Get out of the vehicle >> I'm just getting the damn front of the vehicle. >> Get out of the vehicle. Get out of the car. Get out. Out of my Get out of the car. Get out of the car. >> Deputy Christine Newman pulls over Charris Faria for running a stop sign. What happens next gets Newman indicted on six charges and her own dash cam is the reason why. >> I'm at the Shell station. Hello. >> Hello. >> Hey. Ma'am, does that roll down? It's dark. You got your driver's license? All right, the reason why I pulled you over is you didn't stop there. >> She was shocked as to why she got pulled over. >> She was? >> She didn't even see that there was a stop sign apparently. She's like, uh >> Hey Don. Miss Don. Hey. Ma'am, step out of the car for me. Cuz I want you to? Cuz I want to talk to you. >> Can I touch you right here? >> No, I want you to step out. >> I'd like to stay in the vehicle cuz there's no reason why. >> Yeah, I want you to step out. >> But there's not a reason for me to step out. >> Because I told you to step out, okay? So, unless that's not I want you to step out because I need you to step out, okay? You don't have to. Where is it stated that you have to have a Yeah, come on. >> Under the 1977 Supreme Court ruling Pennsylvania v. Mimms, an officer conducting a lawful traffic stop a driver out without explaining why. Feria did not know that. Newman did not explain it. That gap between what the law allowed and what Feria understood set the entire confrontation in motion. >> Get out. Get out of the car. 11-59 camera, I need another unit. >> 40 unit out. 10-11. >> Get out of the vehicle. I am not I will break >> 10-18 and I'm 10-18. >> She won't get out of the car. Get out of the car so I'm going to break that window. >> You're not going to break the window. >> 10-18 and I'm mobile 12:30 seconds. >> Get out of the vehicle. >> By this point, Feria had refused multiple lawful orders to exit, conduct that can constitute misdemeanor obstruction under Georgia law. The question is not whether Newman had grounds to remove her. She did. It is whether the force she used crossed a constitutional line. And the unbiased witness at the center of that question is Newman's own dashcam. >> Listen to me. I really don't want to break your window. I really don't. But when I tell you to get out of the vehicle, you are to get out of the vehicle. So get out of the vehicle. >> 10-18 is 23. >> Are you kidding me? >> Threatening to break a window to remove a non-compliant driver is not automatically outside policy, but it signals that physical force may be next. Backup was 30 seconds away. What Newman did before it arrived would define everything that followed. A routine traffic stop, a lawful order, one decision that changes everything. To see how encounters like this spiral into major investigations, subscribe to Casepoint. We break down the footage, the law, and what happens next every week. >> Get out of the vehicle right now. >> Officer, you just hit the damn front of the vehicle. >> Get out of the vehicle. Get out of Get out. Out of my [ __ ] car. Get out of Get out. >> Are you kidding me? >> Get out. >> Taser, taser, taser. >> Get out. >> Pull over now. >> Get out. What are you Get out. >> The taser was deployed, but getting Feria under control was another story. What Newman did after gaining control would ultimately place her own actions under investigation. >> No, stop. I got him in jail. >> We have >> Oh my god. They're going to >> Hold on to her. >> Get out. >> All because Feria refused to step out of her truck, she had now been tased, thrown onto the concrete, tased again, dragged by the hair, struck, and driven headfirst into the push bar of Newman's patrol vehicle. Each use of force compounded the last, and through every second of it, Newman's own dashcam kept recording. >> All right, you're all right, okay. You tased Get out. Stop. Walk or walk or I'll drag you. Stop. I'll talk to you in a minute, but you the way you act right now, we have to put our hands on you. Listen to me. >> So, you just got here. >> I know, and that's why I'm going to figure it out, and then I'll talk to you. Stop. Okay? Stop. Okay. All right. All right. All right. I got you now. Sit down. >> All right. >> Put your feet in, watch your head. >> Can I get this? >> Watch your head. >> Let's get my arm off. I can't get my >> All right. You hurt? >> I'm not sure yet. >> Are you Anything hurt you? You want medical attention? >> My face hurts when it hit hit the >> the front of the vehicle? >> the ground and then the front of the vehicle. >> Okay. I'm going to call you a squad, okay? It does. Pain in the face. All right. Got an ambulance on the way for you, okay? >> Now, Newman gets the chance to explain her actions. The question is whether her account matches what her own dashcam recorded. >> I was coming. >> I know. I don't I don't know where that came from. I honestly, she would not get out of the car. >> You do what you got to do, okay? She was non-compliant. You do what you had to do to get into Okay. Huh? Was she still resisting you in cuffs? >> She kept telling me for me to get away from her and stop it. Yes, to me she was. >> Okay. Well, I mean, you can you can tase somebody in handcuffs if they're still resisting. >> Visibly shaken, her supervisor immediately reassures her that For Rio was non-compliant, and that she did what was necessary. But, that reassurance came before a full review of the force used, or the account Newman would later put in writing. Her arrest report would become a central part of the case, because the grand jury found that key details were contradicted by the footage recording her at that very moment. Now, it's your turn to weigh in. Did Deputy Newman use the level of force this situation required or did her response go too far? Tell us what you think in the comments and if you haven't subscribed to Casepoint yet, now is the time. >> And I kept saying, I don't want to break I don't want to break your window. But come on, I don't understand this. I don't want to break your window. I didn't break it. >> My camera's still hot. >> No, I could have. I could have. >> have to You don't have to say anything, okay? Wait Wait till traffic gets here, all right? Talk to him, see what he says, all right? You can't see anything in the vehicle or anything, all right? Okay. Yeah, I I understand what if it's just been a misunderstanding. >> She didn't even know that yet. I hadn't even had a chance to tell her. >> I'm thinking there might be some fluid. >> I just asked her to step out cuz I just wanted to talk to her. And she said there's no reason to. I said, "Yeah, I just want you to step out." And she said, "No." She wanted to secure herself. >> She is She's saying she don't know. She said she had her face in the ground and she hit the car. But she She's not even saying if she's for sure hurt or not, so. Things okay now, Amir? >> Yeah. >> Everything good? >> That's my best brother with that guy. How you doing, buddy? Hey, what's up? You want to talk to her? She uh Yeah, she uh she was she's leaning on the car or whatever and I guess Christie had her hands on her. She ended up on the ground and hit her head on the on the concrete. Also hit her head on the front of the push bar. I said, "Okay." She might have a some head injury. >> How you doing, ma'am? My name's JD. Are you hurt anywhere? >> Listen closely as Newman recounts the stop to her supervisor. Her explanation is calm and consistent, but the arrest report she later filed added one critical detail. Newman claimed Feria jerked her arm in an attempt to break free. That single claim would become a deciding factor when Newman's actions were reviewed by a grand jury. >> What happened? >> Huh? So, I pulled her over for running a stop sign. >> Okay. >> She rolled down her window. She rolled down the front window. She would only roll down the window just a little bit in the back that I could see in there. And I'd seen her front way, so I knew that there was only one person in it. I go up and say, "Hey, you got your driver's license?" And she handed me her And I said, "Okay, the reason why I pulled you over is cuz you didn't ask me. I said, "The reason why I pulled you over is that Yeah, you didn't yield. She says, "I'm not So, I walked back here. I've got this suspended. >> I was like, yeah. >> It's on judgment. What is it? For da da da. Well, I like to get them out of the car to talk to them a little bit about it. So, her window's rolled down a little bit like that. >> herself? >> Mhm. And I said, "Hey, I called her by her first name. I couldn't pronounce her last name. She ignored me, so I walked up there. And I said, "Hey, go ahead and step out for me." She said, "Why?" I said, "Cuz I want you to." I want to talk to you a minute. Why? I'm not going to. I said, "Cuz she said, "I want to sit here." I said, "No, ma'am. I want you to step outside." The deal is she's suspended. She's not supposed to be in here. Anyways, right? So, I just want her to step out here. And she said, "No." She rolled up all the windows and locked them. I finally got to the back and I said, "Please don't make me bust your window. I don't want to have to do that. It's not that crucial. Please." He comes. She unlocked the door, got on the FaceTime with her dad. And he comes over. He says, "Taser, taser." I back up. Then I start grabbing her out. >> You know, he says >> She's holding on to the >> Taser. Okay. >> And I um I mean, I could have, but I just wanted to get her out of the car. I'm not I just don't want to think about that first. So, I get her to the ground and I grab her arm. Take her to the ground. We're trying to get her cuffed. Taser She's screaming. And um And I get I grab her. She says, "You're not grabbing me like that." I'm like, "Get her out." I said, "Will you get up?" So, she gives me a kick away from me. So, So her and did this and tried to get her head on the front of the car. Is that right? >> I mean she just it just wouldn't stop. And so he told me to sit calm down, get away, go sit in your car. And I'm shaking. And she just wouldn't get out. No, I'm I'm just shaking up. >> Newman's account to the second supervisor is detailed and largely tracks with the footage, but she is recounting the encounter through memory, adrenaline, and her own limited perspective. The dash cam has none of those limitations. It simply records. And when an officer's account conflicts with the footage, the camera becomes the more reliable witness. >> Let me let me talk to her real quick. Ma'am, so she she ran your license and it came back suspended, all right? There's a no judgment suspension so it's usually like child support or some >> It's a bill of sale for a stop sign violation. >> Okay, so it's >> It's a bill of sale. >> It's usually nothing that we really care about that much. So she was asking you get out of the vehicle so she could explain to you you can't drive. And you refused to get out of the vehicle. So she was going to instead of taking you to jail for suspended license, she was actually just going to give you a citation for wherever her original stop was and let you go. But then you refused to get out of the vehicle. >> All I wanted was for her to give me the information on why I need to get out of the vehicle cuz when she originally >> Well she doesn't know you that actually. >> originally when she when she stopped me, she originally said the reason I stopped you was because of the stop sign back there. And I said, "Okay." >> Well >> So then when she originally >> tell someone to get out of the car, we don't have to give them a reason right then and there. We don't want to tell you, "Oh, we're going to have you get out of the car because we see a gun right there." >> Or hey, separate you from the and then obviously >> a hostile situation and she doesn't know that. >> Yeah. >> How is she supposed to know that? >> saying, "Hey, you know, you got like several felony warrants for murder." I'm not going to say tell you, "Hey, get out of the car, you got warrants for murder." >> The supervisor's explanation to Farias is the clearest articulation of what went wrong from the start. He tells her what the law actually required, what the suspension meant, what would have happened if she had simply stepped out. She would have received a citation and gone home. Farias' response that she did not know any of that is not an excuse under the law, but it is an honest answer and it points to something the footage cannot resolve, whether better communication at the window would have changed the outcome for everyone involved that night. The supervisor gives Faria the clearest explanation of what went wrong from the start. Her license was suspended, she was required to step out, and compliance likely would have ended with a citation and a ride home. Faria's response is simple, I did not know any of that. Legally, that does not excuse her refusal, but it raises a question the footage cannot answer. Would clearer communication at the window have changed the outcome for everyone? In the end, Jarris Faria was charged with four violations: failure to obey a stop sign, window tint violation, driving with a suspended license, and misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer. On January 11th, 2023, Deputy Christine Newman was indicted by a grand jury on six charges: one count of aggravated assault, one count of simple battery, one count of making a false statement, and three counts of violation of oath by a public officer. The following day, January 12th, 2023, she was fired by the Camden County Sheriff's Office, turned herself in to the county jail, and her bond was set at $10,000. Dash cam footage does not take sides. It does not remember things differently under stress. It does not have a version of events shaped by adrenaline or self-preservation. It just runs. Newman had every legal right to order Faria out of that vehicle. What the camera recorded after that is what a grand jury spent months reviewing, and what she wrote in her report afterward is what sealed the outcome. Let us know in the comments, at what point did you realize the report was not going to match the footage. Then, subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a new case. Thanks for watching. See you in the next one.