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On October 10th, 2025, deputies conducted a lawful traffic stop for an expired registration tag. >> Hello ma'am, Deputy House, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Ma'am, sorry. Reason I'm stopping you is cuz it looks like your tag is pretty expired. >> Yeah, I've been waiting on my I already paid for it. I'm just been waiting on it to come in the mail. >> Okay. Uh how long have you been in Florida? >> Well, I've been here about like a month now. >> Okay. All right. Do you have a driver's license? New Hampshire? New Hampshire all? Yeah. You like it better down here? >> I do like it better down here. I love it down here. >> Do you have registration and then insurance? >> Um I do have insurance. Um I do have registration, too. >> Boss man, do you have an ID on you over there? >> Excuse me, sir. >> Everybody in the car has to be identified. That's just case law. It's Florida case law. >> I mean >> Oh, sorry. What'd you say? I cannot hear you. You don't have your wallet? That's fine. Okay. What's your first name? >> Cedric. >> Cedric? Everybody in the car gets identified. I'll print it out for you if you'd like. If you refuse, I'll arrest. It's up to you. >> What Where is it? Could you show me that first? >> I will print it out later. What's your name? What's your What's your last name? >> Well, we'll give you that later. You don't need to >> Let me get a 94, please. You going to identify yourself or not? >> No, what what's it for? I don't understand that. >> Um on the uh that's just south of Hillsborough. >> Sir, I don't mind giving my ID, but tell me what >> You don't need to see it first. That's not how this works. Okay, I'm more than happy to print out the case law for you afterwards. But for now, you're I'm not I'm doing it afterwards. Right now, you're going to identify yourself. I don't know who I'm talking to. >> Well, you're talking to me. I'm the driver. >> I know, there's a passenger in here. >> Yeah, there's a sir. >> Okay. All you have to do is give me your name. That's literally it. Okay. Are you going to refuse to identify yourself? Cedric. Yeah, I was when someone gets here I'm I'm pulling you out. >> Thank you. Do you need my ID or can I get that back? >> I'll stay right here until I till my my backup gets here and then I'm going to break your window and pull him out. All you have to do is give me your name. That's it. What's >> What's your badge number? >> 264556 That's correct. That's correct. She's got it on film, sir. >> All right, your badge number? >> I just said it. 264 That's my badge number. Hey, look. This is very simple. All you got to do is identify yourself. >> Should I break it? >> Yeah, we got to get another pair though. I'm here up front. >> I'm going to break it. Just so you know. No, no, no. >> Is he about to drive off? >> I have her ID. Roll down. Roll down the window. Roll it down to here. Roll it down an inch. I cannot hear you. Listen Listen. All you got to do is identify yourself and you don't go to jail. That's it. It's that simple. The fact that you're not doing that is going to lead you into handcuffs and going to jail. It's that simple. I'll print out the case law for you afterwards. Just like I said. It's all you got to do, Cedric. Come on, Cedric. Don't make this so difficult. I do not want to break your window. I don't want to take you to jail for this stupid ass charge, but I will. I can't hear you, bro. Roll down the window a little bit so I can at least talk to you. No? What? What? Now you want to talk? What's that? You're going to You're going to undo your seatbelt and get out. Stop reaching. How about? How about? How about? Hey, stop. Face forward. Face forward. So, problem now, huh? No problem now, bro? That's crazy of you to say. What What changed? Two more people changed? Is it You know, we weren't [ __ ] around? Goodness, bro. Now you get to go to jail for something stupid. Are you kidding me? Face forward. Stop moving. >> I just I needed to know what what's the reason for the identification. I did not know. >> Bro, I told you, dog. It's case law. Everybody in Florida, in the state of Florida, during any traffic stop, everybody in the car gets identified. And I told you that I'd print it out and give it to you at the end of the stop. Did I not? And I certainly will with your paperwork when you go to jail now. That's all you had to do, bro. Get out of the car. What's that? Get out of the car. Get out of the car. We're not going to tell you again. Get out of the car. >> But why? >> Cuz we're telling you to. Get out of the car. You're making this way worse for yourself. Get out of the car. >> Wait. Excuse me. Excuse me. Let me get out first. >> Get out. Take your seatbelt off and get out of the car. Take your seatbelt off and get out of the car. Step out. Easy. Easy. Step out. Step out. Step out. >> you out. >> I'm done asking. I'm done asking. >> I can go to jail for resist. >> So, we're going to jail for resisting a police >> Yes. Resisting officer. When we tell you to get out of the car, you need to get out of the car. It's as simple as that. >> don't know why we got stopped. >> I'm sure my partner explained it to you. >> Didn't explain anything. >> Stop moving. >> Stop moving. I got to double lock these. They're going to get tighter on you. >> I'm just trying to let them know that >> All right. Okay. >> You're not getting that right now. >> Stop. >> You're not getting that right now. >> Stop. >> Why are you Why are you >> Come on. >> Stop doing what we're telling you to do. >> Cuz I don't trust you guys. >> Okay, you don't You don't need to trust us. >> I do. You're the police. >> You don't. >> Sit in the car. >> All right. Okay. >> Now, when we're doing a traffic stop and we're giving you a lawful >> You have to give me a reason to. >> She drunk? Who's that to you in the car? Is that your friend, your kid, or what? Like who Like what's the relationship between you guys? Like hold on. Let me just Sorry, I couldn't hear you. What? >> No, that's my husband. >> But your husband? >> Yeah. >> Okay, what's your husband's name? >> Did he not give it to you? >> Uh he gave us a name, but we're not finding him. >> What name did he give you? >> Uh I don't even know that. They just told me to ask you. >> Well, I'm sorry. If he can't like >> He's going to get another charge, you know that, right? >> Another new charge? >> Yeah. Another one. You're both going to jail right now. >> Okay. Well, I >> And he's going to get another charge of false name to a to a law enforcement officer. >> And you going to get both. How are you going to It doesn't make sense. >> I don't know how to explain it to you. If he gives us If he gave us a fake name, >> Mhm. >> that is another charge on top of resist. >> Okay. >> So, I'm just trying to figure out what his real name is before we have to come have someone come over tonight rapid ID fingerprint scanner. Cuz we're going to get to the bottom of it. It's just a matter of when and how soon. >> Mhm. >> If that makes any sense. >> Okay, that makes sense. >> Okay. >> So, the name that he gave this off the officer that stopped us >> Yeah. >> Cedric. >> Cedric, okay. >> That's his nickname. >> That's his nickname? Okay, what's his real name? >> Just Cedric. >> Just Cedric? >> Yes. >> So, they call him Cedric, but his real name is just Cedric. What's his last name? Same as yours? >> No, fortunately. It's Tift. >> It's what? >> Tift. >> Tift? >> Yes. >> Just Cedric Tift? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> We have our daughter at home. >> Uh-huh. >> She's sick, so I'm trying to figure out if we are able to call someone. I don't know anybody who's number by heart, but I do have her uncle there. >> You got her uncle's at the house with her? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we'll we'll let you call him and just let him know that like you won't be home. >> Okay. So, do you know how long it takes? >> Uh yeah, I mean you'll probably be able to bond out like whenever you get booked all the way in. So, like either it's going to be late tonight probably. It's time you get all the way through. >> And him too? So, we both have to get bonded out? >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> So, is he are we ever going to figure out what we got stopped >> Um yeah, hold on. Aaron, what was the 10-54? >> Spire Tech. >> I don't know about it. He's asking the cop that pulled you over. Sorry, a lot of us came here. Huh? Spire Tech. >> Okay. So, do you need proof of me paying for it? >> Uh >> Because it's supposed to be in the mail. >> Okay. Yeah, I mean I believe you that you paid for it. >> Yeah. >> And that's fine. But it's still expired. So, I it's not in the system as whatever, like it's still expired. So, if you can't drive it till it's Right? You run the risk of getting pulled over, which At the end of the day, if you guys would have complied with everything they asked you to do, >> Mhm. >> you would have walked away with a verbal warning. Right? And now we're both going to jail because we don't want to listen to what we tell you to do. >> I'm in a whole different place. I He didn't even tell us why we got stopped. I'm just now learning why we got stopped. >> Yeah, and if I Did he If Did he ask you to get out of the car? >> No. >> Clearly, he did. >> He asked us what was his name. >> Oh, and he was refusing to identify himself. >> Right. So, I asked him, "Hey, why does he need to identify himself?" And he was like, "Because he has to." >> Because he has to. He's an passenger in a traffic stop. Everyone in the car on a traffic stop is legally required to identify themselves. You are lawfully detained if you're in the vehicle on a traffic stop. Therefore, you are lawfully You have to give us your driver's license. There's case law, okay? >> Okay. >> It states that. And then, when he fails to identify himself, that makes us think something else is going on, right? So, then now we're at the get out of the car point. And then then we refuse to get out of the car, that's now we're not listening to us, it's resist. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Both suspects were charged with resisting an officer without violence. Share your thoughts in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe.

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