On April 2nd, 2025, a woman named Akia Towns was searching for her lost dog along Madison Boulevard in Groves, Texas. She was stopped by officers from Groves Police Department for a pedestrian violation. The encounter was recorded by a body camera. >> Got any idea on you? >> Because well, the violation here is that you're walking on the wrong side of the road. You have to walk facing oncoming traffic. We'll just be that side. I'm looking for my dog that lives down right there. >> You got an ID on you? >> Going to take me to jail? >> I'm I'm just asking for your ID right now. >> I'm just walking down the street. >> I told you what the violation was. >> 57 traffic. >> 6,500 block of Jefferson on one black pen. Foot traffic. Yes. For child. >> You don't have a Texas ID on you? >> No, I just moved here. I just got married to my husband. >> Okay. >> She's walking on the wrong side of the road. That's all. >> She was just walking on the wrong side of the road. So they turned around to harass me and they should have just kept walking straight. It feels like harassment. Y'all see me walking. Y'all turned in a black walking in a white neighborhood. So you guys turned around to harass me. That has nothing that has nothing to do. You're you're walking on the wrong side of the road. >> Get a ticket for walking on the wrong side of the road. >> Copy one by name and date of birth. >> Down the street. >> Hello. Hold on. >> Okay, y'all can both stop. We are not harassing nobody. She was walking on the wrong side of the road and all he's doing is stopping to tell her that. >> Oh, so everybody else can walk. >> No, she is walking on the wrong side of the road, which is why I'm here. >> She's walking while black. Is that what it is? >> No, she needs to be f >> against traffic. So that way they can see her walking. a traffic stop. >> Yes, it is. You see these red and blue lights on? This is now a traffic stop. >> Yes, it is. >> No, it's not that. That's all all he was doing was making contact with you to tell you the wrong stuff. >> Fine. Give her ID back. You don't have to ID. She committed a crime. >> Yes. Yes, she did. Walk on the road. Arrested for interference. >> Interference. Walk by. >> Go ahead. >> Go ahead. Just go home. It's okay. Brad, get your phone and record cuz traffic. Listen to me. Get your phone. I'm pregnant right now. >> Okay, that's fine. >> So Brad, Brad, go get your phone. >> Go get your phone and record it. Please go get your phone and record it. >> 57. >> It's all being recorded and that's fine. I'm literally walking on the side of the road. Look. And look who's down there. Who I'm looking for? My freaking dog. >> Okay. Well, watch. Everybody else always every day. Watch everybody walk across on this side of the road. Walk on that side of the road. I literally sit outside on both sides. They walk on both sides. They bike on both sides. All right. Get the other person. I am a freaking resident here. >> I have No, no, I don't. This is walking wild black. This is >> You're a resident here. Why don't you have a Texas ID? >> Because I just moved here. I just married my husband. >> Okay. How long have you been here? >> I've been here a couple months. Why? Couple months. >> This investigation now investigation now. It's investigation now. Cuz when you change your address, >> walking while black, >> when you change your address, you're supposed to update it. >> Walking while black. Walking while black. >> It is it is it's evidently true. I see thousands of people walk on this side of the world all the time. >> All the time. No, y'all wouldn't have. No, y'all wouldn't have. No, y'all wouldn't have. >> The entire premise of this police encounter, evident from the first moments, is fundamentally questionable and demonstrates an immediate and unnecessary escalation by the officer. The footage reveals that Ms. Towns is forced to walk on the edge of the road for one simple reason. The city has failed to provide its residents with a basic sidewalk. She is navigating an unsafe environment created by deficient infrastructure while desperately searching for her lost dog only to be targeted by law enforcement for doing so. Furthermore, the officer's choice to treat this as a formal traffic stop defies common sense. and appears deliberately confrontational. To apply the rigid authority of a vehicular stop to a resident on foot just steps from her own home is a profound misuse of power. Instead of exhibiting discretion or offering assistance to a person in a stressful situation, the officer immediately resorts to punitive enforcement. This action serves only to punish a citizen for navigating the town's inadequate infrastructure. transforming a non-event into a hostile police interaction where Miz Towns is unjustly placed on the defensive from the very start. >> Know y'all wouldn't have all the time, bro. Omega, can you come in the house? You got me getting stopped by the cops cuz they drove down there minding their business. Want to turn around and harass me. Go in the house, Omega. I'm going to the damn jail getting a ticket. Getting harassed because of you. But [ __ ] and I'm not even walking in the grass. I'm on the grass, right? Okay. Big whoop. Like, come on now. Everybody walk down the street all the time. I literally sit there all the time. See, people walk on this side all the time. Walk on both sides all the time. All the time. >> It's literally just a traffic stop because y'all were driving down there. Y'all could have kept driving. >> Y'all were driving down there and you saw a black woman walking in a white neighborhood. You saw a black woman walking in a white neighborhood. You saw a black woman. What? That That's what it is. Let's be real. Let's Let's be real. You don't got to You don't got to [ __ ] me. I'm grown as >> you like me to pull it up in the case for >> I can pull it up in the car. >> All right. All right. All right. Yes, ma'am. That's why people don't respect y'all now. >> Is that a Was that a yes or no? Would you like to see in the traffic code or not? I >> don't care. Go ahead. Pull >> Well, you should cuz you're making a big whoop about it. >> It is a big whoop about it. When y'all driving, going about y'all day, they got crackheads in this city. They got a lot of other [ __ ] to worry about. Y'all wouldn't freaking pull me over, put the lights on, and harass me with all them walking on the wrong side. >> All them, I'd be doing the same thing, too. >> Yeah. Yeah. Sure you would have. No, you wouldn't because I see them walking all the time. I see them walking all the time. >> Well, there's only one of me all the time. >> Anytime I see it anytime I see it, I I deal with it. >> Obviously, it is. >> Anytime I see it, I'll deal with it. >> What's your badge number? Your name? >> Uh 57. Officer, >> I can't walk down the street and look for my dog. And I bet another person they walk they they jog down here all the time. The freaking police the freaking what's it called? The post office man walks down this side of the road all the time. You going to arrest him? You going to stop him and tell him he doing a viol a violation of um [ __ ] >> Does it look like you're under arrest? >> Huh? >> Does it look like you're under arrest? Okay. Well, stop crying. But you checking me and stop me. You're not supposed to do my job. Supposed to check me. I'm not oppressed. You work for me. >> What are you talking about? >> You work for me. You work for the You are a taxpayer employee. You work for me. Yeah, I live here and I pay taxes, too. So, I pay myself. >> Wish you don't come [ __ ] check me. You don't >> That's what I'm doing now. Now you're lawfully detained and now you ain't going nowhere. >> Oh, now I'm lawfully detained. >> I'm lawfully detained now. >> Detained? >> Yeah, >> I'm lawfully detained. >> Yeah. No, >> she's detained for committing a traffic violation. I'm detained for committing a traffic violation walking on the other side of the road when everybody else and their mama here in this in this neighborhood does it. I literally sit there at my house and watch everybody walk on the wrong side of the road. But I'm going to get lawfully detained and possibly arrested for walking on the wrong side of the road. >> Said that. >> Yeah. No, that's that's what he just said. >> Did you have a return for the 27? >> You are detained? >> Yeah, because I'm walking on the wrong side of the road. >> Yes, cuz it's a traffic violation. >> Got nothing better else to do in Groves. They got crackheads, robbers, all this other stuff. But they want to arrest a black person, a pregnant black woman, for looking for her dog. >> Everybody else walk on the wrong side of the road. Everybody else black people. >> Exactly. [Music] >> Look for my dog, dog. without a Texas ID or do can I still issue a citation >> coming to let me know this what you would say hey babe you're walking on the wrong side of the road oh let me see your >> if you would have just stayed if you would have Stay compant when you guys are harassing me. What are you talking about? You guys are harassing me. Now I'm about to get arrested cuz you guys are harassing me cuz I'm looking for my dog. >> Y'all could have kept straight but y'all want to turn around and come over here and you didn't say, "Hey ma'am, you're walking on the wrong side of the road. You're having a started screaming >> or you said anything. You asked for my ID and you asked if I had an ID like I'm some type of criminal. >> You could have asked. >> I didn't know who I'm talking to. Do I not?" You can say, "Hey, ma'am. What's your name?" >> I'm looking for my dog. I've been looking for my dog. I just literally I live right there. So, I can't I can't even walk 10 steps without getting stopped by the cops cuz someone checking me. >> Everybody else doesn't. >> I literally sit there. I literally sit there. Then maybe I need to get a cop. Watch this right here. Everybody else walking on. >> Okay. The officer's decision to escalate this trivial infraction rather than issue a simple verbal warning is what fuels the accusation of racial profiling. Instead of showing discretion, the officer prolonged the encounter into a formal investigation complete with a background check and a call for backup. This glaringly disproportionate response to a single unarmed pedestrian is a hallmark of a pretextual stop. The officer's actions themselves lend significant credibility to Miss Towns's claim that she was targeted not for a minor walking violation, but because of her race. >> Okay. >> Black and this how they treat you. >> That's perfectly fine. So now I'm saying I need to sit down. >> What's your name and number? What's your name? [Music] >> What's your name? >> Looks a good phone number for you. >> All right, man. Got to take a photo of you. >> All right. Got it. >> Identify yourself. >> We've already identified. Sign for me on a red X for me, please. It's not a mission to guilt. Just promise to appear before the court. Yes, it is. >> I got to get a quick What am I doing? >> Walking the wrong side of the road. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Y'all got no life. Y'all got other jobs, other problems in the world. I just got a ticket for [Music] >> All right. Here's your ID. >> This is your ticket. >> April 29th at 1:30 p.m. at the girls port. court day. >> Uhhuh. >> Be careful. >> You have to face traffic. >> You have to face traffic. >> While the officer concludes the onseen encounter by issuing a citation, the true resolution of this incident came months later and served as a complete vindication for Miss Towns. The district attorney ultimately dismissed the trivial wrong side of the road charge, validating her assertion that the stop was unwarranted. More significantly, Ms. Towns held the department accountable by filing a federal civil rights lawsuit for an unlawful racially motivated stop. The city's decision to settle that lawsuit for $40,000 acts as a tacit admission of wrongdoing. This final outcome proves that the incident was never about a minor traffic rule, but a significant abuse of authority that was successfully challenged and ultimately exposed. On July 6th, 2022, a Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Hamilton was dispatched to a report of a man photographing houses in Northbrook, Illinois. He located an individual named Daryl Baker at the corner of Walnut Circle and Cottonwood Road and their ensuing interaction was captured on his body camera. What >> you mean? How may you help me? >> Because I haven't seen you lost anything. >> What? >> I want to see if you lost anything. You okay? >> I want to see that for >> because I had got a couple calls says you was running around here. >> And I can't wander. >> Yes, you can. >> It's a crime for wanderings. >> I never said it. You're saying it's a crime for wandering. >> So, what's the problem? >> Well, people are concerned that you here. with people is concerned. What that got to do with me? It's a it's a problem. >> Yes, it might be a problem. People People are concerned about you. They want to know about these people. >> Okay. But they want to know why you're in the neighborhood. >> Why? They don't need to know why I'm in the neighborhood. I'm in the neighborhood. I feel like I being in the neighborhood. >> You just feel like being in the neighborhood. >> Feel like being in the neighborhood. >> You just feel like So you just feel like walking through the neighborhood. Neighborhood. >> Yes. Absolutely. Like walk through black. You black like me. >> I know. I'm going to walk with you. We going to walk. We walking together, right? >> I can't walk with you. >> I didn't say you can't walk. How you harassing me, bro? >> How I'm harassing you? Tell me. >> Because you w I don't even know you first and foremost >> and you just hopped out of your car asking me why am I walking through. I'm on camera, bro. The whole time I've been out here, I'm on camera. >> You on camera, too? >> Walking through the neighborhood. So, what's the problem? >> You I'm walking with you. >> You don't got to walk with the What I do? Why is it? You said we just walking, right? >> I'm just walking. >> And I'm walking too. >> Why? I can't walk by myself. What's the problem? >> Can I ask you what the What's the people? >> Cuz I feel like it >> and I feel like walking with you. You can't stop back in your truck, bro. You're black, bro. You know what's going on. These on your people give a look like a robber. >> Cuz I'm black. >> I like a robber. Cuz I'm black. Now I'm being harassed. >> Okay. >> Youing up my day. Your supervisor told you you got to walk. That's why you doing what you doing. And you not even doing it because that's what you want to do. Because your supervisor and I'm in a rich neighborhood. >> Cuz my supervisor. No, people about you. >> I'm rich and that's fine. >> I live in the neighborhood. Okay. >> So, why are you following me? >> You live in the neighborhood. What's your name then? >> It doesn't matter. I don't have to tell you my name. >> Okay. Now, come on. We can stand here just look at each other. >> What you mean? I don't want you walking with me. You harassing me. >> No, I'm not. >> Yes, you are. >> No, I'm not. >> I don't want you walking with me. >> And the people don't want you. >> I didn't do nothing wrong. What the [ __ ] is the problem? >> Because I'm trying to figure out why. Why are you with me? Why you >> I want to >> Okay, now I can walk. >> You don't have to walk with me though. I want to walk. >> I don't have to. But I can >> cuz I feel like feel like I'm walking with you. If you want to curse, I curse you. >> That's harassing. >> N harassing with you. I tell this guy just walk harass, bro. >> I ain't doing what I'm doing. >> Thank you. >> I'm doing what I'm doing. >> You ain't got to follow. Why is you following me though? >> I'm doing what I'm doing. You just said I don't have to. But I can. That's two different things like you. >> You don't have to. But you can, right? >> Why are you following me? >> I said I could walk with you. I can walk. I can walk too. >> Telling you can't walk with me. >> Okay, fine. I just walk beside you. I just want to be with you. Huh? >> Yo, you harassing me, bro. Now I'm harassing you. >> Getting harassed by a black cop in a white neighborhood. >> Trying to figure out why are you here? >> Because I want to be here. >> And I can walk with you cuz I want to be here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can. I can. Yes, I can. I >> No. You can't. No. You can't walk with me because you want to walk with me. I know my rights. Call your supervisor. >> All right. Call him. No. >> What you talking about? A2365 Wood and Walnut Circle. I'm close. I'll be there. How you going? >> You want to speak to my harassing me? >> You say you want to harassing me. >> My harassing me. I've been up since I came in this neighborhood. Get off my >> Okay. >> Get off my You following me for? Cuz I'm in this neighborhood. My morning though >> this afternoon now sir stop following me bro. >> I'm letting my supervisor come. You say to speak to my supervisor. >> Go to your truck. >> I don't have to go to my truck. >> I'm not valid. I'm not on nobody. >> You totally right. I agree with you. >> Is you following me? >> You ask my supervisor. >> Why? >> You ask my supervisor. >> No, I didn't. Bye. >> Yes, you did. Bye. >> Record your camera supervisor. No. >> Bye. Stop following me. >> Sorry. I follow my truck. Stop following me. >> I had to go to my truck. >> Stop following me. You don't got to follow me. That's harassment. >> After their dialogue stalled, Deputy Hamilton began following Mr. Baker, who protested that the action constituted harassment. Legally, however, harassment requires conduct without a legitimate purpose, a condition not met by an officer performing an investigation. The deputy's action was also constitutional. Citing principles from Catz versus United States, courts affirm there is no reasonable expectation of privacy for movements in public view. Since Mr. Baker was not detained and was in a public space, Deputy Hamilton was acting within his authority. It was during this dispute that his supervisor, Sergeant Janulus, arrived. >> I don't know actual. >> Come on over here. Talk with me. I don't go nowhere. >> Talk with me. >> I don't got to go talk. I'm talking right here. >> Okay. What? What's going on? >> I don't know. Ask this. >> I'm asking you this. Ask this. >> We got a call. >> I don't know about your callus. >> What suspicious person? A black person? A black dude. A black photo. >> Yes. I'm taking photo. Yes. Yes. I'm video. Cuz I feel like it. >> Cuz I feel like it. >> Can I get your ID, please? >> No, you cannot. Why not? >> Why do you want my I ain't commit no crime? >> I'm not saying that you did. >> All right. So, you don't need my ID. Yes, I do. >> No, I don't. I'm not committing no crime. >> Yes, I do. >> Out of here. Know my rights. >> Yeah, I need your ID. >> No, you don't. >> Yes, I do. >> No, you don't. >> I do. You're not leaving. Stay right here. >> Mean I ain't leaving. >> You're not leaving. >> Why? I ain't do nothing. >> I still need to do I still need >> I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing. Why you got your hand on your gun? >> I'm unarmed. There's two of y'all. Why the You got your hand on your gun? >> I don't. >> I'm unarmed. >> I'm unarmed. All I'm doing is walking. You want to buy my daughter one of these houses? >> Do you want to buy my daughter one of these houses? Yes, you do. >> No, I don't. >> Yes, you do. Who you are? >> Yes, you do. You don't need to know who I am. I ain't committed no crime. My name Daryl Baker. >> Okay. Daryl Baker. >> What's up? >> What's your date of birth? >> The is you talking about? >> I'm not talking about anything. I'm right here, man. >> I'm here. >> Stop moving. >> Why is Why is Stop moving. >> I don't got to stop moving. >> Yes, you do. >> No, I don't. >> Yes, you do. >> Why is Stop once. Stop for once. Stop. For what? >> Don't touch me no more, bro. For what? I don't got to stop moving. No, I don't. No, I don't. What crime did I commit? >> I'm not saying you commit. >> All right. So, why am I stopping? Why am I detained? All I'm doing is walking through the neighborhood. >> Okay, >> that's it. >> Now, I just need to make sure that you're >> Listen, man. I don't Listen, man. Get the out of my face. >> You get the out of my face. >> I'm not getting out of your face. I'm right here, my man. Mr. Baker, >> listen. Why is y'all harassing me? >> Mr. He told you why he why we >> and I don't care. That don't got nothing to do with me. I can't walk through a neighborhood. >> I can't walk through a neighborhood. >> I'm doing >> That's all I'm doing. I'm not driving. I'm walking >> through a neighborhood. >> So then what's the problem with telling us who you are? >> Run your name. >> What's the problem? >> I do what the I want to do. >> Okay. >> I'm a free man. I do what the I want to do and I ain't scared of you. >> Okay. >> Or going to jail. >> So get the out of my face. I'm not going to get out of your face. >> Run the right here. >> Run the name cuz you ahead white boy. That's what you want to be. >> That's fine. You think how you want. >> Can I get some space? >> No, you can't. >> Man, you better get the Yo, >> stop. >> Yo, run my name. Don't touch me. Run my name. Don't touch. Why is you about to touch me? >> Why is he about to touch me? What you want to do? Shoot me? No, I don't. That's what you want to do. >> That's what you want to do. >> That's you want to do? Cuz I feel like it. >> Okay. >> That's why the I'm here. >> Okay. >> What's cracking? >> Nothing's cracking, my man. So why the was you in my face? >> I'm not in your face. >> Run the name and keep it moving. >> I need to make sure that you >> run the name and get in that car. >> No, I'm not going to do that. >> Run my name and get in your car. >> I'm going to wait for another officer to get >> Run your name and get in your car. >> You're not going to dictate what I do. All right. >> Oh, man. >> Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. >> Yo, I'm trying to keep it moving like I've been doing. >> Why are you touching me, bro? Why are you touching me? >> Stop moving. >> Why is he touching me? Why are you Why is he touching me? Stop touching me. >> Stop moving. >> His name is See his name. >> Stop moving. >> See his name. >> See this name? >> Why are you touching me? >> Stop moving. >> Why are you touching me, bro? >> Stop moving. >> I don't got to stop moving. I'm not detained. Am I detained >> right now? You are being >> No, I'm not. Yes, you are. My name. >> You need to call. >> Upon arriving, Sergeant Janulus formally detained Mr. Baker. An action that legally requires reasonable suspicion based on objective facts as defined in Terry versus Ohio. Although courts evaluate the totality of the circumstances, the deputy's sole justification was a report of a man taking pictures from a public street. This act is not inherently criminal and is broadly protected by the First Amendment, a principle affirmed in cases like a CLUV. Alvarez as a legal activity on its own does not create reasonable suspicion of a crime. The deputies lacked the necessary grounds for the detention, rendering it unconstitutional. >> I'll run it when I get another officer here. All right. >> Yo, man. You harassing me cuz I'm walking through your community. I'm from New York. I'm an independent contractor. Get the off of me. Get the off. >> Stop touching me. Run the name and get the out of my face. >> Period. All I did was go for a walk. It's my day off. You said you're from New York. >> I don't give a Get the out of my face. >> Stop moving. Stop moving. Listen, I've already told you. >> Yo, run my name. >> So, what you going to do? >> What do you mean? What am I doing? >> What you going to do? >> Listen, I need to make sure. >> What the run the name? >> I'm not going to run until I get another officer here. >> Like I said, you're not going to dictate. >> I'm not detained, homie. >> I'm not a criminal. >> How you detaining that's not doing a crime? >> How you detaining somebody that's not doing a crime? street. >> How you detaining me? Cuz I'm walking through the neighborhood. >> How you detaining me? Cuz I'm walking through the neighborhood. >> Talking about why am I here? I'm here cuz I feel like it. >> I'm here because I feel like it. >> I'm telling you to stop. >> What you going to do? >> You arrest me. >> You're going to be arrest. You're going to get arrested from I don't give a >> Okay. >> You illegally detaining me. >> You illegally detaining me. >> Man, run my name. >> Listen, Mr. Baker. Run my name. >> Mr. Baker, >> why your hand on your gun? I'm unarmed. Your hand is on a weapon. >> Why? It's on top of my >> I'm unarmed. You going to buy me a house? That's what the I'm looking for. A house and you going to buy it. >> Y'all see me looking at houses. Recording. Looking at houses. >> That's what the I'm doing. That's what I'm doing. >> Pointing. >> That's what I'm doing. I'm pointing my finger. >> It's a finger. You going to shoot me? I'm going to say it was >> you going to shoot me. >> Is my gun out? >> Is you going to shoot me out? Shoot me out. >> Shoot me. >> Youing racist devil. You going to have my kids living like this. Shoot. >> Shoot. >> Clearly I can't talk to you. >> Shoot. >> You're a little state. >> Yeah, cuz your pig harassing me. I'm walking through the neighborhood cuz I feel like it. >> And you're agitated. >> Cuz Iinging feel like it. >> And I'm from New York. >> I'm not from Chicago. I'm an independent contractor. I'm here for work. >> Okay. >> All I do is remodel Walmarts. I remodel every Walmart in the city. >> That's giving me more information. >> So, what's up? >> Run and get in your cruiser. Go find a real criminal and get off my big black >> cuz he's racist. Call the police cuz I'm black. Walking through the neighborhood in the middle of the street. >> So, you know why we're here? >> I don't give a cuz I'm black. >> No. >> Yes. Why I'm here? Why you here? We got to call. >> Why you here? You got to call for what? >> Suspicious. >> Suspicious. Doing what? >> Taking pictures of houses. >> So what? That's illegal. >> No, I'm not saying it's illegal. >> So what the is the suspicion? >> The suspicion. >> It's a suspicion. >> It's a person's suspicion. >> It's a person. What does that mean? >> They're suspicious of somebody that I'm doing that they don't recognize. >> Taking pictures. So what? It's a free country. >> Okay. >> What my name, man? >> Tired of talking to me. >> Okay. >> You're not talking. You're yelling. >> Following me. Do me a favor. Keep your hands out your pockets. >> I got nothing in my I don't got to do nothing. You going to shoot me? You going to shoot me? Shoot me. >> You ever heard of walking through the neighborhood black? You ever heard of driving while black? >> I'm walking while black. Why am I being detained? Why is these harassing me? Why am I being harassed? >> You're not being harassed. >> Yes, I am. >> I'm trying to go about my day. I was going back to my [ __ ] hotel. >> What hotel stay at? >> It doesn't matter. >> What hotel you stay? >> Doesn't matter. >> Doesn't matter. Just trying to have a conversation. >> Call your backup so I can run. You can run my name so I can keep it moving. You holding me up, wasting my time. I'm trying to go about my day. >> Yeah. And you're acting out of the out of the norm right now. >> Acting nothing. I'm not acting nothing. >> Why you so agitated? >> I'm agitated. >> You're really? >> I'm agitated. >> How are you agitated? >> How? >> Yelling. Mothering everybody. >> Mother, I can yell. No. All right. >> I can mother. >> Is that normal behavior? >> Is that a crime? >> Is that normal behavior? >> Crime. >> Is it normal behavior? >> Is it a crime? >> I just got to make sure you're >> Is it a crime? >> Am I committing a crime? >> Are you charging me with a crime? >> So, leave me the alone. >> Leave me alone. I'm not I didn't do no crime. I'm walking while black through the neighborhood. Leave me alone. >> Stop walking. >> I don't have to. >> Stop walking. >> I don't have to. I'm leaving. I'm doing what I've been doing. Walking, taking pictures. >> That's what I'm doing. House. That's what I'm doing. >> That's a nice house right there. When was >> your birthday? >> That's a nice house. >> Boris Green. That's nice. >> Mr. >> That's nice, too, man. You're not going to take your badge off. You not going to take your badge off. You not going to take that gun off. You not going to do nothing. Stop putting your hands on me. >> You about to shoot. >> Everything's fine. You about to shoot. >> Everything's fine. >> Everything fine. >> Everything's fine. >> You about to shoot. I'm not shooting nobody. >> So why you got the gun on me? >> That's not a gun. >> Why am I being detained? >> I told you I'm not going to cooperate. This is how we're going to handle this. >> Absolutely. Let's call the phone. >> Thank you. >> You got a gun on me. >> Ain't nobody got no gun on you. >> You got a gun on me. >> Yeah. Okay. I know. Back this way. >> Why y Why am I got the cuffs on me? >> Told you why. >> Why? >> You're acting erratically. Walking while black. >> Walking wild black. >> Walking. Why am I going in the car for? >> Because you are. >> For what? >> Cuz it's more secure. >> For what? >> Why? You got to tell me. Why am I going in this car? >> Because I said >> I do what the I want to do. I walk through any neighborhood I want to. I drink what the I want to drink. I smoke what the I want to smoke. >> I ain't on no papers. I ain't on none of your jurisdiction. Eat my >> talking about. Okay. I got 14 years in prison. You don't give a about whatever you think you could do to me. >> [ __ ] You a racist. That's it. You a racist. >> You ain't doing my job. >> You ain't doing >> look for a real crime. What am I being arrested for? Put your feet in the car. >> What am I being arrested for? >> Put your feet in the car. >> What am I being arrested for? You doing that authority like I >> So here's here's here's the deal. So you understand each other. So we got a you can sit here like this for 5 10 15 20 30 40 minutes don't give a really don't eventually what's going to end up happening is they're going to take you in for the charge that they deem appropriate they're going to let you know what it is and you have a chance to either bond or be eyebond >> 37 go ahead >> that's what's happening >> all I was doing was walk you through the >> I understand that >> and it stopped me talking about your suspicions suspicions of what I'm not supposed to be angry. Suspicious of what? >> You're not supposed to do anything. I'm not screaming. You're >> supposed to ball your fist up at the >> I'm not. >> Mr. Baker was ultimately arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction, although both charges appear legally unsustainable. The disorderly conduct charge would likely fail, as his argumentative speech is protected by the First Amendment and did not constitute fighting words or provoke a breach of the peace. The obstruction charge is equally deficient. The offense requires physically hindering an officer during a lawful duty, but the deputy's initial detention of Mr. Baker was almost certainly an unconstitutional seizure that lacked reasonable suspicion. Therefore, he could not be criminally liable for refusing to comply with an unlawful order. The available body camera footage concludes at this point in the interaction. Following the events shown, Mr. Baker was transported to jail and booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer. At present, there is no public information regarding whether Mr. Throw Baker has filed a formal complaint or intends to pursue any civil legal action against the