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These Florida officers were searching for a suspect with open battery charges when they noticed a suspicious vehicle approaching. The driver matched the suspect's description, so they attempted to speak with him. But what happened next took them by surprise. Hey, Daddy. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I did nothing wrong to you. Do you not understand that? Do you not understand that I did nothing wrong? Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I didn't drive off from you or nothing. Don't touch me. Stay over here. You got You just stopped me illegally walking down the street. You're parked in the roadway. I'm parked in the roadway. I live here. Thank you very much. Kiss my kiss. You got me up, bro. [ __ ] No. Hey, I don't know what's wrong with this. What are you trying to do? I don't understand. What? What do you want? We're like, so I asked him why he was stopped in front of our house and he said, "Oh, why are you disrespecting me? Pull over. Grab hold on." First of all, he grabs onto my window, bro. grabs under my window and tells me, "Don't run over my foot. Don't run over my foot." Who the you think you is? Cuz you're not nobody, man. He was farting in front of your house. Hey, he farted in front of the house. I'm recording it. I'm recording this. I got it. Ask him. What's your name? I got it right here. What's your name, buddy? I ain't got no my name's number. We want a supervisor. We want to supervis right now. We want to supervise. Hold on. Calm down. Window. Why are you here? Yeah. Why are you here? Excuse me. What you doing here? What you doing here? What are you doing here? Why are you part there? [ __ ] know. Why are you part there? Do you know the Constitution? What's your name and badge number? Back up. No. What's your name and badge number? You You in What are you doing? Get your No. Get your y'all need to back off. This is a traffic stop. Get back. Get back. Hold on. Hold on. Where's the light? Walking around us. We can't have a civil conversation if everybody's yelling. I want to know. Do not interfere with the traffic. It ain't no traffic stop. Sergeant [Applause] Lieutenant What the Hebi rights again this time I would you will lose your you will lose your qualif find immunity and you will too. Do you know the constitution? Wash your wash your arm. What's the reason? What's the reason? Do you have your driver's license on you? Where's your license? I need your driver. I told you we don't stop. Get the back. Get back. Get back. Get back now. Get back. Get off. Get off. Just back up. Just record. Yo, just record. We're suing you, right? You know you s you know what he did wrong. Get off of me. Get off of me. What are you doing? I don't want You Hey, get off of me. Do you know what he just did violated her constitution? I will sue your You will go. I want your phone. Bring your goddamn boss out here right now. I want a supervisor now. Goddamn. I want a supervisor. Call him. Call him. Please call him. You better female out here. Oh boy. You know, you're going to lose your qualified immunity. Hey, now he Yes, you piece of Hey, you touched the wrong one today. Okay, stay here. This is my I can Nope. I can say wherever the [ __ ] I want to. Here, buddy. Don't touch. Get back. Don't touch over here. Don't touch me. Are you the supervisor? Over here. Don't touch me, sir. Are you the supervisor? Yeah. Okay. Come here. Hey, I'll be with you in a sec. No, you your officer slam. Listen to me. I'll be with you in just a sec. What? You don't know what Constitution is. What do you need? What do I need? Yep. I need them to get back. Okay, let's go. Let's talk over here to the garage. The driveway over here. Do you have your driver's license on? Got license in the car. Get your driver's license. We have here every other weekend. We got people homeless people in the woods. We got everything going on. We don't need that. That's why I'm asking why you're down here. I'm not trying to disrespect you. I don't want to disrespect you. This got blown out of proportion. I don't want you to lose her for a simple reason. All right. Sit tight. Look at her. [Applause] You got to do something to destruct. You don't know the law. I'll be with you in a second. You don't know the law. I will get an attorney. That's the my wife. That's right. Mr. Pardon her. Keep your mouth shut. What's she 10:15 for? She put hands on Brett. Okay. After you put hands on me. Okay. Any injuries, ma'am? Um I I don't know to my face. I don't know. All right. I got 8 ft. Godamn these people back says I got 8t to record these pirates. Yeah. I don't know why you grabbed on to the window. 185 clear telly. See that's why I'm ask and you came out immediately hostile stopped in the road. You rev. That's why I stopped. That's why I stopped cuz I was wondering why you're down. Simple simple traffic stop. I found a dude laying in the woods. Then everyone comes out of the house construction. All right. Um got a little physical. Do a traffic stop. 54. Can you repeat please? Okay. This the subject of the traffic stop. driver. He's gonna be fine. Um I'm over here trying to do an ATC. This guy um revs the engine, comes up, stops. What are you guys doing at my house? What are you doing? Not even at his house. He was walking down the street right here. Listen, I'm talking to him. I know, but he grabs on to my window. Well, now you're talking to me. How can we talk one person at a time? He initiates. Okay. Okay. So, traffic stop totally separate from your ATC. 100%. Did you guys get to finish the ATC? No. Okay. Soon as you're done with him, take her clear out. Who is she to you? That's my stepmom. That's why she was standing in front of me when you grabbed her. He grabbed her, bro, and grabbed her by her throat. Slammed her up against the car 100%, bro. She ain't touch him one time. I got it all. I got the whole thing. What's your name and badge number? So, you're not going to give it to me, huh? My name badge. Oh, now you want that? Yeah, I will. All you What's your name and badge number? Officer Brown 250. Oh, what happened? Why did your sergeant have to tell you? Because you know you bought broke your policy. Well, whatever. I tell you what, y'all y'all justed up is what y'all did. I got an attorney and I'm going sue this goddamn police department bigger and [ __ ] Slam my goddamn wife on the ground for no reason. Then he's going to threaten me with obstruction. Apparently you don't know what the obstruction is. Obstruction. I have to physically do something. Stuff you. The constitution says I can record y'all eight feet of way. We got a whole Look at this. Look at this pirate police department. What's your name and badge number, ma'am? What's your name and badge number? I can't read. I've been literate. What's your name and badge number? Being reading and hearing is two different things. He's talking about 22 weeks in the academy and 720 hours of And this is what you get. Look at that. They ain't got nothing better to do. Look at them. God mighty notice. Y'all so proud, ain't you? Huh? Y'all going to have a big lawsuit on y'all. Y'all picked the right crack of the day, buddy. Look at what he got to say. Yeah. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'mma sue that and I'mma get his qualified immunity. I don't know what y'all going to do with my wife since he body slammed her slam grad. That's why you're thinking about it. Yeah, you're [Applause] thinking you got nothing to do with it. I tell you what. No, hold on. What? What? What? The woman was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. Hey everyone, it's Trent, prior deputy sheriff patrol sergeant and canine handler. And these situations are always a little more tricky to break down because I'm just going off of little snippets of the body cam footage, which clearly doesn't tell the full picture here. And quite frankly, it rarely ever does unless you're actually on scene viewing the incident itself. And then I also have the officer's report. However, that lacks a lot of articulation that I would have liked to have seen, but I'm going to do the best that I can to break this thing down for you guys anyway. So, what started this whole thing off is these cops go into this house to try to locate a suspect that had a warrant for his arrest or open charges. They left. This other guy pulls up on him in his car and becomes verbally abusive to these cops according to their report. And in their report, they stated that this guy closely resembled the description of the original suspect they were looking for. And also, this guy had said, "Hey, what were you just doing at my house?" The same house where the suspect resided. And then he was also parked illegally in the middle of the roadway while he was uh talking to law enforcement. So they told him to pull his vehicle to the side of the road so they could affect a traffic enforcement stop. So right there they are justified twice in detaining this individual. Regardless of what that lady said later on as a cop, you do not need to have your forward- facing red light, blue lights, or siren in order to pull somebody over and detain them. These cops standing outside their vehicle on a roadway talking to someone in their vehicle and saying, "Hey, you need to pull over. or you're being detained for violating whatever the code is. 100% justified and they are legal in performing that action. Also, they're justified in detaining this kid to get him positively identified because it is reasonable to believe that he could potentially be the suspect based on the fact that he resides at the same location and he closely resembles him. And all you need for that is reasonable suspicion, which dictates that they have suspicion to believe that this guy could be involved in a crime, meaning that he has a warrant for his arrest based on the totality of the circumstances. And that definition is further broken down in a United States Supreme Court ruling, Terry versus Ohio. It is a much lower threshold than probable cause, which is broken down even further in Illinois versus Gate, meaning that a crime has been committed. And this more than likely is going to be your suspect, meaning that this guy had been identified. He did have the warrant for his arrest. Boom, there's your probable cause to to make that arrest or to search somebody. So then all these people come out of the house and it's a giant mess and everyone's yelling and talking over one another. And that is I've been in those situations before. It can be very chaotic. And that's where you're going to have to rely on your command presence, your communication skills. Ideally, you have those. And in my opinion, these cops did not do a good job of doing that. they're kind of just sitting back and letting everyone just talk over them and they're not really saying much of anything. However, it could also been one of those situations where based on the fact it was just two officers and a whole bunch of angry hostile people for the safety element, they wanted to wait until additional resources and backup arrived on scene because nobody was in danger of doing anything. Everyone's just kind of hanging around. The suspect wasn't going to be fleeing or there was nobody with a weapon that we were able to observe. So, there was no rush, so to speak. And if there's no rush, you can kind of just you have that luxury just to kind of sit back, make sure the scene stays safe, and wait for additional resources to arrive. And then since these officers still were not able to identify this guy to verify that he was not the original suspect, that lady got in the way. And in the officer's report, they said that they had told her multiple times to get out of the way, otherwise she was going to be arrested for obstruction. And her I'm assuming her husband said stated that the obstruction needed to be physical, otherwise it didn't count. That is completely not true. If you are hindering or delaying a law enforcement officer's investigation in any regard, even if you're just standing there getting in the way and they can articulate that fact, that is obstruction and you're committing a crime and you can be arrested and taken to jail for that. And what I thought was kind of odd is that at the tail end of this thing, the supervisor is asking this officer, "Hey, was the ATC different than the traffic pullover?" The ATC meaning the attempt to contact that original suspect, "Was that different? Completely different situation than this pullover." And the officer said, "Yes, it was." And in my opinion, that's not true. It was one and the same because they thought that that secondary subject resembled the first one and that's what started this whole thing off was they were originally looking for that suspect. So no, it is the same thing. And I don't know if this officer meant it a different way or I'm misunderstanding it, but in my opinion that is not accurate. Also, what was interesting is that they only arrested this woman. They didn't arrest her husband who was also standing right next to her committing an obstruction crime. Additionally, they didn't do anything with this kid that they had stopped and pulled over and tried to identify. In my opinion, that can be a very bad look when you go to court because you're just arresting this woman who was obstructing your attempts to get this guy identified. In my opinion, you should at least at the bare minimum, if I was in that their situation, give this kid a citation for blocking a roadway with his vehicle just to show that there's some sort of legal standing there for doing what you did. It is not necessary. However, they're going to be much better off. And again, I would have liked to see further articulation in this report based on the fact that the body cam footage does not show the incident in its entirety. And that's going to be it for this one. See you guys in the next one. [Music]

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