Newly obtained body-camera video shows the moment heavily armed Florida police officers descend on the homes of two different men accused of illegally voting and arrested one of them at gunpoint as part of Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on voter fraud.
Both men were in their underwear, unarmed, and placed in handcuffs as police arrested them in front of their Miami-Dade county homes on 18 August.
A spokesman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), the agency that oversaw the arrests said: “Arrest warrant planning and tactics are dictated by a number of factors, to include the subject’s criminal history and other officer and public safety concerns."
The 19 arrests were part of the first wave brought by the office of election crimes and security, a new state agency focused on investigating voter fraud. Hours after Miller and Wood were arrested, DeSantis held a press conference saying those accused of voter fraud would “pay the price”.
The voter fraud charges against both Wood and Miller were separately dismissed.