Act like a grown woman. Okay. If you listen if you listen to me, I'm not threatening you right now. I'm a scared young woman right now. If you listen to me, I'm a scared grown woman. >> All right. You're going to jail. >> You're freaking me out right now cuz I don't feel like I did enough to go to jail. >> Okay, you're going to jail. >> I didn't do anything enough to go to jail. You know it. You know it. You know it. >> Turn around. >> A woman driving to the gym at 9:30 p.m. A deputy who refused to walk to her car. A department policy he ignored from the first second. And an arrest that the DA had not even fully agreed with. >> Hey, driver. Hey, can you step back here? Have a chat with me. Driver, come back here. Hey, come back here. Come here. Come here. Come talk to me. Come here. Elizabeth Kim pulled over immediately when the lights came on. She took an exit ramp and stopped. She did everything right. What happened next is where this stop becomes something different. Instead of approaching her vehicle, Deputy Moore stood in front of his lights and ordered her to come to him. >> Oh my gosh. Get out. Get out. Get Get out of the vehicle. Come talk to me. >> Why do we >> Because I'm telling you to come chat with me. Come chat with me back here. They do something wrong. >> Yes, I'll tell you back here. If you don't get out of the vehicle, you're going to go to jail. Get out of the vehicle. For over 2 minutes, Moore ordered Elizabeth out of her truck from behind the blinding lights of his patrol car. In those two minutes, he identified himself as law enforcement exactly once. Elizabeth could not see him. She could not verify who he was. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office policy for minor traffic stops requires the deputy to approach the driver and identify themselves by name and title. That is the first rule in the policy. More skipped it entirely. >> I will tell you yes. Get out. >> Sweetheart, get out of the vehicle now. >> I don't know. >> I'm secure. Uh, we got arrest here. >> Ma'am, get out. Just I want to talk to you back here. That's all. Come here. >> I'm like, >> I'm law enforcement telling you to get out of the car. Get out. >> I don't I don't know what I did wrong. I have to get out of the >> I'll tell I'll tell you back here if you get out. >> Sir, I don't know what I did wrong. >> All right. You want to go to jail? In 2025 alone, 650 arrests were made in Texas for impersonating a police officer. More than 30 of those arrests were in Houston or Montgomery County. The Houston area has a documented history of criminals using fake traffic stops to prey on drivers, particularly at night. A woman alone on a highway after 9:00 p.m. being ordered out of her car by someone she cannot see, standing behind lights that prevent her from identifying him had reasonable grounds to be afraid. Moore's tactic did not just violate his department's policy. It made him indistinguishable from the impersonators his own county had been arresting for years. >> Get out of the car. >> Why would I? I don't know what I never had to get on. >> I'm Deputy Moore. I pulled you over for fail to use your turn signal. Also, I want to talk to you about your license plate light. Get out of the car. >> Sweetheart, get out of the car, please. Moore finally approaches the vehicle. This is the moment his department's policy required him to start with. He is now approximately 2 minutes late. >> Hey, listen here. >> I've never had my car before. >> Stop. I don't care what you what Listen to me. When a law enforcement officer tells you to get out of the car, you need to get out of the car. It is a lawful order. You have no choice. I can tell you to get out of the car for whatever reason. Pennsylvania versus MIM. It gives us go I mean give us state law case law that says I can pull you out of the car for any reason. I was pulling you out of the car to explain the reason for the stop. >> Do you understand that? >> Yes. >> Okay. Do you understand why I pulled you over? >> No. >> You don't understand that you didn't use your turn signal? >> I normally am very good with using my turn signal. >> You did it. It's on camera that you did it. Okay. >> Okay. I understand. >> Moore cites Pennsylvania v Mims when telling Elizabeth she has no choice but to exit the vehicle. He is correct that the law gives officers that authority. What it does not give officers is the authority to stand behind their lights for two minutes without identifying themselves and demand a driver walk back to them in the dark. >> So now you understand, okay, your license plate lights, they're not bright enough to illuminate your your license plate from 50 ft that I can read it. You understand? Come back here to the middle of my car. >> I'm not going to tell you again. You are in you're you are in violation of the traffic code. So yes. So come back here. Okay. >> I think I should go on to jail. >> Oh my. >> Moore explains the stop reasons. Elizabeth accepts it. What she does not accept is being treated as a threat when she has done nothing to suggest she is one. a deputy who ignored his own department's policy from the very first second and then arrested the driver for reacting to it. If this is the kind of accountability coverage you want every week, subscribe to Case Point right now. We are not running out of cases like this. >> Stand right here. >> Stand right. Do you hate me? Like >> stop and listen. Stop. >> I feel aggressive. Just listen. Stop and listen. >> You're being very aggressive for some. I'm just scared. >> Act like a grown woman. Okay. If you listen if you listen to me, I'm not threatening you right now. I'm a scared young woman right now. You listen to me. I'm a scared broke woman. >> All right, you're going to jail. >> You're freaking me out right now cuz I don't feel like I did enough to go to jail. >> Okay, you're going to jail. >> I didn't do anything enough to go to jail. You know it. You know it. You know it. >> Turn around. >> No, I'm not. I didn't do enough. Stop. Stop. >> You know it. You know it inside. It's like a God promise. You know I think you're messed up. >> Mora tells Elizabeth to act like a grown woman. Elizabeth tells him she is scared. That exchange tells you everything about how differently each of them understands what is happening here. Moore sees a non-compliant driver. Elizabeth sees a large man who refused to identify himself properly and is now escalating. Both of their reactions make sense from where they are standing. Only one of them is in a position of authority with an obligation to deescalate. >> Do you have anything on you that you should know? Okay, let's go here. >> I want TO CALL A FEMALE OFFICER. I WANT TO CALL A FEMALE OFFICER. I WANT TO CALL A FEMALE OFFICER. [screaming] NO, YOU can't do this to me. They literally put me in like some crazy place one time. Dear heavenly father, PLEASE HELP TO SEND A WOMAN or something. He's literally grabbing me for a light. >> He's grabbing ME FOR A LIGHT ON MY TRUCK. >> He's freaking me out. Ma'am, I had I literally just had a loud light. The light is still on my car. >> I have my license. I have insurance. He's freaking me out. You need to send a female officer. He is freaking me out. >> He is freaking me out. I didn't do anything. >> Elizabeth asks for a female officer repeatedly. A legitimate request that Moore simply ignores. >> Get in the car. I'm gonna charge you with resistance. >> Sir, I will not >> next to Hampton Inn Streets. >> Oh, wait. For a female officer. >> Get inside the car. >> You're scaring me. >> Darling, father of my life. It's not enough to go to jail. >> Get in the car. >> I literally just took that in a few weeks ago. They said nothing about my life. I just got it inspected. with the tax office. You can check. >> I'm not That's not the only reason I pulled you over. I pulled you over for not using your attorney. >> And that's not enough to send someone to jail. >> Scared for my life. >> I've been literally do it. >> Moore tells her she is going to be charged with resisting and Elizabeth conceds to wait for a female officer inside the car. She is trying to find a version of compliance that feels safe for her. Moore does not offer her one. >> I cannot DO THIS. I'VE LITERALLY BEEN MY BED. I CAN'T DO IT. >> supposed to go. >> IT SCARES ME SO MUCH. IT SCARES me so much. I'm so scared. >> Can you hear? >> I'm so scared. You're having fun. I'M SO SCARED. [screaming] >> YOU'RE RESISTING. YOU'RE RESISTING. YOU'RE GETTING ANOTHER CHARGE. >> I'M SUPPOSED to be 15. >> That's so scary. 26, you're advising female tower car. She's going to jail for interference. >> Under Texas law, interference with public duties requires the person to interrupt or impede an officer. The statute also provides that if the alleged interference consisted of speech only. That is a defense to prosecution. Everything Elizabeth did during this stop was verbal and passive questions, fear, a refusal to step out, asking for a female officer. None of it was physical interference. Under Texas law, resisting arrest requires the use of force against the officer. Elizabeth never used force against anyone. Both charges were built on conduct that does not meet the legal definitions more cited. >> Hey, this is more with the Hey. So, I pull the car over for uh for uh not using their right turn signal. When they got over, made a lane change. Uh I stepped to the uh she has a uh a low license plate as well and I was trying to explain it to her like hey uh I I got out of the car. I said, "Hey driver, come back here uh and chat with me." And she was like, "Why?" Like she was like, "I've never been told to get out of the car." And I said, "Ma'am, I I'll tell you the reason when you come back here and speak with me." I kept on going back and forth with her. I finally just approached the car, go to the passenger side. I'm like, "Hey, can I get your license? This is the reason I pulled you over for." She gives her license. I said, "I still want you out the car." She gets out of the car and then she's basically just like talking to her mom over me and I'm trying to tell her like, "Hey, this is why I pulled you over and stuff like that." I'm like, "Hey, get off the phone." And I get her off the phone and then she So, she starts like like pulling away from me. So, I go to detain her. I detain her and I said, "Hey, all right. You're you're under arrest for uh interfering." And then I I basically tell her she's under arrest. And then she just resists me the whole time trying not to get in the car. She was like, "I'm scared." I said, "Well, if you're scared, just have a seat in the car. I'll close the door and you'll get away from me." And and at this point, so basically, I'm asking, "Would you take interference with public and resistance?" >> What exactly? Like something or her on the phone, that's not enough. and like what it like to her talking her mom on the phone like that's not really about >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She >> with his body camera still running, Moore's call to the district attorney's office was meant to validate his actions. Instead, the DA had immediately questioned whether the stop amounted to interference with public duties at all. Moore clearly wasn't expecting that response, and what happened next showed just how badly he wanted a different answer. >> No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. She Hey, she Hey, she interfered at the point that I told her to get out of the car. I told her I told her to get out of the car. She refused to get out of the car. That's the point. No, no, no. She didn't get out the car when I told her to get out the car. I had to go and approach Oh, I told her over five times to get out of the car before I approached the car, got her license, and then told her, "Hey, I still want you out of the car." That's all on body cam. I said, "I still want you out of the car." Before that, this is like my sixth time when when I'm at the window. I was fifth time behind her car telling her to get out the car. I went to the window. I was like, "Okay, I'm just approach window." I approached the window. I said, "Can I get your license? This I'm Deputy Moore. I pulled you over for this X, Y, and Z." And I said, "I still want you out of the car." And that's when she gets out of the car. And I tried explaining to her the the stop to her. So, she already had interference. >> Wait, you're watching but not subscribed to the channel. Hit that subscribe button to be sure not to miss the next one. Awesome. Let's get back to the story. He's saying he he's saying this is mom. I'm guessing. Hey, you sweetness. >> Yeah, I'm moder. >> Okay. She's going She's going to jail. >> No. No. >> Oh, yes. Okay. Why? Because I told him to get out of the car. Okay. >> Elizabeth's mother arrived on scene only to learn her daughter was going to jail. When Moore was asked why, his only response was because I told her to get out of the car, not because she committed a crime, not because she posed a threat, because she did not get out of her car. anticipating that for him. >> Hello. >> Yes, sir. >> Hey, tell your tell I don't know who this is, but tell this lady she's going to jail for interfering with public duties and resisting arrest. >> I I just told you. Explain to your whoever this is that she's going to jail for interfering with my public duties >> and she's going to jail for resisting. He He's saying he doesn't like it. He's saying he'll take them resisting, but he won't take the interference. I told her five times, "Get out the car." >> She has to get out of the car. What does >> he say? I want a picture. >> Yeah. >> Wait, back up. Back up. And then the second deputy steps in and tries to explain the stop to the mother calmly. The contrast between the two deputies at this moment is significant. The DA had already told him he was not comfortable with the interference charge. Moore disregards that direction and files it anyway. Elizabeth was booked into the Montgomery County Jail that night. Elizabeth Kim sat down with KPRC2 a month after the arrest. >> Didn't think I would ever be in that situation, >> let alone a police officer. Her name is Elizabeth Kim and she spoke to us about this arrest last month. She was arrested for interfering with public duties and resisting arrest. >> I did not want to get out of the vehicle for him. Oh [clears throat] no. Oh no. Um >> why not? >> You see a big guy waving like not not normal officer behavior. >> You can hear Elizabeth in the video asking for help. >> I want TO CALL A FEMALE OFFICER. NO, YOU CAN'T do this to me. Are you in panic mode? I'm sorry. Very much. I'm losing my control over my my scaredness. >> How much has this arrest impacted you? >> Um, I'm pretty messed up right now. >> Elizabeth showed me these bruise marks on her inner thighs, which she says were left behind from the encounter. >> My whole body hurts sometimes. >> She tells me she's fighting to clear her name and get justice. >> When Elizabeth's case was filed, prosecutors moved forward with the interference charge despite DA hesitation during Moore's call. But county records show no charge for the turn signal violation or license plate light. The very reasons Moore gave for initiating the stop. The only charges filed stem from what happened after the stop began. As of the latest available records, both charges against Elizabeth remain pending. Elizabeth later filed a formal complaint against Moore with the sheriff's office. The department declined to comment and no discipline or change to Moore's assignment has been made public. Then just weeks after Elizabeth's arrest came an ironic twist. The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a warning about a man conducting fake traffic stops one county north of where Moore pulled her over. Tell us in the comments at what point in this footage did you realize this stop was never going to end with just a ticket. And while you're there, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next case.