or she's pulling off. >> Get out of the car. >> GET OUT OF THE CAR. GET OUT OF THE CAR. >> WAIT. HEY. HEY. HEY. STOP. >> A Santa Rosa County deputy clocks a woman doing 60 and a 45. He's already decided to let her go with a written warning. She had other ideas. On March 26th, 2024, Deputy 174 of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office initiated a routine traffic stop on Avalon Boulevard. 60 and a 45. The kind of stop that takes 5 minutes and ends with a warning slip and a reminder to slow down. What followed instead was a 4-minute standoff at the driver's window, two separate flight attempts, a court authorized pit maneuver, a broken driver's side window, a physical extraction, and felony charges. All of it on body camera, all of it avoidable. Here is what the law says about every decision made in the next 21 minutes. When the deputy approached and gave a lawful order to step out of the vehicle, she refused. not once repeatedly for nearly 4 minutes. She said he was being rude. She said she had a right to be told why first. She said she wasn't comfortable. None of those things are legal defenses to refusing a lawful exit order. And [clears throat] that matters because the refusal itself was already a crime in progress. >> Do me a favor. Set the radio off. Step out. I need to talk to you for a second. >> I'm not stepping out of the car. What can I do? >> Ma'am, listen. 174. Can I get another unit? She's refusing to step out of the vehicle and talk to me. What do I >> normal? Please. I will tell you in a second. I need you to step out. All right. Listen, ma'am. I'm We're >> 10:34. Not right now. Listen. You're coming this close. All right. You're about to go to jail. All right. I I'll explain everything to you if you step out. >> I'm telling you right now to step out of the vehicle or you are going >> safe. >> You are going to go to jail. If you do not step out of the vehicle, I will tell you that in a second. >> Okay. Tell me now. >> I don't have to tell you that. I'm telling you to step out now. I'm giving you a lawful order. Okay. You're going 60 mph in a 45. All right. Step out of the vehicle or I'm going to take you to jail right now. Do you understand that? I have other units coming right now. Step out or you are going to jail for resisting. I'm not I'm not playing around with you. You almost got pitted out. All right. You for failing to stop. I turned my sirens on. >> Sir, hold on a second. Hold on a second. >> Listen, I ma'am. >> You are I'm As soon as another Listen, I'm telling you I am right now. I'm telling you, step out of the vehicle. I don't want to talk to you in the car. Get out of the vehicle. Get out of the vehicle, >> ma'am. Once another unit comes, I'm busting this window and I am dragging you out. >> Bust my window car. You're not even letting me talk and let me explain. >> I don't need I don't need you. I'm telling you to step out. I am legally allowed to tell you to step out. I don't I don't care what you think. I am telling you right now to step out of the vehicle or you're going to jail. I'm giving you one last chance. If you do not step out of this vehicle, I am taking you to jail for resisting. That is it. The end of discussion. You are going to jail. I will break this window and I will remove you for food. >> You can do whatever you think >> Zer. Yes, ma'am. I'm telling you right now, I am I'm giving you a lawful order. Please step out of the vehicle. I don't have to explain myself to you. That is a lawful order. You should probably understand what the law is, >> sir. Because you're wrong. >> Good to go. I'm not wrong. >> Wrong. Do not bust my window. >> I'm going to bust your window if you do not step out of the vehicle. >> Fine to have a conversation. >> I don't need to have a conversation with you inside the vehicle. I am giving you a lawful order. This is the last time. Good to go. You are going to jail right now for resisting. >> No, because you're not talking to me. You're being very rude. >> 174 >> and I'm not going to stop in in the park that I don't even I don't even know you and I don't even know. >> Just be advised the as soon as we get the female, she can meet 10:15 for >> conversation with you. And the fact that you're being very rude right now, like I'm trying to run away from you. I am not. I'm just over >> Good to go. I'm We're not having I'm done talking to you. I'm going to break that window if you do not step out of the vehicle. >> No, I'm trying to have a conversation. >> I'm not having a conversation with you. I've gave you multiple I don't Ma'am, you can say all everything you want. You can listen. I want to talk to your sergeant. >> I don't You will talk to the sergeant once you're in handcuffs. >> I want to talk to your sergeant. >> You can talk to the sergeant once. That's fine. >> You're going to jail. You are going to jail. No, I'm not. >> You want to bet? We We'll see. >> We'll see who who We'll see. >> I plead the blood of this right now over this situation because God's requesting you. I advise that she can speak to you when she's in handcuffs. >> The scene. >> It's your last chance. I'm I'm gonna be nice. Give you one more chance. Step out of the vehicle. Step out of the vehicle or you're going to jail. I'm going to break the window and you're going to jail. Step out of the vehicle. All right. You want to go that way? >> 174. She's pulling off. Give me traffic. Step out of the vehicle. >> Step out of the vehicle now. Step out of the vehicle with your hands up. indicator of the center. >> Step out of the vehicle WITH YOUR HANDS UP. STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE WITH YOUR HANDS UP. >> Hey guys, watch crossfire. I'm going to put spikes on your tires. >> Here. Just take care OF BUSINESS. GET OUT OF THE CAR. >> GET OUT OF THE CAR. >> GET OUT. >> DADDY, >> GET OUT. [screaming] >> DADDY, >> GET OUT. >> STOP. STOP. >> GET OUT of the car. >> TALK TO ME. STOP. >> STOP. SEAT BELTS ON. >> STOP. >> SEAT BELTS OFF. >> STOP. >> STOP. Talk to me. Get out. STEP OUT OF THE CAR. >> STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. >> GET OUT. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. >> STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. >> Got resist. >> Stop. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. >> STOP. STOP. STOP. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. YOU DID NOT TALK. >> ANYTHING ON YOU? I'll pick up stickers. >> YOU DID NOT TALK. >> YOU HAVE anything on? >> YOU DID NOT TALK TO ME. I'M NOT TALKING TO NOBODY. >> YOU GUYS DID NOT TALK AT ALL. AND YOU HIT MY CAR. >> YES, I DID. >> WHY DID YOU HIT MY CAR? YOU DID NOT TALK TO ME. YOU DID NOT. YES, YOU SHOULD. YES, I HAVE A RIGHT to be talked to and have a reason why. >> I'm not telling you anything. I DO KNOW MY RIGHTS. YOU GUYS ARE WRONG. You guys are absolutely wrong. I'm not going in. I'm waiting for my dad. GO HAVE A SEAT. >> I'M WAITING FOR MY DAD. >> YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE a seat. >> I'M WAITING FOR MY DAD. >> HELP. HELP. I'M BEING PULLED TO LIFE BY THE POLICE. HELP. >> Put your head in. >> I AM SITTING ON YOUR HEAD IN ALL THE WAY. >> NO. NO. >> HOLD. YEAH. >> NO. >> STOP. NO. I WANT TO LOSE. DON'T TOUCH ME. STOP >> TAKING YOUR GLASSES. >> STOP. >> SO WE DON'T BREAK THEM. >> NO. NO. STOP. STOP. HELP. >> IF YOU CAN'T, you're going to get a felony charge. >> HELP. [screaming] HELP. HELP. HELP. HELP. >> YOU'RE PULLING MY HAIR. HELP. HELP. >> GET THAT SIDE. >> HELP. >> CLOSE THAT DOOR. >> HELP. HELP. >> HANG ON. HELP. HELP. HELP. I'M BEING PULLED BY THE POLICE. >> MA'AM, GIVE ME THE CAR. >> I GOT YOU. I GOT YOU. >> HELP. HELP. HELP. >> Get in the car. >> BEING BRUTALIZED BY THE POLICE. >> Jesus Christ. >> My car. You good? >> Everyone. Okay. >> All right. She got her driver's license. You know, >> dude, s I was going to give her a written warning. >> Yeah. >> 60 mph. That's what I pulled her over for. 60. >> All right. Listen, I got your glasses up here. Okay. Uh, what else do you want to go to jail with you? You're parasitizing. >> I'm not going to jail. >> You're going to jail, ma'am. You You have You're going to have >> talk to me. You are very rude to me. You did not want to talk to me at all. on camera. I don't have to. I gave you multiple awful to why I was being told why and I was trying to explain to you why I was pulling over because you're being very I'm not being rude. You're not Listen, this is your problem. You need to understand you are not in control. You are not in You are not in control of myself. No, you are not. Not when I turn on my lights and I see you. >> You're being very rude, ma'am. Very rude. I want to talk to the sergeant. I do not want to leave this premise. I want to talk to the sergeant. >> You all right? >> Yeah. My car. >> Yeah. Hell. >> Did uh we get her name. >> Are you bleeding? >> Everyone check for blood. >> I got blood on me. >> That's what I'm trying to figure out. >> I got a little cut. >> Okay. >> Did we get her her driver's license? >> No. We didn't. I wonder if she's suspended. She's acting like a suspended. >> Do you have a valid driver's license? Is that why you're acting like this? Cuz you are you suspended? >> Did you check my plates? >> Are you secure? Secure Brady. >> If you fail to identify, I'm going to charge you again for that. Are you secure, Brady? Make this simple. >> My name right. So no. >> So what is your name then? You help me. What is your name? If you do not tell me your name, I am going to charge you with fairly identified. We're going to take you to jail. You're going to get booked under John Doe or Jane Doe. Okay. And then you're going to sit there until he's right here. >> All right. >> I want to talk to you, Sergeant. I don't want to talk to >> going on. >> Sir, I understand that I may be going 15 over the mile cuz I was going 60, not not 20 over the mile. So, yes, I I do contest to that. Now, I didn't know that the police officer was trying to pull me over. So, when I moved over so he can, you know, do whatever he was going to do, but then I like, okay, so he's still behind me. So, I go to a lighted area, >> okay, >> I'm not I'm not I'm not familiar with this area like that. I pulled over to a lighted area and then he came at me very very hard. Okay. >> Now, I don't know what y'all procedures are like that, but I'm not I'm driving by myself. I don't feel comfortable >> being with a police officer. He was very aggressive telling me he was going to bust my windows and I'm going to jail and I need to get off. No, hold on. Hold on. Please let me speak. Cuz he didn't let me speak at all. >> Okay. >> I'm not going to step out of the vehicle if he could have just came to me cool, calm, and collective. He was already on 10 coming to me and that's very disrespectful. >> I didn't do anything anything to him. I understand it may have been going 15 OVER THE MILE WHICH I KNOW REALLY LAWFULLY LIKE I will if if it's over 20 OVER THE MILE. SO I understand like lawfully that's wrong. BUT UM EVERYBODY ALWAYS GOES 60 down here. Everybody always. And I'm just trying to go home so I could get to my kid and my family. >> Hey Carrie, if you have any experience with seizures, can you do you you've seized cars before, right? >> Why would you be seizing my car? >> You got to we got to see if she has any leans. >> There's no leans. >> Yeah, it could be. >> And I think it might be registered to her. You might have to if you want to check on that. He's threatening to break my windows, which I don't think is right when he could have just came and talked to me and just gave me a ticket and and I would have left. And he just he just came to me very aggressively talking about he's going to break my windows. I need to step out of the car. I'M LIKE, "NO, I'M NOT STEPPING out of the car. I don't know you because you would have just did this anyways. I don't feel comfortable." AND THEN HE CRASHED MY CAR. I DON'T CARE IF that's what what are you guys protocol. I WASN'T TRYING TO RUN officer initially, but if he's gonna say he's gonna damage my car, which I have to pay for at the end of the day because I know and y'all ain't gonna try to pay for my car being broken now, both of my windows and my bumper. Like, come on. That is totally totally disrespected BY HIM. AND I KNOW YOU DON'T EVEN care because of the way you're you're acting right now. >> Okay. Do you have any questions or anything? ONE, WHY couldn't he just pull me over normally and just came to my car respectfully and told me that I was going over the speed limit so that I don't have to explain to you first. He should have he I don't care what type of mood he's in, but he shouldn't be disrespectful to anybody and just threatening them as soon as they come to the car. That is an abuse of force. >> Okay, >> that's an abuse of force. >> We're I'll look at the body cam footage. Okay, >> cuz I asked them. Okay. >> Do you have any Do you have any questions or anything? >> Wait, can I go? I'm not going. >> You're going to No, you're going to jail and we're taking your car for fle for failing to stop and refusing to leave. Okay, we're done. >> I'm not I wasn't failing people over. See, now you're being ruled, too. >> I can transport for Zer if you'd like. >> Um, yeah, dude. >> Yeah. Okay. You want to take her right now? >> Yeah. >> Okay. You want to Let's make Let's get her out then. >> What's her name? Jakaria. >> I don't I don't >> Okay. She on this side. >> Did he want to look at the RORO? Is that her? She the RO. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Hey, you're going to go to my car. Okay. >> All right. >> No, I want to be let go. >> Okay. >> You're going to jail. >> You going? No, I am not. >> You're you're listen. >> No, he was rude to me. He was totally disrespectful coming to my car. >> That they hurt your feelings. >> I'm Debbie Kim. Okay, but we got to go to jail. Okay. >> No, >> that's not >> No, I'm waiting for my dad. >> No, we're not doing that. >> No. >> So, >> you going to go with us or Come on. >> No. Stop. Wait. >> LET'S GO. >> STOP. CAN YOU WAIT? STOP. COME ON. CAN WE GET OUT OF THE CAR? PLEASE. CAN WE TALK? I'M TRYING TO >> WE'RE FAST TALKING. YOU ALREADY RAN. Get out OF THE CAR NOW. >> GET OUT OF THE CAR. >> ANYWHERE MY DAD. >> I'M TRYING TO TALK. >> I'M TRYING TO TALK. STOP. >> WE'RE DONE TALKING. >> I'm not even running. >> IT'S OPEN. >> STOP. >> GET IN THE CAR. >> STOP. >> Get in the car. >> Thank you. Just have a seat. Please >> sit down or they're going to grab you by your handcuffs and pull you in the car. >> SIT DOWN. STOP. WAIT. OKAY, LET ME DO IT. >> Sit down. >> Sit down. Okay, sit down. Okay, sit down. Sit down, PLEASE. >> OKAY. DAMN. >> Sit down. >> Sit down. >> Okay. >> We're about out of time. Sit down. >> No, YOU GUYS ARE BEING WAIT. HEY. HEY. HEY. HEY. STOP. [screaming] OUCH. YOU'RE HURTING MY ARM. >> HEY, is this her dad pulling up? >> I don't know. >> That may be her dad. How's it going, man? So, yeah. So, all right. I'll explain everything. I'm I'm the officer that initiated. Okay. Um I had her going 60 m hour in the 45, right? I was already going to I had in my mind I was going to give her a written warning. We came up to Commerce, right? She was going uh northbound on Avalon, right? I turned around on her, caught up to her, turned my lights on. She moved over to the right. I got on my PA because it was a red light on Commerce. I was like, "Hey, when the light turns, turn right." All right. She turned right, but she kept going. I was like, "All right, turn on my signs." She pulled over. All right. She pulled over farther down the road, not where I wanted her to stop. Um at some uh it it was uh like the on, you know, on Commerce right across from [crying] Trump. >> Um she's been the key from her. >> Huh? >> Can I get the key from her? >> I have I have the keys for her. >> Um the car is getting towed. All right. Yeah. It was So it was commission felony. She she fled from me. All right. That's what I was trying to get. >> Cuz she went further down. >> No. No, no. So, after >> she she's been very combative with the whole time. We have cameras on in. Um, so as soon as we got to Commerce, all right, we turned right, she went down and she pulled up uh against these warehouses right across from Trump Avenue or Trump, whatever it's called. All right, I got out and I asked her, I was like, "Hey," I was like, "I need you to step out of the vehicle so I can talk to you." All right? Because I didn't know if she was going to keep driving off. I didn't know what she was doing, right? And she told me, "No, I'm not getting out." And I told her multiple times, I'm giving you a lawful order. I need you to step out of the vehicle. She refused. I even told her why I stopped her. I said, you going 16 to 45. I need you to step out of the vehicle and talk to me. I just wanted her out of the vehicle for my safety and everyone else's. All right. >> Um she refused. I told her, "Look, I'm gave her multiple multiple commands. Step out of the vehicle. I'm going to have to break the window if you don't come out." I was the only one by myself. I was waiting for more units. All right. Once uh more units said they were coming, I went back to my vehicle to get gloves on in case I did have to break the glass. All right? Because again, she kept multiple times refamant that she was not getting out of that vehicle. I asked her nicely. I asked her multiple times. I was like, "Please get out. I'm telling you, it's a lawful order." I told her what the consequences would be if she didn't. I was like, "You're going to go to jail. You don't need to do that. You're going to go to jail if you don't step out." She refused. Then I told her, "You are going to jail now. Once other officers come, if you don't step out, I'm going to break the window and I'm going to have to forcefully remove you to take you into custody." Um, again, once other officers coming, I put my gloves on, went back to my vehicle, she drove off. All right, so I had my lights and sirens on. We pulled out a commerce. She stopped at the red light. All right, but she still failed to yield. All right, and she still fled the traffic stop. So that's already a felony. All right. Um, I got permission to do a pit maneuver. All right. As soon as we came out on the Avalon, I pitted her out. It was a low speed one, so I hit her. She spun out. She ended up hitting my car, corrected herself, and then continued up into here. At which point, she still refused multiple commands to get out of the vehicle. We broke the glass and had to extract her out of the vehicle. She's been combative, resistful the whole time. Not combative. She she started to kind of kick a little bit, but when we were putting in the car, she wouldn't get she sat down, wouldn't get in. We had to drag her into the car because she kept trying to kick the door open. All right. So, that's where we're at right now. All right. >> Under Pennsylvania versus Mims, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1977, a law enforcement officer who has made a lawful traffic stop may order the driver to exit the vehicle as a matter of course. No explanation required, no discussion, no tone requirement. The existence of the lawful stop is sufficient authority on its own. She was legally wrong from the first word of her first refusal. Maryland versus Wilson decided in 1997 extended that same rule to passengers. Every person in a stopped vehicle can be ordered out. The Supreme Court was explicit. The marginal intrusion on personal liberty is diminis. Officer safety is not. The deputy was not required to justify himself. He was required to give a lawful order. He did. She refused it. That gap is where the charges started building. She told him he needed to explain himself first. He told her he didn't. She was correct that she had constitutional rights. She was wrong about which ones applied here. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. It does not give a stopped driver the right to negotiate the terms of a lawful exit order from inside the vehicle. That is not how the law works. That is not how it has ever worked. The deputy gave her more chances than the law required. He called for backup before escalating. He warned her exactly what would happen. and he told her she was going to jail. He told her he would break the window. He gave her a final chance. She drove away. That single decision, pulling away from the stop, transformed everything that came after it from a traffic enforcement action into a felony case. Florida statute 3161935 governs fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer. The structure is graduated by severity of conduct. A willful failure to stop when directed by an officer is a first-degree misdemeanor. When the pursuing officer's vehicle has emergency lights and sirens active, as this one did, the offense elevates to a thirdderee felony. That carries up to 5 years in state prison. She drove three blocks. After a short chase, she stopped again. Six officers were on scene. Spike strips were deployed. She still would not exit the vehicle. For most people, six officers and a spike strip deployment would prompt a serious reassessment of strategy. She sat in the car and continued arguing. The deputy had already received supervisory authorization for a pursuit intervention technique, a pit maneuver, to bring the vehicle to a controlled stop. The pit maneuver was executed at low speed. Her vehicle spun, corrected, and she drove further. Officers broke the driver sight window. She was physically removed. She resisted throughout, refusing commands, pulling away, kicking as officers attempted to place her in the patrol car. Every one of those actions is a separately chargeable event under Florida law. She was not making her situation. She was making it longer. Once detained, she had a great deal to say to the deputy, to the sergeant, to the second set of officers who tried to transfer her to another vehicle, to her father when he arrived on scene. She said the officer was rude. She said she only went 15 over. She said she had a right to be spoken to a certain way. All of it was recorded on body camera. None of it was legally relevant to what had already happened. When she spoke to the sergeant, she framed it as a failure of communication. The officer came at her hard. She said he threatened to break her window before she had a chance to respond. What she did not address because there is no answer to it is that she had been given repeated lawful orders to step out of the vehicle before any threat of window breaking was ever mentioned. The threat was a consequence of the refusal, not the cause of it. The pit maneuver requires supervisory authorization under agency policy. The deputy requested it. It was granted. The footage confirms this. That procedural step matters legally because it establishes the force used was not a unilateral decision made in the heat of a chase. It was operationally sanctioned. Under Graham versus Connor, officers are judged by what a reasonable officer would do given the totality of the circumstances at the moment force is applied, not in hindsight, not under ideal conditions. The Graham Standard asks three questions. How severe was the crime? Was the suspect an immediate threat? Was she actively resisting? On all three counts, at the moment of the pit, she had committed felony fleeing. She was operating a moving vehicle in a residential corridor while evading pursuit, and she had refused every command for over 10 minutes. The force applied was within the legal standard at each stage of escalation. The officer's own account given to her father at the on camera confirms what the body camera already showed. He clocked her at 60 and a 45. He was going to give her a written warning. When he activated his lights and she initially moved over, he thought she was complying. Then she kept driving. He activated his siren. She still didn't stop. Everything that followed was a direct result of that chain of decisions she made. She was charged with failure to obey a law enforcement officer's lawful order to stop an obstruction without violence. She was released on a $3,000 bond. She faces up to 18 months in jail if convicted on those specific counts. that charging decision, obstruction rather than the full felony fleeing statute, represents a measured prosecutorial approach. The body camera footage supports charges far more serious than what was ultimately filed. The lesson embedded in this footage is not complicated. A traffic stops outcome is almost entirely within the driver's control from the first 30 seconds, comply with the exit order. Say nothing beyond identifying yourself. Contest the ticket in court where the law actually provides you a forum. Every additional action taken at the roadside, every refusal, every argument, every attempt to negotiate in the street adds criminal exposure. She demonstrated that in real time in front of six body cameras. There is a constitutional right to remain silent. There is a constitutional right to contest a traffic stop. Neither of those rights is exercised at the window of a running vehicle during an active law enforcement encounter. They are exercised in a courtroom with an attorney after the stop is over. She had every legal tool available to her. She chose not to use any of them at the right time. Now, the grades. The deputy gets a B+. He issued lawful exit orders from the first approach. He documented every step on body camera without exception. He called for backup before any escalation. He requested and received supervisory authorization before the pit maneuver. He told her exactly what would happen before it happened at every stage. Procedurally, that is the correct sequence. He did not improvise. He followed policy. Under Pennsylvania versus Mims, the exit order was legally unambiguous from the first command. Every refusal she made added to her own criminal exposure. Every warning he gave was documented and later confirmed on camera. When she told the sergeant the officer was aggressive without cause, the body camera answered that before she finished speaking. The halfpoint deduction reflects the opening tone. Escalating to windowbreak threats within the first 30 seconds of an approach before the subject has had a full opportunity to comply is worth noting as a calibration issue, not a policy breach. The footage shows the order was lawful at every moment, but tone and patience in the opening seconds of a stop can determine whether what follows is a 5-minute warning or a 20-minute felony arrest. Here it became the latter. The suspect gets a D. She was stopped for a speeding violation the deputy had already decided to handle with a written warning. No points, no court date, no criminal record. She turned it into a felony stop, a vehicle pursuit, a pit maneuver, a shattered window, a physical extraction, an obstruction charge, and a $3,000 bond in under 9 minutes of decision-m. Florida law does not require a deputy to justify a lawful exit order to a driver seated in a stopped vehicle. Pennsylvania versus MIM settled that question 47 years before this stop. Every argument she made to the deputy, to the sergeant, to the responding officers, to her father was legally irrelevant to what had already occurred the moment she refused the first order and drove away. She had the right to remain silent. She had the right to an attorney. She had the right to contest the traffic stop in court. She had the right to file a complaint against the officer for conduct she believed was inappropriate. Every one of those rights was available to her. Not one of them is exercised by driving away from a traffic stop while an officer's lights and sirens are active. That specific act is a felony under Florida law. The body camera answered every complaint she made. It showed when the deputy approached. It showed how many orders he gave before threatening to break the window. It showed her driving away. It showed the pi at low speed. It showed the window break. It showed the physical removal. It showed her continuing to resist after handcuffing. She was not misrepresented by the footage. she was documented by it. The charge of obstruction without violence under Florida statute 843.2 carries a maximum of 1 year in county jail. The failure to obey a lawful order charge runs concurrent. The prosecutorial decision not to charge felony fleeing under 316.1935 subsection 2, which the footage clearly supports, means she avoided exposure of up to 5 years. The $3,000 bond and 18-month maximum she faces reflect a charging decision that was more lenient than the evidence warranted. What this stop illustrates about modern traffic enforcement is straightforward. Officers are trained to document everything. Body cameras exist precisely for situations like this one, where the subject and the officer have completely different accounts of what happened. When both accounts go on record, the camera determines which one is accurate. In this case, it was not a close question. She told the sergeant the officer never gave her a chance to explain herself. The body camera showed 9 minutes of him explaining exactly what would happen if she did not comply. She told her father she was not trying to run. The body camera showed her driving away from two separate stops. The camera did not editorialize. It did not take sides. It simply recorded. And the recording answered every disputed fact. If you want more body cam footage, the moments officers and suspects never expect to end up on camera, hit subscribe. We post every week. Drop a comment. What do you think the sentence should be for turning a written warning into felony charges?