On November 29th, 2024, an officer pulled over a vehicle that had no visible license plate. What am I being detained for? Uh, you're being stopped. You don't have a tag on your vehicle. Do you have a tag? >> Yeah. I don't give a [ __ ] Do you have a driver's license on you? No. Yeah, you have no driver's license on you? >> I ain't a US citizen. No US citizen? >> No, I'm not. >> Oh, man. Why not? Cuz I don't want to be. I ain't a god damn corporation. Oh, man. What's your badge number? All right. Yeah, man. 214. Do you have a Do you have no driver's license, nothing? >> no legal ID at all. Okay. Well, hey, calm down. Calm down. All right. This ain't the end of the end of the day. All right. Hey, can you get back in your car while we're doing this? All right. All right. You're good. >> Am I being detained? >> You are detained, yes. Yes, sir. >> All right. So, this is an arrest. No, it's not an arrest. >> Yes, it is. You're detaining me. It's an arrest. You should turn god damn lights on. I'm on your arrest for what? >> Detainment is an arrest. Stop. Stop. >> What am I being detained for? >> tag on your vehicle. >> I don't have a tag. I ain't required to have a tag. >> Yes, you are. If you're on the roadway, you are. >> I am not. No, I'm not. I'm not required to have a tag. Just go ahead and send me a supervisor. I've got someone being difficult. All right. I'm not required to have a tag. >> Yes, yes, you are. No, I'm not. All right. What's your name, then? You can call me all you want. That's fine. All right. I go by the name of Garrett Shannon. Garrett Shannon. All right, sir. What's your date of birth, Garrett Shannon? I don't know. I'm way past the age of majority. Way past You don't know your date of birth, nothing? >> No, I don't. All right. Cuz I did not I cannot remember witnessing my birth. You can't remember Okay. You don't know when you were born, though? I have no idea. You have no idea? >> I I cannot I did not witness Well, I probably witnessed my birth. I don't remember. >> Mr. Shannon. Let me Let me ask you this. Why are you being Why are you so upset right now? All right. This is I'm just doing my job. >> constitutional stop. It is not. No, sir. >> Yes, it Negative Show me the contract. >> All right. Well, we have plenty of policies, all right? Policies a corporate eating. Okay. I'm not a statutory citizen. Okay. I've warned you multiple times. I'm a resident alien. >> So, you're saying you're sovereign citizen? Is that what you're saying? >> No, sir. No, sir. Okay. That's an oxymoron. Okay. All right. All right. We have to do this all right. >> alien. All right. Well, Mr. Shannon >> I'm a state citizen. Mr. Shannon, stop. Stop. You're You're blowing this all out of proportion right now. All right. That's all I'm saying. All right. You're You're getting upset. You make yourself angry. You're doing all that right now. You understand? You understand? I do not understand. I do not understand anything. I do not understand anything. You're refusing to identify yourself. I have identified myself. >> As Garrett Shannon, but I can't prove who you are because you're not giving me a date of birth. You understand that? >> what? I don't have to. This is an infringement upon my rights. You are a sovereign >> looking forward to another lawsuit here. >> Okay. Well, that's absolutely fine. If you would like a lawsuit, you're more than welcome to do that. All right. Now, now tell me why else are you upset right now? Because obviously this is nothing to do with >> Cuz I have been stopped for no reason. You have no tag. I told you >> reason. What crime have I committed? Right now you're driving a vehicle. I don't know who you are. >> driving. I am not even driving. I'm traveling. All right. Well, you're traveling, stop. Stop right now. >> the right to resist. No, you do not. >> Yes, I do. All right. Stop. I'll wait till your supervisor gets here. >> That's fine. That's absolutely fine. If you want to do it. Yeah, I'm individuals. Individuals refusing to identify himself. I have identified myself. >> Again, Garrett Shannon, I can't prove it's that you. But you don't know when you're born or anything like that? I have mine to witness it, but I do not know. I'm way past the age of knowing. >> your birth? What's that? So, now you have witnessed your birth. I've said you didn't witness your birth. >> yeah, but I also I don't remember when I was born being a baby, but I'm way past the age of majority though. Okay. I'm way past the age of 18 or 21 or whatever you want to call for majority. Okay. You have You say you have no tag on your vehicle. You have no idea when your date of birth is. You have no registration. >> interest in that vehicle. Okay. That VIN number's been removed from all the DMV registries. Okay. So, you're way [ __ ] up, dude. Oh, I'm Hey, that's not nice to use that kind of language. I haven't used that language to you. >> I can use whatever language I want. I didn't say I didn't say you I wouldn't talk to you in an in a demeaning way. I just said you're [ __ ] up. Okay. Explain to me how how I'm effing up. >> That vehicle the state has no interest in. It is not collateral for the national debt anymore. Could you please turn the light down towards the ground? >> No. No. Cuz I I Well, if you keep putting your hand in your pocket, I got to see you. It's getting dark outside. Sorry, that's not happening. You got your light on. I'll get my light on. Eventually, another officer arrived on scene. >> Hey, what's up? Uh no tag on vehicle. He's only giving me a first last name. Can't confirm if that's him. Um as I try to get close to him, he runs off. At this point, I don't know who he is. He's resisting, obstructing. So. Let's go ahead and just put him in handcuffs and figure out who he is then. All right. Sir, stop. Stop. Don't do that. >> Stop. Mr. Cannon. Stop. Put your hands behind your back. Stop. All right. Very good, Mr. Cannon. >> [snorts] >> All right. This is This is not how we want to start the day. All right. Or our day anyways. All right, Mr. Chen. Can you stop fencing up for me? I still don't know why Mr. Chen, come on. Mr. Come on. I've told you I can't confirm who you are right now, and you have no tag on your vehicle. That's why we stopped you. All right, we're trying to be very lenient with you and talk to you like a adult. All right, and you're being uncooperative. Unclench your hands, Mr. Chen. All right. If you had listened to us, you would have you could have been it would have been much better. All right. 214, dispatch someone detained at this time. All right, Mr. Chen. You want to go this way? We're going to go to this vehicle here. Why am I being removed now? I thought you were just trying to verify who I am. We are going to do that, and that's a Okay, I you can verify who I am out here. All right, you got to you got to tell us your date of birth or anything who you are? Mr. Chen. I don't know what my date of birth is. You don't know your date of birth? That's an infraction. I don't want to incriminate myself. This test lying against myself, which I don't want Okay. For the time being, yes, we are going to put you in the back of the patrol car. All right. Why can't I sit on the tailgate? The tailgate? Mhm. You want to sit on the tailgate? Why why can't I sit on my tailgate? You want to sit on the tailgate with this deputy while we figure out who you are. You already got your handcuffs. Where the heck am I going? Well, you already tried to run from my vehicle once. All right, come on, Mr. Chen. All right. Do you have any weapons or anything on you? Any weapons in here? Yes, sir. You have weapons on you? Yes, I do. Okay, what kind of weapons do you have on you, Mr. Chen? I am not giving you consent to search, but I do have a weapon whatever you consider a weapon on me for the legal system. >> You will be informed of that. I have it. All right, so stop him for no tag. As soon as I Yeah, we do. Yeah, and he's what he's not going to he's saying he's asked me if he was, he said no. He's not. He wouldn't identify himself. Yeah. So Stopped him for a legal stop and then he wouldn't say he wouldn't properly identify himself. Yeah. So now all the police need you need to do what you need to do. All right. All right, Mr. Man. Let's go ahead and go back to this vehicle cuz you are under arrest at this point now. So sorry I had to come to this Atlanta. Can I have someone call my vehicle up? You can absolutely do that if you have someone who you want to call. Yeah. Who do you want to call? I'd call my friend Rick. Ricky? Mhm. Ricky sounds good. All right. All right, I'll help you do that. All right. All right. All right, here's the phone here. All right. Hey Mr. Ricky. Hey uh what's up, man? What's up? Hey uh can you pick my Ranger up for me? I'm right in front of Don's house. Pick it up? Yes, sir. What's your name and pick it up? I guess I'm going down to the the state motel for a while. I unfortunately I shouldn't have to take him to jail but he didn't want to cooperate with us. He could have simply just told us his name, date of birth, hey get a tag, all right, for warning, have a nice day. But we couldn't do that today. It's going to be a while. Yeah. It's unfortunate. Where the key is going to be at? Stop reaching. I think they're still on the ignition. Okay. All right, they're still in the vehicle if not What happened here? Another deputy will be waiting by with this vehicle. He wouldn't tell me his name. All right, thank you, sir. All right, now. All right, bye. All right. All right. You mind if I put the phone in my truck for me? You want the phone in the truck? Do you want to take it with you? >> Nope. All All we will do that. Hey, can hold this phone for me? Yeah. All right, go ahead and face the car. All right, walk it back. All right, sir. Where did you get that from? He was charged with resisting without violence. He didn't appear for his arraignment and ended up spending 102 days in jail. He just says his name is Garrett.