Take a seat. Take a seat. Take a seat. >> What am I doing wrong? >> Take a seat. >> What statute am I violating? >> Take a seat. >> Call your sergeant, bro. >> I will. >> I want to talk to you. Take a seat. >> number. I'm talking to you. >> Take a seat. >> I'm taking I'm talking to you. You take a seat. >> I don't know who you are. >> He knows who I am. He just said my name. >> told you I >> I I don't know who you are, bro. I don't You won't even give me your badge number. >> never dealt with you. >> won't even You won't even give me your badge number, sir. >> wouldn't. >> Mr. Sanchez, give me your badge number. >> 6394. I never said I wouldn't. All right? See how I'm being cooperative, but you instead want to give me a hard time. >> Because you're legally obligated You're legally obligated to, sir. I'm not legally obligated. >> to do nothing. >> I'm I'm not legally obligated to give you my name. I don't have to I I haven't committed If you tell me what statute I violated, I will give you my name. >> Watch how this officer repeatedly orders a man to take a seat while struggling to explain exactly what he did wrong. The man keeps asking the same simple question, what law did I violate? But instead of getting a clear answer, the encounter turns into a back and forth over detention, identification, and the officer's authority. And this gets even more interesting when the man refuses to hand over his information without a legal reason, asks for a supervisor, and keeps his camera rolling the entire time. Eventually, he asks the question that matters most, am I free to leave? And the answer completely changes the ending of this encounter. >> David, hey. Hey, come here. Take a seat. Take a seat. Take a seat. >> What am I doing wrong? >> Take a seat. >> What statute am I violating? Take a seat. Call your sergeant, bro. >> I will. I want to talk to you. >> your badge number. >> I'm talking to >> Take a seat. >> I'm taking I'm talking to you. You take a seat. >> No, no, no, no. I'm staying with you. I'm making my sergeant here right now, bro. >> Thank you, man. >> Name and badge number? What's up? Yeah, 720 is what Who's your sergeant? Who's your sergeant? Who's your sergeant? >> My sergeant? You're going to see him in a second. He's going to come here and talk to you. >> 3920 >> 6 ft away, please. Social distance. >> Somebody's coming here. >> Where you going? >> I'm not going anywhere, man. You don't see I almost fell. Relax, bro. I'm not going anywhere. I don't have any idea for you. You have my name. You just told your boy my name. >> you are a fellow government >> I am. You just told me your name. I ain't giving you no ID. I haven't done anything wrong. >> 5'7" and about 152. >> This is constitutionally protected activity. I'm not doing anything illegal. I've done this all the time, bro. >> I know you do. >> So, what's the problem? >> You know what the issue is. >> What's the problem? >> You know exactly what it is. >> There's no issue. I'm not doing nothing wrong. Do your job, bro. >> Okay, so can you uh take a 15 real quick? You can come over here. I got him right here. He's like stay away from me. >> Call your sergeant. Call whoever you got to. Call the major. Call the captain. Call the director. Call whoever you need to call, man. I haven't done anything wrong, anything illegal. >> Hey Dave, let that guy go. Come here. >> Hey, let me get your ID real quick. His ID? I know he's Take your ID there. You're 355. Take 50 back there. >> Name and badge number, please. >> Give me a second, sir. >> Can you tell me what statute I violated? >> We'll talk in a second, bro. >> What do you need from me? Am I Am I contained? >> We'll talk in a second, >> Am I being detained, sir? Am I free to Am I free to leave? >> No. >> All right. >> No, you're not. >> Name and badge number, please. >> Woo, 7137. >> Thank you. Name and badge number, please. >> Watch him real quick. >> I'm not going anywhere, man. You told me I'm not free to leave. I'm not going anywhere. You told me I'm not free to leave. What's your name and badge number, please? >> Don't put the camera in my face cuz I will take the camera away from >> Name and badge number, bro. >> Stand right there. >> Name and badge number, please. And who's your sergeant? >> You can right there. >> What statute have I violated? >> You can stand right there. You approached us. I don't know who you are. >> approach you, bro. I didn't approach you. I came over here. >> know who you are. >> My man, I didn't approach you. He knows who I He knows who I am. >> know who you are. >> He knows who He knows who I am. >> dealt with you, right? >> Buddy, I haven't I didn't I didn't approach you. I didn't approach you. I didn't approach you. I'm allowed to record. Buddy, I do this all the time. I I I record all the time. I record all the time. >> me talk. I don't know who you are. >> everything on camera. >> First of all >> Yeah. >> Good. I don't know who you are, right? You approached us recording. >> I didn't approach you. I didn't approach you. I didn't approach you. >> you did. You caught my attention. So, I don't know who you are, all right? >> What statute have I violated? >> I never said you violated anything. >> Can you get your sergeant here, please? >> Huh? >> Can you get your sergeant? I need a >> Help me. >> Can I speak to your sergeant? >> For the record, I advise you to stop instigating, bro, because >> I haven't done anything. I haven't I do this all the time. I record all the time. Every sergeant Every sergeant I've spoken to I go to the police station and record. He knows me. He knows my name. >> Stop, dude. It is not going to get you anywhere. >> What have I done wrong? >> It's not going to get you anywhere. >> What What's illegal? What's illegal? What's illegal? Poli- If you tell me If I get a judge's order, I won't do it, but I haven't gotten anything. It's not illegal. Listen, call your sergeant. I'm not going to I'm not going to deal with this. I haven't done anything wrong. I haven't broken any You You You need to You need to be 6 ft back. You need to stand 6 ft back. >> a mask, first of all. >> I don't need a mask. I don't need it. Back up, please. You Social distance. I haven't done anything wrong. I don't need a mask. I don't need a mask. >> So, you're the one who needs a mask. >> I don't need a mask. Call your supervisor, please. Call your supervisor, please. Your sergeant. >> What you doing right now, bro? >> I'm not giving you anything. Call your sergeant and I'll speak to him. I'm not I'm not >> Call my sergeant once already. >> I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. I haven't done anything wrong. I have everything on camera, man. I haven't done Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, two is one, one is none, right? I I haven't done anything illegal. You guys are I don't know you So, am I free to leave? You know my name. You just told me Yo, I don't I don't have to disclose that information. You have my name already. What else do you need? Call your sergeant. And I don't have identification on me. You need a mask when you're in public. I don't need a mask. What are you talking about, man? Okay, what law says that? Okay, yeah. We'll see. Your face is covered. Your face is covered. Can I have your name and badge All right. All right, that's fine. Go right ahead, bro. I'mma get that I'mma get that camera footage. Watch, I'm going to get that from public records. I'mma get it from public records. That's fine, bro. I'mma talk to I'mma talk to PCB. It's not illegal to record. It's not illegal to record. I'm a journalist, bro. I'm allowed to record. I'm a journalist. I'm allowed to record. I have a company, yes. I'm allowed I'm allowed I'm I'm a journalist. I'm a I'm I'm a member of the press. I'm a member of the media. I'm allowed to record. Go ahead, sir. I'm not legally required to, sir. I'm not legally required to. No, I don't. I don't He knows who I am. He just said my name. I I don't know who you are, bro. I don't You won't even give me your badge number. You won't even You won't even give me your badge number, sir? Mr. Sanchez, give me your badge number. Thank you. I'm because you're legally obligated You're legally obligated to, sir. I'm not legally obligated. I'm I'm not legally obligated to give you my name. I don't have to. I I haven't committed If you tell me what statue I violated, I will give you my name. I will give you my name and my date of birth. But but tell me what statue I violated. That's not a That's not a statue in the state of Florida. Carry on, then. Dozens of videos recording Miami-Dade Police Department. I never have issue. I go to the police department, I record, I talk to every sergeant Webster. I've talked to this Webster. I've talked to Romero. I've talked to Zapata. I didn't talk to you guys I I didn't talk to you guys. I I didn't talk to you guys. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I don't know. Am I free to leave? Am I free to leave? I don't know. If I want to talk to your sergeant Hey, buddy. You do your job, man. So, I can't leave until I speak to your sergeant. No, no, no. If If you say I'm If you say I'm free to leave Am I free to leave? Thank you, guys. Thank you. Hey, thank you for your time. My vehicle's over there. Thank you, guys. Thank you. You may have a wonderful day. Thank you. Carry on. Carry on, gentlemen. >> And that's exactly how this encounter ends. After repeatedly demanding information and keeping the man there, the officers ultimately tell him that he is free to leave, and he walks away without giving them the additional information they were demanding. The important legal issue here is that a temporary detention in Florida is not supposed to be based simply on an officer wanting to identify someone. Under Florida statute 901.151, an officer must have circumstances that reasonably indicate the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a criminal offense, and the detention cannot continue longer than reasonably necessary for that purpose. The statute also provides that when the inquiry does not establish probable cause for an arrest, the person is to be released. That's why the man's repeated question about what law he supposedly violated was so important. Instead of simply accepting the demands, he kept asking the officers to identify the legal basis for the detention, and once the officer finally told him he was free to leave, he did exactly that. The lesson here is simple. Officers have authority to investigate actual suspected violations of law, but that authority still has legal limits. A person does not lose their rights simply because an officer wants answers, wants identification, or wants them to sit down. When someone is being detained, there has to be a lawful basis for that detention, and that detention cannot continue indefinitely without the required legal justification.