Hey. Hey. >> Come on. Relax. >> EVERY DAY. >> OTHERWISE, >> I CRY BEFORE I walk out my house cuz I know I might deal with this. >> Every day. Wait till the truth. >> Oh, you're not leaving. >> You're not leaving. Put your hands right back. >> The man shouting in the terminal says he wants the same rights as everyone. Staff had told him to leave and he kept yelling. Officers at Orlando International Airport were called in October of 2024. A handful of moments would decide whether the law was on his side. >> You need a regular man. I don't even want your help. Just stop. From tomorrow moving forward, stop. Okay. From tomorrow moving forward, stop. It's a bad day. Push under the rug. But from tomorrow moving forward, stop. Okay? I'll take a punishment, but let me handle let me walk through my country with the same rights as everybody else. Cuz I deserve the same rights as you. The only reason I'm talking to you is because you're young. >> I deserve the same rights as you. You probably might get a little bit more cuz you're a civil servant, but I deserve THE SAME RIGHTS AS you in my country. >> He is cursing at the officers in the middle of a terminal. Can words alone be a crime? Under city of Houston versus Hill. The first amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police officers. Harsh words alone generally cannot support an arrest. So the next question is what officers can do when the shouting does not stop. >> Black lives matter. Shut up. What are you doing? >> All right. Yo, that's the head. Listen. What's the plan? We need to leave the airport. So what's the plan? Let me calm down first. Please not. Listen, cuz y'all keep circling me. If I If I hold my phone right now, if I hold my phone right now and try to put the whole group, >> that's the problem. You get all excited. You play with me. >> Calm down. You me down with my You play with me all the time, man. I'm the animal, right? You guys >> to see what was going on. Yes. >> Yeah. He was in baggage right here. >> Yes. >> The same amount of time. Just nothing. Crazy. >> Call the police. What happened? >> They just escorted him outside and they left. >> Okay. And yesterday and then he came back and it started hopping started pressing the car took off and he's and we looking who was maybe trespass. >> It was a taxi that dropped her off. Was it a black tax? >> It was a Yes. So what happened? As soon as a man got out the taxi, >> he started flipping out. >> Sorry. >> So as soon as he got out the c as soon as he got out of the Uber, that's when he started yelling. So I don't know if he was yelling at the Uber or yelling at the passengers, but he just started yelling. Just >> yelling constantly kept on the guy never got out the car. >> Yeah. He just >> and he just as he was standing at the door, door open just hollering and cousin was fussing and I came out. I'm like, "Who is he talking to?" >> Nobody. >> He was like, "Nobody." The guy in the car at the door and he pulled out >> as soon as I said. >> Then that's what that's when he cuz I was like I like she asked me who is he talking to. I was like, "He's not talking to me. He's talking to him." >> And then they were like, "No." >> Driver said no. Yeah. And the driver took off. >> And the driver took off. with the tag. >> He flew in. He flew in yesterday. >> Where did he fly in from? >> Sir, now you sit down so we can talk. >> An officer asks the man to sit down and talk. Is that a request or an order? Under Florida versus Bostik, an encounter is voluntary when a reasonable person would feel free to decline the request or end it. Without that freedom, the contact starts to look like a seizure. What the officers do when he hesitates may matter as much as the invitation itself. >> Talk about what? Man, calm down. >> Listen, it's justified. >> Sir, go around, please. How the air? Can I get a cigarette, please? I need a cigarette. Can I get a cigarette, please? Can I get a cigarette, please? Can I get a cigarette, please? Doesn't have any cigarette. >> All right, listen. Listen. I'm going to help. >> No. Leave me alone. >> So, here's I'm going to leave the airport, but they're still going to leave me alone. >> Okay. How you going to leave the airport? >> Yes. I I'm 40 years old. I'm a gold man. Okay. >> All right. So, this is what we got to do. We got to get over. >> You got to escort me. I'mma go. I just hopped out of here. Bro, let me calm down, but do me this favor and when you go to proc. He's not selling drugs. He don't got fat though. He's back. He's not robbing people. He's last name. Nothing lighter. >> So when you see de what he is doing is causing disturbance here. >> All right. >> That's what he is doing. Yo >> yo. >> No man. Listen man. You just got here man and you join the service too. Man police system trying to trip me up. Ain't trying to trick me up. This reality. >> Yep. >> This reality. >> Can we bring you down? >> This reality man. >> No. It's scary. It's not just one thing. It's scary. >> I got home. I got home. >> But you don't give me the chance. You [ __ ] treat. >> Oh yes. >> Hey, listen here, man. I'm here. Listen, man. Man, this is out of here. >> This is what's going to happen. You get one chance to walk out of here. >> Right now, I am so hot. >> But here's here's the issue. I'm trying I'm trying to >> Listen up. Listen up. I've been trying to work with you and you don't want to listen. You're screaming and yelling. You don't want to listen. I wanted to talk to you mantomen respectful way and you be more than crazy. Oh talking. And look now we got all these officers here. So this is what's going to happen. They're going to ask you to leave one time. If you refuse, you're going to you're going to be arrested. We got to go there. >> The officer offers one chance to leave before arrest. Is that a legal warning? Under Florida statute section 8108, refusing to leave a structure after a warning from the owner or an authorized person is trespass. The warning must come from the owner or from someone authorized to speak for the owner. The next few minutes will show whether he leaves or stays. >> I'm going take a cab. >> Okay. a bad day today. >> I understand. >> I'm going take a caption the hotel. Okay. I'm going under the law of the bathroom. >> Starting tomorrow. >> It's a new day. >> I'm going say my lady and you do your job. Yes, sir. >> That's all I'm asking partner. >> That's I was here for not black me from everything >> because I was mad that you black people. And then when I go back, I'm still back. So, so let's see. I say, "Yo, you know what? Tell me go play your mind." Go to 78. I can't even go back to the kitchen because you didn't want to rent me a car. Hey, listen. And I'm going to get a little tip. You can't go inside. You get upset. People are not going to help. You got things. That's why that's why over here we can talk. Listen, you see how >> we can listen to each other. >> Good idea. >> Yeah. Alpha side one. >> Listen up, sir. We're going to go downstairs. Go start over there cuz then they won't let you get on the taxi cab. Okay. So, we got to go downstairs so you can take taxi cab. Okay. Go ahead. >> All right. >> Let's go. >> I'm trying to get you out of here, man. Come on. >> Come on. Fax. >> You just want to talk to him. Yeah. >> Elevator. >> Let's take the escalator so it won't be out. You trying to trick me up like the academy? >> No, I'm not. Listen, listen. You go ahead, man. You I got the right to remain silent. >> Midwalk, the man declares that he has the right to remain silent. Must officers read Miranda warnings now under Miranda versus Arizona, warnings are required before custodial interrogation, meaning questioning of a person in custody. Merely walking with officers does not automatically trigger the warnings. Whether the warnings ever become necessary depends on what happens next. >> The whole airport know what the going on. Ask me my name, my address. >> Come on, man. >> You all right? >> Don't worry about him, bro. All right, we'll get we'll get downstairs. All right. Where you trying to go to? >> Where you trying to Where you trying to go to, boss? I wasn't having a bad day. I was actually at the airport. Hey, >> I was quiet all day at the airport >> until I left the airport and y'all made that phone call. >> Come on, man. Come on. Come on. Come on. Don't get >> Let's be honest. >> Don't get all hype, man. >> I was quiet all day at the airport. >> Don't get all hype, man. Come on. >> Riverment made his phone call. All right. And then when I got back here, refer to first one. >> You ready? >> Well, you're you're you're going to close, brother. >> This way. This way. This way. >> Hey, calm down. Calm down. You bother me. You my day. And then it's calm down, >> bro. And then you when I leave all right and tomorrow it's the same day on the 311 where I real >> hey come over >> every DAY >> OTHERWISE >> I CRY before I walk out my house cuz I know I might deal with this >> every day. Wait for the story. I know you leave, right? >> Oh, you're not leaving. >> You're not leaving. Put your hands right back. >> An officer says the man is not leaving and orders his hands back. Is a warrantless arrest allowed here? Under Atwater versus City of Lago Vista, the Fourth Amendment allows a warrantless arrest for a minor offense committed in the officer's presence. Even an offense punishable only by a fine can qualify. The reason for the arrest comes into focus moments later. I cried before I go home >> AND I'M QUIET UNTIL I GOT TO THE record in this mother not all night down to sun up emergency call a word not Give me the rolling. >> We good? >> Yeah, we're good. >> Slide. Watch your head. You're a tall person. >> Slide in your feet in >> Got it. >> Sit as best comfortably you can, but I still have to put a like hold. >> Rear's on. >> I don't know. I'm still taking. >> We got your glasses, man. We got your glasses. We got your >> You doing that by my glasses? What else is you you doing? >> We have everything here for you. >> Lincoln, >> that's even your real name. Don't worry though, you you you on duty right now. You John Doe right now. >> You signed in today though. And I'mma subpoena somebody. >> A pair of glasses. Yo, and that's somebody that's supposed to be upholding the law. >> You have your glasses, man. Don't worry about what I'm talking about. >> Yeah, we got your sunglasses, your phone. >> What's my charge? >> They're in your in your suitcase. >> What's my charge? >> Oh, your charge. Trespass after warning. >> All right. I got another >> You were asked to leave. You chose not to leave. >> You got You got You got that shirt. You got that. I'm not You No question. You got >> I go to jail for that, though. >> Yes, sir. In Florida. Yes, you do. >> Where are you from? >> The bomb sir. >> So, you're from New York? Okay. In Florida, you actually get arrested and you actually go to jail and then you have to post a bond to get out. I know in New York things are done a little different. Every everywhere does things a little different, but in Florida, yes, you do go actually go to jail for that. Are you getting air out of the vents? >> Yeah. Okay, good. >> Guess what? >> What? >> You got a pension? I'd be up if you give it to me. Come on, man. I'm making sure the air is on for you. >> I'm not even bothering you. >> I'm not even >> I know, but you were asked to leave. You were asked to leave and chose not to. >> You're right. You're right. You're right. >> All you had to do was calm down and get in the taxi and go about your way. >> You're right. You're right. You're right. Can I get a break, please? >> Unfortunately, at this point, no. Once the handcuffs go on, which we're beyond a break. >> We tried to work with you. >> But I got to go all the way to jail and pay bill. >> Yes, sir. >> How much bill? $5,000. No, no, it's not that much. >> How much? $10,000. >> I want more less. >> Okay. >> His name is Brown. I found >> his NAME BROWNSTEIN BY THE WAY. >> OKAY. >> Watch when I tell Brownste. >> WATCH WHEN I TELL BROSTE THIS. Remember this. I could wear ski mask in the Bronx. >> I know. Talking in the Bronx. >> Say if I wear ski mask, you can't recognize me. >> Probably not. >> You wear ski mask. Why? >> Probably can't recognize me either. >> And what's going to happen to me? >> I don't know. >> Why you wearing a ski mask? >> Why you wearing one? >> Co. >> Same reason. >> I'm too ugly. That's why >> actually I'm not even from that. walk from Ethan to go see Israel thought respect bump their head or some you got is the only book in the world open from the back and you got a temple but I feel some type of way you got a temple in the most holiest land and you still want my man. >> You don't evening do that. >> All right, we're going to start heading now. All right. >> Huh? >> It's in the trunk. >> Dude, stop. >> Stop. >> Stop. Yo. Oh, that's not called for, man. Why you kicking the door for? >> You want my suitcase? >> Why are you kicking the door? >> I want my suitcase. >> You're going to get it back later. You can't have it right now. >> There's no need for you to kick in the door. >> Well, let me get a property seat. That's my home. >> You're going to get all your stuff later on. But why you kicking the door for? You don't need to do that. >> You You telling me that you're not giving me my stuff. >> We didn't say we're not going to give it back. You're going to get it back later. You're going to get it back later. >> You telling me you're not giving me my stuff. >> I did not say that. Damn it. You're telling me you're not giving me my stuff, >> Kevin. >> You telling me YOU NOT GIVING THAT'S WHY THAT'S THAT'S MY FAULT. >> YOU GOING TO GET IT BACK. All this stuff is right here. >> Give me a receipt. Give me a receipt. >> You're going to get a receipt later. >> Prove it to me when you get >> You said IT WAS IN THE TRUNK. IT'S NOT IT WASN'T IN THE TRUNK. THAT'S WHY I STARTED KICKING THE DOOR CUZ YOU SAID IT'S IN THE TRUNK. It wasn't in the trunk. >> Devin, are you going to listen to what I'm telling you? >> Yes, sir. >> I've been talking to you. You been working out real good, right? Me and you, we straight. >> I told you another officer. That officer who pulled up next to us in that car, he has your stuff. He's taken it to property and evidence to put it into property and evidence for you. >> With the footage over, the incident leaves several practical lessons behind. A traveler tells officers he will take a cab to the hotel and then keep shouting. A promise to leave does not cancel a warning to leave because only actually leaving does. What counts is the act of leaving. and a spoken plan to leave, however sincere, is not that act. In this footage, the arrest followed a stretch of continued yelling after the cab was offered. A person can curse at an officer and still be told to go. Free speech protects the words, but it does not stretch into a right to stay in a place after an authorized warning. The practical result is that two separate questions run side by side, one about speech and one about presence. The charge here was trespass, not the insults. Words spoken in the back of a patrol car are still recorded. When an officer said the man was asked to leave and chose not to, the man answered, "You're right to that account." Agreeing with an officer's account becomes part of the record, while silence costs nothing. Silence is simplest when stated once, calmly, and then kept. A traveler asks for his suitcase and by his own account starts kicking the door. In the footage, the officers say the property is going to property and evidence and that a receipt comes later. A receipt is the record that protects both sides if the property is later disputed. A calm request for that receipt asks for the same thing without adding a new problem. A traveler who flew in from out of state can lose access to the very airport he arrived at. A trespass from the airport lasts a minimum of 1 year and the way back to New York now runs through Tampa. The record shows one count of trespassing and a bond of $1,000. The arrest is only one cost since the travel consequences continue long after the night ends. Between a bad day and a criminal charge, the law in this case turned on a few clear moments and each one was recorded. Suggestions for future interactions and legal topics are always welcome in the comments. Thanks for watching.