On January 28th, 2024, officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle after it was observed traveling 75 mph in a 45 zone. >> Speeding pretty good. You're going 75. Is there a reason you're going that fast? >> Um >> Okay, where are you trying to get to? >> To my boyfriend. I'm sorry. >> Okay, where does he live at? >> Down the block. >> Okay, where are you coming from? >> I'm coming from my coworker's house. >> Okay, what town's that in? >> It's just down the street. Can I call him? >> Uh I but could you grab me your driver's license real quick? >> Okay. >> Is anyone else in the car with you? It's just super tinted. >> Okay. >> Do you want me to call him? >> No, that's fine. Um we got to take care of some stuff here first. Do you have your insurance card with you? >> Yeah, it's on my phone. Why do guys get away with cheating and like all this [ __ ] >> What was that? >> Why do guys get always away with bullshitting and all this [ __ ] to me? >> You're talking about your boyfriend? >> Yeah. >> Okay, yeah, I don't know. >> My license is in here. Can you call my phone? >> I don't know your phone number, but I was looking for your insurance card. >> It's on my phone. I can give that all of that to you. >> Okay, that's cool. Uh hey, do you mind just cut my fronts and grabbing the thing out of my backpack, too? It's on the side. >> What do you want me to do? >> Um you don't know where your phone's at? >> No, that's why I need you. >> Okay. It's not in your pockets or anything? >> car. >> Oh, it's in the car somewhere. Okay. Um I'm just going to have you step out of the car real quick and then we'll take a look for it here in a minute, all right? Yeah, we'll just step on right >> Yeah, I'm on the side. >> Okay, we'll just step right on back here. Can you step over here? Uh you can stand on the pavement. You don't have to be in the grass. >> This is the pavement, babe. >> Yes, if you want to >> to see >> Yes, the >> This is it. >> Yeah, do you want to stand on the pavement right here? Like right here on the pavement? >> I'm not safe there. >> Okay. I mean, we got our cars blocking everything. Um >> Nowadays, we're not safe. >> Okay. Well >> So, if I go walking here further away, that'd be even better for me. >> Okay. Well, I just need you to stand on the pavement, okay? Cuz I don't want you standing in the grass. Can you stand right here? >> No, that's dangerous to me. >> Okay. Well, it's not dangerous. We got our cars blocking it. >> Okay. >> All right? >> But if you're if something happens to me, you're responsible. >> Yep, you're correct. So, what town were you coming from tonight? >> Aurora. >> Aurora? Okay. How much did you have to drink tonight? >> Just two drinks. >> Two drinks? What kind of drinks was that? Do you remember? >> You want to have like interrogation with me, I'll have my my lawyer come over here and talk to you. >> Your who? >> The lawyer. >> Okay. So >> Maybe maybe I'm Hispanic and I can't pronounce it right, but I'll tell you what it is in Español. >> Okay. All right, I don't understand Spanish Spanish. >> That's okay, baby. That's okay. >> All right, do you mind if I check your eyes really quick? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Well, listen. Listen. >> Yeah. Okay, so I don't understand Spanish. Can you speak English to me? Cuz I know you speak English. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. Can you just stand put your feet together, your arms down at your sides? Do you mind just keeping them out of your pockets right now? Just keep them down at your sides for me. I'm going to have you look at the tip of my finger with your eyes and eyes only, okay? All right, can you look at the tip of my finger? I need to do some tests to make sure you're good to drive the rest of the way home, all right? Okay. >> Look, baby. Look. You're going to listen to me, okay? >> All right. >> I don't know I don't know what you're telling me. So, you need to tell me someone that's going to interpret it or what what you're saying to me. >> had a a whole conversation in English at your car. You understand what I'm saying. >> No. I want you to bring somebody that can interpret what you're saying to me. >> of my finger with your eyes and eyes only, all right? We don't have anyone working on our shift that speaks Spanish. We had a whole conversation in English. >> I want you to call somebody. >> Okay. We had a whole conversation. >> with me in Spanish. >> I'm not doing that. We You speak English. >> We can stay here. Look. One, two. We're We'll do it. We'll do >> Okay, let's do the test really quick. Can you follow the tip of my finger with your eyes and eyes only? >> I want somebody in Spanish. I want somebody in I I don't understand fully what you're asking me to do. I understand maybe 50%. Los 50% of what you're telling me I don't know what you're saying. Yo no sé lo que tú estás diciendo. >> How can you understand me? He hasn't even explained anything yet. >> Yeah. >> Okay. 50% you no entiendo. >> We don't speak Spanish. >> Okay. We're going to sit here, stand here, whatever you want to do, but I don't understand what he is asking me. >> even let me >> Yeah, let me let me explain it to you. I want you to follow the tip of my finger with your eyes. >> No entiendo. No te entiendo. >> Tango 7 Sierra, Spanish speaking officer nearby? All right, we have a Spanish speaking officer coming over, okay? I don't understand Spanish. You have to speak English. Okay. I don't understand Spanish. >> Okay. >> I I don't understand Spanish, but if you're saying if you can get in your car, no, you can't get in your car. >> Are you going to put gas in my car? >> No. >> Then let's turn it off. >> It's just going to stay how it is now. >> You know, if you're going to take me to your station, you might as well just put me in your car because I'm freezing my ass off here. >> Well, we're we're waiting for a Spanish-speaking officer. >> Well, then put me in your car until I get off with a Spanish-speaking officer because that [ __ ] is hurting my heart and it's hurting my back, too. >> Okay, we're just going to hang out here, all right? >> It's hurting my back. >> Standing up is hurting your back? >> The cold. >> I'm not saying anything about that. >> I'm not saying me standing here, but the cold is hurting my back. >> All right, well, they're on their way right now. The Spanish-speaking officer that you requested is on their way, so we're going to wait. >> My back is hurting. >> Okay, well, we're just going to wait right here. >> If you want to sit down, you can sit down right there. >> This is wet. This is wet. This is not okay for my butt. This is literally terrible. It's hurting my back. And this is wet. >> Okay, we're just going to hang out right here. We got the Spanish-speaking officer on their way. >> Is this this car Is this like verifying everything that's happening? >> I don't know either way. >> Cuz I would like for you to turn on this beautiful camera. >> It's The camera is The camera is on. >> Okay, because I feel like you're having me freeze to death. Do you see how bad I am shaking? Do you see? Do you see my hand? >> It's just above freezing out and you're wearing a coat. You're okay. >> really cold. >> Okay, do you want to start doing the test now? >> I would like to be in warm cold. Because I'm cold out here. >> All right. >> THIS IS TERRIBLE. This is making me >> All right, just calm down. You're wearing a coat. You're okay. It's above freezing now. >> No, look at My hand would not be freezing like this if I was cold. So you need to help me. Help me. Help me. Help me. >> All right, we're just waiting for the Spanish-speaking officer. >> No, I'm going to call 911. I need to call 911 on the speaker on my phone. >> We are the police. You do not need to go back to your car. >> am I looking like this? Why don't you call for the ambulance? >> If you're not going to take >> care of me. >> All right. >> What is happening? THIS IS NEVER HAPPENED to me. I'm going to call the ambulance. Call the ambulance. Please, I'm asking you to call the ambulance. I'm breaking out. This has never happened before. >> Did you take anything other than >> No, I have never [crying] have. I have never have taken anything other than alcohol. I'm I think >> Just calm down. >> No. >> It's above freezing in your car. >> my mother because you know what? >> you zipper your coat up, OR BUTTON >> NO, THAT IS NOT making difference to what I'm feeling. If you really care about my living cuz I might die anytime soon because this has never happened to me. >> Do you want to start doing the test in English, or do you want to keep waiting for a Spanish-speaking officer? >> my mom. You're doing something evil. >> Do you want to start doing the test now, or do you continue to wait for a Spanish-speaking officer? >> I'm really I'm really out of breath. I'm really OUT OF BREATH. >> 30 PALM 6 HERE. Can you head over here? Got them? Yeah. >> Look, you have nothing against me, okay? What do you have against me? Let's go trial, okay? I'm tired of this [ __ ] >> All right, well we have the Spanish-speaking officer. Do you want to do my test? >> Put your office Spanish speaker on, please. Please, put him on. on. Have him walk down. Flashing lights come on. >> Hey, ma'am, ma'am, you need to stand over here. I don't want you to walk into traffic, okay? >> all right, what if the Is that flashing lights? Are we going to stand over there together and like But this is exactly how I want to stand. Okay? So if he has to come off that car, then I'm going to stand here and do this, and I don't care if you blind me with your light. I don't [ __ ] because it is It really is blinding me. It is. I don't care what your excuse is, whether it's dark or light, whatever the is. If it's bothering you the way the light take off, I can have somebody come here and pick me the off, okay? >> like someone should come pick you up, that you shouldn't be driving? >> going to answer that question when you want me to turn off my car and have somebody pick me up, that's a whole 'nother situation, but I'm not doing that today, and I'm not doing that right now, and you know what? I don't care. Run my background, do whatever >> I'm going to run your ATT. >> That's right. Do whatever you want to do. My child's father passed away just a couple months, and you think you're this elite trying to do this [ __ ] on me? You know what? I'm I'm do this [ __ ] but you're going to take this to your head. This [ __ ] going to come back to you. No. >> All right. All right. All right. >> Yeah, this [ __ ] going to come back to you. I don't care. You You You want to say I don't want to touch you with you because you're not this this this enough. Well, let tell you this [ __ ] going to come back to you. Let me call up my lawyer because like I cannot feel my fingers. >> You can Well, you can put them if you want to put them in the pockets of your jacket, that's fine. >> I'm not going nowhere. Even I'm going to turn my car off, I will. But I'm going to go to my lawyer. >> Okay. You don't have to go right now. >> You're not going to go. >> All right, let's turn Let's turn off the car. >> All right, you're not going in your car. Yeah, yeah, turn it off. That's fine. You'll turn it off. >> I didn't ask I didn't say yes. I didn't ask yes. >> You're not going in your car. >> Well, you're not going to say yes either. >> You're You're under arrest. You're under arrest. >> You're holding me really rough and it's hurting me. >> All right. >> And do you have cameras because this is hurting me? >> Yeah. >> Oh, this is hurting me. >> Put your arm behind your back and stop. >> This is hurting me. >> Get away from me. Stop stiffening up. >> I'm not stiffening up. >> Look, I'm not stiffening up and you're hurting me. >> Put your arms behind your back and relax. >> You're hurting >> Put your hand behind your back. >> And I'm going to tell you right now, I spent $2,000 on my hair. >> All right, hold on. >> PULLING ON THAT. >> YOUR YOUR Your wrist is We're getting you out of this. >> No, he is running over my HAIR THAT I SPENT $2,000 ON. GET OFF OF MY HAIR. GET OFF OF MY HAIR. GET OFF OF MY HAIR. [screaming] >> WHAT'S ON YOUR HAIR? >> THE HANDCUFF AND WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING TO ME. >> Let me take a look. >> Come on because this is very very serious. >> There's like seven cameras. >> Put it on me. Correctly. >> I got small ones that can go really small. Just hold it. Just hold it. Hold her arm over here, Ivan. Ivan, hold her arm so I CAN GET THIS. >> BECAUSE I WILL come back FOR THIS [ __ ] HOLD THAT. AND GET A GOOD ANGLE of it and get a good picture of it. A good picture of it. >> Don't worry. It's all been It's all on camera. >> No, my hair was never in the way. Oh, I thought you said it was It was never in the way. My hair was never in the way. >> So, let's break down what happened here. What started as a simple speeding stop, 75 in a 45, slowly turned into a long standoff on the side of the road. The driver couldn't produce her license or insurance card, and she told the officers she'd had two drinks. When it came time for the field sobriety test, she said she didn't fully understand the instructions and asked for a Spanish-speaking officer. The officers pointed out that they'd already been talking in English at her car, but they still called one in and waited. During that wait, she said she was freezing, asked to sit in a patrol car, and at one point asked for an ambulance. The officers told her it was above freezing and that she was wearing a coat. They kept offering to start the test. Even after the Spanish-speaking officer arrived, she didn't do the [clears throat] test. Moments later, she was placed under arrest, and the footage shows the handcuffing and her complaints about it. She was charged with DUI, resisting arrest, and multiple traffic violations. Remember, those are charges, not a conviction, and the court has the final say. So, what do you think? Did the officers stay patient and professional while they waited? Or should this stop have gone differently from the start? Was the language barrier real, or was it a delay tactic? Drop your answer in the comments. I read them. If you want more raw unedited body cam footage like this, hit the subscribe button and turn on the notification bell for Patrol Vault. New body cam videos come out every week, and you won't want to miss the next one. Like this video if you watched to the end, and I'll see you on Patrol Vault in the next one.