lower your voice. Try it. Are Are you threatening me? Sheeee! Sheeee! Get down on the ground right now. The incident took place on February 5th, 2025 in Orlando, Florida at the downtown campus of the University of Central Florida. According to the source account, UCF police responded shortly after 5:00 p.m. to a reported disturbance at a university dorm. What's the problem? Why do you let those kids get away with this? They are not supposed to be here. If you don't lower your voice, I am going to put handcuffs on you and I'm going to take you to a Baker facility. You lower your voice. Try it. Are Are you threatening me? You're threatening me. Are you threatening me? I'm going to just cuz I cuz I'm here right now to deal with a stolen vehicle. I ain't got time to hear you screaming and yelling. The first thing we hear is not a calm conversation. Someone is demanding that other people leave while an officer is trying to bring the volume down. The officer warns that continued behavior could lead to handcuffs and even mentions taking the person to a Baker Act facility. At this point, the video is already showing the central problem. Both the parties are interpreting the same confrontation very differently. Can we get another unit to deal with um Jay Lee here? He is having a breakdown. Sheee! the right pronoun. What' you say? 7351. Get down on the ground right now. You're about to get sprayed. Get down on the ground right now. Leave me alone. I can come in there. Leave me alone, please. Okay. Are you going to calm down? I'm I'm getting my phone out. I've got I have to film this. I'm telling you. Are you going to calm down? You don't charge a calm down. I will calm down. You know what this is? Calm down. Will you get the pepper spray out of my face? Alpha 73. Leave me alone. I I I have uh Just pepper spray right now. Putting the pepper spray at me. I will calm down if you do that. Stop threating me. Yeah. Lower your voice. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Do you want to get tased? I want you to leave me alone. You have been particularly abusing me. If you come if you come towards me one more time. Follow me. You are going to abuse the administrator. I got you. Jay, get away. You don't tell me where to go. Stop. Cop. Alpha 73 University. Jay, I want No, no, no. It's too late now. It's too late now. He's He's going to be taken away. Jay lee, you need to stop. Stop. It's taken. I just wanted to get away from him. Sh. Stop mask tangling me. Just say she. Josh, can you please just tell them to use the right pronouns? Please. you know, it's causing me a lot of distress. Officers decide to take Jay Lee into custody. The interaction changes. The repeated instruction is simple. Put the belongings down, turn around, and put the hands behind the back. Jay Lee does not comply immediately and says the officers are stressing the situation and acting with hostile intent. This is where the educational question begins. When police issue a command during a developing incident, what happens when the person being detained does not recognize the command as legitimate or believes the officers are escalating unnecessarily? In this case, the disagreement becomes physical. Okay. Okay. So, so I'm going to So, so I'm going to ask you very nicely. Put your stuff down. Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. Does anybody be arrested? Put your stuff down. No. Put your hands behind your back. No. Okay. So, I'm only gonna ask you one more time. You can you can record all you want, but it's already beyond that point. I We We already tried. We're stressing me out. I'm just asking you to please stop. We We We We We already tried to help you. So So No, you didn't. Yes. You came in with hostile intent. Put your hand out. be alone. Get on the ground right now. Don't get on the ground. Get on the ground right now. Don't me. Get down on the ground right now. I got this way. Leave me alone. Stop. Stop. Get down. Get down on the ground. Get down. Get down. Leave me alone. Help. Help Me. Get down. Get down. Get him down. Let go. Put your hand behind your back. Put your hand behind your back. I can't. I just I'm right. I just wanted you to Come on. Stop. Please. Josh. Josh. Please. This is all big misunderstanding. Oh my god. I'm going spray him. No, please don't spray. Don't say him. Her. Okay, her. I'm going to spray her. Thank you. Put your hand behind your back. No. Yes. I don't want to spray you. Give me your hand. Is there any way? No. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. I just I get co you just give me some space for 988 versus put your hand behind your back. Put your hand behind your back. Put your hand behind your back. Give me your hand. Hey Justin, space your hand. Put your hand. Give me your hand. Okay. I'm going to tell I'm going to tase you if you don't cooperate. Taser. Jay lee. It's going to hurt, man. Just give me your hand. He's not going to tase you if you give me your hand. Are you going to arrest me? We need your hand. Yes. You We need your hand. I don't The body cam captures a rapidly changing physical struggle. Officers repeatedly ask for a hand. Jay Lee repeatedly asks for space. At one point, an officer says the person will be sprayed, and later, the officers say a taser will be used. The source footage should be allowed to speak for itself. Going to get it again. this time. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. Leave me alone. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. I got legs. I got legs. Give me your hand. All right. Give me your hand. ass. Let go. Relax him. Okay, there you go. We got him. Resistance and battery on Leo. Um, I had to t them. What was that supposed to comply? Now you're not better on Roll over. Roll over. Now get up. Josh, please. On your knee. I'm trying. Now stand up. Can I have my phone? Ow. I can't get up. You said you need a table, right? Yes. Yeah. Herrrrr! Herrr! Sit down. We're going to have the fire department take a look at you. All right. I hate you. You escalated this. You didn't have to pull out the pepper spray. You don't have to continue to misgender me. You knew my buddies and you set them off. Please step in. Watch your head. Do not push me. Your camera's on the whole time. Yeah, mine was too. Okay. The officers then reconstruct the incident among themselves. One account says the confrontation began with aggressive behavior toward other people and escalated after officers became involved. Another officer describes being struck and having a radio cord grabbed. So he when I grabbed uh Riley secured one hand and then I was able to cuff it, but as we were trying to secure it to his back, he hit his second hand around. He rotated around and threw a a close fist at me. Okay. Did he hit you? If he did, I didn't feel it. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't. I mean, he tried, but he but I But I was able I think I cuz I don't remember him actually. But what saved was me grabbing his legs. Yeah. Cuz if I didn't But then he grabbed but then he grabbed my mic. You see it's all stretched out. He grabbed my mic trying to rip it off and uh like I said, he kept and then uh when we got him second elevator, he threw a kick. That one hit me. Okay. Because physical force and a taser were deployed during the encounter, department protocol required officers to immediately canvas the lobby and document independent witness accounts. Just from your perspective before it started, when the confrontation started, what happened afterwards? Okay. So, I guess the guy I I know I wasn't here, right? So, from my from what I understand, this all started inside the subway or they were ordering in the subway. It did not start in the subway. It started right out here, right in front of those doors over there. Perfect. So what happened? So what happened was there were some kids. Okay. And the kids were making some remarks about about Yes. And he had an incident on my floor that I witnessed a couple weeks ago. Okay. Where it was sort of the same setup. He was in the elevator with these guys. That's we'll get there. Let's just to make sure we're talking about the student and not the officer, right? the student specifically has had incidents on your floor that you're aware of today. Yeah. And today there was definitely an incident involving another group of kids and him in this area. So these were more juvenile kids that smaller. So they don't really have a filter. Okay. And what I know is that anything will set him over the edge. Okay. And he believes that everyone's like kind of against him. Against him. Mhm. And so because of that fact, he's very belligerent to everyone. Okay. I've tried to talk to him before in the elevators and not I don't get much not not good vibes or what ended up happening is that once those kids started making remarks, he obviously reacted back to them. Okay. And when he reacted back to them, he started getting more and more belligerent. Okay. And he ended up getting aggressive towards the kids. In what way would you say aggressive? Was he yelling at them? Was he shoving them? Yelling. And then it's the same thing that he did to the first police officer here. He like jerks towards you. Okay. What was your involvement in this? Let me ask you first. The property manager, I guess. Um, was she like ever like Jay's consistently been on here? Oh, yeah. You um Well, like tonight like for this particular incident, was her like frustration or anything addressed towards you or No, we just heard about the screaming, so we came down. Okay. Um, so secondhand I've heard uh somebody in the somebody in the subway may have may have misgendered her. Um, and that sparked it off. And then when I came down here, Jay Lee was in the corner and Riley was standing uh next to her or like in front of her. Okay. Um, yeah. Okay. With witness statements corroborating the initial breach of peace and the aggressive confrontation in the lobby, investigators formally expanded the charges. Alongside felony battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting with violence, a charge of disorderly conduct was added to the booking ledger. During the transport to the Orange County Jail, Jay Lee attempts to rationalize the altercation, arguing that the initial responding officer violated her rights by pulling his pepper spray before issuing a clear command to detain her. Okay, so here's the thing, though. I was just trying to protect myself. From who? You. We were not. All we were going to do was put you in handcuffs. That was it. We were not taking you at that point. We were not taking you to jail. It is when you swung and hit me. You swung and hit me and then that's when we had a problem. You were you were tackling me because I was just And how many times did I ask you and I asked you very nicely please put your hands behind your back. Please put your hand to handcuff me and c me out to jail. Don't think you wouldn't. I wasn't you were I was trying to ask and I told you for officer safety I need to place you in rest. Is not looking for a peaceful resolution to this. He just suffer. I was How many times? How many times did I ask before you got tased? How was I saying, "Please, this hurts. Please give me your hand. This will hurt. Please give me your hand." And did you do it? No. You kept fighting me. I was just I was grabbing onto the desk. And I told you, "Let go. This is going to hurt you. Please stop. Please stop." Too late. But I didn't want it to get worse. That's the part you're not getting is I didn't want it to get worse. You kept You never said that. You never said any of that. I said, "Please stop. This is going to hurt. Please give me your hand." So what? So I could get hardcarded off to jail. Eddie, I wasn't going to take you to jail until you kicked me. I didn't kick you. Yes, you did. No. When you were fighting me, I guess the elevator, you swung around. You almost hit me in the face with a with your fist, but I but I was able to dodge it. No, I got the camera. I have you in a [ __ ] chokeold. I didn't have you on a chokeold. I mean, I was fighting. I don't know. About say I was fighting with your wrist the whole time cuz handcuffs. Well, Riley had me in a trunk because someone was choking me then. I like if I was kicking, it wasn't at you. It was because I was struggling to breathe. The anatomy of Jay Lee's arrest highlights exactly how rapidly a situation deteriorates when emotions override standard procedure. Following her booking on February 5th, 2025, Lee was released from the Orange County Jail on bond 2 days later. She formally pleaded not guilty to all charges on February 10, and court records indicate the case was subsequently closed. In a matter of minutes, a failure to follow basic lawful commands resulted in a trip to the booking room facing felony battery charges rather than walking away with a simple warning. To watch more raw breakdowns of how highstakes police encounters unfold, from the initial dispatch to the final arrest, please subscribe to the