What the hell is WRONG WITH YOU? >> [screaming] >> IN THE CAR. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? I'M NOT DOING NOTHING. OH MY GOD. WHAT THE HELL is wrong WITH YOU? >> GET AROUND AND PULL you over. STOP. >> I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING. >> YOU'RE getting more charges. >> I'm not doing nothing. You're being rude AND DISRESPECTFUL. MY DAUGHTER IS RIGHT THERE. GET OUT OF THE I DON'T >> [screaming] >> GET OUT OF THE CAR. >> OH MY GOD. WHAT IS THIS? >> STOP RESISTING. >> I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING. >> STOP RESISTING. >> WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME? >> On January 9th, 2024, a traffic stop in Central Florida ended with a mother in handcuffs, three children left in a car, and a 120-day jail sentence. This is a case where the law worked exactly as written, and that is precisely what makes it worth analyzing. >> Can you roll down the back window for me, please? Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. I just can't see through that cuz of the tint. >> I'm sorry. >> Do you have your driver's license on you? >> No, I don't. >> What? Do you have a good driver's license? >> Um no, I don't. >> Are you Angela? >> No, that's not my name. >> Oh, that's your mom? Okay. Why are these kids >> Because we having a family emergency. I'm supposed to be my auntie right here. She really at the public's parking lot. >> All right. Do you have an ID card on you? >> No. Can I call her? She's right there. >> Well, let's work on getting all your information and everything first. What's your first name? >> Um Jasmine. >> You had to think about that? >> No. I think it's your mom right here by public's parking lot. >> Hang up the phone and talk with me right now. >> I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to >> Jasmine. >> Yes, I'm talking to you. I know I know sir. >> Okay, so you need to focus on me and not not all that. So, hang up the phone and talk with me right now. Spell your first name for me. >> Okay, sir. Can Can S M Can I hop out real quick? >> Yeah, hop on out the car for me. Hop on out the car and we'll talk back here. >> I don't know. I don't know. Can I hop out real quick? >> Yeah, back here. >> So, I don't have a license. I'm not supposed to be driving. You know? But, um I'm just trying to get my kids to to the other Airbnb we just checked into, so you know. >> Are you Jasmine? >> Yes. >> You You hesitated on that twice now. >> no. I am Jasmine. >> nervous cuz you know you don't have a good license? >> Yes. >> You're You're being up front. That's That's half the battle. How bad is your license? >> Um I'm not supposed to be driving. But, I'm just trying to get my kids literally >> I mean, are you suspended, canceled, revoked? >> Suspended, maybe. >> Are you habitual? >> Um I don't I think so, maybe. I don't know. >> So, it might be habitual? >> Yeah, but I I I just Sir, I just don't want to go to jail today. I'm just trying to get my kids >> Well, I'm not trying to take you to jail in this weather unless I absolutely have to. I'll tell you that, okay? >> Unless I absolutely have to. >> Like if I don't have a choice. Like there's certain things where I don't have a choice, right? But, if I can figure out a way to not make that happen, I'll work with you. Cuz like I said, I'm not trying to take someone to jail in this weather. Hey, come over here. >> I'm just getting my kids out. >> No, let them stay in the car for now. Yeah, let them They'll be safer in there anyway. Yeah, hop. >> No, it's two police. I'm scared. I don't want to go to jail, sir. >> You can hop back over here. You're being cool with me right now, and I I feel like, you know, I'm being pretty cool with you, right? >> I just know I'm not supposed to be driving, and I'm not trying to go to jail. >> I got you. No one wants to go to jail, right? But, like I said, it's if I can figure out any way to make sure that doesn't have to happen, I'll facilitate that cuz I'm not trying to take someone to jail in this weather. All right? But, like I said, I can't make any promises and tell you like I'm not going to cuz there's certain charges that I don't have a choice with it, right? >> Okay. >> But, I don't even know if that's the case yet. First, I have to figure out who you are. So, Jasmine, spell your first name for me. >> J A S M I N E >> J A S M I N E >> Yes. Hold on, baby. I'm not supposed to be driving. >> How old's the youngest How old is she? She's two. Two and what are the other what are the two ages? >> Five and this is my nephew. He's six. I hear a cell phone right in front of this thing next to the calling number grill. Calling me grill. Why do you Why do you Why do you handcuff me? >> Cuz you're reacting really nervous and it's making me nervous. So I'm going to have them stand by with you while I check everything cuz you're making me >> I'm sorry. I just >> You're making me real nervous the way that you're acting and I just don't want you doing anything silly, okay? >> I'm not trying to do anything silly. >> All right, cuz you can't you you can't stop moving around and it took me like five times to get your name out of you. So Well, like I said, I've been pretty cool with you, right? >> Yes. >> All right, so like I said, try and calm down and just hang tight for a minute while I look and see how bad your license actually is. Stay away from the car for now, all right? All right, Jasmine. It We're not going to We're not going to keep playing this back and forth game. >> Okay, I'm right here, sir. >> So why do you Put the kid down in the car and we're you're going to go in handcuffs for now because you're making me hella nervous. >> I'm I don't want to go >> Don't put your baby in the middle of this. >> I'm not. I'm supposed to stand here. I'm standing right here, sir. >> So this is where we're at now. You need to put the kid back down in the car. You're going to go in handcuffs, Jasmine. Jasmine, if you don't listen to what I'm doing, you're going to go to jail. Right here, Jasmine. No. Not around this way. This side right here where they were before. >> Why do you Why are you putting me in handcuffs for though? I'm not doing anything. >> You're not here to ask questions. Do what he tells you, then we'll talk with you. >> Okay, can I call my family to get here for my kids? >> No. You're about to make a situation way worse for yourself and I don't want you to put your kid in this situation this close to facing child neglect charges if you don't tell him do what I'm telling you to do. >> Give me the child. >> Oh my god. Okay. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> For what? >> Put your hands behind your back. I'm not going to tell you again. Stop resisting. Stop resisting. >> You're making me nervous, sir. >> I've been nothing but polite with you. You have done nothing but not listen to me the entire time I've been out with you. I have done my darnest to avoid this, but you have put me in a position where I have no choice. I haven't even verified how bad your license is yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say you probably already know that it's a felony, which is why you're acting like this. So, now we're going to have a seat in the back of this cruiser while I confirm everything. No. You can put your shoes on. Cuz you're not listening. You have yet to listen to a single thing I've told you to do this entire time, and I'm tired of playing games. Jasmine, if I tell you one more time, you're going to jail. In the car, and I'm not going to repeat myself again. >> Do you have anything on you? >> If I have to repeat myself one more time, you're going to jail. >> All right then, have a seat in the car. Get in the car, Jasmine. Jasmine. Well, you're doing a really good job of being difficult. Yeah, she's she's So, she knew what time it was. All right, so you Stop. Do not put your lights on. So, you're So, you knew you were. That's why you're acting like this. So, you're going to jail today. I don't have any choice. Yes. Where's your >> The man got it. >> Does he still have it? >> Yes. >> All right. Phone's in the back. Can I grab it for you real quick? >> Let me just help out with my kids. >> No. >> I can't help my kids? >> Stay in the car. >> Sir, please. Let me help my kids. >> You don't want You don't want them seeing you in handcuffs like this anyway. >> want to hug them, at least. >> How do you Are you need Can you work it from back there? >> Can I just help my kids, please? >> Let's focus on getting somebody here first. That needs to be your priority is making sure they're taken care of. >> Where are you at? Call my sister right now. Call my sister right now. >> Your sister? Oh, this your sister right here? >> Yeah. One of my sisters. >> But, that works. The kids can go with her. >> Um I don't know. Hold on. She's uh 20. >> She's 20? >> Me. >> Jasmine, no. Sit down. >> I'm not doing nothing, sir. >> You're not listening. You've yet to listen. >> Is she good to take the kids or not? >> O- okay. Sir, hold on. >> It's a yes or no question. >> No, I'm trying to get my other sister. That's my god sister. >> So, you don't want her to have your children. You don't trust her with your children. >> I'm trying to call my mom, sir, if you don't mind. >> My My priority is your kids right now. It doesn't seem like that's really your priority at all, which is the problem. >> Can Can you tell her to come here? >> No, if you don't want her to have your kids, there's no point in her even coming here. >> care who you are. I'm getting arrested. Yes, I'm on the way. I don't What the hell happened? >> Jasmine, sit back down IN THE CAR. >> HAIR AND MY PUBLIC AND THEN HE PULLED me and I'm trying to talk to him. He's trying to make him nervous. Then Brielle is crying. Okay. My daughter is on the way, too. Okay. >> Perfect. All right. Take that. Have a seat back in the car. >> Sir, I'm not doing nothing. I'm just sitting right here. >> Exactly. Wait, that's what you need to be sitting down in the car. Right now, you're standing outside the door even though I told you not to do that. >> I I >> are you being so mean to me? I'm not >> Cuz you're not listening. SO SIT DOWN. >> OKAY, THERE GO MY AUNTIE right there. >> Okay, great. Have a seat. Sit down. This is your problem is you don't listen. >> I'm not doing anything wrong, sir. You're being rude to me. I'm not doing nothing. I'm sitting here. >> Cuz you're not listening to a thing I tell you to do. GET IN THE CAR. GET IN THE CAR, JASMINE, OR I SWEAR that you're going to get an obstruction charge. >> Oh my god, you're making it difficult for me. I'm not doing anything. Look, my baby is crying and stuff. She might not Look, she's right there. I can't see my daughter. She's right there. >> Jasmine, if I have to put you in this car, you're getting an obstruction charge. >> Tell me, Mommy. >> Jasmine, put your leg in the car. >> Sir, I'm not doing anything. >> listening, Jasmine. >> Mom, tell him >> All right, that's it. You're You're being charged with obstruction. Get your leg in. >> I'm not doing nothing. WHY WHY ARE YOU BEING SO rude to me? >> Jasmine, STOP. >> STOP. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? >> JASMINE, GET IN THE CAR. >> STOP. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU BEING SO VIOLENT? WHAT IS WRONG with you? >> GET IN THE CAR. [screaming] IN THE CAR. >> WHAT IS HE DOING, SIR? I'M NOT DOING NOTHING. OH MY GOD. WHAT THE HELL is wrong with you? >> I'm going to get around and pull her through. Stop. >> I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING. >> YOU'RE getting more charges. >> I'm not doing nothing. You're being RUDE AND DISRESPECTFUL. MY DAUGHTER'S RIGHT THERE. >> [screaming] >> GET IN THE CAR. >> OH MY GOD. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? >> STOP RESISTING. >> I'M NOT [screaming] DOING ANYTHING. >> STOP RESISTING. >> WHY ARE YOU GRABBING ME? >> STOP RESISTING. NOW YOU'RE BEING charged with escape. >> Escape? I'm not even doing nothing. They're not doing nothing to me. I'M NOT DOING NOTHING, SIR. >> 10-16, WE NEED MORE UNITS OUT HERE. She good? Are you going to cooperate? >> I'M NOT DOING YOU'RE BEING RUDE TO ME. I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING TO YOU. >> Do we have time? I have a hobo in my front seat. Get off my car. >> LITTLE BABY'S CRYING, SCREAMING. I'm trying TO TELL Y'ALL MY DAUGHTER IS CRYING, SCREAMING. Y'ALL BEING SO RUDE AND AGGRESSIVE. >> YES. She's going to be fine. She's going no matter what now. She's fine. >> Yeah. I was going regardless. >> Yeah, now you're going to catch extra felonies. >> I didn't do nothing to you though. You're being aggressive to me. I'm just telling you Let me get Exactly. That's what I was saying. Let me see. Let me get my keys. >> On your butt. >> Bro. >> Up. >> What? I can get up by myself. YOU'RE BEING RUDE. YOU You manhandled me and >> Well, then put them on or we're going to have to do it, man. >> OH MY GOD. OKAY, STOP PUSHING ME, OKAY? >> GET in the car. >> You're being respectful. I'm recording you. >> It's all on my body camera. >> Here? >> I'm getting out of the car. All right, here's her phone. >> [snorts] >> Do any of these people want to take responsibility for the kids or am I going to contact DCF? All right. >> Oh, no. >> Yeah, they're fine. >> I don't want to be around them. >> That's the That's the safest place for them. We need an idea or the kids are going to have to go with DCF. >> He made me go with him. >> If you want the kids, I need your license. >> You want to ditch your [ __ ] like this [ __ ] like No, the reason I say that I just paid a ticket. >> No, no, I don't even care about that. >> And then you to put on that hat. >> They know me. PARIS IS THE OLDEST BABY. >> I APPRECIATE YOU, MA'AM. How you doing? I'm Daniel. >> Okay. >> You know all the babies' names? >> I You know what? I I'm I'm not going to lie. I don't know her newborn baby name for some reason, but Paris will let you know I'm her auntie. That's the oldest baby. >> That's the oldest one? Okay. >> Yeah, she don't live with me and everything. >> Okay, Paris is the one in the middle. One. >> Paris is the oldest. >> And the little seat back there? >> Yes, and the little boy is her sister's son. >> You know I'm on the phone with my sister. >> Oh yeah, that's Wait, who's Wait, who's Yeah, that's her sister's son, the little boy. >> we appreciate you guys. >> This is not right to them. This is not fair to the kids. I don't care what nobody say. This is not right. This not right to them. This not right to them. The kids don't deserve to go through this. They don't know They scared to death. Thank you, and I'm going to take them to their mom. Yes. Okay. Okay. I'm just upset for the kids, like oh. Me either. We was on the phone, me and her, the whole time, and the phone just went blank. >> Perfect. All right. They're good to go with her then. >> Okay. >> You want Ma'am, you want to come get the kids? >> Okay. This they mom. This they mom. >> The car's being impounded. >> Oh god. Can I Is there any car seats? >> matter. >> No, there's no car seats. >> Come on the other side, baby. >> There's too much water. >> Yeah, yeah. Go on the other side. >> Come on this side, y'all. >> Good job. >> The stop was constitutionally valid from the first second under Delaware versus Prouse, 440 US 6 48 1979. Reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation is sufficient to initiate a stop. Tinted windows preventing occupant identification clear that bar without question. When the driver voluntarily disclosed her license was suspended and possibly at habitual traffic offender level, the legal weight of this stop changed immediately. Florida statute section 322 subsection 34 paragraph five classifies operating as a habitual traffic offender as a third-degree felony carrying up to five years in prison. The decision to place her in handcuffs while running her license is grounded in Terry versus Ohio 392 US 1 1968. Terry permits investigatory restraint when officers can articulate specific facts supporting concern for safety or flight risk. Both were present and on camera. Her refusal to comply with that detention and her repeated failure to remain in place after being seated triggered Florida statute section 843 subsection 02 obstruction without violence a first-degree misdemeanor. Each refusal was a separate documentable act. The charges were accumulating in real time. Her attempt to physically break from custody escalated the situation to Florida statute section 944 subsection 40 escape a second-degree felony. The physical resistance that followed brought Florida statute section 843 subsection 01 resisting with violence a third-degree felony into the charging picture. The force used to bring her to the ground falls under Graham versus Connor 490U S386 1989. Courts evaluate force against three factors the severity of the underlying offense whether the subject posed an immediate threat and whether she was actively resisting or fleeing. On this date, all three factors supported what was applied. One thing worth clarifying is the Miranda question. Under Berkemer versus McCarty, 468 US 420, 1984, roadside questioning during a traffic stop does not constitute custodial interrogation. The driver's admission about her license was legally voluntary. No Miranda warning was required at that stage, and none was owed. The officer's handling of the children is where he gets clear credit. Florida statute section 39, subsection 401, requires placement of minors with a verified adult or Department of Children and Families Contact. When a parent is arrested, he requested identification from every adult who arrived. He followed that statute precisely. The officer receives a B minus. His patience was documented and genuine. He explained his authority clearly, offered alternatives where the law allowed, and managed child welfare correctly. The deduction is tactical. He issued the same warnings too many times without enforcement, which communicated to the driver that his commands were negotiable. They were not, and that confusion cost everyone. The driver receives a D plus. She was honest at the start, and the officer credited her for it. But from the moment the handcuff detention was announced, every decision she made added a charge. Four counts, 120 days in jail. The D plus is for the honest start. The rest was self-inflicted. Before the grades disappear from screen, this footage teaches five things that anyone who drives in this country should understand. These are not opinions. They come directly out of what happened on camera and how Florida courts have treated it. First, voluntary disclosure is a double-edged tool. Admitting your license is suspended is honest, and the officer credited her for it. But that admission also became the legal foundation for a felony stop. Know what you are disclosing and what it triggers before you say it out loud. Second, compliance during detention is not the same as waving your rights. You can comply with a lawful handcuff order and challenge the arrest in court the next day. Refusing on scene does not protect you. It converts a misdemeanor stop into a felony docket, which is exactly what happened here. Third, a child in your arms is not a legal shield, and treating one that way creates new criminal exposure under Florida statute section 827 subsection 03. Courts treat the interposition of a minor between a subject and law enforcement as endangerment, not as a reason to back off. Fourth, every refusal after formal detention is a separate chargeable act under Florida statute section 843 subsection 02. You do not have to swing at anyone. Simply refusing to sit down repeatedly after being ordered to is enough. The meter starts running at the first refusal, not the first punch. Fifth, body cameras record everything. When the driver said it is all on body camera, she was right. But the footage documented 10 minutes of non-compliance, not misconduct. If you are on camera, assume it will be played in court because in this case it was, and it contributed directly to the sentence. The outcome was not written by the law alone. It was shaped choice by choice after the license question was answered. The law gave this officer authority to arrest. He did not rush to use it. The footage makes that distinction visible in a way no court transcript can. 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