Step out. I'm not going to ask you again. >> I'm not doing anything. >> Step out the car. >> Letting you know what's going on. >> Get out. >> I'm getting out the car. You don't have to >> Let's go. >> July 29th, 2025. Officer Williams stops Tamika Teasdale after a plate check returns a suspended license. Four decisions are tested. The stop, the exit order, the force, and the charges. >> How you doing? >> I'm good. >> Good. You got your license? >> Your license suspended? Okay. >> It It shouldn't be suspended. Yes, I got >> No, it's suspended again. All right, you got your registration. I'm I ain't going to take you to jail. I just write your ticket. All right. >> I'm trying to figure out why it's suspended. >> Huh? Your insurance? >> I got insurance. >> Not on this car. Maybe another car. >> No, I have insurance on this car. Give me one second. >> No, I No, you have insurance on this car. Maybe you've had insurance on another car that insurance laps. >> No, I don't. This the only vehicle that I have. >> Did you have another insurance company prior to this one? >> No. >> Since you've had this car? >> Yeah. because you got two you got two suspensions and they're both for financial reasons and nine times out of 10 it's insurance related. Okay. >> No, I have >> I know you have insurance on this car right now. >> But what I'm saying is I'm not understanding why is my license suspended and I have insurance. If you know I have insurance on this car then why my license I'm not with you every day. I wouldn't have an answer for that. Okay. >> Hello. >> Yeah. >> So I just got pulled over state saying that my license is is suspended. >> Huh? I just got pulled over stating that my license is suspended and I have license on my truck. >> It's suspended. So you pay you pay your ticket. >> I did. I paid all the for the tickets. >> It's not for the tickets. It's for the insurance. And I got insurance on my truck. >> Yeah. You cut it just in time. That's that money. >> Yeah. I parked my insurance just in time. Somebody else did the same thing. I got pulled over before the same for the same reason. He pulled me over said my license was suspended. and he had to pull me up in the system and it told me it wasn't suspended. >> No, when I ran your tag. >> Yeah, he >> that's when he said he was suspended. So then I checked I checked the other system and that said you're suspended. >> He ran the tag and everything. Well, I think he was trying to cuz he had no reason to pull me over. But I'm I'm my my understanding is I don't know if it was you, but behind me the first time when I had rolled by before I even went to the store and then rolled off went on the highway went up and they came back around and parked and waited for me to leave like for what? >> Cuz your license suspended. >> It wasn't even about the license at first because you had we was >> I I understand was coming this way past each other >> and then I turned around >> and you turned around to my I didn't give you a reason to turn around. You could have ran my tag in the front because I don't have a tag in the front of my >> You didn't You didn't have I don't have to have a reason to turn around on you. >> All right. >> But that's my opinion. >> I I I understand, Miss Taswell. But listen, you could be going to jail. You want You want to argue with me and I can just take you to jail and we could be done with it. >> No, cuz I'm about to have a ticket to pay a fine. Okay. So, everything is there. >> So, so you So, you rather go to jail? >> It's crazy. >> So, you rather go Come on. Step out. >> This is real. >> Hey, Miss Tazwell, step out, please. >> Step out for what? Step out. Step out, please. >> I'm not doing anything wrong. >> Step out. I'm not going to ask you again. >> I'm not doing anything wrong. >> Step out the car. >> What am I doing wrong? >> You either step out or I'll pull you out. >> Tell I'm not doing nothing wrong. >> I'm not going to ask you again. >> What am I doing? All I'm not I didn't understand. >> So, what part of driving on a suspended driver's license? You can go to jail. Don't you understand? Out of the car. Okay. I I tell you what. I tell you what. I'm not here to play games with you. >> I'm asking you to get out the car. Get out the car. So, this the route you want to go down this morning? >> I'm going to jail for nothing. I didn't do anything wrong. >> Unlock the car. Unlock the car and get out the car. >> For what, sir? What am I doing wrong? >> Okay, we're not going to do this. >> I didn't do anything wrong. >> Get out. Get out. >> I didn't do anything wrong. >> Get out. >> Because I caught him letting you know what's going on. >> Get out. >> Because I caught my dad. Let me know what's going on. That's crazy. You locked me up for nothing. >> Let's go. >> I didn't do any pulling. I'm getting out the car. I'm getting out the car. You don't have to Let's go. too much. All right, >> now put your hands behind your back. >> All right, somebody record this. >> Somebody record it while you get burned. >> Drop the cigarette. >> I can't >> drop >> It's on me. Me. >> Drop this cigarette. >> It's on me. Get it out my hand. >> Get it out. Get it out my hand before you >> Don't worry about it. Watch out. I didn't do nothing wrong. I need your badge number in your name. >> And I'm explaining to you and you going to say that. Do that to me. Back. >> Get up. >> Back. Back. Back. You had no excuse me for no reason. >> Let's go. >> Can you stop >> this way? What you're not going to do is keep pulling on me. >> Let's go. >> That's what you're not going to do. You're not going to keep him on me. >> Do what I tell you to do. >> But what you're not going to do is keep pulling on me >> in the car. >> You're not going to keep on me wrong with you >> in the car. >> The is wrong with you in the car. >> Y get some badges. Y'all forget where you >> She sitting there arguing with me about the license. I'm like, yo, >> like she's trying to argue with me. Argue with me. I'm like, get out. It's fine. Yeah. >> What happened? You You asked her to come out. Yeah. >> And she wasn't getting out. >> No. I gave her multiple times. She's trying to talk on the phone. She's arguing with me. I'm like, "Hey, listen. Not going to write you a ticket. I'm going to say I'm going to write you a ticket. Send you on your way." She's like I'm like, "Man, why are you why you yelling? Why are you trying to argue with me?" And then she's like I'm like, "You know what? Get out. Come on. Get out. Get out." No, I'm not. For what? For what? Okay, cool. You go to jail. No, she going to jail. >> I'm on the phone explaining to my baby daddy and you drugged me out the glass. Reason >> you asked for my stuff. I gave you my information. >> I gave you my information. >> You asked for my information. I gave it to you. >> Well, now you got to ride the BR. >> And I didn't do I didn't do anything. I gave you my information. I explained to you that my license was not suspended. You took and dragged me out the track for no reason. >> Your license suspended? What do you think? We're making that up. >> He said he wasn't. I told him that I don't know I understand why my license >> we would have we would have told you >> I didn't understand why >> when he asked you when he asked you to get out of the car you get out of the car >> I wasn't doing anything with my baby let him know >> open your window over there I'll talk to her >> listen >> I didn't do NOTHING WRONG JUST DROPPED ME OUT THE CAR FOR NOTHING I DIDN'T DO NOTHING WRONG I'M LIKE I had INSURANCE ON MY CAR [laughter] I JUST WENT $200 AND SOME DOLLARS ON MY INSURANCE MONEY, BRO. NO. >> WHAT'S YOUR NAME? >> CRAZY, BRO. HE TAKE ME TO DRIVE. I GOT I JUST GOT MY LICENSE, BRO. I I'm I'm licensed fories. I worked in the I'm send >> What is your name? >> Tamika. I didn't do nothing wrong. I didn't do nothing wrong. >> Tamika, when the officer asks you to get out of the car, you don't need >> I gained him my information. He asked for my information. Can I get a sergeant out here, please? Listen, >> can I get a sergeant out here? >> When a when an officer asks you to get out of the car, it don't matter. >> He didn't give me time to do anything. >> It don't matter if you give him your stuff or not. We allowed to ask >> give me time to do anything. He didn't do GIVE ME TIME. I RODE PAST this man. He rode past me. He was going towards the um the ballpark and I went to go get gas. He waited for me to get gas. HE WAITED TILL I GOT GAS. TURNED AROUND ON ME FOR NOTHING. SO WHAT? I WANT YOUR SERGEANT out here, please. Are you allowed to? We're allowed. We're allowed to wait. >> WAIT FOR WHAT? HE ROLLED PAST ME AND TURNED AROUND TO ME FOR NOTHING. I DIDN'T DO NOTHING WRONG COMING or getting OFF FROM WORK. GRAVEYARD. I shift for work, bro. I didn't do nothing wrong. >> You didn't comply when you asked. >> I DID COMPLY. I GAVE HIM THE STUFF. >> I gave HIM MY STUFF. HE ASKED ME TO GET OUT FOR NO REASON. >> HE ASKED ME TO GET OUT FOR NO REASON. >> OKAY. >> I didn't do I want a sergeant out here, please. >> Yeah, we'll get somebody out here. >> I need a sergeant out here. Y'all not calling him though. >> We did. He just called him. >> No, he didn't. >> Yeah, he did. You screaming >> like that's crazy. I'm not screaming. It's just now up, bro. >> Well, you didn't. Listen, >> I didn't do anything wrong. That's why you don't understand. >> You would have just got a ticket. >> I TOLD HIM I DIDN'T KNOW I GAVE HIM MY INFORMATION. I was on the phone. He got mad cuz I was on the phone. He got mad cuz I'm on the phone. You >> being on the phone had nothing to DO WITH IT. >> YES, IT HAD DID. You did. You didn't get mad until I explained it TO MY BOYFRIEND. YOU GOT MAD WHEN I WAS explaining to my boyfriend that I ALREADY PAID FOR THE TICKET. >> THANK THE YOU JUST GOT MAD OVER NOTHING. >> There's two sides to every story. There's a camera on my chest. So, okay. So, why you going to sit here and lie? >> I'M NOT LYING. I PUT ON THE PHONE WITH MY BOYFRIEND. I'M TELLING HIM. I'M here for nothing. >> Her boyfriend is the one that told her to get out the car. SHE KEPT CALLING. >> HE DID NOT. HE SAID CHILL. >> Oh my god. He >> He said chill. He said chill. >> He said chill. You said that you started for nothing on my way home for for 15 16 hours. I'm out of here. >> All right. Ch. >> Talk to somebody. We got somebody coming to talk to you. >> I was complying with him the whole time. >> Your car is being towed. >> You call somebody. Come over. >> Huh? >> You call a supervisor? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I was complying with you the WHOLE TIME. COMPLY. I GOT MY LICENSE. I GOT INSURANCE. You wouldn't even let me show you that I HAD MY INSURANCE. AND THEN HE GOING TO THINK THAT I HAVE ANOTHER VEHICLE WITH INSURANCE ON IT AND I DON'T. >> You got a medical marijuana card? >> And I don't. >> You got medical marijuana? >> Not with me. >> Do you have one? >> Not on me. >> But do you have one? >> I used to. >> So why it smells like weed in the car? >> Cuz I was smoking yesterday. >> Okay. Well, >> you think maybe that had to something to do with why you had something to do then? Cuz he didn't say nothing to me. >> You don't have to say something to me. >> That was not the reason why. Don't try to say that's the reason why. DON'T TRY TO PUT THAT ON THERE. DON'T TRY TO SAY THAT'S WHY. DON'T TRY TO SAY THAT'S WHY. >> Stone 20. >> Don't try to say that's why. STOP LYING, Y'ALL. NOW Y'ALL TRYING TO COVER UP YOUR >> Now y'all trying to cover UP YOUR ASS. YES, YOU IS. YOU GET A LITTLE YOU GET A LITTLE BAD ON your >> She talking about shooting somebody and got a mouth like that. That's crazy. You got I AM >> AND I SAT THERE AND TOLD YOU THAT SOMETHING JUST SOMETHING similar to the same thing. You can drop it down there. SOMETHING SIMILAR JUST HAPPENED TO me a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. >> It just happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Can you answer that call for me? >> Huh? >> Can you please answer that call? >> No, I can't answer a call. >> Go to dog. I'm not talking TO YOU. >> I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU. >> I'm not talking to you. You're a nasty ass dog. That's what you as I just open the door, grab her by a shirt, pull her out. We go to the ground, put her in cuffs. She steady resist. So I push her up on the car. That's where we are. >> Okay. >> She's hot, yelling, complaining. She wants the supervisor. Supervisor not out. So that's where we are. >> The guy on the phone with her when I first told her get out, he's like, "Just get out. He's just make sure you take pictures of the car. Take pictures of the inside cuz I don't want to always say we trash." >> Yeah. lose your job. You're going to lose job. I promise you that. Cuz you had NO BUSINESS DRAGGING ME OUT CAR FOR NO REASON. YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BACKUP OR ON YOU OR NOTHING. IT WAS YOU BY YOURSELF. >> Issue one, the stop. Kansas versus Glover decided in 2020 lets an officer presume the registered owner is driving. A suspended license return supplies reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment. A second system check before contact strengthens the basis. If the record proves wrong, Arizona versus Evans and Herring versus United States generally bar suppression for good faith database reliance. Issue two, the exit order. Pennsylvania versus Mims decided in 1977 lets officers order a driver out of any lawfully stopped vehicle. No added suspicion is required. Handing over a license and registration does not satisfy that command. Florida statute 843.02 prohibits resisting an officer's lawful duty without violence and refusing to exit fits it. Issue three, force. Graham versus Connor decided in 1989. Judges forced by what a reasonable officer knew at that moment. Weighing the offense, the threat, and the resistance. A shirt grab, controlled takedown, and handcuffing are soft, empty-hand control after repeated ignored commands. That level was proportionate to the documented non-compliance. Issue four, the charges. Florida statute 322.34 criminalizes driving while suspended only when the driver knew of the suspension. Without knowledge, it is a civil moving violation. The statutory presumption of knowledge excludes financial responsibility suspensions, the category the officer described. The state needs notice, a prior citation, or an admission. Her recorded confusion weakens that element. The resisting charge stands apart. It requires a lawful stop and a lawful order, not a valid suspension. Reasonable suspicion existed when the command was given, so the order stayed lawful. Resisting without violence is a first-degree misdemeanor, up to one year in county jail. Driving while suspended with knowledge is a seconddegree misdemeanor, rising to first degree on a second conviction. Atwater versus Lago Vista, decided in 2001, permits custodial arrest for a minor offense committed in an officer's presence. The earlier promise of a citation is a tactical concern, not a constitutional bar. The marijuana odor surfaced after the extraction, so it cannot justify it. Florida courts also divide on odor alone. Owens versus state 2021 allows a search, while Baxter versus State 2024 does not. Questions to a handcuffed detainee about a medical marijuana card require warnings under Miranda versus Arizona 1966. Without them, her answers are likely inadmissible, though the arrest remains valid. Tactically, the solo extraction is the central weakness. Best practice calls for a cover officer before physical contact, reducing injury risk and disputed accounts. A lawful result does not erase unavoidable risk. Repeated ultimatums compress the timeline, stating the legal basis, the exit order under MIMS, and allowing time to comply might have avoided force. threatening jail escalated tension without adding authority. >> You got pockets on there now. You ready for an explanation or you still going to yell and and carry on? >> I've been yelling at you. >> But you ready for an Let me Let me give you an explanation. Okay. Cuz everything that occurred was on camera. Okay. So I don't have to have Listen. Listen. All you got to do is listen. >> The reason they didn't talk to you out there is because every time my lieutenant said something to you, you talked over him. Okay. So hold on. Hold on. So then, so then the major said, "Hey, you know what? She don't want to listen. We're done talking." >> I was listening. >> So come on, look at me. Let's talk. >> So I had a I had a reason that'll take you to jail. I come up there. I said, "Hey, listen. I'm not going I'm just going to write you a ticket." >> I didn't want for you to do that. >> Driving on a suspended driver's license is a crime. >> And I was telling you my license is not suspended. >> See, look, the same thing happened before. >> You're not listening to me. >> And I was listening to you then. But you dragged me out of the car. You want me to listen to you? Because because I asked you to get out OF THE CAR >> FOR NOTHING. FOR NOTHING. I GAVE YOU MY INFORMATION. >> OKAY. SO, we're back to the same spot. We're back to the same. >> And you're trying to put it on me. >> Put it on you. >> You trying to put everything on me WHEN YOU DRUGGED ME OUT OF THE CAR FOR NOTHING. AND I GAVE you my information. I GAVE YOU ASKED FOR MY license and registration. I DIDN'T NEED I I COMPLIED WITH YOU. I DID NOT REFUTE YOU. I DID APPLY WITH YOU AND I GAVE you that and I talked to my boyfriend on the phone. >> If you compiled me, we wouldn't be IN THIS SITUATION. >> I GAVE YOU MY REGISTRATION AND MY LICENSE. Because I was on the phone and you got mad >> because on camera I'm not mad with you being on the phone. No, I'm not. >> That's a You were on the phone when I walked up there. >> I was not on the phone. The phone was ringing when you walked up. >> You were on the phone with me. >> You was a liar. >> You was a liar. The phone was ringing. >> I gave you my license registration. >> I tried to talk. Like I said, >> YOU TRIED TO TALK. I DIDN'T DROP ME OUT THE for nothing. >> Don't worry about it. >> Do what? >> File charges. File charges on what? >> Against officer Williams. >> Ma'am, you come up and got a a report. >> I didn't ask for You gave me a You gave me >> You can't file char You cannot file charges on officer, man. You got to do it. >> You can. >> Okay, look. I'm done. Okay. I'm trying to explain to you just like you was on the side of the road with him. You won't listen. You won't listen at me. You cannot You Listen, we looked at the video. You cannot listen to >> You cannot file a a arrest on officer. They give you a complaint form to fill out. You fill a complaint form, you bring it back up here, they'll do an internal investigation on that case. Okay? >> I want to see the videos, too. >> What that you understand what I'm telling you, sir? >> Come back up here, bring the report that we gave you to fill out, give it to them, and they will do an internal investigation on Officer William case. >> But that's that's two different things, right? >> Do what? >> That's two different things, right? >> What you mean two different things? charges and file charges. >> You can't you can't you cannot file charges on officer. Okay? You get you go. Well, I'm I'm telling you what to do. Listen at me. >> They gave her a form. Fill out a complaint form in reference to what happened. Okay? They will open up an internal an internal on that officer. Now, if that officer was found wrong was found wrong of what he did, then he will be disciplined. He will be disciplined. Okay? And if it weren't for charges being filed against him, then charges will be filed against him through the state attorney's office. It's got to go through the state attorney's office. You understand what I'm saying? You got to do the investigation. They give you the form to fill out. Fill it out. Bring it up here. Turn it in. It'll go to the hire up the chief, the major, and the captain lieutenant. >> That's Chief Anderson. >> That's Chief Anderson. Yes. >> Okay. >> He's the chief. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. But you got to do the internal. You got to do the internal. you got to do to fill out the the the complaint form which was given to her. Okay? You got to do that first and then if they see warrant the send the charges on over to the state attorney office and the state attorney look at say okay yeah well we got enough to file charge on officer William for battery or whatever then they'll do that. Okay. But you got to start somewhere and that's where you starting at with the complaint. >> Okay. But those will be filled. >> Okay. Well man we tried the fact that you sitting there I'm done. Sir I'm done. Y'all have a good day. >> I'm going have a good day. >> Listen, ma'am. Listen here. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. You come up You came up here to You come up here to IPD wanting information and I explained it to you. I I wasn't on the phone. I wasn't there. He was. Okay. Well, I understand that. Okay. Well, you you listen, stop. You put him in your complaint and they'll call them in and interview him. Okay. If so. Okay. But don't come up here with an attitude like Yes, you did. You came up here attitude earlier, man. I'm not arguing with you about this. Okay. I'm not No, I didn't get nasty with you. I No, I did not get nasty with you. No, I didn't. M. You came up here and said you want to arrest somebody. >> You said something. >> Hey, look. I'm done talking with you. This is done. Okay. What I'm asking you to right now do, leave the police department. >> Oh, I'm I am. But y'all were here to last me. >> Good. Have a good day, ma'am. That's all you got to do, sir. She fell out. Bring it back up here and they'll do it internal. Yeah. I'm I'm talking to you cuz she ain't listening. She got attitude. >> I ain't talking to her. >> You have a good day. We all keep trying to cover up each other. >> Florida statute 112.533 requires agencies to investigate complaints against officers. Criminal charges against an officer come from the state attorney, not the front desk. As the desk officer explained, a civil claim under Title 42, United States Code, section 1983, also remains available. It would be measured under Graham versus Connor and faces a difficult path given the lawful stop and proportionate force. Officer Williams receives a B minus. The stop, exit order, and extraction were each lawfully supported. The gray drops for the jail ultimatum, the avoidable solo extraction, and a doubtful knowledge element on the suspension charge. Tamika Teasdale receives a C++. Her confusion about the suspension appears genuine, and she supplied her documents, but confusion gives no right to refuse an exit order, and that refusal created the resisting charge. The supervisors and desk staff receive a B. They stayed measured, ordered photographs of the vehicle interior, and explained the complaint process accurately. The gap is no documented use of force review on scene. Lesson one, a plate return alone justifies a stop and an exit order stands apart from handing over documents. Comply at the roadside, then contest through internal affairs or a civil claim. Lesson two, ultimatums are not deescalation. Explaining the legal basis and allowing time to comply lowers both risk and departmental liability. Lesson three, solo extractions are avoidable. Waiting minutes for a second officer prevents disputed accounts, uncontrolled contact, and injury.