{"id":287838,"date":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287838\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:15:07","slug":"one-armed-florida-woman-speaks-out-about-viral-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287838\/","title":{"rendered":"One-armed Florida woman speaks out about viral traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A Florida woman cited for holding a phone in her right hand \u2014 a hand she was born without \u2014 had her citation dismissed, court records show.<br \/>\nBody camera footage from the Palm Beach County Sheriff\u2019s Office shows Katie Thomas laughing when a deputy pulled her over in February. The deputy claimed he saw her driving with a device in her right hand. Thomas showed him she had no right hand, but he remained skeptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A Florida woman cited for holding a phone in her right hand \u2014 a hand she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,121829,121830,107477,56385,1070,55721],"class_list":["post-287838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lake-worth-news","tag-police-body-cam","tag-police-video","tag-texting-and-driving","tag-traffic-stop","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}