ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A routine traffic stop ended in a tense situation between a University of Central Florida student and a campus police officer.
The student, Victoria King, recently filed a brutality and excessive force complaint against the officer.
Video recorded by Officer Timothy Isaacs body camera could be used as a key piece of evidence if the case goes to court.
Recorded video shows the officer telling King she was pulled over for a brake light that was out. He asked her for her registration, but she claimed she did not have it since it was not her car.
"An officer pulled me over in regards to a brake light being out," King said. "And it's just really brutal. Really traumatic."
King recorded the situation on her iPhone, including the moment the officer broke the driver's side window because she allegedly began to roll it up on his hands.
King wasn't the only one with a recording device. The officer had a camera on his uniform that captured the whole thing.
In the video, King does not comply with the officer's demands.
"Roll the window all the way down?" King asked.
"Yes, ma'am," Isaacs said.
"Why?" asked King.
"Because I'm getting ready to have you sign a citation, ma'am, and I'm not going to reach into your vehicle," the officer said.
Then King completely shut the window.
The officer then asked King several times to get out of the car, but she refused.
He then asked King again to open the window.
"If you don't open the window, I'm going to break the window," said the officer.
The video shows the officer, along with another officer, warning King several times to roll down the window or he would have to break it. However, King still did not comply.
The officer placed his right hand on the glass and seconds later: "If you roll it up on my - Oh!"
Isaacs said in his report that King began to roll the power windows up on his right forearm.
"I began to feel pressure on my forearm due to the window compressing it against the frame of the window," Isaacs wrote in a report.
"Oh my God, are you serious?" said King as the glass shattered.
Eyewitness News showed the video to UCF criminal justice professor Kenneth Adams.
"He doesn't know if his hand is going to get caught in the window. He doesn't know if the woman is going to panic and hit the accelerator and take off," Adams said.
Adams thinks the video is an instrumental part of the case.
The UCF Police Department has 15 body cameras that have been in service for more than a year.
"Without some physical evidence such as the video it would be a case of he said, she said," Adams said.
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