COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Columbia Citizens Police Review Board is reviewing a traffic stop from September that gained attention on social media and called into question a police officer's response.
The Columbia Police Department last week released a video explaining the reason for the stop and the full body cam video of the stop.
In the video, police cite three hazardous moving violations as the reason for the stop: speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road and not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign.
Several questions were raised about a portion of the stop that circulated around social media, as some felt officers escalated the situation by detaining the driver and passenger.
Wednesday night the Citizens Police Review Board will listen to an appeal about the stop and discuss it as a board. That meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones is expected to be at the meeting.
In the video, the woman in the car was put into handcuffs and detained by officers.
Police said in the video "community briefing" CPD released last week that the woman began to grab items such her purse when officers asked her to step out of the vehicle. In the video of the stop, an officer asks the woman to leave her purse in the vehicle but she refuses.
In the briefing video, Lt. Lance Bollinger said the woman argued when officers began to explain her options. She had earlier walked away from officers.
The video shows the woman ask, "What's the options?" An officer then puts the woman in handcuffs and tells her he is detaining her because she is moving around while he is trying to talk to her.
Officers also detained the driver of the vehicle. In the traffic stop video, an officer asks the man to exit the vehicle. The driver then continually asks the officers why he being asked the exit the vehicle. The officer does not answer his question and tells him he will talk to him once he has exited the car.
In the briefing video, Bollinger says the officer who asked the driver to step out of the car used a technique called "ask, tell, make." Officers ask someone to comply, then escalate to telling them to comply and finally they force the person to comply.
When the driver does not step out of the car, the officer says, "I will talk to you in a minute. Step out of the car or I'm going to pull you out of the car."
The driver then steps out of the car.
The police department also received questions about why the officer said there was marijuana shake in the vehicle in order to search it.
The briefing video contains an image of what Lt. Bollinger said looked like "a green leafy substance" on the floorboard of the vehicle. Bollinger explains in the video even a small amount of suspected drugs gives officers probable cause to search a vehicle.
Later during the stop, officers remove the woman from a patrol car. Another confrontation ensues with the woman demanding police tell her how they had probable cause for the search.
The video ends shortly after that exchange.
At the very end of the community briefing video, Jones said CPD has identified a need to train on better communicating the reason officers are demanding something from people when it is safe to do so.
Check back for updates to this developing story.
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