I swear the camera is going to be hard. You kill me. I promise. I'm I promise. I got life insurance. Let's go. I'm ready to die. I'm ready to die. I'm ready to die. >> On September 22nd, 2024 in Pensacola, Florida, a traffic stop by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office escalated into a 23minute confrontation, a wrist injury, and a hospital transport. The officer observed the driver change lanes without signaling on Fairfield Avenue. Under Florida statute section 316 155, that is a moving violation. Under Terry versus Ohio 1968, a moving violation provides sufficient, reasonable, articulable suspicion for a lawful stop. right now. Copy 1031. >> Stay with him. Come on. Florida tag. >> Want a silver edge for Mark and Delano. Market and Delano. Hey, Deputy Lancaster with the sheriff's office. >> So, the reason I stopped you is because you cut across the traffic in front of that car back there on Fairfield. >> I was stopped at the stop sign. I cut across. It was No, you sign. I cut across. It was good to go. >> Okay, I got you. It was right in front of the car without turn. >> Do you have your driver's license with you? >> Listen to me. You cut in front of that car. He had to hit his brakes to keep moving. >> Caught in what car? >> The car in the left lane. You didn't even see him when you went across that lane to go in the meeting. >> Tell me when I stopped. >> You didn't stop. >> I did. >> You cut in front of me. >> I did stop. >> It's on video. People heard you. Okay. Please don't argue. >> Please. Start me another. >> First thing I'mma leave you. And I know I stopped because I had to look to make sure traffic coming both ways. All those now. And I promise we going to argue this in court anymore. >> Do you have a driver's license? >> That's what I gave you. >> Does that say driver's license on it? >> It's educated by license. >> Where? is educated about is in the system cuz I don't have to give you a copy. >> Where is it? >> It's on It's driver's license. >> I do. >> Where is it? >> Put it in the system. >> Where is it? >> That pin and pad on your shirt. >> Mhm. >> Let me get out. >> Hm. >> Come on. >> No. Stay right there. >> Let me get out. You ain't got no warrant. So, let me stop. >> Okay. Why are you acting ON THE PHONE? >> CUZ I DON'T KNOW MY LAW. >> I KNOW MY LAW CUZ I STOPPED. I stopped. I KNOW I STOPPED BEFORE I crossed over the traffic. I stopped. >> Why are you making this more difficult? >> Because I'm not making this difficult. I'm telling you my law. But I'm willing to get out the car. Please. >> Here. No. Stay in the car. >> You want me to stay? >> Stay in the car. >> PLEASE CALM DOWN. >> SHUT THE UP. >> MHM. I'm sitting right here waiting on your warrant. I want y'all back at the end of nothing. >> Don't worry. We don't text Lancer Lancaster. >> Lancaster. >> Lancaster. >> Mhm. >> If you don't shut up, bro. We still But I don't WANT YOU TO SHUT UP. >> THEY DON'T GIVE A ABOUT YOU WHEN THEY CAME UP TO THE HOUSE DOING IT. I want you. >> They don't give A ABOUT YOU. WHY WOULD YOU? >> THEY DON'T GIVE A about you. >> BECAUSE I DO VALIDATE. I don't have to give you my ID. I can tell you my number and I can show you the picture on my license and you got to accept it cuz the Florida law says you have to. >> Oh, okay. >> You know that. So, am I am I under arrest? >> So, >> am I'm under arrest. >> Where is your driver's license at? >> Am I under arrest? >> You're you're saying you got a driver's license? >> I'm under arrest. >> Are you going to answer my question? >> I promise. >> Okay. >> I'm under arrest. Please. >> You are right now. Why are you doing this? >> Cuz if I'm under arrest, I'm going to be under arrest. No, bro. No, bro. No. If I'm under arrest, what is my charge? Please. No. >> You're detained. >> Get Get Okay, I am. >> I am. Get the key. Get the key. >> Come over here. >> I am. Please. Cuz I'm I'm under arrest. I promise I'm going to be dead. I've been waiting on going to drop before I get there's no reason why you have to detain me and the car if there's no nothing wrong with there's nothing wrong I ain't did nothing wrong I stopped at the red light I ain't do nothing wrong I ain't do nothing Oh, nothing. Y'all know this charge going to be dropped. >> No, they didn't. >> Give him the key. >> I'll give him the key. Stand right here. >> Stand right here. >> Give them the key. Give them the key. >> Do you have ANYTHING ON YOU? >> NO. GIVE THEM THE KEY, SON. >> I'm going to give them the key. >> GIVE THEM THE KEY. >> Do you have anything on you? >> GIVE THEM THE KEY. NO. GIVE THEM THE KEY. RIGHT. >> I WANT A SERGEANT. GIVE HIM the key. I'm not moving. Give him the key, please. Give him the key. Turn around. Give me a sergeant. Lancer. Give me a key. Turn around. Give me a key. Give me a key. Stay right here. Give him the key. Give him the key. Give him the king. >> Boy, I swear to God. I don't care about it. Give him the key. >> GIVE ME SERGEANT LEWIS. Give me Sergeant Lewis. Give me Sergeant Lewis. NO. NO. YOU CANNOT. You cannot. HEY, I'M MY WOMAN. You cannot. You cannot. You cannot take me. Let me go. >> You better go. >> You ain't pay me now. >> Get the key. >> You're not going to sit here and yell. >> Get in. >> Give me. SERGEANT. >> SERGEANT. >> I'm going to push this car if you don't get in. Wait. Nope. Nope. Do it all day. Cuz you ain't got no right to lock me up. No rights. No rights. No rights. NO [ __ ] RIGHTS. >> YOU AIN'T GOT NO RIGHT TO PUSH me in here. None. >> OH MY GOD. >> NOT. NO, NO. CALL THE L. CALL THE START. I'm down. >> OUT MY WRIST. >> OH, EMILY. OH, EMILY. OH, you cut my wrist. >> Sit up on your knees. >> Oh, you cut my wrist. Oh, you cut my wrist. You cut my wrist. You cut my cut my wrist. You cut my wrist. When the driver presented an identification card instead of her license, she argued the license was accessible in the state system. Florida statute section 3 22 15 does not permit that substitution. The law requires the physical driver's license to be in the driver's immediate possession while operating a motor vehicle. Full stop. The Supreme Court addressed this directly in Hibel versus 6th Judicial District Court of Nevada, 2004. States may require a person stopped under Terry to identify themselves. Florida's identification statute satisfies that standard. The officer's continued investigation into the license was legally grounded. When the driver moved to exit the vehicle, the officer ordered her to remain. Pennsylvania versus Mims 1977 gives officers authority to control a driver's position during any lawful traffic stop. Refusing that command elevated the encounter from a traffic stop to an active detention. Officers on scene were heard asking each other whether they had any charges on the driver. Beck versus Ohio 1964 requires probable cause to exist before a warrantless arrest, not after. Searching for a charge to justify a detention already underway is a constitutional problem, not a procedural one. Physically pulling away and attempting to go under a vehicle creates exposure under Florida statute section 8432, resisting an officer without violence, a firstderee misdemeanor. That charge only holds if the underlying detention was lawful. If probable cause was lacking, the resisting charge becomes legally vulnerable. Biting a law enforcement officer during transport if confirmed is a thirdderee felony under Florida statute section 7 8407. Unlike resisting that charge does not hinge on whether the underlying arrest was valid. It attaches to the conduct and that distinction matters substantially in any prosecution. Graham versus Connor 1989 is the controlling standard for evaluating force. Force must be objectively reasonable judged from the officer's perspective at the moment of the decision. The three factors are severity of the offense, whether the subject poses an immediate threat, and whether the subject is actively resisting. The underlying offense here was a noncriminal traffic infraction. the driver had not displayed a weapon, had not threatened officers, and had not attempted to flee. Any force applied before physical resistance began must be evaluated against that baseline, and a wrist injury during handcuffing will be examined under that standard. A documented injury during a disputed arrest creates exposure under 42 USC section 1983 which allows civil claims against government actors who deprive a person of a constitutionally protected right. The combination of a questionable arrest basis and physical injury is precisely the factual pattern those claims are built on. The driver's behavior, elevated agitation, erratic movement, and dramatically altered a effect was consistent with acute stimulant intoxication. Florida statute section 394 463. The Baker Act authorizes law enforcement to initiate an involuntary mental health evaluation when a person poses a danger to themselves or others. The hospital transport was legally correct. The delay in initiating it was not. Yeah. Hold your wrist together like that. >> You better go. I never I NEVER GO. I NEVER GO. I NEVER GO. YOU AIN'T GOT NO WISH TO LOCK ME UP. I NEVER GO. CALL YOUR STORY. CALL YOUR STORY. >> YOU HUMBLE. >> CALL YOUR STORY. >> Call your s. >> All right. I live. I live a go. Hell no. I godamn hurt. Y break my wrist. >> Just if we can't get over, y'all better let me down here. See me here. Y'all best LET ME STAY. OKAY. STAY. NO. I'm going under. Stay. I am. OH. OH. YOU AIN'T got no reason to me. >> Kick me again. You kick me and sit up on your >> No, I'm down on my face. You annoy. >> I am. You I'm annoying as But you ain't got no reason to detain me. >> Why you acting you? Cuz you ain't got no reason to detain me. I went to none of y'all [ __ ] You talking about you mad at me for a >> I ain't so you put in the car. I ain't even you talking about >> what you want to do. >> Call the val. I do GOT A VALID DRIVING. SO WHY THE DETAINING ME? >> Answer that question. Where the at? >> Where the at the at the at right >> in real life. This is what they want TO DO. THEY TRYING TO ME AT RIGHT. AIN'T NO FE. WHERE? >> WHERE? Where your gloves at? >> Which ones? >> I got more right here. >> Sergeant, you a sergeant? >> Yes, I got you. >> No. They straight ain't no straight no. Let me go that [ __ ] Let me go. >> Have you done any drugs? >> Nope. >> I'm disgustful as a mother. >> She's hyped up. >> I GOT LOOK, >> it's blinking. >> All right, look. >> It's leaking. They trying to break my arm. >> It's leaking. Look. Look. Look over there. She got the camera rolling. Hey, >> she got the camera rolling. >> Go ahead. >> She got the camera rolling. >> Let me go. >> She got the camera rolling. >> Ain't no females out here. She got a camera roll. >> She got me camera run out with handcuffs. My bad. Stop her down a little bit. Y'all got A >> NO, THEY DON'T. I STOPPED THAT STOP SIGN. Where they going to make? Cuz I stopped that stop sign. You did what? >> I stopped this time. >> That's it. >> YEAH. SO ASK THEM WHY B AND THAT right here go put on me. Ask him >> girl. What you had? Tell me other than that. >> Okay, I get it. So what you had? >> They stopped me. No, they stopped me cuz I'm cuz I'm pretty with a big G right here. >> Yeah. >> Everybody said we ain't dealing with See that cut on my wrist? You see that that that chain? You see that? >> Too tight for you. >> Boy, I swear to God they holding it. >> They holding it. They let it go. >> They holding it. >> Hey, can you sit down? >> I've been down though. >> Okay. >> I've been down here. Let me go. >> Look. This ain't going nowhere. >> LET ME GO. LET ME KNOW. >> LET ME GO TO YOU. >> LET ME GO, >> MOTHER. Let me go. >> I ain't do to you. >> Why you yelling? >> I AIN'T DO YOU. I ain't you or you. >> Y'ALL STOP ME CUZ I STOP. >> Cuz you stop. >> Cuz I stop. >> Stop. Where? >> I just stop. There are the red sign. Okay. >> Stop. before you tag me because you know it's illegal cuz you know you can ask for my ID without a warrant. >> Look harassment I'm not going nowhere boy. I swear to God I ain't going nowhere. Can I pull my dress down so they want my Yo, can y'all pull my panana down? Thank you for actually doing something. >> Are you hot? I told you I'm hot. >> No, but I still don't do no illegal stuff. I need my rights. >> Okay. All right. I'm going to need you to stay calm. We're going to try to figure out what's going on. >> Well, I swear to God cuz I I stopped. >> Okay. They were with you. >> I swear to God. I >> stay right there. I'm going ask him. I'll be right back. Okay. Just Just chill out for me. All right. Be right back. What's his name? You know his name? >> Dale and Glenn. >> Damn. Okay. I'm right back. All right. unstopp. >> How you feeling? >> I'm wonderful. I'm doing good. Just giving them a ride to their destination. Okay. >> But for them for them to pull me over and say I ran stop sign. I know I stopped that before I crossed the Fairfield. I know that cuz I never take that. >> Let me ask you something. Have you taken anything that might get you a little loopy or anything like that? You're not going to get in trouble. >> No. Cuz that t No. Listen. They t shot that 199 I chose not to drink and drive. So everything I know is what's going on right now. >> Hey look, I'm have EMS come check you out and then when they check you out >> and I promise I can survive test and rock straight away. >> Hey no EMS like >> No, I don't want to say none of this [ __ ] folk >> cuz they was no reason why I should have been stopped. >> I ain't do nothing to them. >> Till EMS get here. You going to just stand there or you want to sit down? >> I sit right. >> Sit down and sit in the truck for me. >> No, I don't want that one. >> Sit on the ground. If you want to sit on the ground, that's fine. But if you want to sit in this car, you want to sit here. >> I never want to sit. I never get in your car. >> Okay. Not my car, but I'm just asking. >> It's good. >> Have a seat. >> You want to sit on the front bumper? You can sit there. Hey, y'all can call me. >> LET ME GO. PLEASE. >> Let me go, MAN. >> LET ME GO. WHERE I'M GOING? LET ME GO. >> HEY. HEY. CHILL out for >> PLEASE LET ME GO. Why you going? >> What? You want to beat my You domestic too. >> You domestic too. >> You not Don't respond. Don't do what they tell you to do. Be a good boy. >> Hey, look. >> Hey, look. Ambulance is here. They going to check you out. Okay. Make sure you all right. Okay. You You going >> They always check me out. >> All right. You going to be cooperative with them >> for what? >> Just to make sure you're okay. >> No. So the act So I put her in handcuffs because I told her to stay in the car because she was talking about getting out. I was investigating why she didn't have a physical driver's license on her because she handed me an ID card. And then after I told her to stay in the car, she got out of the car aggressively. That's why her action is detained because she's a possible danger for yourself and brothers, right? >> We got up here and she started acting erratic and trying to grab and all that, right? >> So, it makes sense to put back inside, right? >> All right. Hey, look. You want to go home? I'm sorry. You want to go home? I'm trying to get you home. I've been over here trying to help you. Do you want to go home? >> I'm trying to get you to the house key. You want to go home? Please sit up here so they can check you out. Make sure you do good and we'll get you up out of here quickly. >> Well, come up. >> I know I don't need y'all help. Walk away. >> Hey, >> walk away. Walk away. WALK AWAY. >> I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP. WALK AWAY. ARE we just checking? >> I don't need your help. Walk away. Y'ALL CANNOT VIATE MY ORDER to the alter. >> So, I don't know if it's narcotics, but she's been acting erratic trying to fight us. trying to put her in the Tahoe. So that's why they got no choice. >> I bet you won't touch me. >> I bet you won't touch this. >> If you want to do like I guess your assessment for right now, >> depending on there, >> I can try to accommodate as much as possible. The only thing I can't >> custody. >> Uh, she is. >> Um, I'm just trying to get the rest. >> I don't need to get refused. There you go. There you go. God damn. Y'all understand it. Refuse. Refuse. Go. Clap. CLAP. YES. YES. GOOD JOB, GIRL. TAKE THAT BACK TO 911. GO SAY SOMEBODY ELSE LIKE THAT. >> She's pretty dope. Pretty strong. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, she's strong. >> I got the dopest in. I believe one time skin 10 23. Anybody want the dope? Let's go. We done. >> Are we done? >> All right. Right, man. Because a a right over here. I'm not going. >> I said I'm not going. That what I say. >> Uh-oh. Not going. I'm not going. What? Howdy. >> That's disgusting. >> That's enough charge. No, you >> know my arm. >> Hey, do not bite. I'm g watch your fingers. >> She's now biting. >> Yo, you're not going to put on my neck. >> Huh? >> My medic is driving us right now. >> My medic is driving some eggs right now. >> You want There you go. There you go. >> There you go. No. Sorry. >> Yeah. Will you go get a go get her mask? >> We tried to put one on her. >> All right, Dream Man. Come on. Yeah. No, you should never put them on my >> Yeah, that's where you at. Now figure it out cuz I'm going to make it hard. Oh, I swear the camera is going to be hard. You kill me. I promise. I promise. I got life insurance. Let's go. I'm ready to die. I'm ready to die. I'm ready to die. >> I'm ready to die. Frank >> all Thank God. >> Hey, hey, hey. They're growing up a different man. Yeah. Let's go ahead. Deputy Lancaster receives a C. The stop itself had legal basis, but the rapid escalation without documented deescalation, the wrist injury during restraint, the audible profanity on camera, and the delayed response to the driver's supervisor requests are all measurable departures from both professional and constitutional standards. The driver receives a C plus. Asking whether she was under arrest was exactly the right question. Her license argument had partial legal merit, but physically resisting officers, biting a law enforcement officer, and refusing medical evaluation each added independent charges and gave officers escalating legal justification to continue the detention. This encounter reflects patterns that appear consistently across similar cases. Here are five takeaways that extend well beyond this particular stop. First, a moving violation is legally sufficient for a stop, whether you agree with the officer's observation or not. That disagreement belongs in court. Arguing it at the roadside does not change the legal basis for the stop. Second, Florida law requires the physical driver's license in your immediate possession. The idea that a license in the system satisfies that requirement has no support in Florida statute section 3 22 15. Third, asking if you are under arrest is protected. Physically refusing officer commands is not. Those are two different legal categories with two very different consequences. Fourth, force during an arrest for a minor infraction will face heightened scrutiny under Graham versus Connor. Officers who skip deescalation, expose their department to civil liability under 42 USC section 1983. Fifth, visible signs of medical distress during a detention require early intervention. Delaying EMS when a person is in crisis extends danger for everyone present and raises its own set of legal and ethical questions. If this analysis was useful, subscribe to our channel and drop your case suggestions in the comments. 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