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18-Year-Old Girl’s Arrest Receives Criticism After Body Cam Footage Is Released

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A body cam recording has been released by the Volusia County sheriff, in Florida. It depicts a recent apprehension which has been criticized online.

Deltona leaders contacted the Sheriff regarding the arrest after looking at social media and labeling the incident as an “overreaction.”

Detectives say that a sergeant was called to a burglary on July 18. However, the officer unintentionally stopped one street over from the proper address.

In the recording, the sergeant is observed attempting to speak with a driver when things quickly got out of control.

“Even though he’s in the wrong location, he believes he’s in the right location. He’s trying to establish a rapport. She wants to drive away. He reaches in to turn the car off to prevent a pursuit or anything from happening to anybody. She just unloads on him with profanity,” said Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

Authorities say that the driver was Iyanna Rollins, 18.

The video also shows the sergeant attempting to handcuff Rollins. Arrest documents state that Rollins kicked the deputy and hit him in the head several times with a closed fist. She is accused of hitting another officer who was trying to fix her handcuffs.

However, some are still criticizing how the sergeant walked up to her car, calling it too aggressive.

“Cops are being gunned down and killed at an alarming rate in this country. He’s responding to a burglar alarm. There’s a car backing out of the driveway. If you don’t like it-sue me. Or run for Sheriff and try to beat me,” Sheriff Chitwood remarked.

Rollins was arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer, and an investigation is continuing.



7 Comments

  1. Cop is trying to establish a rapport? I dont see that in the video. This is a Terry stop , not trying at all to establish rapport. For this he needs RAS ( Reasonable Articulable Suspicion). He didn’t even have a description of the suspect or a vehicle AND he was in the wrong street. So he has no justification for the Terry stop. He is the one to escalate by his use of expletives and aggressively invading her space or to touch her in any way. He has no right to ask her where she “stays” or what she is doing. She has every right to ask why he is asking. he cant take the questioning from a civilian. He provokes a flight or fight response in the young girl of 18 years and then proceeds brutally cuff her and torture her and then to charge her to cover his own ass, thereby aggravating his crime. This is what they teach them at Police academy apparently. The Sheriffs saying this officer is trying to build a rapport is disingenuous at best, deliberately misleading is probably closer to the truth. It is not the Sheriffs job to point out the rights or wrongs, much less come down on the side of this officer. That is for the courts to decide. The Sheriff is obviously a part of the problem here, not the solution in this particular case.

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