{"id":288838,"date":"2026-05-29T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288838\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:36:07","slug":"florida-woman-cited-for-driving-while-holding-phone-in-missing-hand-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288838\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman cited for driving while holding phone in missing hand \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> police pulled over a woman for holding her phone in her right hand while driving.<\/p>\n<p>The issue? The driver was missing her right hand.<\/p>\n<p>The uncomfortable interaction between the woman, identified as Katie, and a deputy took place in February in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, and was captured on body camera video released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou drove past me holding a phone with your right hand,\u201d the deputy said, before the woman is seen raising her arm to reveal the missing limb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously not,\u201d she said, laughing. \u201cSo, you want to just call this a day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to call it a day. You had your hand up, manipulating your phone,\u201d the deputy responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just said my right hand,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I thought I saw you with your right hand,\u201d he said, before being cut off by Kathleen, who replied: \u201cSo you didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident was originally posted to TikTok by Kathleen, where it has gone viral with more than 3 million likes and 23 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Other social media users weighed in on the situation, with some saying, \u201cShe is going to win this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed to the awkward exchange when the deputy told Katie, \u201cHand to God you didn\u2019t have a phone in your hand,\u201d prompting her to raise her right arm. The deputy then asked her to raise her \u201cother hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case was later dropped at the request of the deputy who issued the citation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida police pulled over a woman for holding her phone in her right hand while driving. The issue?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288838","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=288838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}