A Georgia DUI stop is getting new attention through a November 9 upload by BodyCam Uncovered. The channel dates the stop to January 2024. An officer points out that a rear wheel on a woman’s car is locked and asks whether the parking brake is on.
She asks for help with the car, but he wants her to step out because he suspects she has been drinking. “This is my friend’s car and she was too drunk to drive, so I’m driving,” she explains.
When the officer says she walked out of a bar about 20 minutes earlier, she denies going inside because she lost her ID. Moments later, while explaining why she has no license to show him, she says she lost it in a bar.
“I wish you would just help me like a real servant of the law instead of trying to find a way to arrest me,” she says. The officer replies that he does not want her to crash and die. She insists she is just driving a car she is not used to.
Eyes Over Here
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After agreeing to field sobriety tests, she struggles to get through the eye test without an argument. The officer asks her to hold her head still and follow his finger. She disputes his instructions and asks people nearby to act as witnesses.
He tells her she can refuse the test, while she insists she is taking it. She asks whether someone else can do it. Later, she mentions an eye condition and says her false lashes make her eyelids heavy.
For the walking test, she asks to remove her heels. By the time the officer arrests her, she is asking to put her shoes back on. As he tries to read Georgia’s implied consent notice, she keeps denying she is drunk.
She is quite sure about the breath test, too. “I could take a breathalyzer and it will be under the legal limit,” she says.
One More Try
At the breath machine, she gives one sample, then struggles to complete a second despite repeated attempts and coaching. She says she is recovering from flu and strep, later adding that she smokes and has had a drainage procedure on her lungs.
The officer asks for one long, steady breath and explains that pauses keep an attempt from counting. She disputes that she is doing anything wrong and asks to try again after the machine fails to accept the second sample.
Through the exchange, he offers to set up another round but stresses that it is optional. Once she says she will do whatever gets her home to her children, he stops pursuing more samples.
“I worry that it would be coercive at this point,” he says. He decides to use the sample she already gave.
GH has not independently confirmed the driver’s charges or court outcome. In the recording, an officer reports her breath reading as 0.127.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.