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You're like you're like picking. No, you're like you're like crying. You're crying. I don't like it. >> I'm crying when you said that somebody tried to >> Okay, can I can I CAN I GET A WHITE OFFICER OVER HERE, PLEASE? >> MA'AM? >> YES. Can I get a white officer over here? >> Uh you can talk to officer Brooks. >> No, no, no. I need a white officer. >> So, okay. All right, well, let me see what I can figure out, okay? >> She called 9 saying a man broke into her hotel room. 12 minutes later, she is the one in handcuffs. That is not a plot twist. That is what happens when you call in a violent felony, refuse to describe the suspect, demand a white officer, and try to coach a police investigation from inside a bottle of key lime tequila. The 17th of March, 2024, a hotel in Florida. Officers respond to what dispatch frames as a potential assault in progress. A woman in room 217 claiming another guest forced his way in and attacked her. In the hierarchy of 9 calls, that response gets officers moving fast. They arrive ready to secure a scene and protect a victim. But the hotel clerk stops them before they even get upstairs. The man she is accusing, he was barely checking in at the front desk when she started making accusations. Sober third-party witness, on the record, right there in the lobby. The officers go up anyway because that is the job. You cannot take the clerk's word and walk away from a potential assault call. So, they knock on room 217, and what they find is not a traumatized victim. It is an intoxicated 32-year-old woman who cannot keep a story straight for 60 consecutive seconds, refuses to describe her alleged attacker on camera, and within 10 minutes is screaming for her daddy while an officer explains that her wrists are small and she needs to stop fighting. Four charges come out of this room. Public intoxication, disturbing the peace, misuse of 911, and resisting arrest. All of it, every single charge traces back to one phone call she should never have made. If you want to watch exactly how fast a victim becomes a defendant, subscribe to Proof on Record right now. We do not cut the tape and we do not soften what it shows. I watch the footage and I tell you the truth of what I see. This is Proof on Record. Let's get into it. >> She got to put down her 911 call. >> Yeah, we were trying to answer the phone but we could not we were not able to. We have a guest in 217 that you guys brought in earlier. She's making a I mean she's >> She's in 217? >> Yes, she's and she's saying that someone was trying to but the customer barely was checking in when she was blaming that he was trying to >> Okay. And he was just coming in Okay. >> I was checking him in at that moment and she said he was in his room trying to make her. See how make people make that stuff and then people get in trouble? >> Yes, ma'am. All right, thank you. 911 >> Hello. >> Hey. >> Who's calling? Did you call 911? >> No, I did not. No, I called 911 on the person that was like like breaking in my place. >> Okay, did you need your purse? >> Yeah, not me. >> Is there anybody here with you? >> No, it's just it's just my aunt on the phone. >> Can I talk to her? >> Yeah. >> What's her name? >> I don't >> Ashley at 11 >> Okay. Hey, Miss Ashley 11. This is Officer Glover. How are you? >> All right. What's your name, ma'am? Are you okay today? What's What's So, give me a rundown of what all happened. >> So, so somebody came into this room. >> Uh-huh. Okay. >> I >> I'm listening. >> I I Well, I don't want to All right, so so somebody came into this room. >> Uh-huh. >> And I >> Okay. >> I was like, all right, whatever. You know, I I got some tequila in here. >> Okay. Okay, how much have you had to drink tonight? If you could guess. >> Oh, I barely even opened it. >> You barely even opened it? Okay. Okay. >> sitting over there. >> All right. And you say you're the only one in here? Okay, how long you been been in this room? >> All right, since yesterday yesterday yeah. >> Since yesterday? And >> I don't know why I'm being I don't know why I'm being investigated. >> No, we're asking questions. You called us, right? So, we have to we have to do our job and ask questions. >> He's the one that came in here. >> okay, give me a description. I'm trying to get a rundown of what all happened in this apartment. >> 6 ft like probably like 6 ft 5, right? >> Okay, 6 ft 5. >> I I can't describe him because you know, you are the way you are. And I am >> I'm the way I What? I'm not understanding. >> I I can't I can't describe him. >> Why can't you describe him? Just describe him. >> I can't I can't be like, hey, he's like >> Hey, he's like Yes, you can. That's called describing somebody that attacked you. >> Okay. Well, he was he was of color. >> Okay. >> He was a a taller dude. >> Okay, when you say he was of color, what are you saying? You see Okay, there's there's race There's So, is he white, black, Hispanic? Don't touch me, ma'am. Is he white, black, Hispanic? >> I'm not >> I I'm I'm asking questions. >> I I don't know what I don't know what proper terms are. >> You don't know whether somebody is white, black >> He he was a little bit darker than me, okay? >> Okay. >> But he came into my room. Started drinking my Damn good tequila. >> So he drank your tequila? >> Yes. >> Okay. So he ran in your eyes and drank your tequila. >> I I also saw him earlier today. >> You saw him earlier today? >> Yes. >> And what was that? >> In the elevator. >> You saw him in the elevator. >> Yes. >> Okay. Did he have What color was his hair? >> What color was his hair? It was dark. >> It was dark. >> Like >> brown. >> You're you're like you're like picking No, you're like you're you're crying. You're crying. I don't like it. >> I'm crying when you said that somebody tried to harm you. >> CAN I GET A WHITE OFFICER OVER HERE, PLEASE? >> MA'AM? >> YES. Can I get a white officer over here? >> Uh you can talk to officer Brooks. >> No. No. No, I need a white officer. >> So okay. All right. Well, let me see what I can figure out, okay? >> All right. Who are you talking to? >> You're out. >> Yeah. >> All right. So what's going on? >> This dude came into my room and like tried to almost >> Who? >> That I can't I'm not saying it on y'all's body cams. >> A person of color is what she told me. Why won't you say it on the body camera? >> I ain't saying I'm I'm doing >> So you went down to the lobby and talked to the clerk down there. And what did you tell the clerk? >> I said so many came to my room, and the same guy that I met in in the freaking elevators earlier. I don't know what It was today or I don't know. Yesterday, I don't know. But and he offered me shoes earlier today. And then now he is like trying to >> How's he trying to you? What is he doing? >> He came in here and did He came in here and tried to >> What did he do? How did he get in the door? >> Oh. He just opened the door. >> The door wasn't locked? >> I No, the door was locked. >> So how did he get in? >> No, I did not unlock it at all. No. I thought it was I thought I thought I thought it was an officer. So I unlocked it cuz I thought it was an officer. And that's the only That's the only reason I ever unlocked this door. >> So there's nobody in there right now, right? >> No, you don't >> How much have you had to drink today? >> Um probably like um four margaritas. >> Four margaritas and four >> Yeah. Well, I haven't drank it all that yet. I was going to. Well, we Well, I was going to get there. >> Huh? >> I was going to get there, but I want to open the refrigerator and everything. >> I'm just looking where anybody could have like somebody was in here. >> I got to open this. >> I got it. >> I'm trying to open this one. Open Hold the >> So, what is What is our plan for tonight? What are we going to do? >> I'm I'm going to bed. >> Where's your phone? Are we done calling 911? >> Yeah. I want you to stay away from this damn freaking >> If I know who he was, I would. >> 217 >> Huh? >> 13777 Street >> 14277 >> You don't know who he was? >> I wasn't here. You can't give me no real description. You said you wouldn't tell us on body cam. Yes, ma'am. >> What? What do I have to >> How old are you? >> I'm 32, but I know what the the [ __ ] So, he's like this tall, but I can't say. >> Yes, you can. >> No. No. No. No. No. I can't I can't I can't say anything. >> It would help our investigation if you did. >> I can't because I but I can't >> go down and talk to her. All right. >> You know You know good and well it's not >> I don't. That's why I'm asking questions cuz I really don't know and you won't give me a description. >> I never would. Let's do this. Give me Hold on. Let me get this this coffee. All right. >> Hold on. Let me finish what I'm doing. >> What What you want? >> What? >> All right, homey. What? What What was going on? >> I don't know. You tell me. You still haven't given us a description yet. >> You want to tell me? >> I don't know cuz you haven't given me a description, ma'am. >> I'm a damn nurse. I know. I know how it goes. >> Okay, if you're a nurse, then you should be able to identify people by their race. >> Yeah, I know. And I know how it goes. >> So, what's the race? What's the description of the person? >> No, we we we identify people people by their race. I'm talking about the color of their hair right now. >> Help us to help you, ma'am. How can we help you if you don't give us a description of the person? >> I'm not telling my mom. I'm sitting here with I'm sitting here with two officer SO I'M I'M TRYING TO GET I'M FREAKING DAD ON THE PHONE with you guys because they're freaking Oh my goodness. I NEED MY DAD ON THE PHONE, BUT HE WON'T ANSWER THE PHONE. >> HEY, MA'AM. Can you say anything? Lower your voice, please. >> Because Because it's it's a it's it's it's a it's a like a boxing like civil pursuit like going on right now. It's it's like a black and white and and I don't and I I don't want to I DON'T WANT TO SAY BLACK AND WHITE because well, I'm on camera. And then but I NEED MY DAD ON THE I NEED MY DAD. I NEED MY DAD. I NEED MY DAD. I NEED MY DAD CUZ I WAS ALMOST I WAS ALMOST I WAS almost by somebody of color. But I I BUT I CAN'T SAY anything >> Ma'am, don't touch me, ma'am. >> I can't No, I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU. >> Don't touch me. >> I I can't touch you cuz I can't touch you, man. I can't cover her camera and I can't say anything until >> All right, Ms. Ann. Please 755. >> Hold on. Hold on. >> All right, Ms. Ann. So, may I have you to stand up for me? Turn around. >> I I'M HOLDING I'M HOLDING YOU. >> YOU. I need you to just stand up. Turn around for me? Turn around for me. >> NO. NO. >> STOP. STOP. STOP. >> THEY'RE ARRESTING ME. WHY? >> I'LL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. STOP. STOP. >> WHY? EVERYONE EVERYONE >> STOP SO I DON'T BREAK YOUR WRIST. >> What are you arresting me for? What are you arresting me for? >> You got smaller wrists. So I'm You need to be still so they don't get broke. >> Yeah, I know. What am I getting arrested for? >> I'll explain everything to you in just a moment, okay? >> No, I know. I need to know right now. >> I understand. >> Because I I >> I'm checking to make sure you don't have any weapons on you and any contraband. >> nothing. I got nothing, but these freaking shorty pants on. EVERYONE EVERYONE CALL MY LAWYER. >> ALL RIGHT. >> EVERYONE >> I'M GOING TO SEARCH YOU. YEAH, where your shoes at? >> I don't I don't have no I DON'T HAVE NO SHOES. WHAT AM WHAT NO. WHAT ARE YOU ARRESTING ME FOR? >> I'll explain everything to you when we get there. >> No. No. Damn. YOU YOU YOU TELL ME RIGHT NOW. >> HERE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT YOUR shoes on, okay? >> NO. WHAT AM WHAT ARE YOU ARRESTING me for? YES. YES, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO WHAT ARE YOU ARRESTING me for? >> shoe on. >> OH MY GOD. WHAT ARE YOU ARRESTING ME FOR? >> GO ON, PUT YOUR SHOE ON. >> WHAT ARE YOU arresting me for? >> This is for public intoxication. You get public intoxication and disturbing the peace, okay? >> Yeah, well, I don't like that will get you. like that will get through the justice system faster than my DUI that has been a year and a half. >> All right. >> I don't know I don't know how to get into it. >> Yeah, but you take your time. >> All right, let's run this back clean because there are several distinct moments in this footage where the outcome could have changed completely. And every single one of them was in her hands. Start at the lobby before the officers ever knock on that door, the hotel clerk is already pumping the brakes on her story. The man she accused was barely checking into his own room when she started making accusations downstairs. That is a sober employed third-party witness contradicting her narrative before the investigation even begins. The officers note it and they go upstairs anyway because legally they have to. But understand what that means. They're walking into room 217 already holding a credibility gap between the caller and the only neutral witness in the building. That gap never closes. It only widens. The officers knock, she opens the door and the very first thing that happens is she starts talking about tequila before she finishes describing the attack. The officer asks how much she has had to drink. Her answer, I barely even opened it, is doing a lot of work in this transcript because later she admits to four drinks since that morning. That is not barely opened. That is the answer of someone who knows the number is going to hurt her. Now here is the investigative reality. Intoxicated victims are not automatically dismissed. Drunk people get attacked too and officers are trained to account for that. But intoxication means physical evidence becomes critical because the victim's statement alone will not hold up in court. So So officers immediately start looking for collaboration. Forced entry, injuries, torn clothing, anything that anchors her story to something physical. There is none. No forced door, no visible injuries, no signs of a struggle, which means her statement is the only thing they have, and her statement is falling apart in real time. She describes the suspect as 6'5", then stops cold, refuses to give his race, says, and this is a direct quote, "You know you are the way you are and I am the way I am." That sentence means nothing. It communicates nothing. And to a trained officer standing in a hotel room with zero physical evidence, it signals everything. Here is the hard truth about victim investigations. A person who has genuinely just been terrified by an intruder wants that person caught. They will tell you about the red jacket, the beard, the tattoo on his neck, the specific way he smelled. Real fear produces detail. What she is producing is obstruction dressed up as sensitivity. Then comes the moment that functionally ends the investigation. "Can I get a white officer over here, please?" Let's be direct about what that request does legally and tactically. You do not have the right to select the race of the officer responding to your 911 call. That is not a right that exists anywhere in statute. What that request does do is immediately reframe the entire interaction. She is no longer a victim trying to report a crime. She is a complainant making a racial demand that insults the officer standing in front of her and signals she will not cooperate with them specifically. The officer handles it professionally, confirms he heard it, notes it, moves on, but that request is now part of the record, and it will follow this case everywhere it goes. She then tells the officers she will not describe the suspect on camera because, in her words, it is like a Fox News civil pursuit going on. She is worried about the optics of accusing a black man on a body camera. Stop right there, because that sentence is the psychological turning point of this entire case. Real victims do not think about optics. They think about safety. They think about identification. They think about making sure the person who hurt them cannot do it again. The moment she starts filtering her statement through a hypothetical media narrative, she has told these officers everything they need to know about the credibility of her report. And then the story itself collapses from the inside. She originally says the door was locked and he just opened it. Then she says she unlocked it herself because she thought it was an officer. Those two statements cannot both be true. Pick one. Either he broke in or she let him in. She cannot have it both ways. And when pressed on how she knew him, she admits she met him in the elevator earlier that day and he offered her shoes. The narrative has now fully transformed. This is no longer a violent home invasion. This is a drunken interaction with a man she met earlier that she either misread or is now misrepresenting and she called 911 about it. That is the pivot point where the legal danger transfers completely from the accused who has a sober hotel clerk as an alibi to the caller who has no evidence, no consistent story, and four drinks in her system since 6:00 in the morning. Now, let's address the question of the arrest itself, because this is where people push back. Can you be arrested for public intoxication inside a hotel room? Generally, a hotel room carries Fourth Amendment protection similar to a private residence. You can drink in your room. You can be loud in your room as long as you stay there and contain it. Officers have very limited grounds to act on your intoxication alone. But that protection evaporates the moment you invite them in, which she did by calling 911. And it evaporates further when your behavior during their lawful investigation constitutes a disturbance in itself. She is not just drunk in a room. She is obstructing an active investigation, making racial demands, screaming about Fox News, calling for her father, and refusing to provide a single piece of actionable information to officers who drove to this hotel specifically because she asked them to. The officers give her nearly 10 full minutes to act like a victim. They ask the same questions multiple times. They absorb the insults. They professionally sidestep the white officer demand. They do not immediately move to arrest when she gets evasive. They try every available avenue to let her help herself. She will not let them. When the officer finally says, "Stand up for me. Turn around." It is not a snap decision. It is the end of a 10-minute investigation that produced zero evidence of a crime and substantial evidence of a false report and disorderly conduct. And the moment he reaches for her wrist, she pulls away. That is active resistance, not passive, not going limp. She physically pulls away from an officer executing a lawful arrest. The officer's warning about her wrists is not a threat. It is a factual statement about physics. Handcuffing technique uses joint leverage. If you thrash, you absorb the force of that leverage directly. Final charge stack: public intoxication, disturbing the peace, misuse of 911, resisting arrest. Four charges, and the one that carries the most weight going forward is the misuse of 911 because that charge is not about her night. It is about the community's resources. Every officer standing in room 217 right now is not responding to a real car accident, a real robbery, or a real medical emergency. Courts treat false 911 calls seriously, not as pranks, but as crimes against public safety infrastructure. That charge alone can produce fines, probation, and a permanent criminal record. And she caps it off in the back of the patrol car by noting completely unprompted that this will probably move through the justice system faster than the DUI she has been waiting on for a year and a half. So, this is not her first time in this system. She knows how it works, which makes every choice she made in that room not confusion, but calculation. Bad calculation, but calculation nonetheless. The tape does not lie. It never does. Drop your read on this one in the comments. We go through all of it. See you on the next one.
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