Be careful what you do with me from now on. >> I'm angry and you're nasty and you should just go. >> I can't leave, >> you know. Just shut up then. >> Actors perform on set. But on April 20th, 2025 in Flaggler County, Florida, the stage was the open road. As traffic came to a standstill, one woman known only as Mandy turned the highway into her personal spotlight. The police, they weren't chasing criminals that day. They were walking into a circus. And at the center of it all was Karen who refused to exit the spotlight. >> My husband my head on the floor and I'm trying to get up there to admit myself. >> Okay. All right. Well, just hang tight because that's what we're trying to investigate what happened over there at the house. >> Can you put your hand right here and feel it for me? He me on the floor and I've got a big on my neck on not my neck on my head right here. >> And I'd like to go to the hospital. >> Okay. >> And I don't want to sit here very long. I finally made it here. >> Okay. Well, if you need a medical attention, you should have just called 911. They would have came from >> I don't trust any of you people. I want to go to the hospital. I'm here. >> Okay. Well, you're going to sit tight until we figure out what's going on. >> I might just drive away and go. >> If you drive away, then you'll be >> Now what? Then what? You're going to help me go to the hospital, aren't you? Because I'm a medical patient. What are you? >> I'm not going to drive away. >> Really? Really? I've been driving all this time and I've been just fine. >> Well, now that you're stopped out with me, you're not going to drive. You've decided. You've decided. >> Yes, I have. >> Yeah. Great. >> So, put your car in park and we're going to figure out what's going on. >> Really? What do you know about what's going on? Nothing. >> So, I want to get your side of the story cuz we have deputies at your house. >> Yeah. Okay. But you come on hot and angry and mean. You're not getting my side of the story. You're another >> No, you're the one who's hot and angry. >> You are. You're that way, too. All of you people are. >> You're the one who's yelling >> you. That's right. because of how you are. See >> how how am I? What did I do? >> Yeah, you're an >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay, lady. Okay. Okay. Bark. Bark. Bark. Empty. Nobody's barking at me. Empty. >> Yes, you are. Stop it. >> Go in and turn your car off for me. >> I think I just broke the holder. >> Oh, she's feisty. She said I'm all the same. Uh she drives her to the hospital because she needs medical attention because her husband threw her on the floor and she has a big old knot and she's like, "Feel the back of my my head." head. I'm like, I'm not going to throw in the back of your head. If you need medical attention, we can get it for you. She's like, well, I'm right here. I'm just going to drive away from you right now. I'm like, no, you're not. And then she's like, you're all the same. Blah, blah, blah. I'm not going to put my terminator under her car. >> They're on the way right now for you. >> Who? >> Paramedics. >> Paramedics are on their way. >> Thank you very much. >> Do you feel lightheaded? What are your complaints? >> I have a crushing pain in the back of my head from where my head was onto the tile. >> Are you talking about me? Cuz I wasn't there. No, I'm just talking about the police in general. I'm I'm just talking. I can say what I want. >> Yes, you can. That's right. So, you can No, that's fine. I don't care about being nice to you. I've never met you being nice to me. You've got your attitude already. I hear it in your nose. You're nasty. I don't want to anything to do with any of you. I will talk right now because they at least have training in being kind. I don't want anything. >> You can take your seatelt off if you want to. >> I don't want to. I don't need you telling me what I can and can't do. I will. >> Well, I will tell you this. You cannot leave. >> I'm not leaving because I know about you. Your >> Got it. >> Well, my has nothing to do with it, but you're being detained right now. >> That's the only reason I'm not leaving. That's it. Please. That's it. That's why he called you. He likes >> Is your car off? >> Oh, are you asking me a question? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Yes, of course. I turned my car off when I was forced to by that rude man back there. You bet it's off. >> I want to go to the hospital. >> Bold. A real bold for someone who dissed the police while already in cuffs. Mandy demanded her Miranda rights. Like a script she thought she could rewrite. In her mind, she wasn't the one in the wrong. She was the victim. Locked in her own story and blind to reality. >> I want to get up to the emergency room and get the treatment I need. Do you feel lightheaded or dizzy? >> I in the back of my head, >> so it just hurts. >> I've been getting concussion block things in my eyes off and on. Yeah. Lightaded. I'm not even out of the car walking. I grabbed my bag. I was shaking like a leaf. I get into the car and I drove until I figured out that this was where I needed to be. And I headed here. And that's all that's happened. My husband me. >> You don't have any or in the car, do you? Or on your person. >> Nail clipper count. >> I'm sorry. >> Got a nail clipper count. Of course I don't. Nail like I'm someone who has You look like someone who has not me. Don't ask question. >> We do have >> It's for safety reasons, man. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Cuz you're being kind of feisty. I'm angry and you're nasty and you should just go away. Just go away. >> We can't leave, >> you know. Just shut up then. Just shut up. >> Do you mind if I check you for >> You know what? I have no choice. And it doesn't matter whether I want. So, stop with the games. You want to check me for me for >> You think I'm a liar. You think I'm a liar. Oh, you've just wanted me all along to take off my belt cuz that's what you told me to begin with. >> Can you step out? >> I don't have >> I'm just going to pat you down. >> I'm just wanting the passers by to know. >> Do not put your hand in my face. >> Don't do that to me either then. Okay. Hey, do not see. But you did it to me, too. >> There's no reason for you to get feisty right now. >> Hey. Hey. You don't know my husband. Okay. Stop it. >> I need you to relax. >> Yeah. No. Stop. >> Relax. Yeah, that's all I wanted to do. >> Yeah, I'm in my pajamas because I didn't even make it past bed and he pushed me on the ground. Okay. And nobody is taking care of me. So, don't start going to yell at you all. >> Be very, very careful what you do with your hands from now on. >> You be careful what you do with me from now on. >> Do you want to step out so the paramedics can take a look at you? >> Really? Okay. First, I couldn't get out. Now I have to get out. >> I need to go to the hospital. >> Okay. >> I need to go to the hospital now. >> Get back over here with us and we'll we'll get you over there. >> Okay. Where are we going? >> Take you to the hospital cuz you want to go to the hospital. Correct. >> Well, yeah, but the hospital's over there. >> But our car is over there. >> Yeah. You're not going to be >> I need my purse. >> We'll grab that for you. >> I have my pills. Can I get Can I take my purse with me to the emergency room? So I Okay. Can I have it, please? >> We're going to grab your purse. We're going to go. >> Okay, I'll wait until you get my purse. I don't want to walk past and not have access to my things and have someone take them from you. >> I don't trust any of you. I want my purse. I want my purse. Why am I being Why am I being arrested for wanting my purse? I want to know what's happening. I want to know what you're doing to me and why. I have a right to know. What are you doing to me and why? >> Stop yelling. We will tell >> what are you doing and why? What have I done? What have I done? What have I done? What are you charging me with? What are you charging? I'm a woman at the hospital emergency room trying to get service and you are arresting me for no good reason. You tell me you're taking me to the hospital. What is this? This is not getting me medical service. >> I am going to sue your >> Okay. >> I am going to sue your >> go right into the back of this car. It was unfair for the real victim because of the one-sidedness brought by the circumstance. >> And he's going to take you to the hospital. >> I want my purse. >> He's going to grab your purse right now for you. >> Thank you. If you had simply let me have it and walked to the car with it, you wouldn't have had to put me in this. But this is your thing, isn't it? This is your thing, you people. >> Spread your feet nice and wide. I'm just going to pat you down. Run through. >> There we go. You already figured this out, lady. >> What do we got? >> Could you un loosen this one? It is my wrist. >> Well, you're turning it. That's why. And >> Oh, it's all my fault. Thank you. Could you please stop it? >> You're properly fitted. >> Ma'am, >> my name is Tash. Okay. >> Uhhuh. >> I'm here to talk to you. >> Great. Great. >> Okay. Are you going to be reasonable? Cuz nobody has so far. >> Going to be reasonable. >> Great. Great. Let's try it. I need my pants up. Could you ask her? It's too tight. I cannot talk with it. Me. No, I can't. No. Wait until it on my left wrist. You have to stop that. I won't talk to anybody while you're putting me in pain. >> You know what? I'm reporting pain to you and you're insisting while you're putting it tighter. That it's not. >> It's locked, ma'am. It can't get any. >> I'm not speaking to any of you. You're not listening to me. We're done. Take me to the hospital. We're done. Where's the car? I'm going >> in just a minute. I got to talk to you first. Okay. I'm listening and that's it. Not talking. >> Just listen and don't talk then. >> Yeah. Right. Isn't that wonderful for all of you? >> All of you. You >> okay? >> You too. Just just cuz >> you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in the court of law. >> No, you got it. I >> the right to talk to a lawyer question. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, I hear that every single one of you wish you can decide to exercise rights at any time request statements. Do you understand your rights are read to you? >> I've heard it all before. I know it all. I'm 68 years old. >> Do you understand these rights? >> What rights? >> You think I have rights? Since when have the police ever treated anybody like they have rights? It doesn't matter what you read to me. >> Yes or no? Do you understand your right type? >> I understand you believe you think you're going to treat me well. I'll talk to you until I decide not to and that's all there is to it. >> Hold on. So, you will talk to me? >> I don't want to. No, >> let's not. Let's not make it cozy like that. >> Are you willing to talk to me? What happened today? >> I've been willing to. They keep they keep interrupting me. >> So, what happened today at the house? >> What happened >> between your husband? >> Between my husband and I. I woke up this morning. >> Mhm. >> And I was upset. I was in tears when I woke up in bed from a nightmare. This has been happening in my life with this man for years and I have been trying to get him to stop. >> Okay. >> Okay. We've been going through counseling. He says he's working on it. We had an incident a couple days ago where he just all over me on the phone about his mother and medical. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I hung up on him. He came home apologizing, but then he did not quite understand the nature of what he'd said and done. >> I your feelings, but I don't want anything to do with taking care of them because I'm not a man who's going to acknowledge my faults and be accountable for them. So that's what he told me. Basically, I'm just going to dump you. And I said, oh, really? That's lovely. And I started yelling at him because that's what you do, right? You got no power when someone is just going to cut you like that. Okay. >> So, you yell at them and I yelled at him and we went back and forth across the house a few times. >> When when we were yelling. >> Yeah. He he pushed me >> and one time I him happened. Yeah. It happened. That's what you're asking me, right? >> Listen to what I'm trying to say. Okay. So, when you were standing in the room, right? He came in there to say sorry to you, right? >> Regardless of her alibis, the cops stuck to their job of bringing peace in the situation. Yeah. >> He told you he's packing up and going his mom. >> Did you follow him to the master bedroom? >> Of course. That's what he wanted me to do. And then he followed me and then I followed him and we're back and forth across the house. >> You guys were in the master bedroom. What happened to you? >> Hey, he's getting clothes on and I stood in the door talking to him and he pushed me out of the way to go out into the other room and I said, "You think maybe I should call the police because you're pushing me?" >> How close were you guys to >> How close? He was right up against me to push me. He physically me out of the way >> as he was getting dressed. Were you like laying in his face? >> I was right behind him. >> Right behind him? >> Yeah. I mean like we were both at the bed like like what what do you mean? Was I across the room? Was I aggravating him any more than he was aggravating me? Come on. >> Okay. >> It's It's just stupid. >> Once once you guys were having your little 77 Okay. He left the room. What happened to me? >> He left the room. >> I don't know. Mandy point. Did you follow him at all? >> Yeah, he followed me. I followed him. Yeah, he followed me. I followed him. We were going back and forth. >> Okay. >> He kept trying to run away from the problem and I was running after him. It was that simple. So, what what are you asking? Did I just not just let my husband walk away? >> You know, can I Yeah. >> You want to finish? I want to finish. Which one is it going to be? >> But I'm going to have to ask some questions while you're doing that. >> Yeah. Uhhuh. So, at what point, how did he get red marks on his back and on his shoulder? >> I don't know how he got any marks on his back and shoulder. I have no idea. I know exactly how I got a big bump on my head. I was following him while he was screaming into the back into the study to hide from what he'd done. >> And he turned around and me onto the floor and closed the door in my face. So at no point you get him in his back in his shoulder at all. >> In his back or in his shoulder? I don't remember anything like that. You >> remember anything like that at all? >> No, I don't know what happened. >> Like that don't just >> I remember him once. >> Okay. >> If it was on his back, if it was on his shoulder, I I think it was on his right back. He was walking away from me and I said, "You bastard." See, one of those. That was it. That was it. You know, for that I got to my face. pushed out of the way and to my face, pushed onto the floor where I've got a bump on my head and drove myself down to the hospital. >> What are you drinking today? >> No, I don't drink. I haven't had a drink since 1993. >> Oh god. >> What makes you think I've been drinking? I'm mad. >> I don't I don't know you. You don't know me. >> Yeah. So, why do you ask that? >> You've been drinking or not? >> You don't need to suddenly ask that. You don't need to suddenly ask that. Yeah. It's just aggravating. You know that. You know why I'm saying what I'm saying. Right now, you're being placed on the rest of the message. Okay. >> Yeah, I don't care. >> All right. >> I I need to go to the hospital. >> I'll take the hospital and get you cleared. Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> I need these off because they're my hands and they hurt. >> Yeah. They they >> Listen, I just I want them off. >> I just want to remind you. All right. Uh this deputy is going to take you to the ER and get you checked out. Okay. If you're uncooperative at any point or >> cooperating, I'm cooperating all the time. Being loud is not being uncooperative. >> If you >> being loud is not being uncooperative. >> So if you cause a scene or if any of the hospitals >> now we have to redefine all of Kristen's behavior so that >> that visit will be done. >> Yeah. You're do you are doing my husband's work just perfectly sir. You are doing it just right. >> I just want to remind you also that you guys with the Exactly. I just want you to know who you are serving. Not me. You are not helping me. None of you people are helping me. >> It was a tug between the authorities and Mandy as she used her remaining strength to wrestle with them. >> Not a single person here is a public servant. I can't get in here. >> No, I can't. No, I can't. >> Three surgeries on my back, but you're telling me what I can and can't do and what's so easy. You're going to tell me >> I am numb in one of my hands and I want to go to the hospital and you're going to tell me >> your legs in your car will take you to the hospital. >> Really? But if you would have left me alone, I could have gone there on my own. >> I'm not going to leave you alone because you and now you're under arrest so we couldn't. >> Right. Because my husband's in >> and you're all working for him. You're all working for him. God. >> All right. We're at the hospital. Okay. We're going to get you a wheelchair so make more easier for you to walk. All right. >> Could you please take these off >> right now? He has to ask me on you. Okay. Right now you are in custody. Okay. >> In custody for what? >> You're placing arrest for domestic violence. All right. >> For what? >> For your husband. >> Really? >> Yes. >> Are you going to go arrest him now? >> Can I Can I swear out a complaint while we're standing here? >> That is a primary aggression situation. >> I would like to file a complaint against my husband. >> I'd like to file a complaint against my husband. >> You can. Let's get you checked out first in the hospital. >> Can I do that? Can I do that in the hospital? >> Out first. Come on. >> Can I do that in the hospital? >> Let's get you checked out first and then >> when can I do it? When can I do it? Please, can I have a straight answer? >> Checked out. >> When you get when you get released into jail, you're more than welcome to file a complaint on your >> I'm not going to jail. I'm going to the hospital and then I'm going to the psych ward. I'm not going to the jail. >> You're going to be getting cleared and then we're going straight to jail after. >> No, I'm not going to jail. I am not going to jail. Let's make this easy for us. >> You want to get checked out or not? >> Let's make it easy. I will myself if you want to get in jail. You want to get checked out? >> I won't move from here if you going to put me checked out. Yes or no? Do you want to get checked out? >> Okay. You know what? Here. >> It's a simple question. >> I'll stand here and argue with you. >> Have a seat. >> I I need these off of me. I need these off of me. >> You cooperate with us. >> I am not a criminal. >> When you're respectful, then we'll help you out. When you're respectful, I'll stop calling you bummers. You haven't been respectful. >> I want my purse. It's got my pills. It's got the list of my medications. It's got all of my medical stuff in it. I want the hospital. >> I can't remember at all. >> I got stuck in the hospital without my purse. Once you calm down, >> you don't know what it was like. You have no idea what Give me my purse, >> ma'am. Calm down. >> Give me my purse and I will calm down. >> Oh my god, you people are horrible. Stop it. >> Calm down. >> Get your No. Put it in my lap. What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong? Clear. Let's go. Let me clear first. I promise. I I was You're liars. I was promised I would have my purse me. >> Not a threat. >> Oh, it is. That's exactly what it is. You're threatening me. >> Not a threat, Christian. Exactly what it is. It's a threat. That's why you're telling me it's a threat. >> I'm just warning you so you don't get to jail. >> Tell me it's a threat. >> It's a warning. We don't want you to get >> Oh, really? You really care about me and you want to convince me of that now, huh? You don't get >> You want to keep double cuffs on >> Yeah. >> Stand up. >> Not going to tell you again. If you don't stand up, I'm literally going to pick you up and throw you in the car. >> You do that. You're going to get a charge. >> I want to you. I want to watch your hand. >> Her audacity finally caught up to her. Mandy's performance ended not with applause, but with handcuffs straight to Flaggler County Jail, charged with domestic battery under Florida statutes 741.28. The law didn't see a victim that day. It saw the truth from chaos on the road to a cold cell in Flaggler County Jail. This performance didn't end with applause. It ended with charges. Because in Badgeam Patrol, the law always takes center stage. 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