In Key West, Florida, an off-duty police officer stopped an unidentified man riding an electric dirt bike on June 10. The driver claimed to be working for Uber Eats. Police bodycam footage posted by Police Cam on YouTube captured him confronting the driver at the traffic stop about the type of vehicle he was driving. 

The driver got into an argument with the officer as soon as he informed him that it was illegal to ride a dirt bike on the road, saying that no other officer had ever had an issue with him. 

“I’ve passed by a million police officers. I’ve been riding it up and down the sidewalk. They told me 15 miles an hour. Don’t go over that on the sidewalk…it’s an electric bicycle right here, bro…I’m just working, bro… Out of every police officer, I’ve been working on Uber Eats doing it for the longest time now,” he told the officer.

“The other day you guys were at Sonics… photographing a car. I rode right by on the sidewalk. Nobody said a thing. The only person bothering me is you. The only time I’ve ever been stopped. This is now the third time. I’ve never been stopped by another Key West cop. You’re going to make me late and miss out on money, bro? I’m not doing anything wrong,” he said. 

At this point, the police officer had had enough of the driver and gave a straightforward response. “You’re on an illegal dirt bike. These are not allowed by the state of Florida. This is my traffic stop. Stop speaking and let me speak… All right. You are not allowed to ride these on the road nor on the sidewalk. These are illegal.”

The driver was then asked to show him identification by the officer. However, the driver refused, claiming he misplaced it. “I don’t have my ID, bro. I’m on a bike… No, man. I lost my ID. I haven’t picked up my gun. I don’t have, uh, anything. You know what I’m saying? I lost my ID.”

The officer then asked the driver for his name multiple times. The driver insisted that he call a supervisor instead of providing his name, claiming the officer already knew who he was from past encounters. 

“Come on, man. You know my name…You know I don’t have no warrants. You know my record is clean. I ain’t never written a complaint in my life, bro. And I’m not going to start now, bro. But listen, you doing too much, bro,” he said.

The driver was arrested for resisting an officer without using force because he refused to identify himself during a valid traffic stop.

When a supervisor arrived on the scene, he clarified that the electric dirt bike was a motor vehicle rather than a street-legal e-bike under Florida law since it had foot pegs instead of pedals. He underlined that the bike functions as a motor vehicle, and the driver was legally required to show a driver’s license and identify himself to the officer. 

The driver persisted in claiming that the officer, who pulled him over, had a personal vendetta against him. 

“This is personal. He’s run my name before without asking for my name. He stopped me once to read me the bus stop and he got that information wrong because the bus stop is is owned by Anderson Outdoors, and he was telling me he was going to take me to jail if I don’t put my bike in the lock thing. But what the rules say, if you read the sign, is that you can’t chain your bike to the bus stop.”

“I’m not out here doing or selling drugs. I’m just trying to make a living, and I was just going to go do a pickup order at McDonald’s. I wasn’t speeding. I had turn signals on…”

“…He kept being upset cuz he came up to me, right? Saying that I’m a gang member. Then he had a little vendetta because he said, “Oh, when you come back a felon, I’m gonna come get you.” My record’s clean. I don’t have any felonies. He’s run my name without even asking me. He stopped me and my wife and ran both of us before. He knows my name. He knows the spelling.”

In the end, authorities officially charged the man with failure to register a motor vehicle and resisting an officer without violence. 

Viewers in the comments section sided with the police officer. 

“If it’s the third time he’s been stopped, then he’s been told twice before that it’s illegal but he’s stupid enough to keep doing it,” one viewer wrote. 

“Now I know why my food was cold and the order was missing the biscuits,” joked another. 

Another one added, “What do you mean you don’t have ID?! UberEats, DoorDash, and Instacart ALL deliver alcohol so how are you buying alcohol and delivering with no ID?! Ridiculous. He acts like a child.”

A fourth wrote, “Another case of “whataboutism.’ ‘I’ve passed by a million police officers; I’ve been riding it up and down the sidewalks. They told me don’t go above 15 mph, don’t go over that on the sidewalk…’”

Disclaimer: Inquisitr could not independently confirm the facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public video record.