Transcript of traffic stop that led to fatal shooting

Michigan State Police corrected transcript of "Sgt. Frost's Body Camera #3" and Deven Guilford's cell phone videos, provided to the Lansing State Journal.

Transcript of traffic stop with Sgt. Frost and Deven Guilford

Sgt. Frost

[speaking to himself] stopping this car for flashing me with their brights. I did not have my brights on.

[first contact with driver] Hello

Deven Guilford

How you doing

Sgt. Frost

Can I get your driver's license, registration, proof of insurance, please, pulled you over today cause you flashed me, I didn't even have my brights on

Deven Guilford

Yes, you did sir

Sgt. Frost

Nope, I didn't, partner

Deven Guilford

Sir

Sgt. Frost

I'm telling you because when I turned around

Deven Guilford

I couldn't see, I could not see

Sgt. Frost

I didn't have em on, all right

Deven Guilford

Dude, trust me, I, I know

Sgt. Frost

Trust me, OK, I did not have them on, when I turned around I flashed them on to show you that they weren't on

Deven Guilford

No you turned them off when you came around

Sgt. Frost

No, I didn't, driver's license, registration

Deven Guilford

I watched you turn them off

Sgt. Frost

Driver's license, registration, proof of insurance, please, I did not have them on

Deven Guilford

I did nothing wrong

Sgt. Frost

Driver's license, registration, proof of insurance, please

Deven Guilford

I don't even know you're an officer, three forms of identific ... [unintelligible]

Sgt. Frost

Driver's license, registration, proof of insurance, please, you've been pulled over, my name is Sgt. Frost,

Deven Guilford

[ unintelligible]

Sgt. Frost

My name is Sgt. Frost of the Eaton County Sheriff's Office

Deven Guilford

Can I see your badge number?

Sgt. Frost

You cannot see my badge number.

[speaking to dispatch] 2372 start me another car please

Deven Guilford

[Guilford cell phone video clip 1 begins] I am video and audio recording for my safety and your safety.

Sgt. Frost

That is absolutely fine, so am I

Deven Guilford

You just told me that I could not have your badge number, that's against the law, sir

Sgt. Frost

My badge number, no, you asked me to show it to you

Deven Guilford

Yes, and you said no.

Sgt. Frost

I cannot show it to you, my badge number,

Deven Guilford

You told me no, is that correct?

Sgt. Frost

No it's not.

Deven Guilford

That is correct sir. Am I being detained?

Sgt. Frost

You have two choices at this point sir

Deven Guilford

Am I being detained?

Sgt. Frost

I'mgiving you the option

Deven Guilford

Am I being detained?

Sgt. Frost

Yes, you are,

Deven Guilford

For what crime

Sgt. Frost

You flashed me with your high beams

Deven Guilford

You had your brights on sir, I swear to God, you had your brights on

Sgt. Frost

This is your option right now, you, right now, are refusing to give me your ID,

Deven Guilford

I have not committed a crime

Sgt. Frost

Refusing to give me your ID in a traffic stop is a misdemeanor, right now, you are committing a misdemeanor, you have two choices, you can get with the program and start complying with this traffic stop, or you're going to be taken to jail, those are your two choices, driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance, please

Deven Guilford

I do not have my license sir, I am going to get it

Sgt. Frost

You don't have your driver's license?

Deven Guilford

I do not have it

Sgt. Frost

Why is that

Deven Guilford

Because I just drove my brother to the church

Sgt. Frost

You do not have your driver's license on your person, correct

Deven Guilford

Yes, I do

Sgt. Frost

Where is it

Deven Guilford

You do not have to see it

Sgt. Frost

I do have to see it

Deven Guilford

Why do you have to see it, your, you had your brights, I could not see, I was going to crash, I did not, I, I cannot see, you had your brights on you sir, I'm not lying to you, I was just doing that to be polite, I didn't want you to flash someone and have someone go off the road and crash, you know

Sgt. Frost

Do you realize that if you had complied with this traffic stop it would have gone a whole different way for you

Deven Guilford

Yes, I do but, yes

Sgt. Frost

Do you realize that I would have explained to you that I'm driving a brand new vehicle tonight

Deven Guilford

Yes

Sgt. Frost

I have been flashed a couple times because these headlights are new, I've stopped a couple vehicles tonight and no people have gotten citations but those headlights are brand new, they're brighter on that vehicle than they are on normal cars

Deven Guilford

They're super bright, you need to get new ones

Sgt. Frost

But my high beams were not on, that's what I would have come and explained to you

Deven Guilford

Oh I'm sorry, then, I'm sorry

Sgt. Frost

OK, but now I need your driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance, please

[pause][Guilford cell phone video clip 1 ends.]

Where is your driver's license, now

Deven Guilford

I do not have to give you that

Sgt. Frost

[speaking to dispatch] Central, 2372, start me another car, priority,

You do have to give me your driver's license,

Deven Guilford

I'm making a phone call

[Sgt. Frost opens driver's side door]

Deven Guilford

No

Sgt. Frost

Get out of the car, get out of the car, I'm telling you right now, [unintelligible]

Deven Guilford

[unintelligible] hey

Sgt. Frost

You're gonna get tazed

Deven Guilford

Do not touch me, officer, do not touch me, you cannot open my car,

Sgt. Frost

Get out of the car [Unholsters taser], now, out of the car, [Points taser at Guilford] out of the car or [Guilford cell phone clip 2 begins] you're gonna get tazed

[Deven Guilford holding cell phone in right hand]

Deven Guilford

[Guilford's back turned toward passenger seat, handling cell phone. Turns head toward Sgt. Frost]

He says ...

Sgt. Frost

Out of the car or you're gonna get tazed, everything's being recorded son, I got no problem with that, [Guilford

4 begins stepping out of car] get out of the car.

Deven Guilford

Yes

Sgt. Frost

Get down on the ground now. [Guilford stands beside driver's door] Down on the ground now. [Guilford kneels facing driver door as it closes] .

Deven Guilford

Oh my gosh, stop yelling at me

Sgt. Frost

Down on the ground, right here facing me, down on the ground now [Sgt. Frost pointing with taser]

Deven Guilford

What do you mean

Sgt. Frost

Get on your belly right now

Deven Guilford

This is what American

Sgt. Frost

Put your phone down and put your arms out to your side now, arms out to the side

Deven Guilford

Are you, I don't have a weapon, [Sgt. Frost pulls cell phone from Deven Guilford's hands and tosses it on to the ground to the rear of the car] hey

Sgt. Frost

Get your

Deven Guilford

You can't do that

Sgt. Frost

Son, get your hands behind your back, you're under arrest

Deven Guilford

You can't do that

Sgt. Frost

Get your hands behind your back

Deven Guilford

Officer, what are you doing

Sgt. Frost

Get your hands behind your back, you're under

Deven Guilford

Officer, [Taser deployed] OW

[sound of Taser]

[three gun shots]

[loud scream]

[two gun shots]

[two gun shots]