I'm I'm not refusing to ID, but until you give me a lawful reason as to why I have to ID Okay. Cuz we got a call for service and we A call for service is not a lawful reason to ID, sir. We don't want to arrest you. Okay. Well, you don't want to ID me either cuz I ain't committed no crime. We have a right to ID you because we had a call for service out here. No, sir. You said that you fired shots off. I didn't say that I I She asked if I fired them in the air. So, it doesn't matter if I fired shots off. Corrupt cops in Macon County, Tennessee turned a neighbor dispute over a property line and target shooting into an unlawful arrest right on the man's own land. According to the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause. Officers responded to a claim of shots fired in the air, but body cam footage shows the homeowner calmly explained he only fired two shots into the ground to scare chickens away from under his van. Instead of verifying facts, Sergeants Inman and Myers demanded ID, seized his Glock 19, and arrested him for refusing to identify on his private property. This was pure retaliation for asserting his rights with the entire encounter captured on two body worn cameras now shared publicly to expose the abuse. I have an ongoing dispute about the property line and he can't stay off of me and I've asked him to stay off of me. So, I would come out here and we're just going to put up a fence. I've not said anything to him. And he come out there and stood behind that van right yonder. I assume he shot up in the air. But you can see his little target sitting right down there. It's directly in line with us. He shoots every freaking day when come out here. Okay. >> But he He pulled outside. He's out here shooting. And it's a constant agitation with him. I got you. >> Uh but you know, he wants to shoot guns while we're sitting over on the porch. It's pretty stupid. Yeah. But uh with no backstop. But we're down here fencing and he's out there popping off rounds. That's a little That's about me almost you. >> We ain't spoken two or three, so Okay. but it never ends with him. I got you. You got your ID with you, sir? I do. Okay. This is probably just going to make it worse. He still can't be out here doing that. >> got to get documented somewhere or another that this is going on. They're in there tired, I tell you. Has he said anything to you today or No, we've not We've not spoken to each other in 2 or 3 years. I got you. What's a good phone number for you, sir? 615 Mhm. 633 All right, if you don't mind, go ahead and hop in your vehicle so we can talk to him. What's this matter? Yeah. Hey there. Hello. Let's step up in here and talk. Let's try over here. Well, it's right this way. It's closer to the property How are you doing? Good. How are you doing? Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay. I'm sorry to do everything. This is Sergeant Myers. She's going to be the one dealing with you. Anytime we deal with a call that has to do with a gun, I'm going to take it off your side, okay? No. Yes. Well, you're That's I mean, if that's what you're going to do, then I'm saying it's not okay as far as I'm concerned. Okay. Well, we're going to We're going to take it off your side. All right. Okay. Okay. The reason that we're here is we got a call about someone firing shots up in the air. Okay? So, that's why there's so many so many of us coming out here, okay? Pretty interesting. I can't wait to get the Y'all got a body cam footage? Yes, sir. And you say that Burton and Myers >> Myers. Well, there's no crimes being committed here. So, We Look, we're not saying that you committed a crime. No, I'm just I'm just saying We're that we've got to I understand that. >> Well, yeah. And I'm not I'm not an advocate to take people's guns. I'm not, but it's just an officer safety thing. As soon as we figure this out, if there's nothing wrong, I'm going to give you your gun back. I'm cool with everybody having guns. I'm cool with everybody walking around with them. I'm We're definitely pro-gun. I'm not here to take your gun. I'm not here to try to I thought we all were y'all doing a good good job so far. I can't wait to see what this hot guy is bringing in now. Okay. So, at any point did you fire your weapon up in the air, sir? >> No. Okay. Why would we get a call that said that you had? Uh when I restarted my mower a minute ago, all my chickens was congregated underneath my van once again. So, I dropped two shots in the ground to scare them all back to their coop. But it wasn't in the air. There was two shots fired and it was in the ground. Okay. It clears them out fast. It's not the first time I've done it. I got you. I understand that completely. Um So, at no point you fired the weapon up in the air. No. Okay. I would never fire a weapon up in the air. I just got finished with a training class this Saturday. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Yeah, what goes up comes back down. >> Yeah, you don't ever fire a weapon. I just fired them off into the ground. All right. You got your ID with you, sir? Um I haven't committed any crime. Sir, we're out here for a call for service. We We have to identify you. Why do we Now, I always had a camera. Uh your camera's on, sir? Okay, I I can't tell if it is. Your your your ears is? Okay. And you are Vincent and you are Woodard. Woodard? Mhm. Okay. Yes, sir. No, actually I don't have an ID on me, but I'm not going to ID. I'm not giving you my name and date of birth cuz there's been no crime. I I protect my Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment at this point gets put aside when Okay. I'm not going to fight you. I'm not going to resist, but I'm not going to ID. I've done I've done no crime. Listen, listen to this. But I'm just telling you Listen. I don't know about that. I I I really Listen, listen. We don't want to arrest you. Okay. Well, you don't want to ID me either cuz I ain't committed no crime. We have a right to ID you because we had a call for service out here. >> No, sir. >> You said that you fired shots off. I didn't say that I I She asked if I fired them in the air. So, it doesn't matter if I fired shots off on my property. >> you get a gun call, you see what I'm saying? You get a gun call. No. Are you Am I Am I arrested? What am I arrested for? >> Right now you're detained. Okay. Well, if I'm being arrested for not giving my There's a difference between detained and arrested. Right now we're trying to give you a chance to tell your side and try to ID you. That's why we're here. I'm not ID. You're not ID'ing. That's what I'm I'm not refusing to ID, but until you give me a lawful reason as to why I have to ID Okay. Cuz we got a call for service and we A call for service is not a lawful reason to ID, sir. This is It is. No, it's not because anybody can call and make anything up. If I hadn't have shot those fired those shots and he called it up and lied to y'all we still got to get his ID, too. I don't know what you're talking about. You shot it in the air, I mean, instead of you shooting with them. I wasn't. But that's burden of proof is on them. It's not burden of proof for me to prove I'm innocent, is it? That's why we're here. Well, I'm just making a statement. It's not You got cameras on your eyeglasses, too? Yeah. No, they just saw the little circles and I didn't know if it was a Those are blinders. Um Oh, well, no crimes have been committed, so I don't know quite what to say. Let me explain like the reason for ID. >> I'm not really wanting to hear it. I'm I'm really not. Are you going to arrest me for not for failure to ID because that's a secondary charge. You got to have a crime first and I have not committed any crime. I've tried to explain to you why we have to ID you, sir. I'm trying to explain to you why I'm protecting my Fourth Amendment right. Had I known that it was going to be this way, I would have went and got my phone camera so I could have recorded this. I mean, am I free to go? Not right now, sir. Okay. Okay. What crime are you detaining me for? It's an investigation. >> Okay. Should we move off of my property because y'all are currently trespassing and I'm receiving an No, we're not arresting you. Again, okay. I'm just receiving any invite or any type of Y'all Y'all Y'all are Y'all are on here because of y'all and y'all's lawful orders. Not because Not because of being invited and not because this is casual. 10-4. 10-4. I understand, sir. Look, we don't want to have to take you to jail. I don't want to go to jail. But if you're going to arrest me on something that is a secondary offense when you actually have no original crime, then that's just something I'm going to have to fight in court. Isn't that what y'all always say? No roadside court. Just do it after the fact. And if I have to sue the county, then I sue the county. No big deal. Well, we have to We have to see who who we're messing with. We have to run your IDs. See you who who you are you say you are. Just because somebody give you a call for service doesn't mean I have to surrender my Fourth Amendment right. It does not. It does not. >> No, there is no Right now this is an investigation. You can investigate. If you have proof that I Shots fired. Matter of fact, you didn't even say shots fired at him. You said shots fired at him. You said, "How in the world do we know since you said there were shots fired that you didn't shoot them at him?" She didn't even say shot at him. She said shot in the air. Shot at him would come up on your part. You said that you shot in the ground. How do we know if you shot in the ground or shot up in the air? Cuz they called in said you shot up in the air. How do we know if you're shooting at them? >> need proof or else they're They're following following false allegations. She's They're either They're following false Are you going to let me Either they are filing false allegations or your investigation will prove otherwise. But until you have the proof, the burden of proof is not on me to prove that I didn't shoot near. Now I'm sitting here telling you I'm not a [ __ ] so I didn't shoot near. >> Okay. We're not saying you're a [ __ ] but >> No, anybody that does is though. We either need an ID or a name and name and date of birth. >> your vehicle. Put your hands behind your back and spread so that way it don't pinch you. And what am I being arrested for? Right now, failure to identify. >> Okay, failure to identify is a secondary offense. You need an original charge. >> It's disorderly conduct. There's no disorderly conduct on private property. I didn't do anything. And you don't have proof that I did. Right together. Yeah, yeah, you're you are being disorderly when you're not No, I'm not. When you're not doing what we're asking No, that's not disorderly. Disorderly Can you even be the complainant in a disorderly or do you have to have somebody else? You absolutely can. Okay. All right, do you have anything else on you, sir? >> Yes, I got a magazine. Okay. In this pocket right here. All right. >> I'm not giving you permission to take any of my belongings. >> custody Okay, I'm just letting you know You're being placed under arrest. All right, that's that's a false arrest. All right. My prerogative. No, it's law. Okay. You either follow the law or you don't. You're supposed to be here upholding your oath to the Constitution. You're right. >> Well, this is a Fourth Amendment violation. You don't have a crime. You got a call for service. It don't matter if you get called for service. Any loony can call you up and tell you to go assault somebody. >> Yeah. I'm the first car over here. They have to give you a reason to respond. They work off of anonymous complaints. First car over here. Have a seat. I got it. I'll put it up here with me. The officers escalated by charging failure to identify and disorderly conduct even though no actual crime had occurred. In the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. >> [music] >> The man calmly asked multiple times what original crime justified demanding his ID, correctly noting that a mere call for service does not suspend constitutional protections. Disorderly conduct requires public disturbance with intent to alarm, yet this happened entirely on private property with no threats or unreasonable behavior. The charges were dismissed in court, proving the arrest was nothing more than a contempt of cop punishment for politely standing on his Fourth Amendment rights. I'll give you the firearm that come off this side. I'll just put it in my passenger floorboard that way it was out of play. All right. I'll get your ID and a firearm. I'm pretty sure he's intoxicated. I can smell it. I don't smell it. There you go. It's disorderly conduct. He said he can't be on private property. I'm not going to stand out here all day. It's too hot. Well, he's intoxicated. We can't we can't We know he is intoxicated. He's admitted to he's been drinking. What's his name? I don't know the officer. He's refusing to identify. Well, I mean I know what he's doing. That guy So my whole thing is we've got to write him You know, firearm Uh his Fourth Amendment rights prohibited us from asking for his ID. So But you know, we can't call for service. Name and date of birth I'm going to take his The actual crime What more can you do, you know? He He said he fired two shots in the ground to scare the chickens back away from the from the vehicle. So Had he just identified himself, he could have been on the road and be on his way, but Well, we don't know if that's really what he did. Yeah. I mean that's what he was trying to explain. Yeah, that's what I was trying to explain >> How do we know if he That's what I was trying to explain to him. I can smell it on him. And then when we come out here, Julio drove up. I was in driving fence posts and Julio drove up and he come and stood back there at the back of his van right yonder and he shot We heard three shots. That's saying they was in the air. I'm not saying he shot at us. Mhm. I'm not going to go there, but he shoots back this way every day. You can see his little target on the building. I mean every day we're home he comes back here and shoots. Or he stands back there at that van and shoots at that target. That's kind of in line with my property. There's no backstop. It's a constant agitation. Just enough Coming out here and shooting at me standing in my driveway is about all I can stand. I probably shouldn't have tolerated more, but I I don't know. I think this is the worst thing I probably could have. But I'm tired of it. You know what I mean? I need you don't I need it on record that Well, unfortunately for you know, if we don't start doing something, it's going to get worse. >> And I'm not saying that it won't get worse. >> But at least you've done your part, you know, to try to prevent it going to the next step. Yeah, I don't believe it will. Can you just come and bring it down there for me? What's that? His gun. I'll give it to you. All right. What do you need to give to us, sir? The van keys. She can't leave the house with the kids. All right, are they on the mower? No, they're on me. Okay. I'll get them and I'll give them to you. I ain't cleared it or nothing. I don't know if it's exactly how it was. Hold that. Clear. Yeah, it's clear. No. You know how that goes. Where the keys at, sir? Right there. All right. Have you told me Have you figured anything out yet? Yes. Okay. We can leave it to her. Down there at the house. He can leave it on the property. He needs to give them to his wife. Oh. You're not going to be liable cuz he's going to try to sue us already. So go to his property. All right. Abrupt tactics continued when officers seized the man's firearm but refused to hand over the van keys to his wife, stranding her and their three children under eight with no transportation. According to the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution, excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. They set a $25,000 bail and $2,500 bond, two full mortgage payments, for charges they knew would not hold, turning the ride itself into the real punishment. The red-headed sergeant claimed he was the last person who would take a law-abiding citizen's gun, yet it took 2 and 1/2 months to return the Glock 19. [music] This deliberate indifference punished an entire innocent family because the father refused to waive his rights, exposing how these officers target and financially harm those who push back. That's going to be discretion at this point. Officer discretion, thank you. You took an oath to the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment said there's no reason to to get search seizure papers, none of that. There was no law being broken. Had there been a law being broken and you stated that, then I would have given you that information, but you wasn't stating the original charge. You were just stating that you were going to arrest me for not ident failure to ID. And then whenever I told you failure to ID is a secondary charge, that's when you started him hauling around. Nothing that I have done actually even falls under the statute of the state. So I don't know why y'all brought that up after the fact. The call wasn't for that. Y'all didn't say that. When I asked you why you were arresting me, you didn't say that. And then after you have me in the car, you come back and you're like, "Oh yeah, that that's what it is." You don't understand how that seems suspect. Huh? Failure to identify, so I don't All right, come on, Elsa. He has a whole stone inside of the firearm, excuse me. >> Even the county commissioner Kyle Petty, appearing in plain clothes as a deputy sheriff, was on scene during this aggressive response in their small Tennessee community. In the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause. Multiple officers, including sergeants Mears and Emerton, acted as if any neighbor complaint automatically overrides constitutional limits on private property. The man had done nothing illegal. He was simply tired of five years of daily shooting with no backstop aim toward his home. With the case already dismissed, the only barrier left to holding these oath-breaking officers accountable is money. No major public updates have emerged on further civil action or discipline against the officers as of early 2026, but the body cam videos continue circulating to warn others. When corrupt cops break the law under color of authority, they destroy trust and remind every citizen that standing up for your rights on your own land can cost your family dearly.