A 27-year-old University of Central Florida student faces three criminal charges after body-camera video captured a screaming, profanity-laced confrontation with campus police that ended with pepper spray, a taser, and handcuffs.
The footage, filmed February 5, 2025, inside a UCF campus building, shows Jarrett Vick, who identifies as transgender, erupting at an officer who had arrived on an unrelated call. Within minutes, Vick was cursing at the officer, demanding specific pronoun usage, and physically resisting attempts to restore order. A second officer deployed a taser after Vick reportedly tried to kick and swing at police. Vick was handcuffed, placed in the back of a squad car, and booked on charges of battery on law enforcement, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
The New York Post reported that the video went viral after Inside The Blue TV published it on YouTube. Orange County court records list Vick as male. Vick has pleaded not guilty on all three counts.
The body-camera footage tells a straightforward story. The first officer arrived at the campus building for a call that had nothing to do with Vick. But Vick began yelling at the officer almost immediately, shouting:
"Why do you let those pigs get away with this? They are not supposed to be here."
The officer told Vick to lower his voice and warned that continued disruption would lead to handcuffs. Vick did not comply. Instead, the confrontation escalated, fast.
On the video, Vick screams at the officer over pronoun usage: "She! She! Just say the right pronoun!" At one point, Vick stomps a foot while repeating the demand. The officer radioed for backup and described the situation bluntly: "He is having a breakdown."
A university employee stepped in and tried to de-escalate. Vick asked the employee to "please just tell them to use the right pronouns" because it was causing "a lot of distress." The employee eventually walked away after Vick kept screaming. Campus confrontations between students and law enforcement have drawn scrutiny nationwide, as seen in recent debates over police use of force on school grounds.
Vick then directed profanity squarely at the officer:
"Get away! F*** you! F*** you, cop!"
When the officer moved to act, Vick shouted: "F***ing try it. Are you threatening me? You're threatening me."
After Vick refused repeated warnings, the first officer deployed pepper spray. That did not end the confrontation. Vick reportedly tried to kick and swing at the officers, prompting a second officer to fire a taser. Only then was Vick subdued, handcuffed, and placed in the back of a patrol car.
Orange County records show Vick was charged that same day, February 5, 2025, with battery on law enforcement, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. Vick entered not-guilty pleas on all three charges. Court records indicate a last appearance dated January 16, and the cases are now marked as closed, though the specific disposition, whether dismissal, plea deal, or completed sentence, is not clear from available records.
A mugshot in the Orange County system shows Vick without the blue wig visible in the body-camera footage. Arrest records list Vick as male. Vick's home city is Treasure Island, Florida.
Incidents involving aggressive confrontations on college campuses have become a recurring flashpoint. Separately, police at Temple University recently hunted suspects after a group chased a student into a dorm and attacked him, underscoring the range of threats officers face on campus.
The New York Post reached Vick by phone on Sunday. Vick described the arrest as being "f***ing harassed by the cops" and called the subsequent media coverage "being harassed by the media." Vick did not elaborate further.
Neither the UCF Police Department nor the Orange County Sheriff's Office responded immediately to the Post's requests for comment on Sunday. It remains unclear whether the university took any separate disciplinary action against Vick or whether the officer involved faced any internal review.
The body-camera video, posted by Inside The Blue TV on its YouTube channel, had already gone viral by the time the Post published its report. The footage is unedited and runs several minutes, capturing the full arc from the officer's arrival to Vick's removal in handcuffs.
Confrontations driven by ideological demands on campuses are not limited to encounters with police. In one recent case, a Students for Life spokeswoman stood firm after a mob confrontation on a college campus, illustrating how quickly these situations can escalate when activists substitute aggression for argument.
Several questions remain unanswered. The original call that brought the officer to the building has not been publicly identified. No information about injuries Vick may have sustained from the pepper spray or taser appears in the public record. And the closed status of the criminal cases leaves open whether prosecutors dropped the charges, Vick reached a deal, or the matter was resolved some other way.
What the footage does show is clear enough: an officer responding to a routine call, a student who escalated a verbal confrontation into a physical one, and a law enforcement response that followed a textbook progression, verbal warning, pepper spray, taser, handcuffs. Every step came after Vick refused to de-escalate.
Law enforcement officers across the country continue to face volatile encounters in institutional settings. FBI Director Kash Patel recently highlighted a string of federal law enforcement wins, but the daily reality for campus and local officers often looks more like this, thankless, chaotic, and captured on camera for the world to judge.
Demanding that police use your preferred language while cursing at them and swinging at them is not a civil-rights stand. It is a recipe for exactly what happened, and the officers had every right to end it.