Crime & Safety

Pasco Sheriff Releases Body Cam Video Of Incident At Sunlake High

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has released the video of the school resource deputy's body cam as he tries to restrain a student.

LAND O' LAKES, FL -- The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has released the video of the school resource deputy's body cam as he tried to take a disruptive student into custody (see related story).

"What's going on?" the deputy asked student Mackenzie Hannah

"I was told I'm going to be handcuffed," Hannah answered.

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The deputy asks Hannah to come with him and she begins to resist. In the background are the voices of students heckling and laughing.

"Don't f..king give me sh.t," said the deputy as Hannah refuses to cooperate. Then he asks the crowd in the cafteria, "What the hell is going on with you guys?"

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The deputy struggles with Hannah in an attempt to handcuff her.

"You're hurting me. Stop f..king hurting me," she said.

"You probably should have thought about that before you decided (next word inaudible)," responded the deputy. "Now shut your mouth and relax."

As the deputy walks the student outside, she yells again, "You hurt me."

"Too bad, too bad," said the deputy. "That's what happens when you resist."

Also in the video, a school administrator comments, "Can you test her for drugs? She's acting very strange."

Inside the deputy's office, the deputy tells Hannah, "I'm trying to be helpful to you but you had to go and do that, and this is where we're at. You shouldn't have stood up and came at me because that's why you ended up on the ground. I have everything on video. You don't resist me. When I put my hands on you, there's a reason. You don't resist me. That's why you ended up on the ground."

The sheriff's office has declined to release the name of the deputy but the high school's personnel list names Richard Stackon as the school resource deputy.

Video via Pasco Sheriff

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