This woman is not just trying to loosen her handcuffs. Concealed inside her pants is a firearm the deputy doesn't know about. Despite multiple searches, he never finds it, leaving her with a dangerous opportunity to make a desperate move. What are you doing? Stay. I'm sorry. I'm I'm very nervous. I'm sorry. Bring your hand around to the front. It's 1:00 a.m. in Florida when this deputy spots a car running a stop sign and nearly colliding with another vehicle. He initiates a traffic stop, but little does he know this is one stop that will nearly cost him his life. Southeast 95th Court on an orange Mustang. The vehicle just pulled in front of residents, started honking to get residents to come out. What are you doing? I was coming to the house right here. Why are you honking? I was telling my dad to come out like Okay, hold on. Why didn't you pull over right away? Oh, because I'm at the house and so I just wanted to like, you know, cuz we're already here. Okay. Do you have a driver? I didn't want to. Uh, yes, sir. I'm just trying to grab Why would your driver's license be in there? Oh, sorry. I was just getting all all the paperwork. You're good. I just need the driver's license. Picture. Is it valid or is it the old picture of a license? No. No, sir. It's valid. It's valid. I'm not very good at seeing. What's your first name? B. Whose car is this? This is my cosigner. My Who's it registered to the paper? I have all the I can call them too as well. No, you're good. You're good. It's not recording stolen right here. No, no, sir. No, sir. Everything's paid off. Everything's paid up. Everything is Can you do me a favor and just get out of the car and come right here? Just to the back. Is there Well, I was okay. Yeah, cuz I'm telling you to. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. Is what's What was the reason of the stop again? Could my pops come out? Maybe. Well, I'll have you step back. I'm going explain to you the reason. And I had just You're good. Just come on right back here. My bad. It's right back here. Is there a reference signal 49 right here? Okay, I'm going to have you give me your information. You don't really look like a person on the driver's license. Uh oh. 23. What's your social security number? I don't know that by heart. I don't know by heart. I don't know by heart. I see this for a sec. My phone. Yeah. To look at the picture. Well, I mean, I could I could maybe like send it, but I don't like give consent to the phone. I would just rather just trying to look at the picture. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, you can. You can look at the picture and see. You don't even have the same color eyes as the girl that that's makeup on the makeup. That's that eye makeup you put on and over your eye. You know, go put this down. Put this down. You're being detained right now. Okay. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. Yes, sir. Yep. Let it go and put your hands behind your back for now. You're being detained. May I still answer? Yeah, cuz you're not being truthful about who you are, sir. But but what was the reason of the original stop? The reason for the original stop because you made a faulty stop on the at that stop sign and because as you were proceeding through that first stop sign that I seen you coming head on with me, you were not in your lane. You were partway over the lane. Do you have any weapons on you? Guns, knives. No, sir. All right, I'm going to patch you down. Go ahead and tuck your elbows up. Well, sir. Sir. Okay. I'm I'm confused. I'm a female. So, she's saying I'm confused. I'm a female. Usually in a stop like this, you would at least make some effort to get a female officer to come just so they can do it. When they train males or when they train us in my area, they always kind of encourage us to use like the back of our hands to do females. Don't get too close to the crotch area, the breasts, that type of thing. So, a female is usually much better for a deeper search. That's fine. Come over here. Yes, sir. This side, show me one detain. I'm so confused right now. Have a seat. I'm going to explain everything to you. Keys. I don't have a seat. Can my pops come out here? Have a seat. Hold on. Is that keys? Let me take this. Let go of them. I mean, it's on my ring and it actually like Oh, was I trying to thing attached to her? I got to read you something before I talk to you cuz you're in handcuffs and you're sitting in the back of my car right now. So, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be abused against you in a court of law. Do you understand the rights I just read you? Yes, sir. Okay. I'm going to tell you how I know you're not Brianna Mason because I pulled over Brianna Mason like four days ago. Bad luck there. Can you give me your real name or are we going to have to take you to the jail and figure out who you are? Yes, sir. My real name is uh Go ahead. R H E A N. R E A R H E A N. What's your last name? Pardon. H A R D. What's your It's on the envelope. It's right there. How'd you give me her name instead of your name? Do you have a warrant? No, I don't have any warrants. Are you suspended? I literally almost have everything like paid off. Everything. And it's really it's like right through the edge. That's always the story when somebody's suspended is like I I went there and got it redone but it didn't go through or I'm about to do it or I'm I'm going to take care of it at court. Pretty much always the same story. I have court July 8th. You know what I'm saying? So you gave me a fake name because you are suspended. Really? Does that seem like a logical thing to do? Well, it wasn't like wasn't that's not who I So why'd you give me a fake name? This is her she she Okay, that's my best friend. I I picked her up from like that's just all it is. Like I just I'm trying to not Why would you give your best friend's ID in place of just identifying yourself? So it's because you're suspended. I don't want I don't want it completely cancelled. Have you ever been arrested for driving with suspended license? I just got out of prison and I've been doing so much better. I've been working three different jobs. You know, I paid down for long. I'm doing that much better. Been doing really, really good with that. So I'm just trying to stay on the right path and I just came in town. My aunt just passed away and I'm about to be suspicious. She's really She's suspended. She gave me a fake name. She gave me the name of someone I pulled over three days ago. Yeah. Do you have any drugs on your person whether they belong to you or not that I'm about cuz I'm What am I going to do? Stand up. Stand up. I'm about to have to go through your pockets. Okay. Do you have any on your person? Um, no. No. Okay. Just go ahead. Just up there. Put on the keys. Yeah. Okay. What kind of drugs are we talking? Give me one sec. Right. 6601 1015 white male start next rotation. You said white male. I said female, didn't I? Back to you, man. White female. Dude, I was like I was like looking at her. I said, "What is that more of the same in this pocket right here?" You said yes. Is it going to be in this thing right here? Yeah. Is that why you were death gripping it when I was trying to get you to let it go? I I did see it was stuck, but you didn't you didn't want to let it go before that. Yeah, cuz like I said, I was trying to get off like whenever I'm trying to grab it at one hand, you know? Are there any needles on you? No, it really pissed me off. I really don't shoot. I don't. So, they're dealing with a user here, so they're going to be super careful. They do make those gloves that have like Kevlar in them for needle pricks. The problem is it's not very tactile. Like, you can't feel a lot through them. So, pretty much always just use the nitrol or the latex gloves. Damn. You don't have to gloves. I'm holding them back. Yeah, I know. I know. Jeez. Think you have a friend and tuck your elbows up. Please hit my cigarette. No, I can't lose a piece of paper. I'm sorry. I've been working on my car, so there might be a few might be a few straws. I got you on your car. No, I'm thinking the brakes. You can look whatever straw. Hey, don't [ __ ] me. Look at the dental pit cuz I saw that in somebody else's. It happens. I don't know what they're for. What are they for? No, that's really for like dental like you can sit down. You can sit down. No, I'm dead serious. And so like that that alone is for because I have a tongue cushioning and so like I'll periodically clean it off like you'll see. It is true though we are kind of always finding new things that drug users are doing that we don't know about. An officer I'm friends with pulled over a guy and he had his pipe stuck into the vent of the air conditioning system. He said they do that to cool it down between hits cuz the pipe gets too hot. You know something to keep an eye out for. Make sure you look at the vents. There could be a pipe in there. First time I'd seen that. Bro, that's a lot of And she had a backpack behind her in the seat, too. Yeah, please. Dude, I was just trying to go grab something. I'm sorry. I'm not sorry. Trying to take my break, brother. Well, you have Where's Cely? Exactly. I thought he was working today. No. Oh, Sely's going to hear about this. Hey, chill out real quick while we get units back. How long you been in the car? There's another person in the car. Wow. I think we're all surprised. No way. You were not here the whole time. That's wild. It's like he's like painted like the car seat just lying there. Crazy. That's wild. That is terrifying. Do me a favor. Hop out the car, my man. You got any guns, knives on you? That's scary. Stand up. Temple. You got anything on you? No, sir. I just said no. I'm going to check your pockets. All right. You said no, too. We thought it like let's not act like it's crazy, bro. over here. All I got is a bees in my bracelet and my pocket. That's it. Can I please give my dad attention? Hang tight. Yeah, please get my dad attention. I just said hang tight. All right, bro. Go get Papy, bro. I really not him. Come get Papy. I'm going to be real. Like, we're just going to hang tight. No, bro. That's not Go get Papy, bro. I'm not doing Like I said, who's this Papy character? You might find a letter. That's it. Go get searched. You just bro there. While deputies search the car and deal with the passenger, Rihanna begins her escape in the back seat. She slips out of her cuffs, hides the firearm more securely in her pants, and quietly watches the deputies outside who have no idea what she's preparing to do. Now, we're conducting an investigation. Coming within 25 ft mission, stay there. So, Florida does have that newish law where you actually do have to stay back and not interfere. It's a certain amount of feet. It sounds like it's 25 ft. I forget what they call it, but um pretty nice. See, that's why Just stay right there, bro. Just stay right there, Papy. No, I need you to witness. Hey, let's bring him over here on on that side. Come here. Oh my god, dog. Go. What the [ __ ] No need for any of that. My dad right here. Right here. By now, deputies have searched the entire car and found nothing. In the back seat, Rihanna tries the door, lowers the partition, and even covers a camera with her hat. But the camera still captures what she's planning. When the deputies returned to the car, her repeated requests quickly start to raise suspicion. Possibly like roll the windows down a little bit. It's really, really hot. I got you. I'm going to turn the air up is what I'm going to do. Can I get some like fresh air as well, too? Circulate like like just a little crack. No, but you can have that air. It's cold. Oh, no. So, I'm able to call um I I need the the person I need to be able to call him and tell him. Hey, can you roll the windows up, please? Could you possibly roll the windows up, please? Windows are out. No, I'm talking about to my car. Hold on. Do it one thing at a time here. There's a lot of stuff. Why would let you use his car? What do you mean? Because I I mean Huh? All I do is work. I don't really do much. Sir, I understand the frustration and I do apologize. I mean, it's it's cuz he hits on both of our ends. I really don't know his name. He's even said it's for certain reasons. I don't know. That's just how it is. I mean, I I really don't know his name. I don't try to like bug anybody about that. What does he tell you his name is? You got to call him something. Blue. Blue. You don't know anything other than Blue? No. I I promise you I I don't know anything other than Blue. Okay. Why are you sitting way over there? Because I was trying to get the air. Got you. Okay. Very hot. Um sir, please. Please. You know, I really do. I work legit jobs. I work three different jobs. Really do make honest living. Just I got a couple things I got to sort out. I'll talk to you. How come you don't come up on any database? Bro, cuz I didn't do anything wrong, bro. No, it's not cuz you didn't do anything wrong. No, bro. No, check out your apartment. I haven't even checked out this. You want to check? We're not doing this, bro. It just came back. What did you say? I I ran on you to find something. You just ran my name and it was clear. Now all of a sudden you're trying to sit up here and do this. It's not that it's clear. It said it comes back to nothing, bro. Bro, so you Where were you born at? Why the [ __ ] did you sit up here and tell me where were you born at, bro? Bro, I'm asking no question. I give you my name. That was it. You as that's what you asked for, bro. I'm not doing wrong. The fact that he's family, bro. They ran my name, bro. And he just sat up there and said I was clear, bro. So I'm just on standby and now he coming over here on some other was appealing to his friend. I'm in my guard. I don't you are interfering with our stop. PY I didn't do nothing wrong. I'm a passenger in the ride. That's it. Who is this Papy character? That's it. Literally that's it, bro. Driver's under arrest. Oh my property. You can figure it out afterward. I'm not telling you nothing. Jeez. Can I literally go, bro? You just said I was clear, dog. Don't do that, bro. You're not clear. You are detained for the stop until we can identify you. Bro, he just ran my name through the system. What buddy? He just told you came back with nothing. No record, right? Yeah. No. Clear, bro. You said I was clear. No W. That means no warrants. No. No. Desperate to be let go. Bro, this knowing me, bro. No, bro. Cuz your parents over here being on like What did he do this for? Bro, have you ever had a driver's license out of out of Florida? I've had a hardship. Hardship? Yes, sir. I did the 4hour drug and alcohol class and stuff. I'm not around. I stay secluded. I don't like people. I really didn't want to come over here. I wanted to go to my family. My little brother, he's five. So, what did pop say? I have no idea. Cuz I see him trying to say something. He was trying to say something. I wasn't listening cuz why would I? It has nothing to do with him. I mean, a family member passed away. That's kind of the only reason why we even got in the vehicle to get here. She just passed away like literally at 4:20 in this morning. And it's just like it's been a lot. And and we just we have to be here because I want to make sure my friend's okay, you know, like I want to make sure that, you know, my family's okay. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Getting towed. Whoa. Move all your out of the car. Go for it. Okay. Yeah. Take take whatever you want out of the car, man. I'll let me check with her real quick cuz it's all her stuff, right? Hey, do you want that guy blue to take the stuff out of your car? No. All right. Come here. Come here. Right now. Bring your hand around to the front. Being sneaky. Scoot out. Turn around. What did you just put in my seat? What did you just put in my seat? No, it's my hat. Probably your hat falling. Hey, baits. With females, you have to put them on tight. Even then, sometimes they can still get out just cuz they're able to somehow collapse the distance between their thumb and the main part of their hand, like further than typical men can, and they can just slip them. Come over here real quick. Watch her. She slipped under the cuffs and I open the door right as she's putting something in the back seat. No, it doesn't even matter. I'm going to just hit you again at the jail. Go ahead. Take a seat. What are you doing? I'm I'm sorry. I'm I'm very nervous. She's got something in the back 100% because she keeps begging me to open the window. She's like, "Can you open the window? I'm hot. Fully blasted. Drop it out the window." The cops are finally taking her to jail. But in a terrifying turn of events, even though she's handcuffed behind the back, she's pulling a gun out from her waistband. Got something back there. It's a gun. Wow. Still shooting. Lighting her up. Music playing too. Crazy. 6671. Shots fired. Shots fired. Shots fired. Station 733. Depending on their department, I don't know about this particular department, but I know LAPD puts bulletproof paneling in their doors. I'm not sure if it was just the front or both front and back, but she could have got some good protection there and not even got hit by a bullet because it's bulletproof potentially. Marin, I'm on 441 just north of a racetrack. I'm not sure exactly where. I'm outside of my car. Fire at me from the back street. 441 at racetrack. Racetrack 37th Street for racrack at 30 seconds. 441 Come on. Come on. Come on. 7025. Shots fired. I don't think I'm injured. I'm not sure about her. Hi there. Just get the cover you got. Marin, she's trying to get out of my car. Suspect out of car. What was her plan here? Marin. Looks like I'm right across from the Royal Inn. East side of the road. East side of road from Royal Inn. Mar about to go 97. East side of the road. It's facing northbound. You should see my headlights. OPD is about to be 1012 with me. He's at a road facing northbound. Mark 671. Where are you heading into your vehicle? I'm behind my vehicle to the right at a concrete barrier. Behind vehicle to the right. What's that? Is he signal zero? She's signal zero. Signal zero. Hey, do not come southbound. Be easy, girl. Easy. Come here. Shut down traffic. Am I injured? You got like a mark on Thought I got shot in the face. No, you have a brazing. Shut down. Shut down. Come on. She was kicking. She was trying to kick at the left door. Anybody coming southbound is going to be in a crossfire. Mary, have OPD shut down southbound lane. So, she's still back there. Obviously, still has the gun. They have no idea how many rounds she has left. They have to try to coordinate the area, keep people from approaching where she is and try to approach in the safest way possible. Let's say anyone south, turn on your takeowns. I shot her. Did you shoot at her? Yeah. 58 approaching. Where do you scene? No, we're we're good to side. Just continue blocking the northbound lanes of 441. If he's south, if there's an unit coming southbound towards the bridge, just lock that part down. He took one to the face. Don't let any more units come up. Keep driving up it, man. She's in that car. Lucky. 7025. Myself and 6966 are coming from the west eastbound on southwest 42nd Street. Crossire sirens too. You coming in just country siren. We don't need any more sound. Continue on crossover in 200 ft. Get out of here. Go get turn around. Turn around. Yeah. You don't want You don't want any part of this. Last time I wear my seat belt. Oh, you got out in time, buddy. Did she start firing at me through the grate? Yeah. Um, why don't you go head on back to my car and I'll take over where you're at. Okay. Since you're Is that your smart leave them? Hey, Julia, you you search real quick. You search yourself? Yeah. I think she just graze me in the head. So, it's not uncommon for an officer to be involved in a shooting and to get hit and possibly not realize it cuz there's such an adrenaline dump or get hit and realize it but not realize how serious it is. It's just a flesh wound. They tell you to do a selfch check. Have somebody else check you. That's what this is all about. I'm going to go check out with him. Whose car is this? Let's turn your lights off. Unlock your door. Unlock your door. Just find position on the north. Is she in the back seat? She should be in the back seat. Let me see you, bud. Oh my goodness. This poor copper. He's going to be playing this over and over again in his head for probably years to come. Definitely going to have some PTSD from it. Thankfully, now in police work, we have a lot better support than we used to. Let's just hope he utilizes that. Am I hitting the back? Southwest. I just searched her away from being dead. Am I hitting the back? Southwest. No, man. I just that great searched her. Okay. All right. We have the south side of the vehicle covered pretty well. Just find a position on the northeast side. That's south side of where we fire. I need somebody needs to contact. Yep. We're going to be right here. Yeah, I got your I don't know how we're going to be able to establish if she's going to cooperate. Have her put her hands up and we think she'll be right. He needs to get close enough so she can hear them yelling. Yeah, that didn't work very well. You need to put your hands up and have nothing inside them. So, she can't go anywhere. She's fully surrounded inside the car. There's people on all sides. Gillyard shot his gun. He's got a graze wound on his face. That's from being shot at. But he I searched him. He doesn't have any other injuries on him. It's there's this that injury on his face. So I got him over here separate from it and we're on the car now. It's the decision of whether or not we want to go up on it. She's armed. She has a gun. Even though she's 34 like that. They said that they they saw after after the gunfire stopped. She was kicking at the door from the inside and that was there were no more gunshots after that. Can we access the camera in the car? I can look that right now actually. Um is it on? It's the lights are not on, but the interior camera is on. Let's see if we can max up. So, taking that deputy out of play. Very smart move if you can do it at a scene like this. He just took shrapnel to the face. Who knows where he's at with his head and to take him out so he doesn't have to continue being at the spearhead of this stressful incident is really a good idea. She slipped the cuffs once when I had her in the back seat and I opened the door and she was being sketchy. So, I searched her again, recuffed her super tight like there's no way she slipped out of them. I heard I was driving to the jail. I had the grate totally open or the uh the plexiglass and I heard the sound of the cuffs coming around and as soon as that happened I just it sounded like something exploded right next to me. I thought I got shot in the face. So and she shot I don't know three three or four times at me while I was going. Can they see movement of the vehicle? Movement. We are establishing command. Let me see your hands. Hands out the window. They are. Put them all the way out the window. I'm in cuffs. Put both your hands out the window. Hey, I got sight on her right here. I can see her hands. Put your [ __ ] hands out the window. Hey, she's reaching back inside. You need to keep your hands out that window right now. Can you unlock your car so she can open it from the outside? 10 for standby. Trying to unlock it now. Closer. Maybe. I'm trying to Is it the right door or the left door? She's on the left door. No, she's she's on the driver's side. Okay. Hey, can you get on your knees and stick your hands further out the window? Please do that. Are you able to unlock it? I'm trying. Is the door open? It's not open yet. Stand by here. Listen, I still got eyes. Both hands are out the window. Hey, try to open the door from the outside. What? Try to open that door from the outside. I'm coming over to you with the shield. Have a shield over there. Pair of shields. Two. Yeah. Side by side. I'm left-handed though, so this side's grenade. Which side is she on? Left side. Hey, keep your hands right out the window. Do not move. Okay. All right. I can't hear you. Keep your hands up. Come out. Get out of the car. Get on the ground. Out of the car. On the ground. On the ground. Get away from that gun. On the ground. Get on the ground now. On your stomach. Hey sir, it's it's over there. It's over there. I threw it out the window. Yes, sir. This is a crazy one. A female having a gun like this is very rare on the street. Usually, if they have one, they're holding it for their male counterpart. So, the fact that she had a gun and was willing to use on a cop, pretty rare. And also, don't forget when we search females, we're not really supposed to go near the crotch. She had it wedged way down by the crotch. So, that's how it was missed. Where's the gun? Right here. On this side. Did you shoot yourself? Are you hurt at all? Uh, yeah. I think it's in my back. My shoulder. Back of the shoulder. My right. I believe. I'm not sure. I might have just got gra. I'm not sure. My adrenaline still. That was a stupid thing to do, wasn't it? Stupid thing to do. Yeah. My shoulder hurts. All right, guys. We got her. You guys can go steal your weapons. Do you try to shoot yourself up here? No. No, sir. Okay. Am I shot? No. No. It looks like it's just a scratch. Okay. Looks like it doesn't. No, it doesn't look like there's a hole or anything. Yeah. You want to roll over and sit up on the curb? Yeah. I thought I had 51. Yeah, there should be. There's some blood in the back. Blood in here. Once medic get her, we'll put her in the ambulance. We'll check her again. I'm alive. Okay. Just got to graze. I see it. Probably shouldn't be alive, but No, no, no, no. We're fine. We're here. You see how I touched you? No. It's over here. All right. Yeah. He has a grace wound on I think on his face. You want to say 1012 with her? I got a call. I still haven't taken his gun yet. Gilliard. Did he Did he discharge? Oh, yeah. He unloaded a whole magazine. So, they'll take his gun. Usually, they issue another one right away. So, the officer still feels like they're whole and he'll most likely go to the hospital just because it's a traumatic situation and then give a statement later. And of course, then there'll be an investigation into the shooting and once he's cleared, he'll return to duty. Um, Jensen. Yeah, Jensen, can you stay with her? cuz I I promise you she she had a gun down in her toty tooty. That's good. And we didn't do you didn't do a toty tooty. That's why I just had a female searcher. Yeah. He can't you know he I I told him I said I said listen she had a gun where you can't check. You can't check. So here here here's the deal. I I'm trying to figure in my mind what is her what is her thought process because she's locked in. I think she's on she's she's she's out. She drugged out. You can't get out. No. Yeah. Mhm. Her head space is a mess thing. No, I'm just saying my policy now. You didn't get hit, did you? I got burned. Did anyone check under your vest? I checked under, but I think I'd be feeling it by now. I feel this. Okay. What's that? I think she barely missed. Yeah, she shot through the grave. Like I probably should be not alive right now. All right. You can you can fine. I'll get it. Rihanna Harden was charged with attempted seconddegree murder of an officer, possession of a firearm by convicted felon, possession of methamphetamine, misdemeanor driving while revoked, giving false identity, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of cannabis, and she was denied bond in court on February 16th, 2026. Rihanna was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Guys, thank you for joining me on this video. Please like, subscribe, comment below, let me know what you think, and hit that bell notification so you know when the next video has dropped. And if you like police war stories, check out the Things Police See podcast where I sit down with the men and women of law enforcement for about an hour and get their most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the job. Available everywhere you get podcasts and there's a link in the show notes to the YouTube channel. Thanks guys and I'll see you next