Hey, how you doing, man? I'm deputy chief of the sheriff's office. Do you have license insurance? >> Um, I just left my house. >> Oh, I got you. Where do you stay at? >> This is my brother. >> Oh, I got you. >> 122K 93. You can disregard 1280. What's your 20? Copy. What's the reason I got pulled over? >> So, the reason for the stop, man, is your AS1 line. Okay. So, that uh that front strip can only protrude just south of your AS1 line, which is right here. Okay. See this right here? The AS1. >> Yeah, man. So, it can't protrude past that. Okay. Do you have your light? You don't have your license on you at all. >> What begins as a routine traffic stop for a vehicle equipment violation quickly takes an unexpected turn. After pulling the driver over, the officer reports detecting the odor of an illegal drug coming from inside the vehicle, prompting a closer investigation into what initially seemed like a minor stop. As the encounter unfolds, the officer begins asking additional questions, evaluating the driver's responses, and determining whether there's more to the situation than a simple vehicle malfunction. Watch the full body cam footage to see how one equipment violation led officers to uncover far more than they expected. This is response unit body cam. Real police encounters, arrests, investigations, and true crime footage caught on camera. Let's dive into the video. >> You have that? Okay. If you if you got that, man, um I'll do you a solid. Okay. Just give me a second. Smoke weed? >> Uh, no sir. >> No, sir. I smell it coming from the car. You >> smell weed? >> I do. >> Come on. I I just left my house. >> Which is also why you probably turn on the air as you roll down the window. Huh? Come on, bro. Don't BS me, >> bro. I ain't got no weed in here. You see, you don't smell. >> What's your What's your driver's license number? >> I smell weed. I >> I can smell a little bit, too. >> Smell I just >> I just don't I don't know if it's on you or what, but I can smell it, too. >> I already know who he is. I have no idea who you are, so I don't know what you're talking about. >> I got nothing in this car. I don't smoke. My name is I >> Okay. I have no idea who you are. >> I have my license. I do have my license. >> Okay. Okay. You mind stepping out with me, buddy? >> Stepping out for what? >> I'm asking you, can you step out of the car? >> I got to step out the car for what? What? What y'all trying to search my car for? >> Oh, okay. So, I don't know why you're acting like this. Buzz, y'all pulled me over for no reason. >> Okay, please step out of the car. >> What are you talking about? P taking me out the car for, bro. I'm going to call my turn off a trans tripping, man. You ain't this, bro. >> You're stopping your AS1 line, which I've already explained. >> So, that give you a reason to search me? >> I'm not searching you. >> What you FILL IN MY POCKETS FOR? >> I can search you. >> Come on, bro. You can't search me. >> I can't search, bro. Get out of the car. >> You need to follow my directions. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? >> I DID NOT DO NOTHING to you. Follow my directions and you everything, bro. For real. >> We've already explained to you put me in smell marijuana. >> You do not smell no marijuana, bro. >> You just came, bro. You don't smell, bro. I'm telling you, I do. >> You sitting there lying, bro. Sitting lying talking about you smell. It ain't no weed in this car, bro. >> Okay. Well, why do I smell it? Why do I smell it? >> [ __ ] with me for no reason, bro. This crazy, bro. >> You scared, >> man. >> Hey, let me get my phone, man. Don't go through my phone. I'm not going through your phone. We have every reason to search you. >> I'm not even doing nothing. >> Do you understand? We have every reason to search you. >> No, you don't. >> Yes, we do. WE CAN SMELL MARIJUANA, >> BRO. You do not. I just got sour. You lying, bro. >> Okay. Well, I don't know if you smoke at your house. >> Smoking marijuana. >> I don't know what you have at your house. >> Lying, bro. Come on. Marijuana, bro. >> Explain aid reason like why we smell marijuana. >> No, you are. You don't surgery already. >> God damn. >> Answer the questions, dude. >> You also don't got a driver's license on you. your phone. I have my license. You need to have it on you when you're operating a motor vehicle. >> Yes, sir. I just house. I was going to the corner store. >> We have come to the situation you not me getting rid leaving my house. Come on, bro. Y'all be I ain't do nothing. >> Come on. Can I get my phone, please? >> Come on. >> Come on, man. You Bro, y'all be doing way too much, sir. >> I ain't do nothing. >> Sit down. >> Damn, bro. This is crazy. >> Why you doing this, bro? >> Doing what? So you I did not I seen you ride by and pull me over for no reason, bro. >> Get your feet. >> Come on, man. >> Oh, you're on probation, too. >> That's no good. >> What's going on with your bracelet? >> I ain't got nothing no concern with you, man. Just please, man. What's going on? >> I don't know why you're acting like Am I going to jail? >> Not right now. >> Okay. Well, go ahead and search the car so I can go, bro. I got going on, bro. Real life. >> I ain't got nothing. I I'm not out here messing with nobody for no reason, bro. >> Okay. It looks like you messed with somebody. >> I ain't mess with what the >> bracelets for. >> Don't worry about it. They ain't got none none of your concerns. Okay. >> That's none of your concerns, bro. >> Okay. >> Look it up. I'll look it up. >> Look it up. If you want to If you want to do that, you can do that. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> I ain't do nothing though, bro. I I have a right to get mad, bro. I never did nothing to nobody. >> You have to use your big boy voice. You have to use your big boy. I understand that. >> You as a question, man. I never just like you. So I want to I want to know the reason why I'm getting pulled over, bro. I just already told you. >> He didn't pull me over for that, bro. I seen him. >> He told you why. As soon as I'm leaving out of my house, soon as I was leaving out of my house, he pulled me over. >> Told you why he's pulling you. >> Come on, man. >> That's crazy as hell. >> You asked a question, we gave you an answer. Okay. >> Y'all just with people for no reason. >> I'm not black people like that. I'm a black person. Come on, man. No kidding. Y' don't be around here. Y'all don't be around here arresting none of these none of these old white people. >> Come on, man. Come on, man. >> I know who you is, too, bro. A lot of people don't like you, bro. Cuz you be you be messing with people for no reason. >> I have never met you a day in my life. >> I met you on on um on um Martin Luther King Day. You pulled me over on my dirt bike. Yes, I did meet you. >> Oh, okay. >> Martinez, I know it's where I pulled like 20 dirt bikes over. Where? >> I know, bro. You stay messing with people, bro, for no reason. >> Okay. You're not allowed to ride a dirt bike on the road. >> God damn, bro. Give me a break, bro. Black man out here, bro. Trying to get my life together. >> Understand? Understand? Understand? Understand? Understand? Do you understand that? >> God damn. >> You're not allowed to ride a dirt bike on the roadway. >> Just like I don't think I'm going to tell you, sir. I'm a black man out here trying to get my life together. That's it. Please give me a break. Leave me alone. >> Okay. I'm glad you're trying to get your life together. >> I didn't know your life was in shambles. Why is it in shambles? >> Don't worry about it, bro. Stop asking me all these questions, bro. I want to talk to my lawyer, bro. I don't want to talk to y'all at all. >> Okay? >> Please, if y'all going to arrest me, arrest me. If not, please let me go and leave the [ __ ] I'm not out here messing with nobody. I'm not doing nothing illegal. So, don't stop trying to be looking being old. I'm not doing nothing, bro. >> Okay? >> I work, go home, and pay my bills just like every other citizen out here, bro. >> Okay. Fair. >> So, please just give me my right. Let me get Don't violate my Amanda rights or none of my rights, my fifth amendments, none of that. Please. >> Your Amanda rights? >> All my rights, sir. All my rights. All my rights. I don't give a, man. >> Sounds like you do. >> I don't care, bro. Please leave me alone, bro. I don't want to talk to you, bro. I really don't. >> Okay. >> At this point, the stop has shifted gears. After reporting the odor of the illegal drug, officers begin searching both the driver and the vehicle, while the man insists they're just messing with him and giving him a hard time for no reason. From the officer's perspective, though, when they believe they have evidence that could justify further investigation, they're expected to follow up rather than ignore it. It's another reminder that what starts as a simple equipment, stop can quickly become a much more involved encounter. And if there's one thing we've learned from body cam videos, it's that a burned out tail light has a surprising habit of opening the door to much bigger problems. Let's jump back into the video. >> Think y'all can do whatever you want cuz you got a badge on, bro. You don't feel that at all, >> bro. I swear to God, bro. Y'all just think y'all can do whatever y'all want with a badge on, bro. >> Sounds like you're just rambling. >> Y'all ain't Y'all wouldn't do none of that if y'all ain't have no badge on, bro. >> Swear to God. >> What is everything going on? >> He just got his phone and some cash on him. >> He just has he has his phone and some cash on him. resisting. >> Resisting and then jump and then jump back in. Come on, dog. Over here, man. >> This one's mine. Just phone. Some cash. So pre-trial probation. >> Pre-trial. Talking about probation. You want to know so bad. Pre-trial. >> Okay. Talking about >> I ain't talking about you, sir. Talking about this dude right here. >> Ain't got no problem with you. Okay. You did me no harm. >> I'm going to see this. You going to get fired though. I swear to God. I'm trying my best to get your ass fired for my mama dog. Can I get your mister, please? >> Yeah. 684 right now, please. >> Yeah. I'm going give you money real quick. >> That's yours. All right. Yeah, that one's made me. >> Hey, so you real like I just cleaned down my car. I just left my house. Cleaned down my car. Left my house. He come to somebody. He pulled me over as soon as I leave my yard and say the car smell like me. >> I just took a shower, sir. How my car smell like you? >> I have every right to get mad. You would have got mad police would have assaulted you. Salted you like that. talking about your car smell like weed. >> How much is it? >> 252. >> I got it. >> 252. I'm trying to show you a count. >> Yeah. No, I got you. He's been doing that the whole time. >> It's okay. 252 sound good. >> Yeah, it's whatever. >> Okay. 252. Damn. What's your name? >> By the end of the encounter, what started as a traffic stop for a vehicle malfunction ended with the driver being taken to jail on a charge of nonviolent resisting arrest. It's another example of how a stop that seems minor at first can become much more complicated depending on how the interaction unfolds. 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