I'm not even speeding or nothing. >> Stop. >> What the is this? >> What the is this? >> Stop. >> Me right. I ain't even do nothing. >> I have not done anything wrong. My daughter has >> You're doing miles hour in a 45 hour speed. >> My name is Sergeant Vega from the Port St. Lucy Police Department calling you for >> on May 7th, 2025, a Port St. Lucy police officer stopped a driver on US Highway 1 after radar confirmed 83 mph in a posted 45 zone. The driver was arrested and charged with reckless driving, resisting an officer without violence and driving under the influence. This is that stop. What makes this stop analytically significant is that before the encounter ended, the driver made a recorded threat to bomb the police station captured on the officer's own body cam. then called the department days later to file a civil rights complaint >> from a recorded line. my phone. >> No, but you can park your car in park and step out of the car. >> Yes, I am. But why can't I argue with >> Get out of the car. >> Step out of the car. >> Going to make a phone call. >> No, you're going to step out of this car. >> I am, but I'm going to make a phone call. >> Okay, step out of this car. >> Okay, but why? >> Now, >> why? >> Because I'm giving you an order to step out of the car. >> But why are we giving me an order to step out of the car? >> You can get out of this car on your own power. I'm going to assist you out of this caration on the phone. >> Step out of the car. >> Why? >> Because I'm giving you a lawful order to step out of the car. I will. >> But I want to know why. >> Why are you asking me to step out of the car? >> Because I am giving you a lawful order to step out of the car. >> I want to know why. >> Call me 94. Step out. >> Why are we asking me to step out of the car? >> Because I gave you a lawful order. Step out of the car. >> Okay. But I want to know why. >> Step out of the car. >> Step out of the car now. >> I will. Can you give me a second? >> No. You are stepping out of this car now >> because I gave you a lawful order. Step out of the car. >> Give me a second. >> Give me a second. So >> your reckless behavior and driving is why I'm pulling >> driving. I was right behind other people. >> You're doing 3 mph in a 45 mph speed zone. You're coming. >> I was behind regular traffic. I was literally in between traffic. >> I'm giving you one last opportunity. And now I'm going to tell you what happened. >> Hold your lights on. >> I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. You're either going to step out of this carusing if you own me over or somebody else. >> No, I intentionally pulled you over. >> I have stopped you for a lawful reason. I've given you a lawful order to exit this vehicle. If you choose to refuse that lawful order, I'm going to assist you out of this car. If you resist my door, >> step out of the car. >> I shouldn't have even opened my door for you. You should respect that alone. >> Okay, this is your final opportunity. Step out of the car. >> Why? Like, let's be for real. >> Okay, you're under arrest. Step out of the car. Arrest for what? >> Reckless driving and refusing a lawful order. >> I wasn't reckless driving. >> Yes, you were. >> Step out of the car. >> Call your sheriff. >> I'm sure they're on their way. >> Yeah. >> Step out of the car. >> No. >> Step out of the car. >> No. >> And the >> I'm going to explain this to you. When that next unit gets here, I'm going to pull you out of the store. >> I want to see your sheriff cuz now you're doing too much. >> You're not taking me to jail away. >> You're under arrest for reckless driving. >> Under arrest for what? Driving on US1 doing the same speed limit stand by Marina. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This What's your name? >> It's officer Apple >> for sir Dre K. Apple Bomb 926. Officer pulled me over. I'm on US1. We talking about I'm reckless driving when I'm doing the same speed limit. I'm doing the same speed limit everybody else ising doing. No, he's not letting me go. He's telling ME TO GET OUT. HE'S TELL HE'S TRYING TO TELL ME THAT I'M under arrest and that >> I AM THINKING ABOUT ADRIANA. I GOTTA BE THERE TO PICK HER UP. I GOT TO PICK MY DAUGHTER UP AT HER DAYCARE BY 6:00. >> How am I going to do I don't know how I'm going to do that because this [ __ ] is over here trying to take me TO JAIL FOR DOING SOME imaginary unlawful speed. But you can't even go faster than what the the traffic the traffic is doing on US1. So how the am I speeding? >> Okay. >> Are they speeding? >> This is your final opportunity. Step out of the car. >> Can anybody speed? >> This is your final opportunity. It's a lawful order. I'm a Florida certified police officer giving you a lawful command. Step out of the car. >> Final chance. >> Certified police officer. WHY ARE YOU WHY are you What the What the I'm not evening. >> I'm not even speeding or nothing. >> Stop. >> What the is this? >> What the is this? >> Stop. Me rice. I ain't even do nothing. >> Tell them tonight. >> I have not done anything wrong. My daughter has to be picked up by 6:00 at her day. >> What are you arresting me for? >> What are YOU ARRESTING ME FOR? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. >> I didn't do anything. I have >> I didn't do anything. I have to pee. >> Do you have anything on you? >> NO. AND I HAVE TO PEE. I How are you speeding in this traffic? How are you speeding in this traffic? >> How are you speeding in this? How am I You cannot do this. You cannot >> You can't do this, bro. You're not even reading me my ranks. I didn't do anything wrong to get arrested. >> You didn't even tell me what the [ __ ] I did to get arrested. >> What are you What What are we doing? >> Sit in the car. >> You need to tell me what I did to be arrested. Sit in the car. >> What are we doing? >> SIT IN THE CAR. >> NO. >> SIT in the car. >> Sit in the car. >> All right, ma'am. Listen. You're about to get tased. >> What are we doing? You're sitting in his car. >> You're about to get things. >> Sit in the car. >> You're about to GET IN THE CAR. WHAT? >> I didn't even do anything. >> Sit in the car. >> I didn't even do anything. >> Explain that. How am I speeding in the traffic? Officer Apple Bomb. >> You were doing 83 and a 45. >> What? >> You were doing 83 mph in a 45 m. >> I was doing 83 m an hour. Okay. >> And then as I try to catch up to you, you start cutting in and out of traffic without signing. >> All the officers WAS AFTER ME. OH, you're just the only one that that that supposedly caught me speeding FROM ALL THE WAY FROM MELUCA. YEAH, >> you're the only one from Meluca. Dren Circle, Meluca. I've been doing the same SPEED. I I GREW UP HERE. >> OKAY. >> I GRADUATED FROM ST. LUCY, WEST ANTENNO. I KNOW THAT I MAKE LIGHTS change at night when you flash YOUR LIGHTS. I KNOW this these streets. This my [ __ ] [ __ ] Okay. My streets. Ain't no way going to see you and tell me I was speeding. And you're the only officer that ever caught me in my whole life. I'm 32 years old. I grew up here. >> Okay. >> Don'ting do that because you're not going to win that. >> You're not. >> I'm going to read this to you so you have an understanding. Okay. >> I don't hear any of that. >> You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before you ask me any questions or have him or her president question you if you wish. >> If you decide to answer questions now you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to a lawyer. You also have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to a lawyer. >> No reason to pull me over. You don't. >> Do you understand the rights that I've explained to you? >> Kapp you have any questions about the rights that I've explained to you? Dre, I'm going to make sure the I'm going to make sure the judge >> speaks to you. >> Having these rights in mind, do you wish to answer my questions at this moment in time? >> I'm not answering the [ __ ] >> The officer issues an exit order under Pennsylvania versus Mims 434 US 1061 1977. An officer conducting a lawful traffic stop may order the driver out of the vehicle without explanation. No reason is legally required. The driver refuses. She will refuse more than 20 times over the next several minutes. Each sustained refusal independently satisfies the elements of Florida statute section 843.02. Resisting an officer without violence, a first-degree misdemeanor. Non-compliance alone is sufficient. Physical struggle is not required. The officer proceeds with physical extraction after repeated non-compliance. Under Graham versus Connor 490 US 386 1989, reasonleness is judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer at the moment of decision, not in hindsight. The three governing factors are severity of the offense, immediiacy of the threat, and degree of active resistance. Hands only extraction with no taser, no spray, and no strikes places this response at the lowest active level on the use of force continuum. Miranda is read after handcuffing. Textbook timing under Burkimer versus McCarti 468US420 1984, which holds that Miranda attaches once custody is comparable to a formal arrest, not during ordinary traffic detention. The driver invokes her right to silence. The officer immediately ceases questioning. The officer then articulates two independent observations, a clear odor of alcohol and empty containers visible inside the vehicle. Those two facts satisfy the reasonable suspicion threshold required to expand the stop into DEDY investigation under Terry versus Ohio 392US1 1968. Florida statute section 316.193 defines driving under the influence to include impairment of normal faculties by alcohol. Florida's implied consent law, statute section 316.1932, treats every driver as having consented to chemical testing upon lawful arrest. Refusal carries an automatic one-year license suspension under Birfield versus North Dakota 579 US. 438 2016, states may also criminalize breath test refusal without implicating the Fourth Amendment. The DUI investigation is now grounded on grounds independent of the original speeding charge. The statement the driver made before leaving the patrol car is the most consequential moment of this encounter. Under Virginia versus black 538 US 343 2003, a true threat is a serious expression of intent to commit unlawful violence and falls outside first amendment protection. Florida statute section 836.10 classifies a recorded threat to commit terrorism or to kill another person as a secondderee felony carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years. The officer's body cam preserved that statement as a timestamped admissible recording with no ambiguity of context or attribution. >> Awesome. >> I can smell a clear o of alcohol coming out of the back of this car right now. There's empty containers inside of that car. >> That was hours ago though at the beach. Do you want to do a trust a trust test? >> A trust test? I don't know what >> whatever the they call it. I I don't I've never been pulled over for what the >> Well, I suspect that you're under the influence of alcohol RIGHT NOW. >> TRY IT THERE. I'm asking if you were will you participate in roadside your Friday >> and let's do the testing. That's that's the law, ain't it? >> Are you willing to participate in this? >> Let's do it. >> All right. Just sit tight. We're going to go somewhere else. >> Take my No. Somewhere else where? >> We're going to go to our safe >> here. Why you got to take me somewhere else? >> Cuz you already fought with us once. I'm not taking you out of handcuffs out here. We're going to go to a secure location. >> We're going to do it right the [ __ ] here. There's two lines on the road I'm looking at right now. Like right in front of my car. What's the problem? >> You're not secretly. I'm sorry to tell you that. >> DCF is going to be called soon. My daughter's going to be taken. I'M GOING TO HAVE A VENGEANCE. I'm going to most likely lose my life for bombing y'all [ __ ] up and trying to kill everybody. So, what are we what are we doing with the [ __ ] [ __ ] Who's you talking about? Talk about I'm speeding. You don't know what the speeding is in a MAZDA M3. >> SUCK MY GO PICK UP MY DAUGHTER. >> OKAY. Before you get out of the car. >> Oh, what are we doing here? Because I see you got gloves on. >> Yeah. >> So, we are here for you to participate in roadside field exercises. >> And what? >> For you to do what you were calling the truth test. Called roadside field exercises. That's what we're here for. But we could have done it right where we were and you could have let me go so I can go pick up my daughter >> on time. >> We are going to walk in here. >> Okay, let's do it. >> Okay, what you need to pull me from the bag? LET'S DO IT. CUZ THE QUICKER THE BETTER I can go get my daughter. >> Listen, >> I don't want to hear anything other than you can release. You can be released and I can go get my daughter cuz I didn't do nothing else. >> If at any point in time you stop resisting. >> I'm not I wasn't resisting you in the first place. >> Okay. >> I wasn't resisting you in the first place. >> Step out here. We're going to go in here. Okay. So, what are we doing? >> There's a camera there. There's a camera there. And there's a camera there. All right. This whole area. What are we doing? >> What are we doing? And then we're going to walk the line. Let's come down here. I'm going start down here like this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. No. And then turn around. As I explain, I don't remember when you turn around. One, two, three. Right. That's how turn. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. We made it. Nine. And here. Point your toe out in front of you. So your foot's parallel to ground here. I want you to look down at the tip of your raised foot and count out loud. 1,001 1,002. Do you understand? >> No. >> What's confusing? >> I can't even say the alphabet backwards. Can you? >> I didn't ask you backwards. I got >> 100 1,00 to 1,00 what? >> No, I stop. It's not a reasonably long time. >> Okay. >> Until you're ready to get into. That's what you're doing. All right. 1,0012003 um what am I climbing to 100 what do you have any questions I'm ready to go >> 10012003 1006 >> Put your foot down [sighs] >> do you have any questions >> I already said no Correct. Begin. 1,00 1,002 1,003 10045 1006 1007 I see 1,004 each number 8 1 are we still 31 32 33 >> you said I lost I lost what was the game >> don't do anything I feel like you When I tell you to start, I want you to estimate 30 seconds in your head. Start. >> Close my eyes. Close your eyes. >> How loud? >> Are you ready? >> Start. Okay. Well, I heard movement, so I >> So, we have to start that on. >> I heard movement. >> Sorry. >> Are you ready? Do you need to explain anything yet? >> No. Just don't move with my eyes. >> Okay. >> Are you ready? >> Yes. >> Start. Bring your head back. >> Bring your head back. >> Yes. like this. Okay. [snorts] What about you? Was I just Okay. Right. Am I supposed to left at this point? Right. How the [ __ ] does this drunk? >> I'm about to come back and let some some rules be off cuz this is ridiculous. >> Right. >> And put my hand back. >> Yes. >> Okay. The first time. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Next. >> Wow. >> Okay. Next. >> And I'll follow us. I could have used the bathroom with me with the hands on. >> You can't. >> Is there possibly doing the bathroom with both of y'all right here though? I could have used the bathroom. >> Okay. So, I'm sitting here until they come. What are we doing? >> You are under arrest for driving. The next step is I'm going to request that you test your breath for the purpose of determin. >> Are you are you willing to switch to a local sample of your breath on purpose? >> We already did all this [ __ ] >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, did you ask me if I was willing to do that before we did it? No. >> It's not how this process works. >> Okay. Well, my process is yes. Days after this stop, the driver called Port St. Lucy police to file a civil rights complaint alleging the officer failed to request her identification. On its face, that allegation describes no constitutional violation. Probable cause attached the moment radar confirmed 83 in a 45. Identification is a booking and citation formality, not a precondition to a lawful stop or arrest. At the time of this analysis, the final disposition of all charges, including the potential secondderee felony under statute section 836.10, 10 is not publicly confirmed. Officer Apple receives an A minus. The stop was predicated on unambiguous radar evidence. The officer issued more than 20 verbal commands over nearly 4 minutes before initiating physical extraction, a level of deescalation patience that exceeds standard expectations. Miranda was read at the correct procedural moment, and the driver's invocation was immediately honored. The DUI expansion was supported by two independently articulated observations. A minor deduction applies for the delayed verbal clarification of charges in the opening minutes, which likely extended the driver's agitation unnecessarily. The driver receives an F. A routine speeding stop escalated into a multi-charge arrest through decisions that were each individually avoidable. 20 plus refusals of a lawful exit order converted a traffic citation into a custodial arrest. A voluntary admission of prior alcohol consumption corroborated the DUI grounds. The on camera bomb threat recorded in full, timestamped, attributed without ambiguity, created independent secondderee felony exposure under Florida statute section 836.10. The civil rights complaint filed afterward describes no constitutionally cognizable harm. Identification is not a precondition to probable cause. The department receives a B+. Body cam coverage was continuous and fully functioning throughout the encounter, capturing every legally significant moment. The supervising sergeant followed up on the driver's complaint via recorded line consistent with documented intake protocol. The accountability infrastructure performed as designed. Lesson one. Demanding to know why before complying with a lawful exit order carries no legal weight. Under Pennsylvania versus MIMS, compliance is non-conditional. Each refusal independently expands criminal exposure under Florida statute section 843.02 without providing any corresponding legal benefit. Lesson two, refusing field sobriety exercises does not defeat a DUI case. Under Florida statute section 316.1932, refusal triggers an automatic one-year license suspension and may carry additional criminal consequences under Birfield versus North Dakota. Participation preserves the opportunity to demonstrate sobriety. Refusal forfeits it. Lesson three, a threat spoken to a police body cam is not a rhetorical outburst. It is a timestamp recording preserved in full context available for prosecutorial review. Under Florida Statute Section 836.10, a recorded threat to commit terrorism or to kill another person is a secondderee felony. The camera does not distinguish between anger and intent. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like us to discuss in the comments below. We read all of them. If there is a body cam interaction or legal question you want covered, let us know.