A Florida driver’s July 2025 call to 911 had an unusual subject: the deputies already standing outside her car. The Palm Coast traffic stop is back in view through a November 7, 2026, bodycam upload.
Amanda Hale, 29 at the time, had been pulled over for an obstructed license plate. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office placed the stop on Old Kings Road around 1:30 a.m. on July 9. A deputy later explained that he had planned to give her a warning.
They never got that far. When the deputy asked Hale to lower her window so he could explain the stop, she replied, “No, you’re going to answer my question first.” He warned that he would open her door, and she told him he would not force his way into her car.
With a supervisor requested, Hale announced she would park at the gas station and meet him there. The deputy told her to stop, but she drove to a RaceTrac parking space and backed in. Deputies followed and blocked her car.
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Hale stayed inside as deputies ordered her out, then called 911. In the original arrest footage, she tells the dispatcher that she feels threatened and wants help dealing with the deputies.
“I’m like shaking in fear now,” Hale says. She explains that she had told the deputy she was going to park, and complains that he would not answer her questions.
Calling 911 did not get the deputies to back away. The dispatcher told Hale to get off the phone and speak with them, but Hale said she would not open her door or lower the window any farther.
The supervisor had no more luck. When Hale asked why she had been stopped, he said he had not been there.
“You’re under arrest and you need to get out,” he told her. “It’s either we’re going to take you out of the car or you’re going to step out on your own. Take your pick.”
He gave her 10 seconds and warned that deputies would break the window. Hale’s “Please don’t break my window” came as they announced they were moving in. They broke the front passenger window and got her out while she protested that she had done nothing wrong.
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Her mother arrived to find deputies searching the car. When she learned which window they had broken, her response was one word: “Wonderful.” Later, speaking with her daughter, she offered some blunt advice: “Next time just comply.”
The search added drug charges to Hale’s arrest. In the sheriff’s July 10 release, preserved by Flagler County Buzz, deputies reported finding marijuana, a bong, two grinders, and 108.5 pills in a purse. They said 10 pills tested positive for fentanyl and 21 were identified as oxycodone.
Hale was arrested on seven charges, including failure to obey an officer’s order to stop and resisting without violence. The other five were possession charges for fentanyl, oxycodone, a Schedule IV substance, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. Her bond was listed at $7,500 in that July 2025 release.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.