Cleveland 286. We're fighting. We're fighting. >> Dude, not cool. Not cool. That's two That's two felonies today, boy. 's house and I knew that I wased up so I went to sleep [snorts] and that's what I was. >> On November 23rd, 2024 in Medina, North Dakota, a driver was passed out behind the wheel with vomit on the floor and an open bottle of Bikardi in the car. When the officer tried to get him out, he refused. 233 28 141 Edward Henry Tom. Got a bikardi there on the floorboard. Look like it's empty. Hey there, state patrol. How are you doing? >> How are you doing, man? I'm >> okay. >> You're good? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Are we in park here? >> Yeah. >> Okay. What's going on today, man? >> Here. >> What was that? >> I'm just sitting here. >> Okay. A Bardi bottle on the floor. A man slumped at the wheel and driving complaints already logged before the officer even stepped out of his car. Officer Nate had everything he needed to be concerned. What he did not have yet was a name or any cooperation. >> All right. Hey, why don't you hop out here for me? We'll make sure make sure you get some help here today. Okay. >> I do get help. >> What was that? >> I do get help. >> Okay, perfect. I just need you to step out here for me, though. Okay. Go ahead, take your seatelt off for me. >> Why are you making it that much harder? >> I'm Nate, by the way. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. We just had some concerns calls about you here driving and I see you're just kind of passed out here. Just want to make sure you're okay. >> Passed out. >> Okay. Why don't you step out here for me, Wolfie? We'll get some stuff figured out here. Okay. What was your name, man? Is this your vehicle? Yeah, just trying to get home. >> Well, I know where I'm going. >> Okay. Just headed home or what? >> Yeah, pretty much. >> Where's home? [clears throat] >> You headed to Bismar? >> Okay. >> The officer stayed calm, cool, and collected, unlike his unknown driver who was just sitting there. But was he? Others on the road didn't think so. What do you think? >> All right. I didn't catch your first name, man. Like I said, I'm Nate. >> Yeah. >> What What was yours? What was your name, man? I do need you to step out though here for me. Okay. >> Why do you want me to step out? I don't want to step out anymore. No, >> we're going to we got to get out of the car, man. You got to come hang out with me here. So is do you have a question or something or >> what was that? >> Yeah. >> What was that? What's your question? water don't get like I pump over I put on like my hazards and everything. >> Yeah. Well, what I'm concerned about is I I believe that you're you're intoxicated right now, man. You're you're impaired. >> Okay. Well, there's barf on the floor. You got the open container. You smell like alcohol. You're passed out at the wheel. We got driving complaints on you here today. >> Um I'm hoping that you can just work with me here today. Can you please step out of the car? What the driver failed to understand was simple. Pulling over does not erase what happened before the officer arrived. If you are intoxicated behind the wheel, the law does not disappear just because you stopped the car. But as calm as this officer kept things, he had no idea how quickly this stop was about to change. If this is your first time here, you are going to want to stick around. And while you are at it, hit that subscribe button. We break down the most unfiltered body cam footage out there every single week. One tap. Do it now. We will be right here. Done. Good. Back to Medina. >> That's why we're still having the conversation and I'm not walking away. Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> What was that? >> Okay. Do I have to remove you from the vehicle or can you step out for me? >> I'll step out for you, but I don't want you to do what you're going to do. >> Yeah, I know, man. [snorts] I know. I get it. Um, here. Why don't you step out your boat? All right. The reason I'm asking you out is I believe that you're impaired. I like to do a few tests to make sure you're not not at all. Are you willing to do any tests for me today? >> No. >> What was that? >> I'm not willing not to. In North Dakota, refusing physical field sobriety tests may feel like a way to take control of the stop, but that refusal does not erase what the officer has already seen, heard, and documented. The real legal danger begins when on-site alcohol testing enters the picture. Refusing a chemical test can bring consequences of its own, including a license revocation of 180 days up to 3 years. So, this driver may have thought saying no stopped the investigation, but in reality, it only changed what came next. Cleveland 286 Cleveland >> Cleveland 286. Can you roll me another unit here? Uh, everything's 102 at the moment. Okay. Cleveland 286. One male 1083. Unooperative at the moment. >> Yeah, I I am that cooperative. I am literally not doing anything. Okay. >> I'm not doing anything. >> Hey man, like I said, >> I am not doing anything. Negative word. >> All right. What What can we do? >> Literally not doing anything. >> Yeah. >> That's That's exactly why I'm parked here. >> Okay. Can we roll some things back here for a second? >> No. There's nothing to roll back. You can try to find >> I need I need you to out of the vehicle, though. That's where we're getting at. You are under arrest for DUI today. >> For what? For not doing anything >> for You're under arrest for DUI. Driving under the influence. Actual physical driving. actual control of the motor vehicle. >> All right, >> here's where the subject's argument gets interesting. His position was simple. He was not driving. He was parked. He was sleeping. He was doing nothing running. What he did not account for was that in North Dakota, actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired carries the same legal weight as driving it. Sitting in the driver's seat with the keys is enough. Doing nothing was still enough. I'm not doing anything. >> I'm literally sitting right here because >> I'm not doing anything. >> No, I understand. That's how you feel. >> No, no, no. You understand? Then then understand. >> Oh, I'd love to talk to you about it. I just We can't be in the vehicle. Can't be in the van to talk about it. >> And what's that going to do? >> What was that? >> I'm just here to do my job. Okay. >> So am I. And my job is not to do anything. That's exactly what I'm doing. >> Okay. >> That's exactly what I'm doing because nothing nothing. >> Okay. >> You know, I I said my name is Nate. I'm still trying to get what your name is. >> I said well my was and you said you >> I couldn't hear you and you said you didn't want nothing to be done. And that's exactly what I'm doing. >> Okay. >> That's exactly what I'm doing. >> Okay. Do you know where you're at right now? >> Yeah. And that's why I stopped. >> What was that? >> That's exactly why I stopped. >> Cuz you know where you're at? >> Yes. >> Okay. Where did you come from today? >> Uh where I wanted to come from. >> Okay. >> All right. >> And you said that I shouldn't be here to stop, so I stopped. >> Okay. again. >> The reason I came out to talk to you today. >> So why So why did you stop me? Because I I stopped. >> Did youing tell me to stop? Because you told me to stop. >> No. Here's here's how this >> question. >> Well, you want to come talk to me about it? >> Yeah. >> All right. Perfect. >> I will. >> All right. You want to stand over here in my car, please? >> Well, don't. I'm righting here. You told me to stop because you told me to stop and I stopped. And Iinging stop. This is where patience starts to look like permission. That is what begins to happen here. The officer is giving clear commands, but the driver keeps treating the conversation like he can still control where this goes. The problem is calm does not mean optional. And patience does not mean the officer has lost authority. Before we get to the fallout, do me a favor. If you like real body cam cases, subscribe to Case Point and let me know in the comments, did this officer stay patient for too long, or is this exactly how a DUI stop should be handled? >> Perfect. Let's go this way, please. Come on. Simple. >> For what? >> Was that You're under arrest for a DUI, man. For what? For what? What? What's a DUI? >> Was he so drunk that he didn't even know what a DUI is? >> Make up another excuse. >> Make another ETA for 341. Please >> make another excuse. >> I'm not making excuses. >> Yeah, you are talking. I'm just trying to work here today. >> So what? I I wasn't even driving. I sat right here. >> I'm glad you you think that. >> No, I was that. >> All right, we're done. >> Cleveland 286. We're fighting. We're fighting. Cleveland 286. >> Did you catch that? He doesn't like fighting yet. He was the one to throw the punch. [snorts] >> Get on your back. [snorts] >> Dude, I'ming trying to do what you want me toing do and you're being [snorts] aing [ __ ] >> [sighs] [snorts] >> See, you're still being ashole, dog. >> Look, I am perfectly fine. >> I'll get out. Whatever you want me to do. >> You won't let meucking do it. >> We're not moving. You push me in the face, dude. We're done. We're not messing around. Fanny, look. No, no, no. Look, we're past that. You're 7 minutes of patience ended in seconds with one punch. Hey, >> how the [ __ ] you want to do this? You want to wait for bra? >> I [ __ ] fine, but you me down. >> You want to wait for him? >> Yeah. My house I'm not even seeing behind your back. >> My hands are right here. >> Put it behind your back. >> Okay. Hurry. Wait. Handcuff this dude. Update. Say, please. >> All right. You just sit on the ground. >> What you going to do? >> What you going to The artillery arrived on scene, but if you think the story ends here, you'd be sorely mistaken. >> I'm sorry. >> Yeah. Breathe. >> All right. >> We got to get him out of this car off his stomach. >> What you going to do? >> Hey, wait. What you going to do? >> We got to get him off his stomach. >> What you going to do? Light me up. What you going to do? Lift me up? >> Get him off his stomach. >> What you going to do? Get me off my stomach. >> How do you want to do it? >> What? >> Someone just go to the center. >> Then what? >> We'll try and hold him straight out here. >> I got him. >> I got him. >> Got him. >> I got his head. >> Set him down. >> It took every officer on that scene to hold him down and remove him from the vehicle. You see, when someone is heavily intoxicated, positioning matters. If they vomit or end up face down, a bad situation can become a breathing emergency fast. These officers knew that risk. And in this moment, they were not just controlling the scene. They were protecting the driver's well-being. >> Tell them what you going to do. >> Throw your rig up. >> Then what? >> Right here. >> Yeah. >> Or right here. Actually, in front. >> Yeah. Enough of that. >> For what? For what? >> See, you're you'reing hurting all over the road, >> dude. Not cool. Not cool. That's two That's two felonies today, boys. >> So, >> stop it. >> So, do you think I give a about felonies? You think that's a big deal? You >> have 10. Who gives a >> All right. At this point, the driver still seems to think this is about winning an argument on the roadside. But felony charges do not work that way. They follow you long after the flashing lights are gone. He may not have cared at that moment, but the courtroom was going to care later. >> What's your next play? >> What's your next? >> What's your next play? What? What's your next plan? >> We're going to keep >> No, he's >> What's your next [ __ ] you. What's your next slide, man? >> We're not We're not going to >> WHAT'S YOUR NEXT PLAN? WHAT? Another >> I have soing much. >> Hold on. How Hey, what's the right way to carry this dude? One on each shoulder. One on each bunch of them with him. A bunch of weak. >> You can't even get me up. >> A bunch of weak. What? Three. >> Oh, it's a little time for it to take six of you guys. Bunch of weak. >> How you want to do this? >> Look. See? Another week. Do it. You get your feet in. >> No. What the you? >> Stop. Stop. I'm not pulling on you. >> No, I'm not trying to run. I don't I don't >> Well, you're quit acting like I am. No, dude. This motherucker right here, dude. I will [ __ ] you up. You let my handcuffs go, I will [ __ ] you up. >> This thising dude right here asked me what to do. >> Hey, you keeping talking, man. Shut the [ __ ] up. Godamn. Shut the dude. Shut the [ __ ] up. I'm noting scared, man. This is the only do. >> What makes this moment stand out is how selective his cooperation becomes. With most of the officers, he can still hold it together. But the second the roadside officer comes back into focus. The rage comes right back with him. And that makes this feel less like confusion and more like fixation. >> You want to follow me? I got you. just in case we uh have some more. >> I'm going to go get checked out, but I still got to do a piss test. Where the is that from? >> That's from him. Where? On his hands. >> Handcuffs. >> Okay. >> Put his hands on the wall. >> Jeez. Jesus Christ. >> The officer who took a punch to the face needed medical evaluation before the scene cleared. A routine DUI stop had become a use of force incident with injuries, multiple officers, and a transport that took more effort than most arrests combined. >> Supposed to do responsibly. That's exactly what I was supposed to do. And you guys stop us for doing responsible [ __ ] >> I have not a clue. I'm just >> No, I'm saying that's that's exactly why you guys stopped us. >> All right. Well, we want to make sure you're good. So, >> I am good. I was good until you guys woke me up. I was perfectly good until you woke me up. Your guys's job is up, dude. Your guys's job is really [ __ ] up. >> All right. >> It is. And you know it is. >> All right, man. You just hang tight. We're going to get each other. >> Dude, I I'm perfectly [ __ ] fine. I was [ __ ] fine when you guys stopped me. >> I don't know, dude. >> Yeah, you do. I that's why I was sleeping. >> And then locked in the back of that transport, he said it out loud. He knew he was not okay to drive. He was trying to get to his daughter's house, so he pulled over and went to sleep. In his mind, that was the responsible move, and the officers had no business stopping him for it. There is a version of that logic that almost lands. Pulling over instead of continuing to drive impaired is better than the alternative. What it does not account for is the open bikardi on the floor, the vomit, the drivers who called in complaints watching him on the road before he ever pulled over, and the legal reality that actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired is a charge with or without the engine running. And none of it accounts for punching the officer in the face. In the end, Angelo Medina was charged with driving while his license was suspended, a class B misdemeanor. He was also charged with driving under the influence and actual physical control of a motor vehicle, a class B misdemeanor, along with a separate DUI charge for refusing to submit to a chemical test, also a class B misdemeanor. On top of that, he was hit with two counts of simple assault on a peace officer, both class C felonies. Contact by bodily fluids against a law enforcement officer, a class C felony, and resisting arrest, another class C felony. Medina was remanded to custody at the Stzman County Jail. By the end of that stop, a routine DUI check had turned into a punch to the face, multiple felony charges, and a man being carried into a transport vehicle by six officers. If this kind of unfiltered breakdown is what you are here for, subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a new case. Drop a comment below. At what point did you know this stop was not going to end quietly? Thanks for watching. Looking forward to seeing you in the next one.