The Volusia County sheriff has released a body camera video of a recent arrest after receiving online criticism.
The sheriff says Deltona leaders contacted him about the arrest after seeing social media posts calling the incident an "overreaction."
Investigators say a sergeant was responding to a burglary call Monday – but he accidentally stopped one street over from the correct address.
In the video, you see the sergeant try to talk to a driver pulling out of a driveway when things escalate quickly.
"Even though he’s in the wrong location – he believes he’s in the right location. He’s trying to establish a report. 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.
Officials say the driver is 18-year-old Iyanna Rollins.
You can see in the body cam video that the sergeant tries to handcuff her. In an arrest report, deputies write that she kicked him and struck him in the head with a closed fist multiple times. They also say she kicked another deputy trying to adjust her handcuffs.
Still, some are questioning how the sergeant Initially approached the car – saying he was 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 said.
Rollins was locked up for battery on a law enforcement officer.
FOX 35 reached out to the man who originally posted on social media about the arrest, but he didn’t want to comment.
WestmontOG07 on July 24th, 2022 at 16:46 UTC »
Let me get this straight. The cop was at the wrong address and tried apprehending the wrong individual?
vasion123 on July 24th, 2022 at 16:05 UTC »
Really need to require police officers to carry individual insurance and be licensed. I feel like those two simple things would go a long way to helping solve our law enforcement problem in the States.
Remember the person cutting your HAIR is licensed and insured, we can require the same from police officers
xTheWiseOnex on July 24th, 2022 at 15:35 UTC »
A little backstory: a Sheriff deputy was responding to a burglary call,but showed up at wrong house on the wrong street and stopped the wrong citizen technically innocent at the time. (other cops showed up at the right house on right street, but the arresting sheriff here never talked to them to get the right house until after this incident with the woman)
Woman got arrested for resisting arrest/assault on officer. She was not a suspect of the burglary and was innocent at the time of being stopped. she was just leaving her driveway like any normal citizen does.
The Sheriff of the county responded to critics of the event by saying "sue me", even though it would be the citizens of the county paying for any lawsuit because his officer went to the wrong address. Basically he placed blame on the woman instead of the deputy who went to the wrong address to cause all of this.
Listen to how the Sheriff of the county talked to its citizens about the incident:
https://youtu.be/jJr9W5cQ8QY