Hey, he was dropping something off. >> So why didn't you stop me there? Why did you stop and then watch? >> Because I stopped you as soon as you hit the road. Listen, I'm not >> Why you just IN LINE? I KNOW. I don't want to hear that. Why you didn't stop right there? That was the problem. That's this line. >> The AS1 line is like right here. >> Where? Where is the line? Show me the line, sir. >> Most cars. >> Okay, you say most cars. Can you show me the line? >> Look how far. >> Can you show That's what I asked you. Can you show me the line? >> And y'all DON'T EVEN DO YOUR JOB. WELL, ALL OF A SUDDEN, Y'ALL want to do something today? What is the problem? >> A young black man driving his mother's Chevrolet gets followed for blocks with no lights activated, then pulled over the moment he pulls back onto the road. Under the Fourth Amendment and Terry versus Ohio, 1968, an officer must have reasonable, articulable suspicion that criminal activity is a foot before initiating a traffic stop. Fishing expeditions do not qualify. What started as a claimed parking violation quickly shifted to window tint the moment the first excuse collapsed. Mom arrives and immediately recognizes harassment disguised as enforcement. While the officer struggles to locate the AS1 line and blames a possible aftermarket windshield, she refuses every attempt to escalate a warning into a search. Her son stays calm. She becomes the wall that stops the nonsense cold. >> Demo, I was wondering if you all if you all stuck um um the temp meters in your vehicles. >> The temp meters? >> Yes. Do you are are you issued them? Watch out for this car. >> Yeah. Yeah, we have them. But if you need if you you don't have a bike, but if you have a bike or you have lights. So >> I don't know what that has to do with window tent. >> Yeah, we get is tent meters. >> Okay. And and you only use them when you think you need them or I'm not trying to harass you. I'm just asking like when do you use them? >> Only stop the vehicle first time. >> You didn't use him on that vehicle the other day. That's why I'm asking. I stopped him because he was on the wrong side. >> Okay. >> All right, man. >> Take care. Hello. How's it going? Y was following me the whole time. I had I was all the way up here. I seen you following the whole school. Never turn lights on. Well, I was just in the area. So, listen. The reason why I stopped you is cuz the the tent, this thing right here, the tent, and you when you went to, you know, Davis Loop again parked on the wrong side of the road. >> Talking about right there with the house at >> Yeah. >> That was my grandma. I didn't park right there. That was in the garage. >> No. So, but the reason why I stopped you is for the tent. Okay. So, where where you heading? What's up? What's that? Head home for All right. Do you have your All right. You got registration? All right. Just hang out right here and I'll be back to check everything. Do you have any weapons in here? What's that? What? No. Okay. All right. >> Yeah. So, can I talk to you outside? Here's your stuff back by the way. All right. So, listen. Do Do you have anything? Don't put your hands in your pocket. Do you have anything inside the vehicle at all? >> You don't have any any weapons? Anything at all? Nothing. >> What's that? Nothing in the car? >> Okay. All right. So, there's nothing going to be in the car. >> No, sir. >> Okay. All right. You mind if I look >> on a social car? >> Can you hang out with them? >> All right. Can you say So on 14th Street, where were we heading to? The one near the school. Yeah. Why search your car? Detox drink. Some people stop every >> What's the problem? Cuz my window tent is putting on the car. >> I know I'm fine, but I just I don't stand this harassing cuz everything is legit on my car. Here's my license and my tent is legit. So, what's the problem? >> Your tent's actually not legit, >> honey. I got it done professionally. I made sure it was legal. >> Okay. But I made sure. Okay. Well, let's call the guy cuz I have this card. I made sure it was legal. >> All right. >> And I I've been hanging this tent on here for at least 3 years. >> All right, ma'am. Stop. I'm talking. Hold on. >> Okay. Can you hang out over there? >> Stop. >> So, listen. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Everything's good. >> Okay. So, I'm going to give you a verbal warning for the tent. I'm not I'm not going to write your citation for the tent. Okay. So, I'm going to give you a verbal warning for the tent. Just make sure to make sure not to park on the right side of the road if you're going to park. So, if you're parked here, it's with the flow of traffic, right? So, this is this is good. And then if you're on this side, then you you park on this side. So, it's pretty much going with the flow of traffic. So, but I appreciate you being cooperative. Um, like I said, you're you're good to go. All right. Just make sure to park on the right side of the road. Just remember that. All right. That kid on the front is way past that. >> Sir, can I show you something? Come on. Show me. Show me. >> No. No, no. >> This This right here is not past that line. This is not past this line. >> The AS1 line is like right here. >> Where where is the line? Show me the line, sir. >> Most cars. That's right. >> Okay. You say most cars. Can you show me the line? >> Look how far. >> Can you show That's what I asked you. Can you show me the line, >> ma'am? >> Okay. Well, I will go and get it up. I will go cuz you not showing me the line, though. >> You making You making stuff up. You not showing me the line. So, where's the line? Show me the line. That's what happened. >> Show me how how is she when they install the T, right? >> When they install the test, >> how how is it? All right. >> How does she know >> like where the AS1 line is like? >> On most cars, it's clearly marked on the windshield. I don't know if this is aftermarket windshield. I don't know what the the manufacturer has failed to to put it on there. >> Most cars clearly marked on windshield. I don't know what this >> No manufacturer is, but other than that, have a good day, man. All right. >> You have a good day, too, sir. What's your name? >> Stem. Okay. Thank you. Cuz y'all just so full of >> Can I talk to you over there, sir? >> What you mean talk to me? You can talk to me right here in front of everybody. This is my son. This is my brother. So, what's going on? >> Okay. So, I stopped him because he parked on the wrong side of the road. >> Where? Where? Hold on. At That's That's my house. So, how why you just didn't ask? Okay. >> Well, you parked on her. I was parked there every day. He was dropping something off. >> So, why didn't you stop me there? Why did you pull off and then watch? >> Because I stopped you as soon as you hit the road. Listen, I'm not >> Why you just I don't want to hear that [ __ ] Why you didn't stop right there? THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. WHY did you pull off? >> Because I have to call it out of the radio and let >> You could You could have stopped right there. >> You could have stopped right there and cut off. That's why I said y'all full of it. >> OKAY. SO WHY YOU WHY YOU DIDN'T STOP? I understand that you didn't have no reason to. What I'm asking you why you didn't stop him right there in front of my grandma house in my in front of my mom house >> because like I said I had to call it >> WHY YOU DIDN'T CALL Y'ALL COME ON YOU CAN CALL IT IN. You didn't have to ride off to call it in. You could HAVE CALLED IT IN GIVING him a verbal warning for this incident. I'm not giving him a citation. >> Okay. >> Okay. It wouldn't have mattered if you did. It was going to get paid. But anyway, why you in calling? Listen, let me tell you something, okay? Any problem you have WITH THIS CAR, this one here, you call it in RIGHT THERE. PARK RIGHT THERE. Y'ALL BE OVER THERE AT THAT PARK EVERY DAY. Y'ALL SEE ALL TYPE OF CRIMINAL STUFF HAPPEN and y'all DON'T EVEN DO YOUR JOB. >> But all of a sudden, Y'ALL WANT TO DO something today. What is the problem? >> This was just a simple traffic stop. >> So, okay. Well, make sure y'all park over there every day. When y'all see other stuff going on over there, make sure y'all take care of those problems, too. Okay, y'all have a good day. >> All right. Have a good one. >> I love it. >> You explain it. You can show her the line. >> Yeah, sure. No, you can show it to me. >> Oh, you found it. I'm glad you found it. Sure. >> All right. Come on. Right there. I'm sure. See where it says AS1? >> I'm going to make sure and go to get changed. And other than that, do we have a problem with this car? >> See, it looks a little dark, but >> it's it's the same exact It's the same exact number. You can see right through here, sir. You can see right through my window. You can see I ask, "Can you see through the window or do you NEED GLASSES?" >> COME ON. Y'all is You is so full of [ __ ] I didn't seen tent darker than this. Hell, my tip probably THE SAME AS YOURS. >> You have messed up. >> OKAY, BUT I DIDN'T HAD this car for over 3 years. You never stopped me. And I didn't been pulled over several times. Nobody said nothing. >> He didn't. No, it probably was him. I know one of y'all know because y'all you you y'all come up with new laws every day. >> Y'all come up with new laws every day. Well, I'm going to make sure I go take care of this and then I'm going to make sure I come to the courthouse. I mean up to the police department so you can see it. Okay. I want to make sure all three of y'all see it when I go get a It don't matter. I want you to see this. I do. I do. That way we don't never have no issue again about this car. Okay. Thank you. >> Right there. Where where did uh where did the turn the lights at? From pull over >> 21st Street. >> Where? Up there. >> Yep. He was You know where Davis A is? He pulled out of Davis a 21st Street. Um flipped on the lights, conducted a traffic stop, but we but like I was trying to explain to her. I know she look upset. She has every right to be upset, but we have to call it out over the radio >> before. So, >> so he uh would have been >> So, like if he's parked on this side of the road, it's legal. >> All right. Right. So, it's with the flow of traffic. But now, if he's parking on this side of the road, he has to be on this side of the road facing this way. So, >> what are you talking about? Like right now? >> Yeah. Yeah. Like right now, if he parked on this road, it's legal. But if he if his car was parked over here on this side of the road, this is legal. But if his car is like this, parked on this side of the road where he's at, then it's not legal. >> I'm just talking about him finding a place, right? Cuz this is off in the side street officers, right? Like he's a >> one black man standing here, right? Like a young man, right? 20 years old, whatever he is, like >> But other than that, he's he's good to go. I gave him a warning. >> Everything's good. >> All right. >> All right. You shouldn't have no more problems. You call mama a. >> When the second officer tries to separate mother and son and search the car over a visible detox drink, mama steps in front of her child and ends the game. The Supreme Court in Rodriguez versus United States 2015 held that a seizure justified only by a police observed traffic violation becomes unlawful if it is prolonged beyond the time reasonably required to complete the mission of issuing a ticket. Once they chose a verbal warning, the stop was legally over. She forces them to admit on camera they're issuing no citation, dismantles the parking pretext, and vows to bring the legal tint certificate to the station for all of them to see. By the end, the officers are reduced to lecturing about parking direction while she walks away victorious. She protected her son with knowledge, zero consent, and unapologetic fearlessness. The ultimate insurance against bad cops. Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video. Click to watch now.