No, I'm not putting my hands behind that. >> On June 30th, 2024, officers received a call from Dollar General. A suspect had allegedly shoplifted and fled on foot. They located her two blocks away. She had a story ready. Actually, she had several, and she was going to cycle through all of them in the next 8 minutes. Shoplifting in most states is a misdemeanor, manageable, especially for a first offense. Resisting arrest is a separate charge. It stacks on top, and it carries its own consequences, entirely independent of what started the call. Officers asked her to put her hands behind her back. She refused. They told her she was being detained. She disputed that too. Most people when told they are legally detained stop moving. She was not most people. >> I'm going to tell you one thing. Put your hands behind your back. >> No, don't touch me. I don't have you. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU. >> NO, I DON'T GOT NOTHING. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> You came all the way up and put your >> No, I don't have anything. >> Put your hands behind your back now OR I'M GOING >> NO, I'M NOT PUTTING my hands behind my back. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND your back now or I'm GOING TO TASE YOU. >> NO. NO. I don't have anything. >> Put your hands behind your back or I'm going to tase you. >> No. Say that again. >> What you want? >> Listen, you're being detained right now. >> Being detained for what? >> Because you just came from Dollar General. >> No, I I No, sir. I I just came from Dollar General and I was returning something. >> Like I said, >> I was returning this, sir. >> I said, put your hand behind your back. >> I'm not putting my hand behind my back. >> If you resist, you're going to get another charge. >> No, don't touch me. Do not touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. >> Don't stop me. Okay, go to that HOUSE RIGHT NOW. >> I DID NOT COME FROM NO DOLLAR GENERAL. >> OKAY. I DIDN'T COME. NO, I DIDN'T COME FROM DOLLAR GENERAL. >> NO, I DIDN'T. >> YOU JUST SAID YOU DID. >> I JUST WALKED DOWN THE STREET. I didn't come from Dollar General. >> I'm going to tell you again. >> CAMERA SHOW. >> NO, I DON'T HAVE NOTHING. I don't have nothing. No, I don't have nothing. Don't walk up on me. >> I'm going to tell you again. >> I don't have anything. I DIDN'T COME from Dollar General. >> You resist. >> Okay. I can't call another police. I'll live right there. I DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE. NO, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. NO, I'M NOT PUTTING MY HANDS BEHIND MY BACK. DON'T TOUCH ME. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. COME HERE. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. >> RESIST. >> Don't touch me. >> Resist. >> Don't touch me. >> Resist. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. DO NOT EXCUSE ME. >> Do not resist. >> Excuse me, sir. >> Do not resist. >> Man right now. I don't have anything. >> Thank you. >> Excuse me. >> 132. I have one black thing. >> Excuse me. >> You can make this a lot easier. >> I don't have anything. No, I didn't just come from Donald. >> Hey, excuse me. Excuse me. Don't knock on the door. Excuse me. >> Like I said, >> excuse me, sir. Can you go knock on the door? Can you go knock on the door? Excuse me. Can you knock on the door right there? >> Let go. Excuse me. >> Let go. >> No. >> Let go. >> Hear knock on the door. No. Can he knock on the door right now? >> I don't have nothing. >> I don't have nothing. NO, I DON'T HAVE NOTHING. Do not touch me. No. I didn't do anything. Don't touch me. I don't have anything. I don't have anything. Don't touch me. DON'T TOUCH ME. I'M NOT GOING NOWHERE. I DIDN'T TOUCH NO DOLLAR GENERAL. I just was walking down the street from the store. >> I DIDN'T GO TO DOLLAR GENERAL. NO, I'M NOT GOING NOWHERE. >> NO, DON'T TOUCH ME. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. >> I don't have nothing. I DIDN'T I DON'T GOT NOTHING FROM DOLLAR GENERAL. >> GO AHEAD AND SEE. >> I don't have anything. NO. NO, I DON'T HAVE NOTHING, SIR. NO, I DON'T GOT NOTHING. >> GO AHEAD AND GO INSIDE. >> Excuse me. Can you go get that mail from right there? >> Ma'am, LISTEN. >> NO, I DON'T HAVE NOTHING. I don't have nothing. >> Listen, you can You're making it harder. >> Excuse me. >> Nobody's going to HELP YOU. >> CAN YOU GO DOWN THE STREET AND GET THAT ME? I DON'T HAVE NOTHING. Don't touch me. DON'T TOUCH ME. >> NO. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. No. NO. NO. NO. CALL THE REAL POLICE. NO. >> Go ahead. No, no, no. Maybe you >> No. CALL THE REAL POLICE. NO. CALL [screaming] THE POLICE. NO. >> NO. NO. NO. NO. >> You're making it harder on yourself. >> I don't have nothing. I don't have nothing. >> Listen, you just said they >> I DON'T HAVE NO, I DIDN'T COME FROM THE DOLLAR GENERAL. >> YOU'RE GOING TO GET MORE CHARGES. >> NO, I DIDN'T COME FROM NO DOLLAR GENERAL. NO, NO, NO. CALL THE REAL POLICE. I STAY RIGHT THERE. I DIDN'T do nothing. I DIDN'T COME FROM NO DOLLAR GENERAL. BYE. >> GO INSIDE. >> NO, NO, NO. >> Go inside. I'm asking you nicely to go inside. >> I didn't call FROM DOLLAR GENERAL. I WAS JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET. NO. Excuse me. >> Okay. >> CAN YOU CALL THE REAL POLICE? >> I'M ASKING YOU TO GO INSIDE. >> CAN YOU CALL THE REAL POLICE? >> I'M ASKING YOU TO GO. >> CALL THE REAL POLICE. >> I'm asking you to go inside very nicely. >> No. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. >> I'm asking you. >> I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. Don't touch me. >> I'm asking you real nicely TO GO INSIDE, [screaming] >> OKAY? You're going to go inside. COME ON, >> AUDREY. >> COME ON. GO INSIDE, >> ANDRE. [screaming] >> GO INSIDE, >> ANDRE. >> THANK YOU. This this Sir, I didn't steal nothing from no dollar store. I was walking down the street. I didn't go to the dollar store. >> All right. So, I already confirmed anyways that you were at the store even though you lied to me. >> Okay. I wasn't at the store. You can let me go. I was right I was right over there. I was not at the store. >> You were inside the store and THEY CONFIRMED. >> NO, I wasn't in the store. I wasn't in the store. >> What's your first name? >> Beverly Williams. You can let me out. I don't have nothing. >> Beverly Williams. >> Yeah. >> You got a men initial. >> Hey. >> Okay. What's your date of birth? >> 43088. I'll stand right there. You can let me go. I didn't go to no dollar store. >> 430. >> 43088. >> Okay. What's your phone number? >> Why? Tell him to come and get me out of here >> again. 201. >> I don't have nothing. >> Well, you keep lying. I asked you if you went in the store. You said no. >> No, I didn't go in the store. You were in the camera in the store? >> No. No. I didn't go in the store and sell. >> You are in on the camera inside the store. >> No, I didn't go in the store. >> Okay. You were >> I didn't go in the store. >> Okay. >> I didn't go in the store. >> Okay. >> Let me go. I stay right there. I ain't going no I'm right down the street from my house. You can let me go. >> Can't do that just yet. I wasn't I wasn't at the dollar store. >> Okay. >> I wasn't at no dollar store. >> Okay. >> You can call that Call that person right there. You call on my baby to come get me out of here. >> Well, you can't leave just yet. So, >> I'm right down the street. MY HOUSE RIGHT THERE. WHERE that where that Magnum at? Where that white Magnum? I didn't take anything from no store. I was at Dollar General. >> You keep saying you weren't, but the camera say otherwise. >> No, I wasn't at Dollar General. You didn't see me at no Dollar General on no cameras. Let me out of here. I didn't take anything from the store. >> No, ma'am. You're being You're detained for right now. As long as we're investigating this crime. >> Okay. Can you call another police? I didn't take anything. >> The other police officer is the one that's at the store trying to investigate everything. He'll be able to be the one that you talk to. >> Okay. >> Sir, you just tried to give me HIV. Do not touch me. Okay, that's not that's not how you do. >> Okay, ma'am. >> Yes, ma'am. >> She told officers she had never been to Dollar General. Then she said she was there returning something. Then she said she had just been walking down the street. She said all three of those things in under 2 minutes. Officers had the store camera. She didn't know that yet. What she did know or believed was that if she kept talking, kept explaining, kept insisting, something would eventually go her way. It would not go her way. This is where the interaction became a pattern. Every time officers approached, she stepped back. Every time they gave a command, she countered with a denial. The resisting arrest charge was not something they decided to add later. It was building in real time on camera on their body cameras. She asked officers to knock on a neighbor's door to find someone who could confirm she lived nearby. officers redirected. She kept going. At no point did she ask for a lawyer. At no point did she stop talking. There is a right that applies in exactly this situation. The fifth amendment gives every person detained by police the right to remain silent. Not just in a formal interrogation, in a sidewalk stop. In a moment like this one, she did not use it. Meanwhile, officers were methodical. They collected her name, her date of birth, her phone number. They were building a record while she was arguing. That asymmetry would matter. Then the second officer confirmed it. She had been inside the store. The camera showed her there, not nearby, not passing by, inside. Under Terry versus Ohio, officers may detain a suspect for a reasonable time while investigating reasonable suspicion of a crime. She was not free to leave. Every let me go legally irrelevant. The detention was lawful. What she was adding with every minute was the resisting charge. She kept denying I wasn't in the store. You didn't see me on no cameras. I didn't take anything. The camera said otherwise. Officers said nothing to change her approach. Nothing would. The interaction ended the way it had been heading since the first 30 seconds. Officers confirmed what they needed to confirm. The investigation at the store was proceeding without her cooperation because it didn't need it. Beverly Williams was charged with one count of resisting arrest. The underlying Dollar General incident remains under investigation. She is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Resisting arrest is not a charge that depends on guilt or innocence in the original call. It is a standalone offense based entirely on conduct during the detention. Conduct that was recorded on body camera from start to finish. The officers get a B+ 8 minutes of sustained resistance, a bystander they had to redirect, and a subject who accused one of them of a serious crime with no basis. They stayed patient. They stayed methodical. Under Graham versus Connor, force is evaluated on what officers knew in the moment, not in hindsight. Every decision here holds up. The one deduction, the back and forth near the neighbor's door extended the encounter. A slightly earlier decision point might have resolved this faster. Small note, the restraint they showed throughout was real. Beverly Williams gets a D. She entered the encounter with a manageable situation. She exited it with a separate criminal charge she had built entirely herself over 8 minutes on camera. She had three different versions of where she had been. Officers had one version and it came from the store camera. When those two things collide, only one of them is evidence. There is a constitutional right to remain silent. It applies here. It applied from the first moment officers approached. She knew she had options. The option she chose was to talk and to keep talking until the situation became something much larger than it started as. The shoplifting call was what brought officers to that sidewalk. The resisting arrest charge that was entirely her own