I didn't fight you. >> Hey, honestly, I apologize. I apologize to the death of my soul. >> This mother Oh, no, I don't want to I don't never want to see him on the [ __ ] on the force again. I want his badge on a [ __ ] plate, my boy. >> Key West, January 6th, just past midnight and the party had already turned into a crime scene. Two women, 15 years of friendship, both had been drinking since 1:00 in the afternoon. By the time officers arrived, both were bleeding. One locked herself in a bathroom. One fought officers trying to detain her. That decision, right at the door, is what this case is actually about. >> I have her ID with me right now. >> Okay, all right. So, what's your first name? So, briefly tell me what happened. >> Hey, that's all. She's my good friend for a long time. We've had too much to drink. It was a bad altercation like it was an altercation and it shouldn't have gone here. And I wouldn't have ever said, "Hey, do get her in trouble, get her out." We would just go our ways and we would and that's it. You know what I mean? We both had too much to drink. >> At Fox. >> That's it. It was like a But I see she like chose the other route. >> So, let's go a little bit to the back like None of you live here, right? So, you just came here to >> We were We worked at Teasers. >> Both of you work at Teasers? >> And we went to Oreo and we met them and we came here to drink. >> Because that's your friend's house. >> No, I mean, we just met them at Oreo. We're just friends. Everybody friend. We come here and have more drinks cuz Oreo was closed and that was it. >> Okay. >> just wipe your hands? >> Thank you so much. And I definitely need like alcohol or something. >> Okay. All right, keep going and then after you came here what >> we got into an altercation and it was like like I said, alcohol involved. If it wasn't, we would have been grown-ups about it. >> But like it just went too fast, too far, too fast, too fast. >> did the altercation start? >> Um to be honest, nobody cuz I have been drinking since 1:00 p.m. >> Uh-huh. >> 1:00 p.m. >> Yesterday at 1:00. >> Yeah. So, I got my [ __ ] together until now. But like I care and this was a disagreement. I know we were back and forth. And it was one of I don't know. I'm 35, so I got to a certain age where I don't argue with people. >> Okay. >> Like I've been friends with her for a long time and back when 10 years ago you saw her argue with her. >> Mhm. >> At this point in my life I'm just like you're right. Can I get my keys and get my stuff out of my car and go home? >> Mhm. >> I couldn't get the keys. >> All right. >> Keys are being detained and that's where everything kind of >> So, it started because of the keys? >> No, it started because of something else. But then when it happened I was like, "Can I get my keys?" I'm going to get you everything of yours and I just want to go my way, you go your way. You can stay >> from the house or from the car? >> car I brought no car. >> Uh-huh. Okay. >> This is >> Can you please get those? Can you please get those? We don't do anything but can you please get my keys out of her purse? >> This is just sterile water. You're probably going to want alcohol or hydrogen peroxide once you get home, okay? Go ahead and Wipe it. Let's wipe it. >> I think I need to >> Wipe wipe wipe it. Let's wipe it. Let's take a look, okay? I'll be happy to call What Was it just her hands or did she have something else? >> Did she bite you? >> I don't know. >> Looks like a bite in there. All right. Anyways. >> Let's go ahead and have rescue just in just in case it is a bite. >> Okay. All right. >> My keys are in her purse. The yellow tag. >> Well, you're not driving. >> in my name. No, no, no. Not driving but I need those keys. Wherever she may go I can't have her take those keys. >> What's your first name again? >> Look at me. I need to take a picture of your injuries because I have to write a report on this one. Okay. >> And there's a scratch on her back, too. >> Anything on your face injured? No? Oh gosh. Well, if you have long nails, right? >> I don't have any nails left on this hand. Two nails left. >> I was going to say did they all break off in the fight? Okay. So, they they were on and they were long when you started. Okay. >> Listen, um the other guy is saying that the fight start because of some sort of jealousy. Were you guys involved with the same males? >> No jealousy. Maybe they wanted it to be that filling them Never. I swear. It was alcohol-induced 100%. >> But before you had to But you had the beef about something. >> No, she came down with me. She flew down and I picked her up and I paid her house fee and we went out and we You know what I mean? Like >> involved. The rental money, something like that. No? >> Nothing. I When I tell you, like one of those things that I'm like I told you I haven't drank in six months. Now I'm out of my mind. Like I would say, but I can still keep it together than most, right? But it was we just couldn't Well, >> It's a bite, right? >> Sorry. We don't know. Um do you want to go to a hospital or are you requesting an ambulance? >> It's a bite, so like I think it's a good idea if they check you out. >> They can check I don't want to go. >> Yeah, all right. But if they come and check you out, that's fine, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Come forward. >> I just want to get dressed, sleep this off, wake up sober. >> Okay. All right. That's fine. If they come, you'll just sign the refusal form that you don't want to go to a hospital and that will be it. Now, listen. This is important, right? Um Do you want to press charges against her? No. >> And can you make that clear that when you guys came cuz I know it was like a real Can you because the whole thing that I think she was defensive about you guys. She thought I was out here saying she blah blah blah blah blah blah take her to jail. So, you didn't hear her Like was that not the energy you got? >> Mhm. >> So, if you can go in there and I don't mean this I swear not to just make it feel stupid, but I feel like at 35 and 35 we should you know, like let that [ __ ] sink in. Like wow, That's actually really my friend. She was really and we really were just too drunk and it was just too much. No. She lives in Melbourne, I live in Miami, but we've been friends for 15 years. >> Hold on a second. You You don't live in Key West. You just visiting Key West. >> at Teasers for 15. I've met you >> But in Key West, where do you guys live? >> No, Miami. >> So you come here to work and then you drive back 3 hours. >> I was staying with a friend on Stock Island. >> But you have a Key West address. >> Yeah, but I got um >> Is it the same address or >> It's Green Street. It I got a What do you call it? Um I'm drunk. I can't talk. Uh where they [ __ ] squat squat. I got squatted on. There in Corona. Squatters. I had a roommate and then he brought in a roommate while I couldn't get in cuz I lived in Miami at the time. And so >> But how did you get a Key West address? >> Cuz I lived in the address. >> Okay, how long ago did you live here? >> Probably 2020. 2021. >> So you You've moved to with Miami and you live in Miami full time now. How often do you work here? >> Every weekend. >> Every So you come down on the weekend. >> Every weekend. Yeah, Thursday through Sunday. >> Okay. >> I just need to change my address. I need to change it absolutely because >> If you're driving and not change the address, like it it might be a citation, right? So just like uh >> You said if I'm >> If you're within 30 days of uh changing your residence, you're required to get a new driver license with the new address. You have to change the address. >> I'll be honest. Cuz the way they made it where you couldn't get in and I was like scared to take it >> Yeah. >> I was scared to take it off of my address cuz I'm like what if God forbid Corona and I can't get back here. >> All right. Listen, um let me ask you this. This Where in Key West is she staying? >> She was going to stay at my friend's, but >> Where you staying currently? >> I was but she's not obviously. >> So whose house are we at right now? >> We This friend's. We met him at Oreo. We were just to have drinks like No, we were supposed to be going How are you guys going? >> Uh so you're not In Q West, you're not staying in the same place, right? Where are you staying again? >> They were going to stay in the same place together through the weekends. But obviously it's not. >> Because you can If If I ended up not arresting either one of you, right? >> Absolutely they can't go to the same vicinity at all. Exactly. >> She's going to go back to Melbourne. She's going to go home. She's going to go home. >> How's she going to get home? >> She's in no condition to drive. >> No, no, no. First she doesn't even have a car. You don't have to worry. >> But how's she going to get home then? >> Yeah, to Melbourne. >> Plane, probably. It's how she got here. She flew in. I would assume the way we look. >> Well, she's going to get cleaned up and then probably like she would go, but >> Is it still bleeding? Yeah, it looks like a bite cuz there's one there and one there, it looks like. >> Here's the rescue. Okay, all right. I want them to check out the other girl, too. >> Can I ask Is this too much? Can I have a water? I can't even >> Uh maybe they might have something like >> so much Casa Migos, I can't. >> Can you get their phone number and all that stuff? All right, stay right here. You have blood on your back. That's from her. So briefly, what happened? >> The fight started. I don't know reason. I was asleep. >> Do you speak English? >> Yes. >> You do, okay. So you were sleeping. >> Yeah. >> And then you heard somebody fighting downstairs. You came downstairs. What did you see? >> The fight started. >> Okay, who was the aggressor? >> I don't know. They They both aggressive. They both aggressive. >> So you tried to separate them? >> Yeah, me I blame you for him. >> Okay, all right. That's your name, right? >> Huh? >> What's your name? >> Uh please, sir. >> What is your name? That's a simple question. >> Uh yeah, yeah. >> I don't I don't want any part of it. >> I understand you don't want any problem. I'm just asking you what you saw. >> Huh? >> What did you see? >> They they It was like a jealousy thing going on. One was aggressing on one another about >> Which one was aggressive? >> I would say they both had the same >> Both >> had the same energy. Yeah. They both came with the same type of energy. Attacking like one another. >> Did you see like um the beginning of the conflict? Who started the fight? >> I would say she got up like to her face type of thing. And they both started. >> one or the black one? >> Uh the black girl. She got up to her face and then that's when white girl was like and then that's when it started after that. >> Okay, got you. All right. Listen, I need your witness statement. >> I can't do it. I'm sorry. My They're not going to let me. I I >> All right. Can you give me your ID at least? >> No, I don't have No, no, no. >> You don't have ID? >> No, none of that. >> You want to stay anonymous? >> Yeah. Please, okay. >> But did you witness the beginning of the fight when you came back here already? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. >> He was already there, right? >> Uh >> When you When you went down, he was already there. >> 51 10-50 United >> Do you live here? >> No, full time, but this is my property. But like I I I know they own it. >> Any of them live here? >> No. >> No. They were here on a party. >> Yeah. >> Apparently, the party went wrong. >> Yes. >> What was jealousy about? Who's dating who? >> Jealousy We don't know who they are. Yeah, we don't know neither one. >> Something maybe from the from the back, I don't know. They know each other, that's what I say. I try to take it out. I say, "Hey, let's go." She asking for the key to the or you holding the key on her purse. I say, "I take you, I give you a ride or whatever. I pay you a Uber, but the key fine fine fine. What's your phone number? But you know both of them, right? I met her today. Do you know her phone number? No, I met her today, so I'm native from here. I'm a I a supposed to be a sensitive key. 6511 All right. We have one detained for now for resisting. Hang out here for a second. We're going to figure everything out. >> I didn't invite her. What are you guys going to do for me? What >> Listen. So, uh >> My name is >> That's what I said. Uh the girl that you fought said >> I didn't invite her. >> I saw you fell. >> I I didn't invite her. >> Okay. >> I didn't invite her. I I was never an aggressor. You may >> something. May I say something? >> [snorts] >> She's not pressing any charges against you. >> Oh. >> Are you pressing any charges against her? >> So, you are. One thing about me and two things for sure, I'm from Brooklyn. No. I'm good. >> Okay, so I need you to sign the paper saying you're not pressing charges against her. >> Are you taking me to jail? Am I being detained or what? >> You are being detained, yes. >> She had been telling the same story for 20 minutes. Just alcohol, just a bad night. She wanted her keys and she wanted to go home. The problem is, when you've been drinking since 1:00 in the afternoon, what you remember and what the evidence shows don't always line up. She said she was the reasonable one. She said this with blood on her hands and two broken nails. The officer noted both. A witness inside the house put one of them as the aggressor. That testimony went into the report. Neither woman knew it at the time. Here's where it shifted. Officers weren't primarily investigating the fight anymore. They were investigating what happened when they first knocked on that door. Under Florida statute 838.02, resisting an officer without violence is a first-degree misdemeanor. No punch required, blocking, pulling away, locking yourself in a bathroom, all of it qualifies. She didn't understand that signing the refusal form now, after the fact, couldn't undo what officers had already documented. The case wasn't hers to close. She kept asking the same question. If nobody's pressing charges, why am I going to jail? The officer gave her the answer twice. She heard it. She didn't accept it. Her friend across the room had already signed the form, cooperative, quiet, free to go. The contrast wasn't subtle. The officer told her directly, "Keep resisting and the charge upgrades. Resisting without violence is a misdemeanor. Resisting with violence is a felony, up to 5 years in state prison." She had not crossed that line yet. She begged. She bargained. She offered to sign anything. What she couldn't grasp is that the arrest was already complete the moment officers documented the resistance at the door. She kept saying she wasn't the aggressor, so like she may have believed that, but the law measures conduct, not intent. And her conduct at the door was already on the body cam. >> When am I going to jail? >> That depends. >> On what? >> On the investigation I'm taking. >> What in What kind of investigation are you taking? >> Listen, we responded to your 405. Can you go back to your room, please? >> No, no, no. You don't have to. >> Yes, you have to. Go back to your room. >> Oh, [ __ ] >> All right, listen. Yeah. If Can you listen to what I'm saying? >> You don't want to work with me? >> I didn't even do [ __ ] >> Are you pressing charges against her or not? >> If I'm going to jail, yes. If not, then no. Similar to that. One and two. >> Well, she's not pressing charges against you. >> Okay. >> All right? And from what I'm getting, >> [snorts] >> you came at her. >> Oh, [ __ ] >> So, yes. All right? Anyways, this is the form of uh refusal to press charges. Will you sign it? Because she signed one against you saying like you're not she's not pressing charges, she doesn't want you arrested, your friends, blah blah blah, she doesn't want to like get with anything like that. >> You guys good? >> Um >> So, the last officer >> Did did he check your registration? >> No, she was in the bathroom. >> I'm fine. >> You all right? She's in custody? >> Um >> Yeah, she's good to go now. I'm not the investigating officer, he is. >> Okay, currently, yes. >> We're just trying to figure out this side. >> I literally flew here today at 7:00. >> Stay right there. Where are you going? >> I understand. Cuz you punched me right here in my face, I understand. I understand what you're saying. >> face, right? >> Bro, look at my face right here. That's for real. >> Please. You need me to go to the corner here on her injury? >> I know. I have no injury. I have I have weed. Oh, you want to buy my weed? Please. >> I mean, are you good? Good? All right. Thank you, guys. Any other injuries besides this thing? >> Yeah, you. >> I punched you, right? Okay. >> No. No. >> Will you be signing the refusal to prosecute? >> On who? >> On her. >> I I don't want to prosecute anybody. >> Okay, then that's good enough for me. >> I'm good. I don't want to prosecute anybody. I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to prosecute anybody. I don't I'm just I'm I'll sign whatever the I'll I'll sign whatever you want me to sign. I don't care. >> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't take it that stuff. And now, stop. >> Wait. Wait, am I going to jail? >> Yes, you are going to jail. >> Wait, I just told you I didn't I will sign it. >> we're going to handcuff you behind your back and go from >> Wait, I just told you I'm going to sign it. I don't want to go to jail. >> We don't care. All right. Let's go. Let's go. All right. Mindful, if you start fighting, that would be resisting with violence, okay? So far it's without. >> See if you can get me to sign the paper so I can go home to my mom and daughter. My mom doesn't have medicine. My daughter's I was literally supposed to film her in like two days. So Can you grab my vape from down there for me? >> You can't take the vape into jail. >> Wait, it doesn't have to go to jail with me. Um, the only other issue is her stuff is in her car and she wants to get it out for her. >> Do you want to get back your stuff or you would like to leave it in your friend's car? >> Hold on, wait. Why am I going to jail and she's not? I didn't What did What did I do? >> Because you refused to identify yourself. >> No, I gave you my ID. >> And you fought me. >> I didn't fight you. >> Yeah, right. >> You have it on your cam. On your body cam. >> Exactly, I have everything on my body cam. >> So, listen, please. >> Get inside the car. >> I will sign whatever you want. Just need to sign the paper. >> Put your feet inside the car. >> Listen, she doesn't have her medicine. >> Now, this is resisting, right there. >> Are you serious right now? >> Yes, what do you think? I'm playing with you? >> Is your back camera on? >> Yes. What do you say? >> I'm so sorry if you feel like I disrespected you. >> You did. >> Hey, honestly, hey, I apologize. I apologize to the depth of my soul. Please, I am nobody to give my mom and daughter. Please, I I need to >> Okay, all right. >> She is actually an amazing person. Alcohol [ __ ] up. But is there any way we can >> Can you stop talking? All right, so this >> Absolutely. >> Uh, can you keep your stuff and give it to her when she gets out? You can bail her out later on. Can you do that? >> I'm not taking her to jail. >> No, that's beyond the question. She can She refused to identify herself. She fought me. >> Oh, I know. All that stuff. >> All right, so we're not discussing that even. But can you just hold on to her stuff and give it back to her when she gets out? Is that a yes or no? Okay, cool. All right, she's free to go. >> Okay. Nothing to do with me. Wait, where's all my stuff, officer? >> Uh, right here with me. Your phone, all that stuff. >> my stuff's there? >> Yes. Uh, your suitcase, however, is in your friend's car. You will take it when you get out of jail. When when you bail yourself out. Can you stop talking for a second? You're good. You guys are good to go. >> Wait, how am I going to jail when I wasn't even aggressive in the situation? >> No, no, no, you're not going to jail for fighting her, not for that. She's not pressing any Because you fought me. >> I didn't even fight you. God, please. I'm begging you, please don't take me to jail. >> [crying] >> I didn't even do anything wrong. I was trying to diffuse the situation and I got >> By fighting me? That's how you diffuse the situation? >> to diffuse the situation with her. And I ended up getting hit in my face. >> Okay. >> And now I'm going >> I have everything on my video camera. You want to request it later. Well, I'm talking about me. >> Don't [ __ ] touch me. >> or male? >> Don't [ __ ] touch me. Yes, it does matter. Yes, it does matter. YEAH, I DON'T WANT him to take me. That's for [ __ ] sure. >> All right. >> That's for [ __ ] sure. That's for [ __ ] sure. This [ __ ] Oh, no, I don't want to I don't never want to see him on the [ __ ] on the force again. Period. I want his badge on a [ __ ] plate, my boy. Now, what my ass Do whatever the [ __ ] you want. Stab me with something. I don't care. But him? >> Listen, I'll take it out. >> Somebody else will take you and you will behave, okay? >> Anybody else. Not >> Thank you. All right, just go do your paperwork. >> Okay. >> She was arrested for resisting an officer without violence. Florida statute 838.02, a first-degree misdemeanor, up to 1 year in county jail, 12 months probation, and a $1,000 fine. The battery charge from the fight was never filed. Her friend declined. What put her in handcuffs had nothing to do with what happened between the two women. It had everything to do with what happened when police knocked on that door. The officers get an A. They separated both parties immediately, documented injuries, gathered witness statements before confronting either woman with the other's account. Every decision was methodical and defensible. Under Graham versus Connor, officers are judged on what they knew in the moment, not hindsight. Two intoxicated, uncooperative subjects, visible injuries, conflicting stories, they handled it correctly. The woman who was not arrested gets a B. She cooperated immediately. She declined to press charges first. She kept the situation from escalating. That mattered even if she didn't know it. The woman who was arrested gets a D. Not for fighting her friend, that charge went nowhere. For what happened at the door. She refused to identify herself, physically resisted, then spent 20 minutes explaining why she shouldn't be arrested, which only gave officers more to document. The right move from the first knock was simple. State your name, step back, stay calm. Florida law does not recognize alcohol as a mitigating factor for resisting arrest. It never has. The lesson is not complicated. The fight with her friend did not send her to jail. Her behavior with the officers did. Two separate events. Only one of them had legal consequences that night. If you want more body cam breakdown, the moments where the arrest happens before anyone realizes it, hit subscribe. New analysis every week. Drop a comment, should this charge have been filed or was it too minor to prosecute? We'll see you in the next one.