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Kevin and Sabrina Enciso were heading to a local hospital after Sabrina had felt pain after a car accident in which she feared she was having a miscarriage.
On their way to Jackson West Medical Center in Doral, the get behind a Miami-Dade County officer at a stop sign. He is not turning or engaged in a stop. He was literally delaying traffic.
Another officer turns and stops to chat. Kevin blows the horn twice after waiting an additional minute. The officer who turned decided to pull up to allow Kevin to pass. The officer who held up traffic decided to pull him over.
“I honked once, just like a, ‘Hey I’m here, just so you know’ and one of the officers put their hand up and waved, say wait, so we waited,” Kevin Enciso said.
Enciso says his wife had an accident the day before and needed to get to the emergency room to check on the baby.
“So, you're okay now,” said the Miami-Dade officer.
Instead of allowing the couple to get to the ER, the Miami-Dade officer calls paramedics. First Coast news Crime and Safety Analyst, Mark Baughman says the exchange was heated on both sides without reason.
"It's never good not to comply with law enforcement when they ask for something, if they want you to step out of the car… you step out of the car,” said Mark Baughman, Crime and Safety Analyst.“You can ask for the supervisor, there’s nothing wrong with that but it could've been handled differently on both ends of the spectrum there,” said Baughman.
“We do need to protect officers, but protecting officers is allowing them the ability to de-escalate and training them that every situation does not have to have a gun involved or sarcasm because that's only going to escalate emotions,” said John Phillips.
The Miami-Dade police told NBC Miami that they are launching an internal affairs investigation into this July incident.
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