Arrest Goes Wrong? : Obviously I'm Mentally Ill" — Deputies Arrest Woman at Emergency Room

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[00:00:00]Take your PAPERS BACK.

[00:00:02]>> ALL OF YOU ARE PUT. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? What are you GONNA DO?

[00:00:06]>> STOP.

[00:00:06]>> WHAT?

[00:00:07]>> Because you need TO BEHAVE.

[00:00:09]>> STOP.

[00:00:10]>> SON OF AING.

[00:00:12]You want youring cared up? I'll it up for you. Youing [ __ ] >> On May 26th, 2024, Indian River County deputies arrested a woman at a hospital emergency room on four charges.

[00:00:24]>> You got to leave the property. Not out here. You got to at least get to the sidewalk. Take your papers back. Pardon?

[00:00:30]>> If you me again, take your jail. Just go >> or you'll get in trouble.

[00:00:36]>> GO.

[00:00:37]>> ALL OF YOU GUYS ARE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? What are you going to do?

[00:00:42]>> Are you kidding me? Stop.

[00:00:46]>> She's going to jail. SO, >> GOT HER.

[00:00:48]>> STOP.

[00:00:49]>> QUIT RESISTING, >> MA'AM. Please tell them the slippery. So, >> does this belong to you? Yes, it does.

[00:00:58]Get off of me. I'm going to put it right here with your bag.

[00:01:02]>> Get off of me.

[00:01:11]Get off of me.

[00:01:14]>> Oh my god.

[00:01:16]This is exactly why I'm here. You guys did this to me.

[00:01:20]>> Well, you don't want to listen.

[00:01:23]>> I told you just to leave.

[00:01:26]>> And you didn't leave. You turned around and came back at me. So, we're going to go to jail now.

[00:01:32]Let's go.

[00:01:43]>> Asked you to leave four times >> and all you wanted to do is cuss at me.

[00:01:51]>> All you do is leave.

[00:01:53]>> You're causing a problem to the point that they called us.

[00:01:56]You scared me.

[00:01:57]>> Come over here.

[00:02:02]>> Would you stop moving around?

[00:02:07]>> You want the cookie or something in there?

[00:02:09]>> Just hold her for a second, please.

[00:02:11]>> I got to take stuff out of my back seat.

[00:02:18]>> Stop. But please, that's who I was behind my table.

[00:02:25]What are you guys doing?

[00:02:34]>> Stop. I did it.

[00:02:35]>> Stop it.

[00:02:39]You can't behave. All you got to do is behave.

[00:02:42]>> Breathe. And I got brought here by God.

[00:02:46]>> Get in.

[00:02:46]>> I can't >> step up on the step. Step up in the car.

[00:02:51]See, that's what happens when we have communication, right?

[00:02:54]>> Put your feet in.

[00:02:56]>> Stops her around.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah. Put your feet in.

[00:02:59]>> Do I have to pull you into the car? Can we act like a grownup, please?

[00:03:02]>> No, because I'm looking at this guy because I remember him. You I don't >> I don't even know who you are. So, put your feet.

[00:03:07]>> Exactly.

[00:03:08]Why don't you try to figure that out first? Why don't you try to figure >> So, what what was the deal with her? She was discharged and then just refused to leave cuz she wanted to ride. So she was I don't know what her honestly what her guilt was. Did I wasn't in charge of her terror but I wasn't help discharge and then came storming out of the room unprovoked said how the do I get out of here get me the out of here and I directed her towards the exit. She went to the lobby and then maybe 5 10 minutes later she starts throwing.

[00:03:40]>> Did she hit anybody with anything? Throw it >> to my knowledge. No. The security guard he said he was not injured. Um, she was just like, >> can we check if she hit the security guard with something?

[00:03:49]>> He was the gentleman standing on >> she threw something at him. I don't know. She >> throw stuff around, but I don't know if he he said he was not injured, but I didn't ask if he was actually had anything thrown at him. Um, just like threatening aggressive behavior, throwing hands, throwing objects, didn't actually physically assault anybody, >> just verbally not very nice. And then she said something about the the people who made her come. I don't have any idea how she got here. Like she walked in from the front is all I know.

[00:04:18]>> So I'm like I have no way of contacting anybody. I don't even know who brought you. I thought she came in the club car to be honest with you.

[00:04:24]>> Okay.

[00:04:25]>> Um but that could have been somebody else. I just saw it on the camera fitting her description.

[00:04:28]>> And then you guys asked her multiple times to leave the lobby.

[00:04:31]>> That's correct.

[00:04:32]>> And you called us because she was refusing to leave.

[00:04:34]>> Correct.

[00:04:34]>> And because of her other behavior.

[00:04:36]>> And like I have little like a this woman's carrying her infant through the lobby and she's throwing stuff all over.

[00:04:41]So, I got to, you know, make sure everybody's safe and protected.

[00:04:54]Oh my god. Please. I'm dying in here.

[00:05:01]I don't understand why you're doing this. I can't understand.

[00:05:05]>> I asked you to leave.

[00:05:07]>> But you have to understand you yelling at me like that is like not like I just I I just >> I asked you THREE TIMES.

[00:05:13]>> CLAM UP. I don't I can't I can't do it.

[00:05:17]I can't do it. I didn't yell at you till you came back inside, started yelling at me and the security guard and everybody else in there >> and then I came to hand you your paper cuz you dropped your discharge paperwork and you snatched it out of my hand. In doing so, you hit me in the hand.

[00:05:32]>> Well, I apologize.

[00:05:33]>> And then you started walking away cuz I told you you just had to get off the property and then you turned around and came back and started yelling in my face.

[00:05:40]>> So, I don't know, five, six times of you need to leave because they don't want you here and you're trespassing. I don't know how much nicer I need to be. I yelled at you two times because you didn't listen.

[00:05:52]So, I wasn't rude. You were rude from the minute I got here.

[00:05:56]>> Well, you have to see where it's You have to see where it's coming from is where I'm saying. Not that it that it exceeds any behavior, >> but this is what >> I'm pretty much waking up to. I understand and I apologize. I sincerely apologize. But you have to understand when I wake up and this is what it is. I And then I have you yelling at me, then what am I supposed toing do?

[00:06:20]>> I >> I don't know. I don't know what to do >> nicely to leave.

[00:06:24]>> I asked you to please get up and leave.

[00:06:27]And you just kept ignoring me and yelling at everybody inside.

[00:06:30]>> How do I get home? I'm supposed to call someone I can't see.

[00:06:36]>> All of this comes into play.

[00:06:38]>> If you were nice and talked to me and said, "I need help." Not not act.

[00:06:42]>> Okay, you can just sit here and calm down again.

[00:06:52]>> Just throw stuff at him.

[00:06:54]>> No.

[00:06:55]>> Oh, she said >> I asked him straight up. She's like, "Did she throw anything at you?" He's like, "No. Did she hit you?" "No." And I looked at the footage and the footage she likes tossing stuff around the place, but nothing like I didn't see specifically at the guy. She supposedly was sitting at a 7-Eleven somewhere and was transported here by unknown means and she got here. I got here. I asked her to leave multiple times and she just kept yelling and screaming. So then she finally storms out, starts walking away.

[00:07:23]I'm like, "Just get off the property.

[00:07:24]That's all you got to do." So then she turns around and just comes beep boppinging back at me like I'm done.

[00:07:29]You're under arrest.

[00:07:32]>> Hello.

[00:07:34]Hi.

[00:07:37]Hi.

[00:07:38]How are you? Have better days?

[00:07:41]>> Yeah.

[00:07:41]>> What's your first name?

[00:07:43]>> My first name.

[00:07:44]>> Your first name.

[00:07:46]>> Okay. So, I'm going to take you out of the car cuz I'm going to search you.

[00:07:50]Okay.

[00:07:51]>> Can you call my mom? Can you call this place that is supposed to drop me?

[00:07:57]>> Correct.

[00:07:58]>> Yes.

[00:07:58]>> Listen to me. I don't know what's going on right now. Right. I'll figure that out. Right now, I just have to stretch it. Okay.

[00:08:05]>> It's fine. I can take requests after that. We can talk about phone calls and all of that afterwards, but I'm going to search you first. Okay.

[00:08:15]>> Do you have anything illegal on you?

[00:08:16]>> No, I don't. And no. And yes, and yes, you can.

[00:08:19]>> Okay. Do you have anything that's going to approach me?

[00:08:21]>> No, I don't.

[00:08:22]>> Okay. Are you going to are you going to be >> all because that's how what you guys are doing to me. I was dropped off here by Okay. Number one. That's why I'm here.

[00:08:36]Mhm.

[00:08:37]>> And you wonder why I freaked the out when this guy's yelling at me.

[00:08:40]>> Anything. I just got here.

[00:08:41]>> Like what?

[00:08:42]>> So I just got here.

[00:08:43]>> Please.

[00:08:44]>> Okay. Listen. I just I just got here. I don't know why you're yelling at me.

[00:08:48]>> So I haven't done anything to you, right? And I'm not involved in whatever is making you angry.

[00:08:52]>> Right.

[00:08:53]>> Okay. So I'm asking you are you going to cooperate or are you going to come out and >> Sure.

[00:08:59]>> Okay. So I'll help you down just so you don't get hurt.

[00:09:02]>> All right.

[00:09:05]We're going to come in front of my car.

[00:09:07]Can you open my door and turn the camera on?

[00:09:13]>> So, in case that call for me, there's a camera there so it catches everything.

[00:09:17]>> Turn it on.

[00:09:19]>> Huh?

[00:09:21]>> Push it from the bottom. Just once. Yep.

[00:09:24]Separate your feet for me. As far as you can. As far as you can. I need you to go a little further.

[00:09:33]I need you to open your legs a little further.

[00:09:37]Thank you.

[00:09:40]So I don't hurt your shoulders. Can you separate your hands?

[00:09:44]>> Just not listening. If you listen, you know what my listening?

[00:09:49]>> Okay. Can you pull them off of your body?

[00:09:50]>> No.

[00:09:51]>> Like this?

[00:09:52]>> Why not?

[00:09:53]>> Well, if you would listen, you'd know what my instructions were. But you're too frustrated.

[00:09:57]But that got caught, didn't it? Okay.

[00:10:03]See that?

[00:10:06]>> So, here's what you have to do.

[00:10:09]>> Listen to me. Yeah.

[00:10:10]>> Can you separate your feet and try to maintain your balance? Right. I got to feel inside your foot.

[00:10:19]>> Why are you trying to push me off of you?

[00:10:22]>> Because I don't want anyone on me.

[00:10:25]>> Okay. Well, unfortunately, I have to search you. Okay.

[00:10:29]True. But if you start getting rough with me.

[00:10:31]>> Oh, it would have already been done, sweetie.

[00:10:33]>> Okay. Well, I don't want you to get injured, right?

[00:10:36]>> I don't want you to get injured. Just like >> Oh, I won't. I promise. Cut people with me.

[00:10:40]>> I assure you I will not get injured, but I don't want anything to happen to you.

[00:10:45]So, stop.

[00:10:47]I'm 45.

[00:10:48]>> Well, I haven't seen that yet.

[00:10:50]>> So, let's not talk like a little 2-year-old.

[00:10:52]>> I'm talking so that you hear all of my words.

[00:10:54]>> Oh, perfect. But I haven't seen the 45-year-old yet. No, because you're not.

[00:10:58]You're not.

[00:10:59]>> Okay. You want to ask her to show up?

[00:11:00]That would be cool.

[00:11:06]Right.

[00:11:10]Get it. Got it.

[00:11:37]around.

[00:11:39]Nope.

[00:11:47]Actually, if you can, I'm going to hold on to the back of the shoe. Can you slip off for me, please? There you go.

[00:11:56]Can you just turn like just flung it off like you don't want to get a battery on your Oh, you do. You don't want to get another one.

[00:12:11]>> Oh, no. How about the guys do something nice for once and let the person go?

[00:12:16]>> Oh, you hit me. I mean, >> I didn't hit you. I tried to hand you a piece of paper back and you hit me when you grabbed it.

[00:12:21]>> Dude, you need to realize why I'm here and what I came out of.

[00:12:27]>> I'm being nice to you. I'm trying to be nice to you. I've been nice to you the whole time except I had to yell at you cuz you didn't want to listen. So that's the only thing that got your attention.

[00:12:33]>> I just came here to get the you can go ahead and >> I'm not charging you for that.

[00:12:49]Nope. This car right here to your left.

[00:12:59]>> Let me go.

[00:13:01]>> I'm not the one. I don't know what happened before you got here, but I'm not the one. I've been respectful. Okay, get in. Get in.

[00:13:08]Oh, okay.

[00:13:12]>> You [ __ ] [ __ ] in my car.

[00:13:16]>> You >> I don't [ __ ] care.

[00:13:25]>> [ __ ] Might as well make it worth something, huh?

[00:13:31]Son of aing [ __ ] You want youring cared up? I'll it up for you. Youing [ __ ] STOP.

[00:13:38]>> WHAT?

[00:13:39]>> Because you need TO BEHAVE.

[00:13:41]>> STOP.

[00:13:41]>> YOU'RE GOING TO GET HOT.

[00:13:42]>> I'm going to tie your feet TO YOUR HAND.

[00:13:44]>> STOP. GET THIS GUY AWAY. Get him away.

[00:13:48]>> Put your feet on the ground.

[00:13:49]>> Get the door >> away.

[00:13:51]>> Kick the door again. You're going to go in hobble.

[00:14:02]>> Now I know exactly why those guys look familiar.

[00:14:12]Why is that?

[00:14:14]>> Because I drove my car off a [ __ ] ditch over here in West Palm. So your little short cop and your little meathead cop that were justing out there were on that same call >> in West Palm.

[00:14:29]>> In West Palm.

[00:14:31]>> Why not take me to a psych ward? Why do you got to go straight foring jail?

[00:14:37]>> I tried explaining to you every time I just yell at me.

[00:14:40]>> You can't explain that to me in a mindset like that. There's no way.

[00:14:45]There's no way.

[00:14:47]>> I asked you to leave. That's all I asked. And you didn't ask for help. You just started yelling at me. So, >> cuz I didn't I didn't do >> No. How do I know? I'm not being walked out of there. I'm not Nothing. How do I know? I have people yelling at me.

[00:15:02]That's all I know. That's all I [ __ ] know.

[00:15:05]>> When I got there, nobody was yelling.

[00:15:06]>> That's all Iing know.

[00:15:10]>> I eventually had to raise my voice because you didn't listen and you kept yelling and screaming.

[00:15:18]>> I I don't know how much nicer I could have been to you when I got there.

[00:15:21]>> Well, obviously I'ming mentally ill. If you can'ting see it, do you need me toing say it, too? What the >> I didn't know that.

[00:15:32]Just send me to the hospital, please.

[00:15:34]>> You just left the hospital.

[00:15:37]>> Why do I need to send you to the hospital?

[00:15:39]>> For my eyes. That was for my eyes. But at least you were listening.

[00:15:44]>> I've been listening the whole time. You were the one that weren't listening most of the time.

[00:15:48]It's >> why we're here.

[00:16:00]Hey, what's your name?

[00:16:05]>> Okay. Well, I'm going to keep it real simple for you. You at the Indie River County Jail in a little bit. These lovely deputies are going to come out and and give you instructions.

[00:16:13]>> I don't care. SEND ME TO THE HOSPITAL.

[00:16:16]>> NO.

[00:16:17]>> SO, this is what going to happen. If you don't follow all orders, they're going to make you follow orders.

[00:16:21]>> Really? Like they did righting here?

[00:16:24]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:16:26]So you can either do this the easy way or the hard way.

[00:16:29]>> But no matter what, >> you're stilling talking.

[00:16:30]>> But no matter what, it's going to happen our way.

[00:16:32]>> You're stilling talking.

[00:16:33]>> Yes, cuz it's my job. I can talk.

[00:16:35]>> You're still talking.

[00:16:36]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:16:38]>> So, like I said, you can do it the easy way or the hard way, but no matter what, it's going to go our way.

[00:16:42]>> I KNOW THAT. DO YOU SEE ME SITTING HERE?

[00:16:46]>> OKAY, MA'AM.

[00:16:51]>> [ __ ] [ __ ] Youing [ __ ] You [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] [ __ ] >> Okay, ma'am.

[00:16:58]>> That was real funny, right?

[00:17:00]>> I CAN'T WAIT. I HOPE I pray someone in your family has mentaling disease. I hope and I pray CUZ THIS IS WHAT the it looks like. Untreated motherucker.

[00:17:14]>> What?

[00:17:16]>> What?

[00:17:16]>> Can you sit up for me?

[00:17:19]>> Of course. Pretty eyes. Oh, it's not you. Where's the animal at?

[00:17:22]>> Okay. Okay. Relax. You're not dealing with anybody but us now. Okay.

[00:17:26]>> All right. So, we're not going to disrespect you unless you disrespect us.

[00:17:30]Okay.

[00:17:31]>> We don't We don't know.

[00:17:33]>> I've got that so far.

[00:17:34]>> Okay. See, your attitude is going to dictate how this situation.

[00:17:37]>> I get that.

[00:17:38]>> Okay. Well, if you want to continue being sarcastic and being rude, you're going to get rude right back.

[00:17:44]>> I get it.

[00:17:44]>> Okay.

[00:17:45]>> Iing get it.

[00:17:46]>> All right. Well, go ahead and step out of the vehicle face.

[00:17:50]>> Let's examine the constitutional framework. This analysis examines each charge against the applicable legal standards and the constitutional framework governing this encounter under Florida statute section 877.03.

[00:18:03]Disorderly conduct requires conduct that breaches the peace, not merely offensive speech. In state versus Saunders 339 Southern 641, the Florida Supreme Court narrowed this statute against First Amendment over breath requiring actual conduct beyond words. Verbal abuse directed at law enforcement does not independently satisfy this statute.

[00:18:24]Throwing objects in a functioning emergency room does. With vulnerable patients present at the time of the disturbance, the conduct element is met.

[00:18:31]This charge is legally supportable.

[00:18:33]Florida statute section 800 10.09 authorizes arrest. When a person remains on property after lawful direction to leave, multiple documented warnings were issued by hospital staff and law enforcement. This is the strongest charge in the case. Florida statute section 784.07 elevates battery to a thirdderee felony when the victim is a law enforcement officer. The charge requires intentional touching or striking. Contact here occurred when the subject grabbed her discharge paperwork raising a genuine intent question. Florida courts have held that snatching an object from someone's hand can qualify, but intent must be established at trial. This is the most legally vulnerable of the four charges and presents the highest risk of dismissal. Florida Statute Section 843.02 requires only obstruction of an officer in lawful duty without violence with the underlying arrest supported by independent witness statements and documented probable cause. The resistance satisfies this statute. This charge is legally sound. The most consequential legal issue in this encounter is not among the charges filed. Florida statute section 394.463.

[00:19:39]The Baker Act authorizes involuntary psychiatric transport when a person has a mental illness and without intervention may harm themselves or others. The subject selfidentified as mentally ill during the encounter, explicitly requested psychiatric placement rather than incarceration, and exhibited behavioral indicators of acute mental health dysregulation consistent with a documented prior crisis involving law enforcement. Florida postcrisis intervention team training mandates Baker Act assessment when these indicators are present. At least four of six statutory criteria were met. The failure to evaluate Baker Act eligibility before proceeding with criminal arrest is the single most significant legal vulnerability in this case and will likely anchor any civil rights claim. Under section 1983 of Title 42, Deputy 1 receives a B minus.

[00:20:25]Probable cause met the fourth amendment standard under Atwater versus City of Lago Vista and force was proportionate under Graham versus Connor 490, United States 386. The absent Baker Act evaluation accounts for the deduction.

[00:20:38]Deputy 2 receives a B+ for applying crisis intervention team principles in a way that measurably reduced agitation without additional force. Deputy 3 receives a C+. Initial communication tactics escalated rather than deescalated a person in mental health crisis, contradicting Florida Post training standards. The subject receives a D plus. Conduct satisfied the statutory elements of disorderly conduct and trespass. physical resistance added legal exposure. The explicit request for psychiatric care carries direct weight as a mitigating factor under Florida law. The Indian River County Sheriff's Office receives a C++ reflecting the systemic failure to apply Baker Act evaluation where statutory criteria were visibly present. Three lessons apply.

[00:21:21]First, a subject's self-identification as mentally ill during arrest creates a Baker Act evaluation obligation and civil liability exposure under section 1983 if that obligation is disregarded.

[00:21:33]Second, communication quality before physical control determines outcome quality. The contrast between officer approaches in this footage is direct evidence of that principle. Third, filing a battery charge with a weak intent foundation risks undermining credible charges at trial. Charging restraint is a prosecutorial strength, not a weakness. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like discussed in the comments below.