According to WXYZ News in Michigan, 27-year-old Glorianna Moore was arrested by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department on May 8 after a routine food delivery. The news site reported that after delivering Dunkin’ Donuts in the town of Pontiac, she was followed by a deputy for six blocks before being pulled over.
After she was pulled over, the deputy asked Moore for her license, but she responded by saying, “What am I getting stopped for? I don’t have to give you my license.”
In response, the deputy said, “Nope, you do. Now you’re coming out of the car.”
In a video of the arrest, obtained by WXYZ News, the officer can be seen opening Moore’s door and telling her to shut the car off.
“This officer is grabbing me. This officer is grabbing me,” Moore can be heard in the video, as the deputy continues to try to pull her out of the car.
While speaking to WXYZ News about the incident, Moore explained that she was “scared” and “shocked.”
“I can’t believe he’s actually pulling me out of the vehicle with no knowledge of why,” Moore told WXYZ News.
The video cuts off before Moore is removed from the car, but according to WXYZ News, several other officers arrived shortly afterward. At that point, Moore was handcuffed and placed in the back of a squad car, while the officers began searching her car.
During their search, officers said that they found a substance on the seat of her car and that a field test identified it as crack cocaine. While speaking with WXYZ News, Moore said that the officer’s discovery was a “surprise” to her.
“I don’t associate with anyone who does it,” she told the news site. “I’ve never tried it, sold it, bought it, nothing. So, yes, that was a surprise to me.”
According to WXYZ News, the county’s crime lab ran a second test on the substance found in Moore’s car and the tests came back negative, which brought a dismissal of the drug charge three months after Moore’s arrest.
Following her arrest, WXYZ News reported that the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department said the deputy removed Moore from the car for his own safety because she “immediately recoiled” and reached for the car’s center console.
WXYZ News also reported that Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said that the search of Moore’s car was legal because the officers involved were going to impound the vehicle and needed to take an inventory of what was inside.
Speaking to Newsweek, McCabe explained that Moore was initially arrested for “resisting arrest and failing to display her license” but was charged with drug possession after the deputy’s discovery.
McCabe added that in the video of the arrest, Moore said she didn’t have to give the deputy her license. But in Michigan “you have to give your driver’s license to a police officer when you’re asked for it,” he noted.
“You have to identify yourself, you have to give your driver’s license,” McCabe told Newsweek. “She refused to do that, and that’s ultimately why she was arrested.”
This story was updated to include comments from Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe.
