I'm going to be placing you on the arrest for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. First name, you don't understand, but I can't do that. That's my dad. RJ, they could do that. My mom, they could do that. That's not me. Gary, that's violation. Please. I don't want I'm going to get you out in 2 hours. 2 hours. Okay. You're going to get me out in 2 hours. Okay. Please. I can't. I'm not there. It's not like that. It's not like that. On March 24th, 2023, at around 12:50 a.m. in Rosel Park, New Jersey, police pulled over a vehicle for speeding and erratic driving. Behind the wheel, a 22-year-old cheerleader named Sydney, visibly shaken and quick to confess she had hit her weed pin earlier that night. What began as a routine DUI stop takes a wild turn when her mom and dad's criminal history comes out. Sydney crying, saying, "I'm not like them." Her dad shows up, clearly has history with police, and is put in his place fast. Now, it's time for the body cam footage. Sydney, right? Can you just step out of the car for me? Sydney, how old are you? I am 22. You're 22? Okay, you can close the door. All right, we're going to come back over here. All right, so listen. How much weed did you smoke? Stop walking away. Just come come over here. Come over here. I have a.3 from the dispensary that I bought today. Okay. I smoked all of it. Okay. So, Okay. So, listen. Because of that, I'd like to put you through some tests just to make sure that you're safe to drive. All right. Cuz I stopped you for the time. If I'm not safe to drive, I'll have somebody come pick me up. Like, we'll get there. So, I've stopped you because you're speeding and then when I pulled out, you slammed on the brakes and then pulled over and almost hit the curb. All right. Well, I only did that because you I saw your lights. I didn't put my lights on till you almost hit the curb. She told me he's pulling you over. I said, "Okay." So, I'm going to put you through some tests to make sure you're safe to drive. Is that cool? Yeah, that's fine. All right. Do you have any Stop walking away. Come over here. Oh, yes. Just don't listen to me on me. You're fine. Listen to me and I'll tell you what to do. Okay. So, do you have any issues with your eyes? Um, I have a stigmatism. You have no You have a stigmatism? Yeah. So, like with lights. Okay. Like brightness and stuff like that. Darkness. But you don't have nestagmus. No. Do you know what nestagmus is? That's like um farsight, nearsighted. No. But that's okay. If you don't know what it is, I don't know what that is. I have a sigma in that. As long as you can see my pen, we'll be okay. All right. So, just can you just move your hair out of your eyes a little bit? Perfect. All right. Do you see the tip of my pen? Yes. What color is the tip of my pen? Blue. Okay. So, what I'd like you to do is put your feet together and your arms down at your sides. And with your eyes and your eyes only, I want you to follow the tip of my pen. All right. Do not move your head. Do you understand? Yes. All right. Keep your head straight. Keep f follow tip. All right. Yes. [Applause] Keep looking at it. Mhm. I'm going to go up and down. Okay. Just follow it up. All right, good job. All right, so listen. Do you have any issues with your legs? Um, I have like um Ashka slaughters. You know what that is? Yep. But you can you can walk in a straight line. You can stand on one leg, no problem usually. But I'm not a flyer. I'm a cheerleader, but I'm not a flyer. So like that's the reason I'm not a flyer is cuz my balance. Okay. Just cuz my Okay. So, we're going to we're going to use this line right here. Okay? So, I want you to come back. This is a little slanted line, but you're Well, it's straight, but you got it right. You can stop. You can stop right there. Right there. Don't get too close to the curb. So, listen. This is what I want you to do. Put your arms down. I want you to put your I want you to keep your left foot on that line. I want you to put your right foot in front of your left with the heel of your right foot touching the toe of your left foot. Place your arms down at your sides. And I want you to stay just like that until I tell you to begin. Do you understand? Yes. All right. When I ask you to begin, I want you to take nine heel to toe steps down the line. Turn and take nine heel totoe steps back. Okay. When you turn, you're going to keep your front foot planted on the line and you're going to turn by taking several small steps with your other foot. Do you understand? Yep. All right. So, it looks like this. Okay. I teach my dog. Looks it's going to look like this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. All right. Then I'm going to keep my front foot planted. I'm going to turn by taking several small steps. Just get back in that position for me. Thank you. I'm going to turn by taking several small steps with my other foot. And I'm going to take nine heel toe steps back. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. All right. Yep. Do you have any questions so far? No. Just follow this white line. Is that That's it. All right. While you're walking, you're going to look at your feet at all times. You're going to keep your arms at your sides and you're going to count each step out loud. All right. Do you understand? Yes. All right. Whenever you're ready, you may begin. One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 All right. Good. Cool. You all right? Yes. All right. So, this a cheerleader. So, listen. Clean for you. Step forward more forward towards me. Okay. All right. So, this last is going to be the one. It's going to be called the one leg stand. All right. So, what I want you to do is want to keep your feet together and your arms at your sides. All right. When I tell you to begin, I want you to raise one leg, either one of your choice, approximately 6 in off the ground. You're going to keep your foot parallel to the ground. I'm not good at math, so you tell me when it's high. It's about the height of a soda can. Okay? Or like a dollar bill if you're still running. All right. You're going to raise it 6 in off the ground. You're going to keep your foot parallel to the ground. You're going to keep your the leg that you're standing on straight. You're going to keep your arms down at your sides and you're going to look at your foot and you're going to count out loud. 1 10002 1003 1004 and so on. That's not fair. Until I tell you to stop. All right. So, it looks like this. 1001,002. No, don't do anything yet. Okay. All right. It's going to look like this. 1,00 1,002 1003 1004 till I tell you to stop. Do you understand? Yes. All right. Whenever you're ready, you may begin. Okay. 1002003004 100,00. 100,000 10,002 1,00113 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Can I do a cheerleader stuff? Nope, bro. I'm a cheerleader. I'm sorry. I can't balance like that. Okay, you can put your foot down. Put your foot down. All right, so I want to just do one more test. Couple two more tests. All right, so just poke your ears out of your eyes. All right. So, I'm going to go around your head in a couple of circles. All right. Yes. I'm going to come real close to the tip of your nose. I'm not going to touch your nose. You're just going to follow the pen in a circle and follow it into the tip of your nose and allow your eyes to cross. Yes. All right. That's uncomfortable, but okay. All right. Ready? So, you know, I have panic disorder and when my eyes cross, I get panic attacks. All right. It's okay. That's fine. Okay. All right. Ready? All right, one more time. Keep following it. You got to follow it in a circle. All right. I'm try I Yeah, you're not f You're not tracking it. Okay. All right. So, just keep your eyes focused on this. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. So, the last test I'm going to do, what I want you to do is the 100 tests. You know that, right? This is the last one. All right. All right. What I want you to do is I want you to just keep your feet together and your arms down at your socks. All right. When I tell you to begin, I want you to close your eyes until your head back. Mhm. Let 30 seconds go by. When you think 30 seconds has gone by, open your eyes, tilt your head forward, and say stop. Okay. Okay. Do you understand that? Yeah. So, it looks like this. You're going to close your eyes. When I think 30 seconds goes by, I'm going to tell my headphone. I'm going to say stop. All right. You ready? Are you ready? Yes. I'm going to tilt my headphone and say stop. You're going to Well, you're going to let 30 seconds goes go by. When you think 30 seconds has gone by, then you're going to open your eyes and say stop. All right. Whenever you're ready, you can begin. [Applause] Good. Stop. Okay. So, listen. At this point, Sydney, I'm going to be placing you on the arrest for suspicion of drug while intoxicated. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you in court. The right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. Have the right to stop answering questions and consult an attorney before continuing to answer any questions. Do you understand? Ty, do you have anything sharp on you? No. Anything that's going to stick me, stab me, hurt me? No. Okay. [Applause] All right. Come over here to my car. [Applause] Stand right here at the front of my car. Okay. Listen, I'm just going to check to make sure you don't have any sharp. All right. Do you have any pockets? [Applause] over here where mom. Okay. Come over here and have you sit in the back of my car. Okay. I only do this cuz she told me she wasn't good enough to drive. That's fine. I didn't want her to get in trouble. I know I'm in trouble. [Applause] This one's today. What? Okay. 25. Need a hook for the car. Stand by on that. All right. Sorry. Sorry. No. 45. I need that. I need that. I'll stay with her. Yeah. Affirmative. So, Danny, you're going to start on that side. We're going to work our way around and I'm going to we're going to switch. All right. We get everything. Yeah, I know who this car is. What do you need? Pull it out. Okay. There's in the car. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, I'll have Danny say the test. [Applause] How are you, miss? I'm good. How are you? Good, good. I'm officer Matthews Rose Park. Very nice to meet you. Where are you guys heading to tonight? We're heading back home. Where's home? Where are you guys coming from? Friend's house or No, the bird hanging in uh Rosal Park. Yeah, were you guys with any friends or anything like that or no? No. No. Just getting some food and then back. Is that your house? Hollywood? No. That's my house. That's your Did you guys go to Rosenborg High School? No. Which one? I'm saying though. Did you guys go there? Oh, yes. Yes. No, no, no, no. You're good. Yeah. I'm just sitting here talking to you while they while they talk to her. That's all. I don't want you sitting here by yourself trying to figure out what's going on here. So, so my partner was telling me you get uh do you wear like contacts for that? Like do you take medication? Okay. country. That's That's pretty expensive by, right? Oh, yeah. My mom. Oh, yeah. Oh, did she? Yeah. So, what is it all patched up now and everything? Patched up, but still. No, no, absolutely. I I get it. Are you? Yeah, that's my younger brother. You guys went to school with him, I'm assuming? Yeah, I went to school with him. She went to school with him as well. Yeah. What's her name? Did she she used to live uh in So this is her car. It's her friend, right? Register to you. Yeah. Right. She's driving. Okay, that's reasonable. She was saying I guess lights the car and stuff. Yeah. [Music] Is she from town, too? She still have family that lives there? No. No. Come here. Heat. Heat. regular DUI test. I'm sorry. So, um just he's putting him putting her through some tests just to make sure that she's okay with it at this point. Yeah. So, Start again. Mhm. This is What do you do now? You going to school? No. Did you go to college or now? You just kind of studied my photograph. Okay. Very good. Where you going for that? You going local or you going? You plan on getting your masters or you going to just stop with? Oh, no. Yeah. Good. Very good. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. [Music] I'm sorry. I'm I'm not doing the tag. I'm not It's This is his investigation. I think Well, we're going to we're going to let him figure out. Like I said, this is his uh his stop here. So, no, I just want you to stay in the car for now. All right. Until we're finished up here. Heat. Heat. You know him? Is that a person? Sergeant, is that Carlos? Is that Carlos? I have no idea. Yeah, I think that's him. Lives on West Town. You know what street he lives on? Yeah. [Music] Um, you could actually have the mother telephone. Uh, take it. She can take it. Yeah. It's not her car. It's the mother's, right? It's the mother. It's her mother's phone. Oh, all right. What's your name? What's your name? Terry. Hi. Do me a favor. I'm also just going to have you step out of the car real quick. All right. [Applause] I'm sorry. Listen, you could just come on over here. All right. Listen, as part of this arrest, if she can come pick up the car, hang on. Just let her know she's got to come pick up the car. All right. If not, it's being towed under John's law. Number two is going to be searched for the source of intoxicants. Is there anything inside the car we need to know about? Uh, there's like a small joint in the front pocket. It's It's legal now. Is there anything else? No, that's it. Okay. All right. Come on over here. All right. Um, would you mind talking to my mom real quick? Correct. Sure. What's your mom's name? Brenda. Brenda. It's uh Sergeant Fit Show with the Rosal Park Police Department. Hi, how are you? Good. How are you? Okay. Uh, listen, the the driver of your vehicle the vehicle was arrested for uh driving while intoxicated. So to prevent it from being towed since the driver has has no rights to the car. All right. Usually we would tow it under John's law. I can have you come and pick it up. And where is that? At the Rosa Park Police Station. No, we're at the McDonald's on Westfield Avenue. Okay. I I'll meet you there. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Bye-bye. So just hang out here for a minute. All right. No problem. You can cancel this off 65 count. Yeah, you can cancel. I'm I'm giving you guys a lot of uh discretion here with this. Otherwise, normally we would tow it. But since you guys are from town, she'll be here in a minute or two. Thank you. I appreciate that. Just let your mom know that, too. All right. Am I supposed to handcuffs or No, you're fine. You can stay right here. Okay. You're not in any trouble. You're the passenger. Okay. So, how do we get her out? Well, there's no bail in New Jersey, right? Right. There's no bail for this. Um, she'll she'll make a phone call. Can I just talk to her really quick? Not right now. She'll be able to make a phone call in a little while. All right. Listen, it's a traffic ticket. We'll talk to her before she leaves. Talk to her about what? Just She's not doing it. She's anxious. She's scared, you know. Listen, we'll we'll take care of her. I know, but that's like basically my sister. I just want to talk to her. I understand. It's just when somebody's in our custody, we usually don't let other people go over. Okay. So, there's no bail in New Jersey, right? It's a traffic ticket. Just she's got to blow into Got it. You know, if she chooses to do so. So, what time do you think I'll be able to pick her up? Hour and a half, 2 hours. 2 hours. Got it. Okay. She'll make a phone call. Could you guys let her know that? Yeah. Well, we'll make sure everything's good. I would really like to speak to her. Can I please just Just hang on. Just hang on. See, I really I'm not like the rest of my family. I can't do the jail [ __ ] bro. I'm not like RJ and my dad. I can't do that. Don't make me go. What's your first name? Look at me. Let me just let you talk. You don't understand. But I can't do that. My dad, RJ, they could do that. My mom, they could do that. That's not me. Gary, that traffic violation. Please. I don't want that. I'm going to get you out in 2 hours. 2 hours. Okay. You're going to get me out in 2 hours. Okay. Please. I can't. I'm not. It's not like that. It's not like that. It's not like that. Till me. Listen to me. I'm not them. I am not. Listen to me. Listen to me. You are not them. Okay, you just need to breathe. You need to breathe. Okay, you're okay. Your everything is fine. I'm going to bail you out. Not bail you out. There's no I know there's no such thing as bail. Okay, I'm getting you out in 2 hours. You said an hour and a half. 2 hours. I'm getting you out first. This is not I am not just consider stop. Stop. You can stay here. You can watch. That's it. driver. Officer uh follow him in She's freaking out. Yes, just bring her in. I got it. Why did she drive? What was she driving? She wanted to drive my car cuz I was too fault. My fault. I should not have done that. I'm getting I'm picking up [Applause] [Applause] Yep. Keep going, man. Is that Yeah. What is it? Ron Ron Lacy. Yeah, Lacy. That's so [ __ ] fun. Okay, I said I get it. No, you don't get it. You never had your best friend arrested in front of you. Okay, make assumptions. I'll just let you run with your assumptions. You're feeding into what I'm saying. So, you have Thank you for being so nice to me and letting my mom pick me up. Thank you. You're welcome. Your mom's always been nice to me. Just scary, you know, watching your best friend get arrested. Listen, I get it. But like I was trying to tell you to keep you under control. Not under control but calm. It's a traffic ticket. All right. I know. DUI. Traffic ticket. You go to corporate. Yeah. See this? When when her dad shows up. Time. No. When her dad shows up, that's when things get bad. Especially him. I know. I know. That's why I was asking you originally where they live, cuz I was kind of hoping you wouldn't be able to make it here in time. Union has a female. She's doing a search right now, but she's done. Stop. How old are you? 21. So, obviously, you're over the age of possession of marijuana. I don't need to give you a warning or anything like that. Show you my license. Anything you need. If I remember correctly, I believe that you're 20 to 21. So, I remember you going to school. What are like the tests for like field sobriety? They're called the standardized field sobriety test. So like what are like I know like holding your leg up the one leg stand and uh walk and turn and the horizontal gaze nestagmus which is the it so bad. I'll take care of the lobby when I get in. Parasy leaving some father. Mom's on your way. On the way. Yeah. Yeah. You're good. All right. You can wait with the car. Yeah, you I'll stay. Mhm. 451. You need to have a funeral right now. She's done. So obviously you're I remember correctly that you're 20 to 21. I remember you going to school. I use the cuts for like [Music] David's father. Mom's on your way. On the way. You're good. Yeah. All right. You can wait with the car. Yeah. You I'll usually head. I'll stay here. car. Sydney was clearly shaken, crying and telling her friends she's not like her dad and can't do the jail thing. When her father arrived, the officer quickly put him in his place, just as he predicted earlier, saying things tend to go bad when the dad shows up. It was clear they've dealt with him before. Cydney was arrested for DUI and cited for speeding, but later released. Based on her reaction, it looks like this might be the wakeup call she needed. What do you think? Did Sydney learn her lesson? Drop your thoughts in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe. Your support helps us keep delivering real, unfiltered police body cam content.