I can't, bro. You don't supposed to never cut a horse off. You never cut a horse off. Learn the law. You never cut a horse off, brother. If you hurt my horse, you going to get sued. Is it illegal? >> Yes, it's illegal. >> Get a white shirt here. >> What do you mean a white shirt? >> Get a white shirt here. >> Get a white shirt. >> I'm not giving you nothing. Get a white shirt. Get off the horse. >> I'm not getting off nothing. Get a white shirt. >> Get a white shirt. You never cut in front of a horse. Learn the law. You never turn your siren on a horse. You never blow a horn on a horse cuz you can start on my horse. down a public street. >> Show me something that say a horse can't be on the street. >> In this encounter, a Cook County deputy stopped a man riding his horse down a public road and immediately claimed he was breaking the law. Then the officer demanded his driver's license and ordered him off the horse despite the fact that Illinois law specifically allows horseback riders to use public roadways in most circumstances. But the situation gets even worse when multiple officers arrive and the original deputy's claims start falling apart. Watch how this horse rider refuses to accept an unlawful detention and forces the officers to confront what the law actually says. >> What up, brother? >> I can't stop. I'm traveling, bro. I'm on my way to work. I'm on my way to work. I'm traveling, bro. I can't. I'm running late. I can't I can't I can't, bro. You don't never cut a horse off. You never cut a horse off. Learn the law. You never cut a horse off, brother. If you hurt my horse, you going to get sued. Go ahead and hit my horse. Go ahead and hit my horse. Hey, >> I'm traveling, brother. >> I'm telling you to stop. >> If I'm detained, >> you are detained. >> Okay, that's all you had to say. Okay. >> Why I'm detained? Why am I detained? >> Why are you riding a horse? >> I'm traveling. Why I'm detained? You are riding a horse. >> Is it illegal? >> What? >> Is it illegal? >> Yes, it's illegal. >> Get a white shirt here. >> What do you mean a white shirt? >> Get a white shirt here. >> Get a white shirt. >> I'm not giving you nothing. Get a white shirt. >> Get off the horse. >> I'm not getting off nothing. Get a white shirt. >> Get a white shirt. >> Get off the horse, sir. >> Get a white shirt, >> sir. Get off the horse. >> So, he's refusing to stop when I stop to talk to him. >> Why are we riding the horse down the street, man? >> Get away, sir. This ain't jail. >> Get a white shirt. Get your sergeant or lieutenant. >> Give me your driver's license. >> I'm not giving you nothing. >> Listen. Can I get a sergeant or lieutenant over here? I don't want to talk. I'm traveling. I'm I'm running late for work. I'm traveling and God. >> It don't matter. >> It don't matter. >> Okay. Get a white shirt over here. Get a lieutenant over here. Why we still talking? >> Y'all Y'all don't even know who who I am and y'all want to bother me. >> We're trying to find >> It don't matter. It don't matter who I am. It don't matter who I am. What's your badge number? What's your badge number? >> What's your badge number? >> What's your badge number? >> What's your name? >> What's your name, Breie? >> I'm Y'all Y'all detain me for no reason, bro. I'm going to be Y'all listen. Y'all gonna let me go in a minute. I'mma be let loose in a minute. Don't touch my horse. Don't touch my horse. And then y'all block a lot of traffic. Y'all block a lot of traffic. Y don't touch my horse. You care my horse. You scaring my horse. Whoa. >> Okay. Y'all scare my horse. Whoa. Whoa. >> All right. Just uh park the horse. >> I'm not parking. >> I'm parked right now. So, what's the problem? Y'all y'all stopping traffic for me for me traveling? Bro, do y'all know the law? Do y'all know the law? >> Do y'all Do you know the law? >> Y'all going to make a Y'all going to make a donkey out of y'all. Y'all don't even know who I am. Y'all listen. I prove cops like you. Y'all don't know the law and y'all just pull people over. Wasting my time. Wasting my time for what? You never cut in front of a horse. Learn the law. You never turn your siren on a horse. You never blow a horn on a horse cuz you can start on my horse. >> Street. Show me something that say a horse can't be on the street, dummy. Y'all don't know the law. Y'all don't even know the law. I Why do they let y'all get these badges and y'all don't know the law? That That's not good. Do you know before that was crime, what was transportation? Okay, you go back to the 1800s. >> Before that, listen. Okay, bro. Y'all blocking off traffic. Y'all need to learn the law before when it come down to horses, man. I have road rights. I'm traveling. Soon as your white shirt going to get here, she going to let me go and you wasted my time. And that's a lawsuit. I'm I'mma sue you. I'mma sue you and I'mma sue you and I'mma sue your department cuz y'all wasting my time. I'm running late from work. I might I might lose my job now. And then y'all bringing more. Y got about six. >> Okay. But y got six cars now. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. and then he going to cut my horse off. He don't even supposed to do that. My concern was just the horse trying to >> I first heard it was that I know this vision and I'm concerned about a person being on a horse and we got all this truck. >> But it's not illegal though. It's not illegal. And he I got you. I got you >> or that way. And he for him to cut my horse off. That that he cut my horse off. That that animal right there. And I'm I'm actually stopped. >> No, he he didn't tell me he said I'm detained. I thought when he told me I was detained. Until he said I was detained, I was going to keep going. I flipped over. >> Okay. >> Did I do right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. But for him to cut in front of my horse, I want I wanted to press charge on him. >> All right. Here's our right defender. probably a little bit. >> Well, that's what I told him. I said my concern was to be on the roadway. >> Yeah, that's what I was doing. >> It was just that he's >> in this traffic. >> I don't know what happened with this. >> Yeah, >> now he's cool in this. >> But the officer right there, he actually cut my horse off and my horse actually clipped itself. >> Yeah, that tell you he don't supposed to do that. Can I ask you something? >> No, you're good, brother. >> Thank you, S. Thank you. drive with a cell phone in your hand. >> Hey. Hey, listen. >> Hey, listen. Write that ticket. >> Write your ticket. >> Just be careful. >> I got you, boss, man. I apologize, man. But him right there. He boing, >> huh? >> He boing. I'm going to I'm going to I'm I'm going back for him cuz he don't supposed to cut my horse off. >> He don't put That's That's actually animal cuz my horse cripped itself when he just did that. You >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> What was it? >> This one? >> Oh, wow. >> This one. >> They gave you back >> this one. >> Oh, wow. >> It wasn't illegal. >> Would you Oh, right now. >> It ain't illegal. >> I tell people there's a lot of livestock laws still in Chicago. Like you can drive a herd of cattle down in the middle of State Street. >> Listen, horse right away over car damn pedestrian. >> Hey. Hey, Sergeant. Can I make a complaint on that officer right there, man? He cut my horse off. Okay, I got you. I can leave. Okay, y'all. Y'all have a go. All right, boss man. Appreciate it, man. >> Good dude right here, y'all. >> All of these. >> I got this. >> I got you. Y'all see them cut my horse off. That's animal right there. And I'm not done with it. I'm going back and I need I want to I want to press charges on them. The biggest problem here was that the initial officers tried to enforce a traffic restriction that did not apply to this horse rider. Illinois law generally gives people riding animals on roadways the same rights and duties applicable to vehicle drivers with specific exceptions such as controlled access highways. The officer also demanded a driver's license even though Hollingsworth was riding a horse rather than operating a motor vehicle. and the investigative detention did not automatically give the officer authority to demand a driver's license simply because he wanted to identify him. The encounter also became more problematic when the officer cut in front of the horse. Illinois traffic law requires motorists to exercise care around people riding horses and prohibits reckless driving unnecessarily close to them. Hollingsworth repeatedly objected because the maneuver caused his horse to clip itself, which can be extremely dangerous for other vehicles on the roadway. But thankfully, all was good in this specific incident. What ultimately mattered was that Hollingsworth refused to surrender his rights simply because several officers initially insisted that he was violating the law. Once the responding officers recognized that horseback riding on that roadway was lawful, he was allowed to leave and continue on his way. The officers should have verified the applicable traffic law before detaining him, should not have demanded a driver's license as though he were operating a motor vehicle, and should have exercised additional caution when positioning a cruiser around the course.