about. >> Step out. >> Turn around. >> Hey, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even play that. Turn around. >> Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. >> I didn't even do nothing. I didn't even do nothing. >> Turn around. Put your hands on your back. Stop. >> Because you messing with the recording. >> Stop. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> You mad cuz I'm recording. Like that's crazy. I didn't even do sh- >> Stop. >> You just pulled me over. >> Hey, you're getting pulled over for this window tint. >> For my tint. So, why you restraining me like I >> And there's a strong smell of weed in the car. >> Then I >> On March 5th, 2023, in Florida, a window tint stop ended with a felony arrest and a firearm on the seat. The central question is whether the officer had genuine probable cause or built it as the encounter escalated. The stop was lawful. Florida statute section 316.2953 requires front side windows to allow at least 28% light transmittance. A visible tint violation satisfies Terry versus Ohio 392 US1. That basis is not disputed. >> Hey, roll the windows down. Hey, windows. Windows. Yeah, I can't see. Huh? No. Pulling you over because of your tint. You got a driver's license? >> Um No, I don't have a handicap sticker on my name. >> You got a handicap sticker? >> I'm a hot mess. >> No, you would have You just followed me and stopped me instead of just um pulling me over. My bad. Let me get recording cuz you >> No, step out. Step out. Turn around. >> Hey, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even play that. Turn around. >> Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. >> I didn't even do nothing. Why >> Turn around. Put your hands on your back. Stop. >> Because you messing with the recording. >> Stop. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> You mad cuz I'm recording. Like that's crazy. I didn't even do >> Stop. >> You just pulled me over. >> Hey, you're getting pulled over for this window tint. >> For my tint. So, why you restraining me like I >> And there's a strong smell of weed in the car. >> Then I Do me. What the You just >> Stop. Come on. LET'S GO. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. You sound so ignorant right now. Everyone's looking at you. Congratulations. Look at you. Look at you. Look at you. Look at everyone. Look at everyone. NO ONE'S HELPING YOU. No one's Can you uh I don't know. STOP. STOP. YOU'RE BEING ARRESTED NOW. GO TO JAIL. AND YOU AIN'T GETTING PERMISSION CAN YOU Where are you going? >> YOU JUST WANTED ME SOMEWHERE. SOMEBODY PLEASE COME record it. Give me your camera. Why? Please. Cuz why y'all pulling me like this? I don't know. >> All right. >> Hi. Hi. Ugly. >> You're just not cooperating. >> job. >> We are doing our job. >> Hurry up. Take me to jail so I can bond out. Bubbles for your >> Hey. Showing your education. And it's Oh. Where is that at, Sarge? >> Right here. It's 230 >> No, it's on the seat. Uh barely covered up by this. Open this damn door. Open it up. >> Go a little bit. Unbelievable. >> Ordering the driver out was also lawful. Pennsylvania versus Mimms, 434 US 106, gives officers categorical authority to remove a driver during any lawful stop. No individualized threat is required. The stop itself is sufficient legal basis. Handcuffing converts an investigatory stop into a formal arrest. Florida courts require probable cause for arrest, not just reasonable suspicion. The moment cuffs go on, the officer needed a concrete basis beyond window tint alone. The officer stated on camera the car smelled like marijuana. Florida courts recognize a trained officer's marijuana odor detection as independently establishing probable cause for arrest and search. If genuine and contemporaneous, that claim clears the Fourth Amendment bar. The vehicle search follows under the automobile exception from Carroll versus United States 267 US 132. Officers with probable cause may search without a warrant. A credible odor claim legally unlocks that authority. The firearm was on the seat, barely covered. Under the plain view doctrine from Horton versus California 496 US 128, officers lawfully on scene may seize contraband that is immediately apparent. No separate warrant is required. That discovery triggered Florida statute section 790.01, carrying a concealed firearm without a license, a third-degree felony. It also reinforced the probable cause retroactively. Once the gun is on record, the arrest is significantly harder to challenge. The resisting charge under Florida statute section 843.02 came from the subject's own conduct. Physical non-compliance with a lawful exit order is the textbook definition of that offense. The footage documents it clearly. The subject claimed retaliation for recording. That is a legitimate First Amendment concern, but the resisting charge arose from physical non-compliance, not from the recording. Those are separate legal issues, and raising them at the scene rather than through counsel did not help. The strongest threat is constructive possession. Florida's doctrine requires proof of both knowledge and dominion over the contraband. The subject stated the car had recently been driven by someone else. If corroborated, that raises genuine reasonable doubt on both elements. That defense likely shaped the pre-trial diversion offer under Florida statute section 948.08. Prosecution weighed the constructive possession risk and offered a clean exit. Complete the program, the charges disappear. No trial needed. >> Why is she yelling? >> Uh I I didn't really understand the question. >> She didn't get everything. She didn't get parking tickets. >> Hey Carlos, I got you. >> Yeah. Hey Corporal, she she was going to try to flee. She she was doing this little circle and then she just kind of like freaked out and pulled in here. But she was doing this ridiculous circle. Hey so Sarge, it was underneath this? >> Yeah. >> On the Yeah. Concealed. But underneath. Okay. Okay. Okay. Some weed right here, too. Hey. You get a 10-m? >> I got 10-m. >> You get a 10-m, you guys take care of citations. One per window. >> Yes, you got >> Yeah, 10 uh just measure all the tint >> and the windshield. Um and the handicap she doesn't have a handicap sticker. So, she gets the full Monty. She calls uh huge issue, resistance, she's got a gun, all sorts of stuff. How you doing? >> Bro, I don't I literally got off work just got to get my eyebrows. I see the police behind me. I just got my car from somebody. I literally just pulled I literally just turned right there and come here. I see the police I I don't I don't know if he's going to stop me or not or whatever. So, I just pulled right there so he can, you know, do whatever he need to do or whatever. This man just started roughing me up. I ain't even get to do get to do yet. So, what the hell? >> All right. So, what what's going to happen? I'm just going to get your >> to jail, please. I'm going to have to go with you. I got a man. >> Hold on. Okay. But, let me get your name real quick. Just calm down, all right? What's your first name? >> Janiah. J A N I A H. I ain't got a lot. 26. July the 2nd, 1996. >> Janiah, relax. >> Yeah. No, cuz he's the one who roughed me up for no reason. >> Stop. Stop. You're You're playing the victim. It doesn't work. Stop. Stop. No one No one's helping you. No one. No one. Everybody knows you're wrong. You're wrong. You got guns and drugs. Stop. Stop. So, this isn't yours? It's in the same bag. Oh oh oh oh Okay, stop. Stop. STOP. KEEP TALKING. KEEP TALKING. You keep talking. Keep talking. You keep talking. So, when you stop, I will stop. You got a man. You got a man. YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL. [screaming] JANIAH. YOU YOU WON'T HAVE A MAN. J- JUST GO RUN HER. GO RUN HER. Go run her. You got no other choice. >> Did a birth certificate. >> It's It's It's It's not a common thing. >> Yeah. Yeah, corpus ain't burnt, yeah. Every window, right? >> Yeah, she is. At least give her At least give her four of them. >> And you got spot, too. >> Handicap spot. She was crazy, dude. >> Oh, you guys missed it. >> You hear that? >> Ooh, so nasty. >> She is. She was way out of control. >> Jesus Christ, why you so loud? >> She didn't just pull up here, right? She was doing a turn. >> Yeah, she was She was I knew she was going to flee. >> guys come up here, yeah? >> Yeah, she was thinking about cuz she came She came all the way down here, came in here, cut through here, and started coming back this way. And then she I think she pulled in a handicap out of the last minute like, "Oh, I'm handicap. Maybe he won't mess with me by going to the handicap spot." >> Yeah. I'm going to move her to I don't like people behind me. I'm going to move her to the side of the car. >> Hey, connect your eight. >> 10-out. >> Don't touch me, please. >> Hey, did you have the other box? >> He did. >> Yeah, you're doing the right thing. >> You slammed the door on my knee. That's my mama's kid. >> All right, you guys can go. >> You know we got a bad guy and have no power. We got to get the bad guy. >> She is. >> NO REASON. YEAH, AND IT'S NOT MY PROTOCOL. I'LL TELL YOU CHARGE. TAKE ME TO JAIL. DO YOUR JOB. I DON'T HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH YOU DOING YOUR JOB, BUT YOU AIN'T HAVE TO ROUGH me up. Look at you with your fat double chin. You [ __ ] up today. And your teeth yellow. >> All my teeth, right? I can just give this to her, right? What's up, Ms. Myers? >> Bro, I have no problem with the problem with her. You can like like when you black or whatever, you my kind. I literally he I literally I work back there. I'm going to [ __ ] nail tech. I literally just came to get my eyebrows done right there. The only reason my partner have um handicap spot cuz when I was coming he was I noticed he was so behind me. I didn't know what to do. I'm like, "Well, is he going to stop me or what?" So, I just pulled over so he can better you know do what you need to do. I swear to god that cracker he told me he um he said I heard him say let me I know what I did everything say. He just got yelling at me. I'm like, "What what what?" So, I opened the door SO HE CAN DO WHATEVER you need to do or whatever the case may be. HE THE ONE START ROUGHING ME UP. THAT'S WHY I'M GOING OFF LIKE THAT CUZ I swear to god I have take me to jail to call my twin to find take me do what you got to do. Do your job. But he just do rough with me up for no reason. I was complying. Then the other one the fat one slammed the door on me and my [ __ ] leg and [ __ ] cuz I guess I'm talking about but they literally just >> Just just just calm down. Calm down. Calm Take it. Take Take Where where your son at? >> My my son's with his dad, bro. I just had to my drop my damn car off cuz I work in the shop behind this damn car. >> What what What shop What shop you work at? >> In the back right there. I got my own suite. I'm a boss. I'm I'm a own business. I do hair. I do nails. I do facials. I do tattoos. I do a lot of stuff. I'm general all trades. I don't have time for like this. >> I got I I got you. >> But can you please just take me to jail so I can just you know everybody do their job and go their own separate ways? >> I I got you. I got you. Can you do me a favor and just calm down? >> No. You can just see what that man >> I I got you. Just I hear you. I hear you. Can you do me a favor? Can you cool down? >> Give him a wreck. The light I'm a woman, bro. I'm only but >> All right. >> The initiating officer receives a B minus. The stop was lawful, tint measurement correct, exit order sound. His acknowledgement of the subject's composure when the firearm was found reflects professional judgment in a moment that could have gone differently. What lowers the grade is sustained mockery throughout the encounter. Graham versus Connor, 490 US 386, requires objectively reasonable conduct. Commenting on a detainee's appearance and gesturing to bystanders serves no enforcement purpose. It is a professionalism failure that escalated a controllable situation. The subject receives a C+. Not reaching for the firearm during a high-stress arrest is real restraint, and officers acknowledged it on camera. Her account of the vehicle's recent custody built the foundation for a credible legal defense. Both of those count. What lowers the grade is physical non-compliance that generated the resisting charge. And a verbal confrontation that damaged credibility throughout. Being right about unfair treatment and making choices that worsen your legal exposure are not mutually exclusive. She demonstrated both simultaneously. Every encounter like this carries lessons worth keeping. Not just for the parties involved, but for anyone who might face a similar situation. Here are five of them. Lesson one. The exit order is lawful. Pennsylvania versus Mims makes it categorical during any traffic stop. Compliance is not an admission of guilt. Non-compliance creates separate criminal exposure regardless of whether the original stop had merit. Lesson two. Marijuana odor is probable cause in Florida. A credible contemporaneous odor claim from a trained officer clears the bar for arrest and search. Arguing about it at the roadside does not lower or eliminate that legal standard. Lesson three. Third-party custody is a viable defense, but it has to be built through counsel. Spontaneous statements at the scene are admissible. The constructive possession argument is only as strong as the evidence developed after with an attorney. Lesson four. Recording police is a protected First Amendment right. No officer can lawfully penalize someone for documenting a public encounter. But that protection covers only the recording itself. Physical resistance is a separate legal act that carries its own consequences. Lesson five. De-escalation is a choice one party can make unilaterally. The contrast between the initial officer and the supervisor who arrived later is the most instructive moment in this footage. One person changed their approach and the temperature dropped immediately. If this analysis is useful, drop a comment with a topic or interaction you want covered next. Give the video a thumbs up if it helped and subscribe to our channel so you do not miss the next one.