*Oklahoma State Sen. Regina Goodwin was involved in a heated exchange with a Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop on January 11.
Goodwin was pulled over for allegedly running two stop signs, and the encounter escalated as she refused to provide her driver’s license despite multiple requests. Bodycam footage showed the encounter escalated as Goodwin accused Deputy Freddie Alaniz of intensifying the situation, FOX News reports.
“Ma’am, I’m not going to ask you again. Can I get your driver’s license, or can I take you to jail on running a stop sign?” Alaniz asked Goodwin after pulling her over in Tulsa and asking repeatedly for her license. “I’m not going to ask you again. It’s not for debate.”
Goodwin, a Democrat from Tulsa, repeatedly argued with Alaniz after he said he witnessed her failing to stop at two stop signs.
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“I think you really escalated something,” she said.
“Because you’re refusing to give me your driver’s license,” Alaniz responded.
“There was no refusal of me to give you my driver’s license,” Goodwin stated.
“I asked you over five times to give me your driver’s license, and you kept debating your driver’s license,” the officer responded.
“I was not at all debating my driver’s license, sir, that is not correct,” she replied.
The exchange escalated until Goodwin was handcuffed, detained, and placed in the deputy’s patrol vehicle. The bodycam shows her attorney, Mike Manning, who was present during the incident, engaging in a discussion with the officer.
“I realize you have a job to do, officer,” Manning said. “I realize Sen. Goodwin can be a little bit strong-headed at times, but don’t you think you can write her a citation or something? She’ll give you her driver’s license.”
“Yeah, yeah, I can absolutely do that,” Alaniz said. “I don’t need to ask her 10 times for her driver’s license.”
Manning replied: “I saw it. I realize.”
“I don’t have an issue writing her a citation or letting her go, but I’m the one that’s in command of the traffic stop, not her,” the officer said. “She blatantly ran two stop signs, and I was just going to give her a verbal warning and tell her not to do that, but her demeanor — the way that she was — I can’t have that.”
Alaniz called his superior to the scene and explained why the senator was pulled over.
“She ran this stop sign back here and the other one that’s a little further down. Just came up, slowed down, and then [zoom] right through them,” Alaniz said. “She was driving so fast that, when she was hitting the puddles of water, it was just [splash] shooting them out. So that’s why I came up and pulled her over. And as I was getting out, she got out of her car, ‘Why are you stopping me?’ You know, just kind of got very verbal. I asked for her driver’s license numerous, numerous times, and she wouldn’t give it to me.”
Goodwin was eventually released at the scene with a citation for failure to stop at a stop sign. Per FOX News, she is expected to appear in court on Feb. 25 unless she pays the ticket beforehand.
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