's actions and assertion of his rights are met with accusations of obstruction leading to his arrest. Under the fifth amendment, no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. Martin's refusal to comply with field sobriety tests and his request for a supervisor are constitutionally protected. Yet, the officers escalate, labeling his questions as obstruction. This retaliatory arrest, driven by Martin's non-compliance rather than evidence of a crime, shows how officers abuse power to punish those who challenge their authority. All right, we're done. We tried. We tried. We tried. You tried to what? You tried to reason with you and you're unreasonable. Reason with me. It's hard to reason with somebody who's intoxicated anyway. So that makes sense. We tried to give you the opportunity to show us that you're not intoxicated and you just want to sit here and argue with us. Like I said, I'm not going to argue with you on the side of the road. We'll just You're making two, but I'm not. You can't tell me where it is, but I'm not doing That's what you hold down. Do you have anything illegal on anything that's going to poke, stick, or stab me? Anything's going to be illegal if you consider contraband if you take it into a jail facility. You can't I'm giving you the opportunity because once we get into the jail, they're going to search you and it will be a felony charge. You have to. I don't have anything. Okay, that's your opportunity. So if there is something then we find it in the jail and it'll be a felony. So I don't have Well, you're not wrong about that. You have anything in the vehicle you want to take with you? [ __ ] kidding me. in the middle of [ __ ] moving. Have a seat right here. Be careful. Don't get your knee on the computer mounted. Pretty bad. I hate I don't disagree with you. What? What's the charge? Obstruction of what? They're obstructing me in the performance of my duties. What was my duty? I'm trying to perform an investigation here and you won't answer any of my questions. You answered every question you asked me. What question did I ask? You answer You didn't answer any of my questions. You just asked more questions and why I needed to know and I tried to explain it to you. So, we'll argue about it in court. That's fine. Um, tow it and I'll inventory it. Ask somebody here if it's fair to say. I mean, it's partially in the in the partially in the Yeah. So, yeah. Um, I'll have contact you over there. Okay. You have been arrested and you are requested to submit to a test or test to determine the presence and or concentration of intoxicants in your body. The test will be a blood test. If a blood test is performed, it will be done by approved medical personnel under Oklahoma law. If you complete the state's test, you may have an additional test at your own expense. You are not entitled to consult with an attorney prior to making your decision to submit to the state's test. You may refuse the state's test, but as a consequence, your driving privileges will be revoked or denied. If you are 21 years of age or older and the test is 08 or more alcohol concentration, your driving privileges will be revoked or denied. If you are age 21, if you're under age 21 and the test result is 002 or more alcohol concentration, your driving privileges will be revoked or denied. Will you take the state's test? It's going to be a blood test. It's going to be what? A blood test. I don't I don't understand. I can't talk to him attorney. That's correct. This is the implied consent test. I say, but I don't. First of all, this is a real So it first of all I didn't do anything wrong. You know I'm not intoxicated. I don't know that you're not intoxicated. Okay. You have the option to submit to the state's test. I can read it to you again if you would like for more clarification. It's going to be a blood test. It doesn't really clarify. I mean what what this is the state law and this is what I'm required to reach. I understand. Okay. And you have you have the right to say that you will or you will not. I'll read it again if you'd like to hear it again. So, what are what? So, my driving for you refuse. So, but until when anyone that's until you go through the court until you go through the court process and they determine Yeah. This is [ __ ] Well, you've been arrested. Okay. Well, I I don't believe I don't I don't think that you're I don't I don't feel that you're drinking alcohol, but I think you're under the influence of something. Really? Down there [ __ ] slamming heroin halfway between my house and home or my house and some kind of drugs, pills, something. [ __ ] So, oh, under the influence of owning a business and working more often than I [ __ ] sleep and build a goddamn position. Okay. You want me to read this test again? Are you will not take the safe test? Okay. Officer Flood uses a 2-year-old interaction to justify Martin's arrest, claiming it supports suspicion of intoxication despite no evidence then or now. In Terry versus Ohio 1968, the Supreme Court ruled that an officer must have specific and articulable facts for a stop. Flood's reliance on an irrelevant past incident where Martin was also not intoxicated, reveals a vendetta-dadriven approach, not a lawful investigation. This abuse of authority using baseless history to bolster a weak case highlights how personal biases can corrupt policing, turning routine stops into unconstitutional detentions. Andrew Martin faced charges of obstructing an officer's duties following his arrest. Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video. Click to watch now.