LET'S GO. GO. GET THE WE'RE LEAVING. WE'RE CLOSED. GO HOME. GO. We're leaving. Go home. GO HOME. ON JANUARY 22ND, >> [music] >> 2025, while most of Florida slept, a Tallahassee officer was dispatched to an unusual call, reports of people hurling snowballs at moving cars near the 700 block of Madison Street. One driver claimed a snowball struck their head. >> [music] >> Before we proceed, let me remind you that under Florida law, throwing a projectile into a moving vehicle qualifies [music] as a felony, and snowballs can be regarded as projectiles. Something this unsuspecting individual wasn't aware of. Hey, are you all right, officer? You're all right? Yeah, I'm good. What did he do? What did he do? Yeah, it's good. I mean, I didn't get a good enough visual on him. He just hit me with a snowball, which I don't Damn, that's a good Yeah. HEY! WE ARE NOT THROWING MY SNOWBALLS. CUT THAT OUT. HEY, WE'RE DONE. WE'RE DONE. We're done. >> [cheering] >> WE'RE DONE. YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL. YOU KEEP GOING, YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL. When officers arrived, a young male made a reckless move, pelting a patrol [music] car, then striking the officer's face. Even after warnings blared through the PA system, another snowball hit. Before backup arrived, the bold snowballer vanished [music] into the crowd, leaving officers scrambling to identify him. The police are done. You want to fight him? I'm about to pull my pepper ball gun. You need to have to leave right now. >> [cheering] >> Back up. Back up. Go. One second. One second. Come on. Come on, please. He's going to take a visual. You got to see that? You got to see that? Back up. Go in. Back up. Go that way, Reese. Get out of the road, Reese. Back up. Go. All right. Get back or you're going to get pepper balled. Get back or you're GETTING PEPPER BALLED NOW. GET BACK OR YOU'RE GETTING PEPPER BALLED NOW. You crossed street. Get back or you're getting pepper balled. GET OUT OF THE STREET NOW. GET BACK INSIDE. All right. >> [cheering] >> Get out of the street or you're getting pepper balled. Get back or you're getting pepper balled. The intoxicated crowd grew louder, cursing and taunting the officer despite repeated warnings. Backup soon arrived, and pepper ball rounds were deployed to break [music] up the chaos, but even that failed. Under Florida law, pepper balls are justified when verbal commands fail, [music] and a crowd poses safety risks. Officers may use them to control or disperse aggressive, [music] non-compliant, or threatening individuals. But the rowdy group refused to scatter, turning a simple snowball incident into a full-blown standoff that tested [music] the officer's patience and control. LET'S GO. GO. GET THE GET OUT. WE'RE LEAVING. WE'RE CLOSED. GO HOME. GO. WE'RE LEAVING. GO HOME. GO HOME. Let's go. WE'RE OVER. GO HOME. GO WALK. WE'RE LEAVING. LET'S GO. GO. GO HOME. Go home. Go. Get out of here. Go. Walk. Go home. Yeah, shut the [ __ ] up. God damn. Yeah, shut the [ __ ] up. >> [clears throat] >> ANYWHERE BUT HERE. GO. WE'RE WALKING. LET'S GO. WALK SOMEWHERE, BUT NOT HERE. GO. LET'S GO. GO HOME. START WALKING. WE'RE LEAVING. WALK. We're leaving. Walk. Walk. Go home. Go home. WALK ON THE SIDEWALK. WE'RE LEAVING. LET'S GO. GO HOME. HEY, we're leaving. Let's go. Start walking. Yeah, you're going to jail right there for my back. Do it again. You all right, bro? Yeah, I'm all right. I just want We're having a good time here. We got to go home now. >> Yeah, that's a Oh, that's right. That's right. That's great. All right, man. Start walking. All right, man. You got to walk. >> I'm going to start walking now. Yeah. Walk. >> I'm going to walk. Yeah. There you go. I'm not going anywhere, boss. Okay. Or we can go to jail. So, IT'S IT'S IT'S YOUR IT'S YOUR OPINION. WHAT WHAT AM I GOING TO JAIL? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WALK. IT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. >> WHY AM I GOING TO JAIL? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WALK. SO, WAIT. Why am I going to jail? You're You're being provided a lawful command. You have to comply. It's a lawful command. I appreciate you. All right. No worries. Let's go. Go. Walk. We're going home. Walk somewhere. We can't be here. We got to walk somewhere. Let's go. Anywhere but here. Let's go. We're walking. We're going home. Start walking. What is the original battery on LEO? Some random guy I was just pulling up, ran up, hit me in the face with a snowball, and took off. But he went to the crowd, and everyone looked the same. Right. So, and then since we've been out, we've had When we first got here, we've had probably 30 people run up around us, all getting on top of us. So, are we waiting for to get Township to shut down? What I just asked if we can get Township to shut down so we can get out. Hey, will you tell the cops to clear this up? Cuz otherwise, we're just going to sit here and keep getting hit. We don't We don't have anything. Which is why we need to leave. Yeah, we don't have This is both, and we need to leave. We We We were told to come here I understand that. Are we doing anything with this or are we leaving? Buddy, if you can't identify who threw that So we've been like I said since since then we got probably 50 people spread out towards the middle. So are we just clearing out? Like I said we got told to come here because the town's are hitting everyone passing by with snowballs. Well, it's it's your call. I'm trying to figure that out so I don't I can either leave See what it is. >> [cheering] >> If we get a business truck now we can clear them out. You're not going to get you're not going to get you're not going to get we got to clear all these people off the sidewalk. Amid the chaos, 22-year-old Garrett King was arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer after striking one with a snowball. In Florida, that's a third-degree felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Even a seemingly harmless act becomes serious when it involves intentional contact with an officer performing official duties. Let's go. Come on, let's go. Let's go. Clear out. What's going on? Clear out. Clear out, let's go. Clear out, let's go. Clear out, let's go. >> [screaming] >> Clear out, let's go. Say behind. All right, you just walk with me. All right, let's go. IT'S TIME TO GO. AIM LOWER. YOU GOT YOUR PEPPER BALL? I said out of gas. Time to go home. WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING? GROUND. GROUND. Time to go home. Time to go home. Time to go. Hey, we don't we don't have the authority to tell people to get off the sidewalk. Yeah, the we we are the bars are open. We're not going to get every bar to shut down. >> [cheering] >> We're not we're barking up the wrong tree cuz we don't have authority to clear the sidewalk. Yeah, yeah. We can ask the businesses but we can't make them close down. Yeah. They're making money on a you know Tuesday night or whatever it is. If they're not if they're not if they're not they're not fighting anyone We have zero authority. If they're not fighting anyone we're going to If somebody throws a snowball at them we can find the person. Yes, that's it. We're instant we're we're creating our own agency. We just need to get 10-8 and go. We need for the state for instance to turn for instance to turn Forget about it. This this isn't happening. Why are we doing this? I don't know. Let them let them do what they need to do. Let them have it. What? What? Where is it? Where can we meet up? Civic Center? Yeah. Hey, police 10-23 to anybody on Madison Street. Get back to your cars, turn off your lights. Meet me at the Civic Center. As the crowd grew more unruly, the officer had little legal authority to clear them from the public [music] sidewalk. With thousands of intoxicated partiers and only a few officers present, one wrong move could have sparked chaos. [music] Realizing the imbalance, the deputy made the cautious decision to withdraw from the scene before tensions escalated beyond [music] control. >> [cheering] >> Who has 10-15? Huh? Who has a 10-15? I have no idea. You want to bring up the 40? We need a pepper ball but I don't know why we're not deploying it. We have the pepper ball. They need to leave. Let's just deploy pepper [cheering] ball. You got spray? I have a taser. I want to get him with you. Me? YOU'RE NOT WATCHING. I'M WATCHING. I'D BE GLAD TO GO BACK TO South Beach. It's one of those. It's one of those. Which one? I don't know. Who you got right here? With the gray hoodie up in the black jacket. I don't know FOR SURE. I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. What did he say? He said get in your cars, meet at the Civic Center at the What? Meet at the Civic Center. I'm just telling you to get back in our cars with our lights off. Meet at the Civic Center, yeah. What What are What are y'all out here for anyway? What for? I have no idea. So what threw a snowball at at a game? Good enough for me. Create our own agency. It's 2,000 people versus 30 We're we're Just go back to the Civic Center and get 10-8. If you want to if you need to do a D Delta for pepper ball or and blue team 30s and us stretch. We're working we're we're we're fading out. Just go back to the Civic Center and get 10-8. If you want to if you need to do a D Delta for pepper ball and blue team I can't hear you. Oh. Yeah, this is the Why do we have to close the game? In the end officers withdrew realizing control was impossible that night and met at [music] the Civic Center for a brief. Only one arrest was made while the original snowball thrower vanished into the crowd. Later, body cam footage revealed him as Brandon Jahari. A warrant was [music] issued and in a twist of remorse, he later sent a written apology, a sober reflection on how one reckless act nearly became a felony. And that wraps up one of Tallahassee's strangest midnight standoffs all over a snowball. What do you think? Was the apology enough? Let me know below, hit [music] like, subscribe, and stick around because the next case might start with laughter [music] and end in handcuffs.