Can I see your license? Yes, sir. I do. She's been there 7 years. She ain't going to make a dime. On Valentine's Day 2024, Sarasota police pulled over a Republican congressional candidate for speeding. When officers approach his vehicle, things just get worse. Hey, how you doing? How you doing, sir? The reason for the stop you were observed going 57 in a 40 and you were on your phone texting while you were doing that. >> I'm not going to point at me, officer. I'm not pointing at you. I'm pointing in the direction where it was. >> I'll just do it. Take it outside. Go right ahead, sir. Can I see your license? Yes, sir. I do. Can I see your license, registration, and insurance, please? You can do this? Yes, sir. What's your name? Officer Vescan, it's going to be on the citation. Can I see your insurance, registration, and your license, please? Sir, can I have your paperwork? 7 years, sir. Can I see your registration, please? Are you going to give me your registration, sir? You're going to arrest me? I'm asking you if you're going to produce me with your registration. Go call him. Tell him Tell him how rude you just been to me. Okay. Can you call the mayor? Okay. Well, not okay, then. Tell him what Okay, sir. Are you Would you like to produce your registration? I'm asking you if you have your registration. >> You make your career decisions. Okay, sir. Sir, because you were speeding and you were texting. So, so? Where's your video? All right. Call the supervisor. I just spoke to him twice. Okay. That's not my problem. You want your paperwork? Call the supervisor. You can wait for the supervisor, but I'm going to go through what I need to go through. >> No, I have no interest in that. Sir, you were going to be issued a citation. >> registration. Well, you've been already issued a citation for that. You failed to produce your registration. So, so? All right. Sir, you're going to You're going to be issued a citation. Do you know what he said about you? You want to hear what he said about you? He could say all he wants about me. I got a job to do, sir. You know what he said about you? If you failed to complete Okay. And he's going to have you again. And that's fine. It's not fine. Why do you keep saying it's fine? I'm a law-abiding citizen. And you're being bloody rude to me. You are going to be issued a citation for texting and driving. Okay. You are going to be issued a citation for texting Call the commercial candidate. >> texting and driving. Your fine is $116. Information in the back. You're going to have an option to plead guilty and option to plead not guilty. You're lying. When my supervisor comes, I'll wait for him with you if you like me to. Your citation is already wrapped up, sir. I will wait. I will wait, but I will wait in my car. Here you go. Yeah, but you have the badge. Sir, step back into your car or stand on the sidewalk so you don't get hit by a vehicle. It's for your safety. 14 radio, can I have another unit respond? Sir, stand over there. It's for my safety and for your safety. Sir. 10-4, the driver being extremely uncooperative. Frangione is coming down. Okay. Very good. By the way, just remind them of that. Why are you doing this? Cuz I have a job to do, sir. Nobody's above the law. You have to have some degree of respect for law-abiding citizens. That degree of respect started the moment I walked up to your car, sir. You knew exactly what you were doing and you made a mistake. If that is your feeling, you are more than welcome to fight the citations in court. >> fight the citations. I'll fight you in court. You can go ahead and do that. Yes, I can. Okay. Why don't you say you're sorry? Because I did nothing wrong, sir. I was doing my job, but I am going to ask you either to sit sit in your car or step on the sidewalk because I don't want I don't want one of us getting hit. I have nothing more to say to you, sir. You requested my supervisor, you can have the conversation with them now. Speeding 57 in a 40, uh texting while driving, failing to produce his registration when I asked. He told me I could look it up. You know who he is? Yes. Yes. So, you're just going to stand by the side of him or Is that what He already got cited. Oh, he has already been Yeah. So, he's just waiting for He's waiting for supervisor and I guess he spoke to Frangione, so Frangione is on his way. You talked to Sergeant Frangione by the phone? I did, yeah. Okay. He's on his way. So, that's why another unit >> a ticket a ticket for no registration when they've got the registration? We're going to make sure that she pays the price for being disrespectful. I just wanted you to witness and know that Yeah, the registration was right there and she deliberately chose to write the ticket. She came up She said the first Look, there's a video of it, so be quiet. There's a video of what you said. There is. And I've got a video of what you said. All right. What she said was I I said I don't have it. I'll write your citation. She went right back. She never said anything. She went straight back. I've lived here for 25 years. I've represented your unit. I've got no interest in listening to you, young lady. I could care less. If they don't give me a write me a ticket, I could care less. I just pay the bloody thing. You don't think I've got the money? Why would you do that? Why? I mean, of all the people to do it to. When the backup officer returns to Hyde, he continues lying, stating that he handed over his registration to the female officer, which just minutes later he clearly refused to give up. Here's what else he had to say about the officer that pulled him over. Spoiler, none of it was anything positive. Hey, Martin. You want to leave it on? Yeah, I have to leave it on. Okay. All right. So, here's the thing. She lied about the cell phone thing. Okay. She lied about the I don't know the speed. I could care less. You can give me the ticket all day long. >> And then I gave her the registration and she before she said, "Your registration." The car list on there. She goes off, she writes me a ticket, she brings me back a citation. I said, "There it is." She's being funny. She knew exactly cuz I said to her, I said, "You know right away." I said, Yeah, I Straight away writing the tickets. Why? Well, she's a traffic officer. That's what we do. But I understand I I understand that's what she did. It's not what you do and you know it. Listen, she has a job to do. I'm not Listen, I I'm going to look at the I'm going to look at the video. I I understand your concerns. I'm going to look at the video. I notified everybody in the chain of command right now. That's what I was doing. That's why I was not coming here. I thought you were going to meet me at the station, but it's not a big deal. I'll I'm going to She's going right now to dock her video. Right now she's going to dock her video. And if there's problems, you will be the first to know. Well, I know the difference is I'll do something about it. Okay. I understand. Yeah, I'm going to take your complaint is what I'm doing. That's the first step. How can you write a ticket for no registration when you've got the registration? I mean, as if I got a $150,000 car. I've lived here for 25 years and I haven't registered a car. Why do that? I understand what you're Well, you tell me what the point is. It It's just a state statute that she She enforces. She's not the only traffic officer that writes a ticket for that. I really don't leave the office. I understand what you're saying. No, but you have the video on the but the fact is nobody in their right mind would give a ticket for that to me. Nobody. Guess what? She's been there 7 years. She ain't going to make a dime. I'll make sure. You don't treat people that have treated and talked to you like that. I I I understand where you're coming from. The bare minimum of respect is yes, sir. No, sir. Not a word of it. Straight up talking to me like I'm a piece of Get back in your car. When she said I'm She's standing She's got a car door open and I'm leaning against here talking to someone. Just being difficult. Okay. Just being cocky. How difficult is it to come to me and say, "You're doing 57. Give us your license and your registration." Why get into immediately like that? When she knew exactly who she was talking to. All right, Martin. I'll talk to you later. This suspect is a 49-year-old Martin Hyde, a former Republican congressional candidate for the state of Florida. At the time, Hyde was a Sarasota businessman who was actively campaigning for Congress when the stop occurred. In several interviews following the incident, Martin voiced his displeasure with his behavior during the traffic stop, stating, "This was a video that showed me at my rather pathetic worst and for which no apology or explanation is likely to be accepted, nor should it be." As the backlash continued for Martin, he was later invited to the Tucker Carlson show to voice his opinion on the incident in early March of the same year. I thought your apology was like the most unbelievable thing I've ever read in my life. Can you just restate part of it for our viewers who didn't read it? Well, you know, I I What can I tell you? Um I I I I did what I did. I It's not the first time I've done it. Um to a limited extent, I I I I'm one of those people that people like to have in their corner when there's a fight because I don't shy away from it. Unfortunately, it's sometimes tough to switch it off. Now, let me just say one thing, Tucker. Um I'm horribly embarrassed. Um it was a shocking thing to do. The difference between me and most of the mutts in in DC is that if you ask me the weather, I'm not going to tell you the time. I got a smart mouth. I got a bad temper. If you poke me and poke the bear and I on occasion and this is one obviously I got caught on body cam. The The worst thing is I knew there was a camera there, right? And I still did it. >> In the end, Hyde did pay his $160 speeding citation and faced no criminal charges. After the body cam footage was released to the public, however, it caused severe outrage in the community, resulting in Martin withdrawing from the candidate race just weeks after the incident.