Here’s another instance of an otherwise routine traffic stop gone wrong in the process – it seems, we’re having plenty of those lately, or at least, they’re making the news more often. This particular case involves a University of Central Florida (UCF) campus police officer, a student and…a broken window.

Officer Timothy Isaacs, who was recording the incident with his body camera, pulled over UCF student, Victoria King, for driving her 1996 Mercury for only having one working brake light on September 4. King also asked her for a registration, but the woman told him she didn’t have one because it wasn’t her car.

In the video released by the police department, we see Isaacs approaching the car to hand over the citation to 26 year-old King. The officer asks King to roll down her window, which she does, but only partially. He then asks her multiple times to roll down the window, but she refuses.

When she asks the officer why, he replies, “Because I’m getting ready to have you sign a citation, ma’am, and I’m not going to reach into your vehicle.” King then rolls up the window, with the officer asking he again to roll it down. “If you don’t open the window, I’m going to break the window,” says the officer.

The woman then rolls it down a notch and the police officer puts his left hand on the window, and seemingly tries to reach inside with the other one to open the door (at least that’s what his moves suggest), and a second later we hear him saying, “If you roll it up on my – Oh!” and the window shatters.

King was then forcefully taken out of her car and arrested.

The officer claims that the window broke when he tried to pull out, while the young woman is crying police abuse.

“I forcefully pulled my arm back and broke the window due to the defendant’s blatant disregard to all of the orders that were given to her and her attempt to close the window on my arm,” the officer wrote in the report, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

As we mentioned earlier, while keeping in mind that the camera does move away and we do not get a clear view, at 2:07 minutes into the video, it looks like the officer either placed or attempted to place his right arm inside the car. If that’s the case and she tried to close the window, then we assume the officer’s reaction was a human one – he instinctively pulled out his arm breaking the window in the process. The fact that his left hand remained on the window all the time, seems to support this scenario, though, feel free to disagree with us.

As for King, she recently filed a brutality and excessive force complaint against the officer. “An officer pulled me over in regards to a brake light being out,” King said, according to Wftv News. “And it’s just really brutal. Really traumatic.”

As always, you’re more than welcome to voice your thoughts on the matter in the comments below.

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