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.
Yeppers! http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ucf-traffic-stop-ends-shattered-window-student-det/nZ2Sg/
Black (er, racist) driver.
I think the window being down all the way IS a point of contention and I admit I don’t really know the law enough to say what was proper there. I’ll leave that to people more knowledgeable than myself.
BUT-
The second he gave her an order to step out of the vehicle and she ROLLED UP THE WINDOW AND TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND STARTED DIGGING THROUGH STUFF AND MADE NO EFFORT TO EXIT THE VEHICLE AT ALL - well, that’s all she wrote.
She could have been getting out a pistol for all the cop knew.
Stupid, stupid thing to do on her part.
I don’t like how it all went down, but, a legitimate order to exit your vehicle is NOT the time to be a smartass.
For a tail light? When did we get to a point in this country that cops can harass citizens over a tail light? It's not a criminal offense. He has no right entering her property, nor does he have any right to break her window. If you watch the video, her hands were no where near the button, he just broke it.
"orders" my ass. Cops are on such power trips these days. He had no PC or RAS to do anything but ask her nicely to take his BS ticket or drop it on the windshield and walk away, end of story.
It's a damn municipal rules violation, equivalent to a parking ticket.
If you check the video, the your question should be: when did we get to a point in this country that citizens can harass cops over a tail light? LOL
No, actually, if it was me in that situation I'd have shortly been allowed to drive away. She chose to play games and undead in handcuffs, booked, with lawyers, court and hassles in her future. There are hills to die on; this one isn't it.
The only obligation during a routine traffic stop is to provide your licence, registration, and certificate of insurance. You have no legal obligation to verbally answer questions and you have no legal obligation to roll down your window any farther than necessary to provide the jack-boot thug with the documentation.
When government fears its citizens, we have freedom, when citizens fear their government, we have tyranny.
The cop should have asked her nicely for her information, if she didn't provide it, book the license and issue the ticket and go on his way. He escalated it because she wasn't supplicating enough.
Oh, she definitely wasn’t “supplicating.” Again, LOL.
Campus rent a cops are stupider than the flatfoots they wish they could be. Never hold a conversation with a cop. “Just the facts Mam.”
There was a time, not long ago, when being a bitch did not get you assaulted and your window broken by a cop who felt “disrespected.” All in all the woman is fortunate the officer did not follow his training and simply shoot her four or five times, turn to the camera and say, “I felt threatened.”
Somehow she has to sign a paper that is in the LEOs hands. Seems logical to me that she could reach thru a partially open window to take the paper, pull into car, sign it, and then offer it thru the partially open window. But, she did not. Also seems logical to me that part of LEO's training is when handing over a paper to someone in a car, their hand should never pass thru a partially open window (and perhaps not even a fully open window). At the point that she did not take the paper for signing, the LEO was correct, IMHO, to ask passenger to get out of the car. I know in this case it was a minor infraction, but the next step would be drivers keeping their windows up and just driving away ignoring all LEO instructions.
Although, not sure what was going thru the LEO's mind to put his hand on the window in the first place...
Like said previously, this is not a hill to defend against LEOs.
No.
He gave her a legitimate order to exit the vehicle.
I counted at least 12 SEPARATE ORDERS to step out of the vehicle.
He was not being rude and I think was very professional with her.
He gave her multiple chances.
She was refusing to comply with anything he said.
During a traffic stop a cop can ask you to step out of your vehicle at any time they wish.
A traffic stop is not the time to get an attitude, ignore a lawful order, play with your phone, etc.
I know some people hate cops. I know they have genuine reasons for how they feel. I understand there are often Constitutional issues involved. But this is not one of those times according to the video I just reviewed.
The thread is full of them.
and they mail you the ticket or show up at your door. What is so hard about that? Why should the first response be to break glass or bash someones face into the hood over something minor?
I have seen NYS State Storm Troopers stick their heads inside the cars during routine traffic stops.
Thank God he didn’t have an APC to run her over with
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068913/posts
Shades of Watertown MA... this guy *effectively* has his muzzle inside a citizen's home...
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