Put your hands behind your back. >> I run. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> My hat, sir. >> Okay. You're going to get another charge. >> Please. >> What's your last name? >> Look at one you and look back at the other one at the end of the alley. >> What's your name? >> And what's my friend? >> What's your name? >> On January 29th, 2025 in St. Petersburg. One woman turned a routine warrant arrest into utter chaos. She ran, argued, and somehow managed to make three officers question their life choices. By the end of the night, what should have been a simple arrest became a messy showdown. And this clip only gets crazier from here. >> I'm not going to run. >> Put your hands behind your back. I'm >> not going to run. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> Sir, stop on your stomach. >> I'm not resisting, sir. >> See my hands. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I want to see it properly. >> Put your hands behind your back. I just fall in front of it. That's false imprisonment. >> Yeah, >> sir. You're pushing hard. Put >> your hands behind your back. Stop resisting hard on me. >> Stop resisting. >> You're pushing hard on me. >> Stop. >> Can you please listen up, please? Please, sir. Please. Please. >> 3512. >> Why you trying to hide from us? It's my friend's house. >> Oh, yeah. What's your friend's name? >> Drea. Drea. >> Yes, sir. >> This officer seen me talking to him outside. >> I was just talking to him. >> What's your name? >> Erica. >> Erica. What? >> What is this for? >> Erica, what? >> What was this for? >> Erica, what? >> I wasn't hiding. Have a good operative. Y'all save me. >> What's your name? >> You have any weapons on you? >> I was out in the open. >> You were running. You were walking up and down that alley trying to hide from police. >> I was talking then when the officer goes to get officer seen me talking to his house. >> What's your name? >> In the backyard. >> Erica, what? >> That's over with. Erica what? >> I wasn't hiding. >> What's your last name? What is this about? >> You're going to jail. What's your name? >> But this I was on my friend. >> What is your name? >> I was in my friend's yard. >> What is your name? Last chance or I'm going to get you another charge? It's still false in prison officer. >> Erica what? >> I was on the sidewalk. I don't care. Erica what? >> Three officers seen me save me talking to my friend. Can you knock on his door, please? >> Okay, you're going to get another charge. >> Can you please knock on your last name? >> The ignorance was excessively strong with this one right from the jump. She really tried to play the victim while actively fighting the officers, claiming she wasn't resisting while her body was doing the exact opposite. It was a classic case of someone offended by everything but ashamed of nothing. What's your last name? >> Can you tell me what this is about? >> Yeah, you hiding from police in the alley. You did several times. Every time you saw a cruiser, you turned and walked away and you're hiding in stood by the garbage can. >> My friend lives right here. I gave him my friend's yard. My friend >> What's your name? >> Can he knock on his door for approval? >> Nope. What's your name? >> Yeah. I person >> What is your name? >> His His backyard. >> You're going to jail. In the alley. >> That doesn't make sense. My friend's yard is in the alley. What's your name? >> I'm not hiding in the alley. I'm in my friend's yard. >> You need to identify yourself. You just ran from the police. >> I didn't run from you. You came on private property. >> You ran from the police. What's your name? >> You came all stand. I don't care. Let's go. >> I want to know what this was for. I want you to jail cuz you were hiding from police. You kept walking away. >> Can she go in this one right here? Whoever this is, >> I'm in my friend's yard. Dreamer, >> go. Dreamer >> Carmela >> Dreamer >> enough >> right in my ear. >> He has cuz I don't want her yelling. Well then stop yelling. >> Private property. >> Let's not wake them up. How about that? >> What's your name? >> I want to know what this is about. It's false imprisonment. >> No, it's not loading and prawling. >> You going to place it? >> No. You kept trying to hide from place. I wasn't hiding. I'm on the sidewalk with three cops. >> You are under arrest and need to identify yourself. What's your name? >> On the side. See me on the sidewalk. >> What's your name? >> And I go to my friend's house and get arrested. >> What's your name? >> We're going to a friend's house. >> If she won't identify. >> No, she's getting obstruction. >> We'll do the face. >> Yeah, we'll do faces. >> That's false imprisonment. >> No, it's not. >> Yeah. >> You have no reason to be even ID. >> You have no reason to even be IDing me. Yeah, we do. >> We're going to a friend's house. >> What's What's your warrant for then? Cuz I'm guessing that's what the problem is. >> I don't have a warrant. >> Well, then why won't you identify yourself? >> The audacity of her claiming she wasn't hiding was peak comedy. She wore that badge of stupidity with more pride than a scout wears a sash. It was clear she thought she could talk her way out of handcuffs by repeating the word friend enough times. But the officers weren't buying the neighborhood tour she was selling. >> Because there's no reason for you to stop me. >> There is a reason. We're going to my friend's house. >> We're walking up and down the alley and then when we go to get out with you, you ran. >> My friend's house. >> You're hiding from Every time you saw a cruiser, you turned away. >> My friend. >> Hi. How you doing? >> Hi. >> I was talking to a friend. >> Don't worry, buddy. Hold on one sec. I'm going to help you out. >> Go ahead. >> It's Erica Freeman. >> What's your date of birth? >> What's your date of birth? >> But what is this about? >> What's your date of birth? >> Cuz it's not >> Take the picture. >> It's not running from an officer cuz I was at a friend's house. Woo! >> I was going to a friend's house. So, it's not running from officers going in the alley. >> You ran from me. >> My friend is in the alley. >> I told you to stop. >> I was in my friend's yard. >> Doesn't mean you can run. >> What was the reason for stopping me? That's as far as my legs go. I fall. >> Come on. >> Do it again. >> Listen, instead of making us do all this, >> I was in my friend's yard, though. It doesn't make sense. >> Hey, listen. Instead of making us go through all this, Just tell us. >> I'm not telling you he can go through anything. I just want to know what it's about. >> Going to jail for what? >> Right now, lording and crowling and then probably whatever either. >> It's not lording if it's my friend's home. >> You know how to do faces? >> No, I don't. Okay, cool. >> It's my friend's house. >> Now you're going to have to because you took it with that. So, >> okay. >> How does it learn if it's my friend's house? >> We're just going to stick her in the back. Listen, this goes a lot easier if you just tell her. I've been staying out of trouble. >> Okay. Well, >> and I haven't did nothing wrong. >> Why'd you ruin it? >> You came on private property. >> You were in the alley. >> You're breaking the law by coming on private property. >> You were in the alley bouncing back and forth through the alley >> and talked to my friend who just went in the house. >> Saw a police cruiser. You bounce the other way, evading. >> So, you say I'm in my friend's yard. >> Either way, listen. If this goes a lot easier and you're not going to catch an additional charge if you >> I shouldn't be charged at all because I wasn't dugging and dodging no cops. That didn't make sense. >> She was so busy trying to argue the legal definition of an alley that she forgot she was facing actual charges. It was painful to watch her try to act smart while having absolutely no idea how the law works. She was so busy being a victim that she didn't realize the officers were already light years ahead of her little game. >> Then why'd you run? you. I was in my friend's yard. >> I just seen three off three of y'all on that road and did not run. >> Okay. >> I walked in the alley. I actually stopped and looked you and looked back at the other one at the end of the alley. >> What's your name? >> And went to my friends. >> What's your name? >> We're going to figure it out one way or another. >> What's the reason for the charge? >> I just told you. Right now, Lord, you're going to prow on private property and a friend as if it's not your property. >> Prowling. Really? >> Yes. So sir, >> instead of going through all this nonsense, >> Erica, I'm going to confirm your warrant. >> So, >> oh, >> so I don't I don't have a warrant, but anyway. Prow prowling >> just for now. >> It's open. >> Prowling though. >> Yeah. >> Where does that Where is prowling? >> Erica Freeman. I already told him that. >> She says it's Erica Freeman. Come on. You ma'am, can you sit up? Thank you. Listen, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present with you while you're being questioned. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, stand by. want to be appointed to represent you. You can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements. >> Okay. >> That being said, do you wish to talk to me now? >> No. No. >> Okay. >> 10 on your last. >> In the end, her stubbornness didn't change the reality of those handcuffs. She chose the hardest path possible, trading cooperation for extra charges and a very uncomfortable ride to the station. If she had just identified herself, the drama might have ended hours earlier. But some people just can't resist being the main character in their own disaster. She was officially charged with resisting arrest without violence and obstruction of justice alongside her existing active warrant. If you found her legal expertise as entertaining as we did, make sure to hit that like button and share this wild encounter with your friends. Don't forget to subscribe for your daily dose of body cam chaos and street level drama. We'll see you in the next one where things get even more out of