Newly-released police bodycam footage shows the moment a disabled woman flashed her arm stump after a cop accused her of texting with her “right hand.”
A Palm Beach County officer pulled over Kathleen Thomas, 36, for distracted driving earlier this year.
The officer told Thomas that he pulled her over for “holding the phone with your right hand” while she was driving on North Dixie Highway.
Thomas immediately showed the officer her handless arm and flashed her stump.
“So I’m obviously not. So you wanna just call this a day?” Thomas said to the stunned officer.
The officer did not back down from his claims.
“I don’t want to call it a day. You had a hand up,” the officer said.
The officer continued to humiliate Thomas and asked her to put a “hand to God” to promise she wasn’t texting with her right hand.
“Hand to God,” Thomas said as she held up her stump.
“The other hand to God,” the officer said.
The officer issued Thomas a citation; however, the citation was later dismissed after Thomas challenged it in court.
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