I PAID FOR MY TICKET. THE PLANE AIN'T GONE. WHEN I FLEW IN HERE, THE PLANE WAS GONE. IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE WAS WAITING ON YOUR METRO TRAIN. >> IT DOESN'T MATTER. YOU'RE ABOUT to go to jail. >> I'm willing to because I sat AT YOUR METRO TRAIN RAIL FOR 2 HOURS. >> MA'AM, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. >> MY MOM CAN VOUCH FOR THIS. SHE'S THEY ARE RESIDENT OF MIAMI. >> TO GO TO JAIL? You going >> we can. >> September 5th, 2020. Miami-Dade County, Florida. A passenger missed her flight after a 3-hour rail delay, and 13 minutes of body camera footage separate that complaint from a custodial arrest. No crime was alleged when the officers arrived. What matters is not the sequence of events, but whether Florida law supplied any basis for the arrest that ended it. >> All right. So, she's screaming and yelling. She's not wearing a mask. What's wrong? All right. Is she going to be able to fly later? >> Um I'm not sure. >> Okay. All right. >> RIGHT HERE. I'M TRYING TO GET HOME. NO. NO. I I WAS GOING TO HELP YOU, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP >> THEY CAN CALL THE POLICE AGAIN. MY MAMA TELL YOU THEY CALL IT AGAIN. >> IF SHE >> I PAID FOR MY TICKET. >> I UNDERSTAND. >> I WAS AT TRAIN RAIL. >> I WANT TO HELP YOU. CAN YOU CAN YOU PUT ON YOUR MASK SO WE CAN SOLVE THE ISSUE? >> I'm not GOING TO THEN WHY I CAN'T LOAD ON THAT PLANE? It >> Ma'am, just just refund her money and I'll make sure >> The flight attendant said it's already gone. >> All right. >> It's done. >> WHEN? >> The flight >> IT IT PULLED OFF. >> ALL RIGHT. >> YOU RIGHT. I'M RIGHT HERE FROM DETROIT. I WAS SITTING AT YOUR METRO TRAIN RAIL FOR 3 CALL METRO TRAIN RAIL. THE PLANE DON'T LEAVE AT 3:12. >> GOT A MINOR 22 at the ticket counter. One female who missed her flight. Everything's 10-4. >> MY MOTHER AND MY DAUGHTER IS A RESIDENT OF MIAMI. YOU MY MOM JUST TOOK ME ALL THE WAY TO THE METRO TRAIN. >> SHE'S NOT FLYING, RIGHT? RESCHEDULE HER? A LATER FLIGHT? >> NO, I'M GOING TO SEE IF I CAN GET A >> SHE JUST got here. >> Yeah, basically. >> Okay. Well, she's got to get here 3 hours early. Whatever you Whatever you guys I'm okay with whatever. I'm not like Chris. You don't remember Chris? Well, she's upset. >> Imagine that. >> Oh, yeah. She's all right. They're going to refund her money and then she's going to have to Now, she put her mask on. She didn't have her mask on. Ma'am Ma'am, they're going to give you your money back. All right. >> THEY CAN PUT NO, THEY NEED THE THREE THE PLANE DON'T LEAVE AT 3:00. I GOT A CARRY-ON. >> THE PLANE The plane's going to They're going >> THE PLANE AIN'T GONE. WHEN I FLEW IN HERE, THE PLANE WASN'T GONE. >> MA'AM, TURN AROUND. >> SO, THE PLANE LEFT FROM >> LISTEN, they're going to give you your money back, all right? >> They don't give me my money back, mind you. You hear? >> They're going to give you your money back. Were you yelling and screaming? It doesn't help. They're not going to let you on the plane, ma'am. >> What about the lives here? >> It doesn't matter. So, you guys want me to pick you up? >> SEE, I TOLD YOU WE WAS AT THE AIRPORT AT WE WAS AT METRO TRAIL AT 12:00. >> MA'AM, YOU GOT TO BE here at the airport. >> IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE WAS WAITING ON YOUR METRO >> IT DOESN'T MATTER. >> It doesn't matter. >> Cuz you didn't make your flight. >> It doesn't matter. >> So, WHAT HAPPENED TO METRO TRAIL? WHAT HAPPENED TO METRO TRAIL? >> KNOW. WE'RE NOT METRO. >> THEY DON'T KNOW. They That's what I'm saying. >> You're blaming us for Metro. >> RIGHT. CALL SOMEBODY WHO KNOW ABOUT METRO TRAIL. >> WE DON'T NEED TO. You need get to the airport. It doesn't matter what means. I know you're upset with us, but we didn't do anything. They don't care anymore. They don't want you upset on the flight. Spirit doesn't want you on the flight. Let me see what's happening over here. I'm still good if you if your manager says let her fly. I don't care. It's not up to me. It's up to you guys. If you guys figure something out, sooner we can get something to her like a ticket or or a or a refund. Yeah. Do you need her ID? Okay. 3:15 I think. Let me see. Let me see. Hey, what time was that plane supposed to leave? >> 3:10 >> So like okay. 3:10 So I got Metro Rail on the phone. I should say that. No. Huh? Yeah. At least she's not violent. She did loud. I think the couple behind them are upset now, too. But with something else. Like before, like when I first got here they would hurry up and do their paperwork and get them out. But now they're they're a little slow on >> Spirit had some defects. They had some problems. They received all this pull up. >> Right. Right. It's not like SPIRIT IS NO. >> OKAY. >> WHERE'S MY TICKET? >> WHAT'S THE PROBLEM, MA'AM? CAN I HAVE her >> Exactly. Well, thanks for the jail. >> Yeah. >> child Hey. >> Pick up here on E train at 4:15. We're going to be fine. What was the problem? That's why you identify the 38 subject. >> What she Yes. >> That's right. >> Yeah. >> She's dropping. I want to know what the problem was with you at home and your TV wasn't working right. >> That's your problem ever since 12:15. >> All right. >> I'm going to >> Oh, WHERE'S MY TICKET? WHERE'S MY TICKET? >> THEY'RE working on it. I lost it. >> I lost I left at 11:00 from 92nd and 7th. Yes. at 11:00 >> You sure she's not flying? >> Probably not. >> So, you sure she's not flying? I'll be over. >> No, definitely she's not. >> Okay. All right. >> How are you, baby? >> Hey. Money. Is it Miami? >> HE SAID IT'S A 3-HOUR DELAY. >> WERE YOU in Miami? >> I WAS THERE SINCE 12. WHY WOULDN'T THEY SAY IT UNTIL NOW? >> I don't know. Is it in Miami? >> Take your bag. Let's go outside. Let's go. >> I've been AT THE METRO TRAIN RAIL FOR 3 HOURS. >> NO. >> Let me talk to the chief of the department. >> You can call on the phone. You're going out here. >> Let's talk to the chief of the department. I'm going to record it. So, let's talk to the chief of the department. >> Listen to me. You're about to go to jail. >> I am? I am? I'm going to jail because I sat at the metro train rail for >> No. >> will vouch. WE ARE >> YOU DON'T MAKE DEMANDS. >> I shouldn't have missed my flight at the metro rail. >> There you go. >> RIGHT. CALL YOUR CHIEF. >> THAT CHIEF DOESN'T CARE, MA'AM. >> I want to call your chief. YOU SAID WHAT? YOUR CHIEF DON'T CARE? You said what? Your chief don't care? >> Ma'am, listen. We've been warned. And you're about to go to jail. >> I'm willing to because I sat AT YOUR METRO TRAIN RAIL FOR 2 HOURS. >> THAT HAS NOTHING to do WITH IT. >> MY MOM CAN VOUCH FOR THIS. SHE'S A RESIDENT OF MIAMI. YEAH, we can. >> All right. >> Don't don't Oh, you took my phone? >> You're going to jail. You did this. You know that, right? >> And you know I'm a lawful, right? Okay. Let's do this. >> Head flying. All right. >> I asked for your chief and your sergeant. That's all. >> We'll get You'll talk to them. You can talk to them after you get out of jail. All right. I want you to understand. >> You ain't got to talk to me. I want a lawyer. Now, we done. >> Did you want to go to jail? >> I want a lawyer. >> Okay. Did you want to go to jail? >> a lawyer. You still talking to I want a lawyer. >> Take a seat. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Did we got to get something from them? Say anything? Just that she was argumentative and >> Yeah, I mean it would be it would be >> Start with the statute. Florida's disorderly conduct provision section 877.03 punishes conduct affecting the peace and quiet of persons who witness it. Broad enough to swallow almost any public argument. The Florida Supreme Court refused that reading. In State versus Saunders, the court held that no words except fighting words or a false shout of fire in a crowded theater fall within it. It went further holding the provision should not be read to prescribe the use of language in any fashion whatsoever. Florida courts have applied that ever since and speech alone will not sustain a conviction. The stated basis collapses on contact. Argumentative is not fighting words and the officer's own assessment on scene not violent, just loud, describes conduct the statute no longer reaches. Federal law points the same way. In City of Houston versus Hill, the Supreme Court held that freedom to verbally oppose or challenge police without risking arrest separates a free nation from a police state. A lawful path existed the whole time. Florida's trespass statute section 810.08 makes it a misdemeanor to remain in a structure after a warning to leave. Once the carrier refused passage, that warning was available and simple to document. It appears nowhere on the recording, not to the passenger, and not in the officer's own discussion of what they needed. The choice carries downstream cost. Resisting an officer without violence section 843.02 requires that the officer be lawfully executing a legal duty. So it falls with an unlawful arrest. Two side issues resolve cleanly. Federal law lets a carrier refuse any passenger it deems a safety risk. And the mask rule came from county emergency orders no officer ever cited. The mental health request deserves precision. Florida's involuntary examination statute sets criteria this record does not meet. Though a county with a mature crisis intervention program still had somewhere to route it. One moment stays unresolved on the audio. If a phone was taken because recording was announced, the 11th Circuit's ruling in Smith versus City of [ __ ] makes that a restriction on protected activity. Two things were done right. Every mask request functioned as de-escalation rather than enforcement, and once counsel was requested no questioning followed, which is what Edwards versus Arizona requires. The officers earn a C+. Nine minutes show real judgment, including a call to the transit agency to verify her account. And the final two reach for the wrong statute. The passenger earns the same grade. She was right on the facts, never violent, and still refused the one lawful order that could have justified everything that followed. The lesson for officers is narrow. When a dispute is civil, name it and use the trespass authority that fits, because charging annoyance under a gutted speech statute invites suppression and liability. The lesson for civilians is just as narrow. Being right protects nothing once a lawful order to leave is refused, and the strongest position is the one preserved by leaving and litigating later. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic that you would like us to discuss in the comments below. Thank you for watching, and don't forget to check out our channel for even more police interaction and courtroom content.