Posted on 09/19/2013 4:39:57 PM PDT by rarestia
A University of Central Florida police officer is under investigation after video of a traffic stop surfaced, showing a student's car window shatter after he claimed she started to roll it up on his hand.
The traffic stop happened Wednesday, Sept. 4 along Gemini Boulevard on the UCF campus.
Video from UCF Police Officer Timothy Isaacs's lapel camera showed him pull over Victoria King for a broken brake light. King, who was 25 at the time, said the car was her mother's, and she did not have the vehicle's registration card.
After Isaacs processed King's information and walked back to her car to give her a ticket, King, who was identified as a UCF student, became upset and refused to roll down the window when the officer asked multiple times.
When she refused to roll down her window all the way, Isaacs then asked King to step out of the car. The video showed King asking the officer what law said that she must obey those orders. Isaacs told her she was being detained for a traffic infraction, and warned her he would break the window if she didn't comply.
Isaacs then put his hand on the top of the window, which was rolled down about a quarter of the way. After he did that, Isaacs said King started to roll up the window on his arm, prompting him to shatter the car window.
"I forcefully pulled my arm back and broke the window due to the defendant's blatant disregard to all of the orders that were given to her, and her attempt to close the window on my arm," Isaacs wrote in an arrest affidavit.
After shattering the window, Isaacs and another responding UCF police officer grabbed King's arms and took her out of the vehicle. Isaacs said King continued to resist arrest as they got her out of the car and put her in handcuffs.
King was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer -- one count of resisting with violence, and a second count for resisting without violence.
She has since filed a formal complaint against Isaacs. In the video, King said she was bleeding.
Isaacs also wrote in the arrest report that King told officers she was having a miscarriage, but after a medic arrived, it was discovered that King did not know for sure whether or not she was pregnant. King refused transport to a hospital, Isaacs said.
UCF said it would not comment on the incident, since the investigation was ongoing.
Getting a ticket is a form of arrest. All you’re doing is promising to appear rather than the police dragging you off to jail instead. Looks like she resisted. She was dealt with as such.
Unless the cop had her do the taser-dance off camera, I don’t think she has much to complain about.
The problem I see here is the police were so overfunded and overstaffed that that they had the time to pull someone over for a burnt out tail light. Defund the police and they’ll have less time to “protect” us from the scourge of poorly maintained tail lights.
That was a good shot.
“Yeah, if you’re a boot-licker.”
There are some battles worth fighting. A $10 traffic ticket isn’t one of them. That’s what it would have cost her if the car was registered and she produced the registration after the fact.
The bigger issue here is why the police had the time to pull her over for a burnt out tail light. That’s a budget issue and something conservatives can agree on: reducing the size and scope of government. Defund, defund, defund the police department in question.
Who decides what a ‘lawful order’ is?
A cop will always think every order he issue is a lawful order.
And they think every dog they kill is attacking them.
Get real! They are many bad cops and more are coming!
the court systems are crowded...so are the jails....
why would cops be so unprofessional to incite bad behaviour in citizens???
to be a cop shouldn't you also have some descretion?...some judgement skills?.....some sense of proportionality?...
shouldn't they be thinking..."should I be making a big stink out of this minor traffic violation or should I be protecting people from rape and murder?...let me think.."
I am afraid I will strongly disagree with you here.
He purposely broke her window because she wasn’t doing what the nice officer told her to do.
He admits as much with his weasel words “I FORCEFULLY withdrew my hand BECAUSE of her failure to obey my commands”
A judge, long after the fact.
There are good cops and bad ones. This one seems on his way to "bad" but not quite there yet.
Bad cops are like the kind who wanted to confiscate one of my musical instruments at a traffic stop because I could not immediately produce a receipt for it.
That encounter did not end well for that cop.
A guy was murdered in my town a couple of weeks ago.
I know the cops are spending more time writing traffic tickets than trying to find the Trayvons who did it.
Oh, I agree she was being smart -- playing games. That does not call for the reaction. I will not let cops off the hook so easily.
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