You're arresting me for nothing. >> You're arresting me for not giving a name. >> You're going to You're going to hinder my investigation. So, I mean, we could do this easy or we could do it hard. And I really don't want to do it hard. >> Dererick had spent the evening drinking at his cousin's house on Fourth Street, then made the responsible choice to walk the several miles home with his dog, Lola, rather than risk driving impaired. OCGA section 16-11-36 allows a stop only for loitering or prowling in a place at a time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals under circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of persons or property in the vicinity. But the church employees 911 call was explicitly a welfare check, not a crime report, no mention of trespass, no fear of the visible Glock, no alarm beyond a man resting with a dog. By the time Officer Lane and Sergeant Parker arrived less than 10 minutes later, Dererick was already awake off the church driveway and walking lawfully along the public road shoulder. The CAD report confirms the dispatch code was for a non-emergency welfare concern, not loitering, not prowling, and certainly not an armed threat. >> How are you? I'm >> good, sir. Got a complaint. You was with somebody. >> Turn the point. >> Yeah. >> You good? >> Yeah. straight laid down, took a rest. >> Where you live at? >> Uh, right there in Willow Creek. >> Willow Creek. >> Yeah. >> You lay in somebody's driveway with a Glock. >> Yeah, I got a gun. >> I know you do. Don't touch it. >> Yeah, I'm right here. I'm good. >> Uh, why did you lay down in the driveway? >> Walk from a person's house. Where you coming from? Where you coming from, bud? From my cousin's house. >> Where's he at? >> Fourth Street. >> Fourth Street. >> What's your name up? >> Does it matter too much? >> Yeah, it matters. >> What? >> So, I'm out with you cuz you was in somebody's driveway and you have a Glock. See what I'm saying? I'm going go ahead and hold on to that. I'm going to put it on my hood. Okay. Not let this not get screwed out or nothing. Oh, it t no. You can get it out. >> There it goes. >> Sorry. What's your name? >> I mean, you're going to hit him. My investigation. You're going to you're going to hinder my investigation. So, I mean, we could do this easy or we could do it hard. And I really don't want to do it hard. >> There is nothing. There's no crime committed. >> Here's my thing. You're in somebody's driveway. >> You're asleep in somebody's driveway with your dog. >> Is that a crime? >> You're on somebody's property. You're trespassing. See what I'm saying? >> Not anymore, though. I mean I mean we can dude I'm telling you we can make it easy we can make it hard. I mean he's good. >> He's he doesn't want to give me his name. >> Oh I know this. >> Why not? >> Do I have to? Yes. >> Huh? >> Legally. Yes. >> Legally. Yes. Sergeant >> cuz we got a call about you being in somebody's yard and we're in the middle of an investigation. So by Georgia law investigation about what? About trespassing possible express. >> So here's the bank. >> We're not there anymore. >> Okay. >> But we still got a call about you. >> You're not going to give us your name? All right. ALL RIGHT. 1095 ONE. >> What am I being arrested for? >> Hello Mr. >> Oh, why not? >> Legally, yes. >> Huh? >> Legally, yes. >> Legally, yes. >> Cuz we got a call about you being in somebody's yard and we're in the middle of an investigation. So, by Georgia law, yes. >> Investigation about what? >> About trespassing possibly. >> Express. >> So, here's the thing. Neither do it. >> I'm not there anymore. >> Okay. Well, look, >> still got a call about you. >> You're not going to give us your name. >> I don't know. >> Okay. Turn around. What am I being arrested for? >> Obstruction. >> I don't know. You got anything on you? Going to poke me, stick me, anything of that nature. >> Okay. Making sure you ain't got no knives, needles, anything of that nature. >> Can I possibly call somebody? I don't know. Yeah, we we we'll get animal control. >> No. >> Sergeant Parker escalated within 90 seconds of contact, demanding Derrick's name and threatening arrest if he refused, despite zero evidence of any crime in progress are recently committed. According to Heble versus 6th Judicial District Court 542US 1777 2004, an individual may not be compelled to reveal his name unless he is lawfully arrested or there is reasonable suspicion that he has committed a crime. No trespass complaint was ever filed. No property owner demanded prosecution and Dererick had already left the church easement. Open carry is legal for adults over 21 without prohibition under OCGA section 16-11-126. And Georgia has no stop and identify statute requiring ID during consensual encounters or welfare checks. The investigation Parker repeatedly invoked lasted less than 1 minute before handcuffs were applied. Parker himself warned, "We can do this easy or hard." And you're going to hinder my investigation, admitting the arrest was punitive, not investigative. The obstruction charge OCGA section 16-10-24 requires active interference, not mere silence or refusal to selfidentify during an unlawful detention. >> So, which for? >> Yeah. Arresting you for >> I'm arresting you for obstruction. You refuse to identify yourself when I have legal right to >> that is all right. Stay back here to this car. No sir. How much have you had to drink with? I got paper bag. >> Yeah. >> 1400. >> Not that I'm aware of. So why would you sit? Because I didn't have to. >> No. Cuz we did get a call about you being in somebody's yard and we explained that. >> I get that. So believe what he did. So you can you can discuss that in court. I will. Okay. This is an illegal detainment. Oh no, that's not you. Think I would do make an illegal arrest after 17 years of doing this job. What long was I trust? What law was I breathing? You you refused to identify yourself. We were >> I tell you what, I was going to try and be nice and call somebody from calling animal control. If you want to continue, I'll play that. >> No. Here chilling with you, but No, you're trying to argue. I'm not doing his ideas next year. Now you yourself. Hey. Uh you are on your way in, right? park. Can you talk to me? >> Uh uh we just 95 gentleman down here on South Palm Street and he's got a dog with him. Can you talk to me? Can you let me? I'll tell you I'll tell you the whole thing. I don't I don't want my dog. She's going to get the dog small. Who can come to give it all? >> I can call my mother. She can call my I don't I don't know my brother's number, but I can call my mother. She can call my brother. Where's he at? He is uh right across the street hospital. Right across from the hospital. Am I going? Yeah, you're going to construction. >> What's your name? Let me grab your phone. >> Hold on. No. No. No. No. Come on. Hey, hop down. Hop down. HOLD DOWN. COME HERE. HEY. HEY. Right here. COME ON. HEY. COME ON. Thank you. >> Right here. He's right here. >> How do you get into your phone? >> Uh, is it on? >> Uh, no. It actually say it's dead. >> Okay. I literally, man, come on. Why? Cuz I explained it to you before and you're like, "No, no, no. I'm not playing your game. You want to you want to do it your way? You want to pay me in the game? Look, are you I'll go ahead and take I believe that's your son. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We're out here on the side of South Palm Street. Uh he needs somebody that can come and get his dog. So come get his dog cuz he is going to be going with us for this morning going to be for obstruction. He refused to identify himself after we got a call to him being in somebody's yard. So and the bad thing is he didn't have a warrant or anything like that. He just refused he refused to provide his name, date of birth. Said he didn't have to. And I explained to him he was going to go to jail at night. He said he didn't have to. So he uh Yeah. Yeah. You can smell the alcohol. Yeah. Interesting. Um, but is there any way you or somebody can come get his Oh. Oh, yeah. Understand. Uh, he said something about maybe he could get his brother. He didn't know his brother's number and his phone was completely dead. Okay. Hey, he's drinking. Mama said that he was walking home cuz he been drinking with his buddy and knew he couldn't drive. Yeah, he drove four all the way from fourth. So he told me where's it going? Where you going? Okay. He slept in this person's driveway. Oh, wow. After the arrest, Derek filed a formal complaint. Captain Gray dismissed Dererick's formal complaint in under 24 hours by fabricating a narrative that Dererick was an armed man posing a potential danger near a school when body cam audio, CAD logs, and GPS data placed the entire stop on South Palm Street blocks from any campus. Georgia's constitutional carry framework under OCGA section 16-11-126 and the fourth amendment protects citizens from being placed in legal jeopardy for protecting rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution. Yet Dererick was jailed in Wayne County on a $2,000 bond, charged with obstruction and resisting despite never pulling away, never fighting, never fleeing, only asking, "What law was I breaking?" Parker, demoted from lieutenant to sergeant just 3 months prior for conduct violations outlined in a letter from Chief Chris Hamilton, faced no accountability. Instead, Gray's direct superior rewrote history to justify the arrest. No trespass citation, no weapons charge, no public intoxication ticket despite officers smelling alcohol because Dererick was walking, not driving, not disorderly, not endangering anyone. Officers used Lola as a weapon. Keep arguing and we call animal control, forcing Derek to beg for his dead phone to be used to contact family. This wasn't law enforcement. It was retaliation for asserting Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights, protected speech, criminalized by ego, and enabled by a department that circles wagons instead of upholding the Constitution. Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video.