On September 4th, 2023, officers were enforcing open container laws in the area of Fells Point in Baltimore City. Officers were confiscating open containers of alcohol from violators. At around 1:40 a.m., officers confiscated an open bottle of Smirnoff from a kind lady and advised her it was unlawful to drink alcohol in public. The officers then moved on to do further enforcement. The kind lady followed behind officers and grabbed an open container of alcohol that they were about to confiscate from another violator and drank it in front of the officers. She was then promptly arrested. Hello, I'm Officer Rosen Officer Rosen- Robertson. Sorry if you're recording. Okay, ma'am, come here. Ma'am, stop walking. Stop walking. Stop, put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Okay, 10-11 on the promenade. All I did was drink it before I was Don't resist. Hey, 10-4, you okay? What's up here, ma'am? Resist. Get us a 10-11. You're going to go to the ground in about 5 seconds. Ma'am, sir. It's not that serious. Back up. Back up. Back up. OKAY, YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO THE GROUND IN ABOUT 5 SECONDS. That's why. Ma'am, sir. It's not that serious. Back up. Back up. BACK UP. STOP RESISTING ARREST. STOP RESISTING. Put your hands BEHIND YOUR BACK. OH, REALLY? That's resisting. Now, we're going to arrest Stop resisting with your get maced in your face. STOP RESISTING. YOU'RE GOING TO GET MACED IN YOUR FACE. ALL RIGHT, GET HER IN RECOVERY. Get her in recovery. We need a medic for a number one female. This guy. Do you want to sit up? Let's go sit up. Let's go sit up, all right? Let's go sit up, all right? Once. We got time for it. We're going to get a permanent rank. For your support. She resisted. She also stole someone's drink out of their hand right before us, so. I KNOW HIM. I DIDN'T STEAL NO DRINK OUT OF HIS HAND. THAT'S MY BROTHER. I DIDN'T STEAL THAT'S WRONG. MA'AM, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. YOU'RE GOING to jail. I'M UNDER ARREST FOR A DRINK? FOR A SMIRNOFF? YEP. LOUIS, Y'ALL LOCK PEOPLE UP FOR A SMIRNOFF? YEAH, WE HAVE. I'M TELLING YOU, I DRUNK A SMIRNOFF. THANK YOU FOR ADMITTING your crime. A Smirnoff is a crime? Yep. We already We already explained this to you also. You like sir. You have the right to remain silent. I'm not I don't have TO BE. YOU AIN'T HAVE TO JUST SLAM ME on the ground. YES, IT DOESN'T MATTER. YOU ALREADY DID WHAT YOU DID. That is weird. That was unnecessary. I'm going TO HAVE A BIG LIE. WHAT? FOR YOU. NO, IT WAS UNNECESSARY FOR Y'ALL TO THROW ME TO THE GROUND LIKE THAT FOR OPEN CONTAINER. I'm suing y'all. Don't resist arrest. IT WASN'T NO RESIST. IT WAS IT WAS A OPEN IT WAS A [ __ ] SMIRNOFF. Y'ALL SLAMMED ME. I GOT ASTHMA. I'M TELLING YOU. You and him. I need y'all badge numbers. You give her badge numbers. IT'S CENTRAL BOOKING. I HAD A SMIRNOFF, MA'AM. That's it. A Smirnoff. Okay. And you didn't For a Smirnoff. They slammed me. All I had was a Smirnoff. I TOOK MY BROTHER'S SMIRNOFF AND THEY LOCKED ME UP. A SMIRNOFF. THEY SAID I STOLE MY A SMIRNOFF FROM MY BROTHER. NO, WE SAID YOU DRANK A SMIRNOFF. AND YOU SAID I STOLE IT. IT'S ON CAMERA. BROTHER, WHAT DID THEY SAY I STOLE? WHAT IS YOU TALKING ABOUT? it for drinking in public after we warned you not to. SIR, YOU SNATCHED MY FIRST DRINK. OKAY. AND THEN WE AIN'T NOBODY SAY WHAT YOU WAS SAYING. NOTHING. HE DIDN'T SAY [ __ ] HE WALKED OFF. MY BROTHER HAD A DRINK. I TOOK IT AND I DRANK A SMIRNOFF. YOU ACT LIKE I TOOK IT AND DRANK SOME LIQUOR. You did. That's a Smirnoff. IT'S LIQUOR. SMIRNOFF IS NOT LIQUOR. IT'S 5% ALCOHOL. YOU CAN'T HAVE YOU CAN'T DRINK ANY ALCOHOL. SIR, you just don't have no life. Next time don't resist arrest. We tried to arrest you. I I GOT ASTHMA. I don't want to be um confined down. OKAY. YOU STILL AIN'T HAVE TO THROW ME DOWN LIKE THAT. DON'T RESIST ARREST. Y'ALL can count y'all days. Let me key up. Stand me up, please. My [ __ ] out. CAN YOU STAND ME UP? WE can stand you up. Let's get her up. ALL RIGHT. Y'ALL DON'T HAVE NO LIFE. A SMIRNOFF. You act like I'm down here fighting somebody or beating the [ __ ] out of somebody. I shouldn't have said that. I said I'm down here drinking a Smirnoff. And I get locked up and thrown to the ground for a Smirnoff? I'm glad you're recording me. Please. Please. Give a Do you double lock it? No. A Smirnoff, though? Hold it. And they not going to let me go? They just let her go for a drink? Out of here. I'm going to jail. Tell them I'm going to jail, my [ __ ] for a Smirnoff. How many people you got? Give it to the answering machine. Give it to the answering machine. Give it to my brother, please. Over what? A Smirnoff? Y'all crazy. EVERYBODY GETTING CHOKED AND ALL THAT. Y'all sitting here locking somebody up over A GLASS OF SMIRNOFF AND PEOPLE DYING. YEAH. PLEASE. OVER A SMIRNOFF, THOUGH, GOOD GUY. MAN. A SMIRNOFF. WHAT? A SMIRNOFF. YOU AIN'T READING ME MY RIGHTS. NO, I DON'T HAVE TO. WHAT'S YOUR LAST NAME? YOU DO. I'M NOT GIVING YOU NOTHING till your SUPERVISOR GET HERE. Y'ALL AIN'T DO NOTHING THE RIGHT WAY THE FIRST TIME WHEN Y'ALL GOT HERE. A SMIRNOFF, MAN. Open the Smirnoff. I opened a Smirnoff. 5% liquor. What the [ __ ] And slammed me to the ground. I'll cuff all y'all for that. to the ground. WE GOT IT ON RECORDING. I PROMISE YOU Y'ALL TWO WON'T HAVE A JOB TOMORROW. Y'ALL don't even know who I know. They not letting me go. They going TO TAKE ME. Y'ALL GET OFF OF ME. WHY ARE YOU PULLING ME SO TIGHT? ANTOINE, PLEASE RECORD THIS. YO, BRO. HEY, BRO. YO, PLEASE RECORD THIS. HE PULLING ME SO TIGHT. HE PULLING ME SO TIGHT ON MY WRIST. YOU AIN'T DOING NOTHING. YOU IS. WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHAT? KISS WHAT? She said you need to calm down. Tell him to get off my face, man. Y'all ain't got no probable cause. Y'all geeking. Y'all ain't got nothing else better TO THIS. YOU GOT KIDS getting shot in the back down dumb ball and all that. Y'all right here [ __ ] with an open container. I'm Smirnoff. She was drinking a Smirnoff Smirnoff down there. She went up to her, took it, and told her not to drink. Yeah, she was all attitude, was younger than us. We couldn't do it any other way. And then we stopped the guy in the gray over here. He was drinking a bottle of Smirnoff. He gave it to us. She snatched it out of his hand and drank more in front of us. After we already told her not to drink it, she came forward us, took his Smirnoff, and drank more in front of So we tried to get her in handcuffs to arrest her. She was not complying. Um she started to resist arrest. She didn't want to put the handcuffs on. I warned her and said, "If you don't let us handcuff you." It was like we struggled with this for like 10 seconds. We said, "If you don't let us put handcuffs on you, you're going to go on the ground." And then we put her on the ground. It's really weird. It's like the police tell you not to do something, and then you do it in front of them, and then they arrest you. It's really weird how it works. Crazy, y'all. People got to go through all this. You Only you have to go through all this cuz that's how you acted. YOU COULD HAVE JUST GAVE ME A CITATION. MISS YOUNG, YOU did not give us the ability to. YOU WASN'T THINKING ABOUT GIVING ME ONE. WHEN you seen me trying to get something to drink with my brother, I WENT OVER THERE. You just You ain't come up to me and say, "Hey, how you doing? You're under arrest for drinking a Smirnoff." You came and snatched it. Miss Young You right. Y'all want to take the law about this a whole 'nother way. You right. I'm glad y'all got everything on my camera. I understand if I was drinking a beer or some Hennessy or some Patron. We talking about a Smirnoff, 5% alcohol. That's why we give you a warning. After you snatched it out of my hand and I needed something to drink cuz my mouth was dry. Got a bottle. Now somebody got to sit in jail for open container charge. You're getting released. This is kind of a cruel thing You just made me hit my head. You all like I'm getting rid of them. Not tomorrow. Uh yeah, I don't know. The [ __ ] I got to be in the school ON TUESDAY AT 7:00 IN THE MORNING. Hopefully you got to go. Man, you all being smart like hopefully y'all could have gave me a citation and let me go. Y'all sitting here wasting taxpayers' money making me go to jail. Miss Young, we weren't even going to give you a citation. I don't got nothing on strategy here. Say. We were not even going to give you a citation. YOU LOCKED ME UP. IT'S EVEN WORSE. And how did you act though? How did I act? Y'all got MAD BECAUSE I DROPPED SOMETHING. After we warned you not to have You keep sitting here trying to make it seem like I was in y'all face disrespecting y'all. You walked off. My mouth got dry. Went to my brother. My brother over here got to sit. I've been smearing off that y'all WAS READY TO LOCK HIM UP FOR. Can you return to the time you can remember what happened? If I wasn't right? I said Miss Young, can you return to the time you can remember what happened? That's how it happened. That is what happened. You came and snatched my drink out my hand. Said what you said to me. I said I never knew it was like that. WALKED OVER TO GO SIT NEXT TO HIM. You started arresting me then. You know it's against the law to have a open container, right? I said I'm going to throw it in the trash. On my way TO THE TRASH, I'M DRINKING IT. BUT Y'ALL GRABBED ME. YEAH, you really think that's what happened? Sir, You're mistaken. you need to go play your body camera cuz that's WHAT HAPPENED. I WALKED OVER AND TOOK A SIP. THAT'S ALL HE HAD. OKAY, I guess we'll agree to disagree. I DRUNK SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIQUOR. YOU SAID IT. She stole somebody's liquor. I can't wait to hear that part on the rerun. That's what you said. I stole somebody's liquor. That's what you said. Y'all Miss Young, listen to this for a second. Relax. We've taken literally 25 hours tonight. No one acted like you. And no one went to jail. And no one even got a citation. Give me a citation, please. Well, you already did too much. You did too much. How what you mean I DID TOO MUCH? I'VE NEVER been I haven't been locked up like that. Somebody just came you know you just SNATCHED IT OUT MY HAND. I was angry. Y'ALL DIDN'T COME UP AND TALK TO ME and you know that, Mr. Rosenblum. We If I didn't advise it right before, I advised afterwards after I took it. Exit light, come on. Yo, that's crazy. And then we still just gave you a warning even though you're yelling in our face. And then you decided to follow us and take someone else's bottle out from that was sitting No, BUT HE WAS WITH ME. THAT DOES NOT MATTER. We already I needed something to drink. MY MOUTH WAS DRY WHEN YOU CAME AND SNATCHED IT. You cut the top of my gum. I WAS DRINKING IT WHEN Y'ALL SNATCHED IT OUT MY MOUTH. That's why I'm so angry. You snatched IT OUT MY MOUTH WHILE I'm drinking. Miss Young, we That's why the lady SAID, "WELL, YOU HAVE TO ASK the officer." So, I'm asking you. Miss Young, you're getting handcuffed because of how you acted, okay? So, why are you SAYING I'M LOCKED UP FOR OPEN CONTAINER? That's what y'all got down. Your sergeant just came and locked up for open container. Cuz you did not comply with our with our warnings. So, now I got to go to court AND DO ALL THAT FOR OPEN CONTAINER? That's your fault, not ours. I'm going to drink down South Street, Mr. Rosenblum. You're not making it make sense. I drink water, coffee. Where is it? I don't know. That's what I'm telling you. You cannot drink alcohol in public. You can't even possess it in public. Open container law. And there's a sign right where you were. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. Not where me and you first originally was. It's not. Look where you took that at. That's right in front of you. That's not in front of me. I'm on the other side of that pole. Public alcohol possession in public I'm on the other SIDE OF THE POLE. is prohibited. IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE, THOUGH. YOU, Miss Young. IT DOESN'T WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE MY identification card? Just cuz you wouldn't give us your name. So, we have it. We're going to give it back to you. So, even if you don't know the law, if you break the law, Y'all pay me. It's still against the law. That's all I know what you're saying. we told you you said you didn't know. We said, "Okay." We explained it to you, and then you did it again. After you snatched it out my hand. Then you snatched another bottle. Okay. You didn't like how we did it. We I I said, "Okay." And I said, I took it and was walking into the trash TO THROW IT AWAY WHILE I WAS DRINKING IT. MA'AM, let's talk about this. Y'all just petty. Ma'am, I have no interest in arresting YOU. YOU DID. YOU DID. THAT'S WHY YOU THREW ME TO THE GROUND AND DID ALL THAT THAT y'all did and made me have a seizure. You resisted arrest, ma'am. I didn't resist arrest. I didn't know what you was arresting me for CUZ I'M THROWING SOMETHING in the trash. Mhm. Y'all don't have no right. Ma'am, you're in this situation cuz of how you acted, not cuz of what I did. You keep saying I'm in this situation CUZ I DRUNK SOMEBODY ELSE'S DRINK. STOP SAYING HOW I ACTED CUZ IT DON'T HAVE I DIDN'T ACT NO TYPE OF WAY. And I already got head trauma. Y'all good and crazy. Y'all do anything and don't even be knowing what people be going through. Is your neck hurting right now? Yeah, it is. That's why I'm saying they they they don't even know my medical history. Do you want to be placed in a collar? Yeah. Yes. My neck hurt bad. Okay. I be thinking it's on video tape. And I'm calling them out lawyer in the morning. Matter of fact, I'm calling them as soon as I get in here. As soon as I get in here. Do you feel like you lost consciousness? I did. Okay. All right. This going to be uncomfortable. We can't take it off till the doctor sees you. Okay. See y'all black people die. Okay. She right.