Heads: arrest, tails: release. For one driver in Georgia, a simple coin flip was the deciding factor in determining how she would be punished for driving above the speed limit.

In a video obtained by WXIA-TV Channel 11, bodycam footage from April showed the Roswell police officers Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson questioning Sara Webb at a traffic stop after she drove past their police cruiser. When the two returned to their vehicle to process Webb’s license, Brown and Wilson told Webb they were going to use a “coin toss” app to determine their next course of action. “A [arrest] – head. R [release] – tail,” can be heard in the background followed by an electronic ding, signifying the flip.



Inside Edition presentation of the bodycam footage.

Following the video’s release, the Roswell police department placed the two officers on administrative leave while prosecutors dropped all charges against Webb.

“I have much higher expectations of our police officers and I am appalled that any law enforcement officer would trivialize the decision making process of something as important as the arrest of a person,” Roswell’s police chief, Rusty Grant, said in a statement last week. Roswell’s mayor, Lori Henry, also released a statement condemning the actions of the officers in question, “I find the behavior of these two officers inexcusable and unprofessional.”

Although the coin lands on tails, the officers decided to disregard the outcome and proceed to arrest Webb for reckless driving. Webb herself has said she is disgusted by the behavior of the officers.

The increased use of bodycams, as well as the rise in members of the public filming police incidents on smartphones, means that law enforcement officers are increasingly caught on camera being flippant. Another police officer, also in Georgia, was recorded during a traffic stop in July 2016 explaining to a driver that she needn’t worry about being shot because police “only kill black people”. Last August, the Metropolitan police department in Washington DC faced severe backlash when home surveillance footage showed two officers making inappropriate remarks about a homeowner’s sexuality and dancing during a response to a break-in and robbery.