A Florida woman was arrested after witnesses told deputies she punched a school bus, threw herself against the back of it as it drove away and then moved among cars on a Fort Myers road.<\/p>\n
The encounter happened March 5, but body-camera footage from the arrest is getting a new audience months later. A Law&Crime Network video<\/a> published Tuesday drew more than 31,000 views within its first few hours online.<\/p>\n The footage follows Lee County deputies as they piece together what happened at a morning bus stop, speak with witnesses and eventually confront 55-year-old Roberta Stansel near her home.<\/p>\n What begins with deputies collecting cellphone video becomes a prolonged encounter as Stansel disputes what happened, tries to walk away and later refuses to get out of another person’s vehicle.<\/p>\n At The Bus<\/p>\n Embedded media follows; please allow a moment to load.<\/p>\n Deputies were dispatched shortly after 8:30 a.m. to the area of Evergreen Road and Piney Road in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n According to the incident account presented by Law&Crime, a witness was driving south on Piney Road when she saw Stansel standing near several children at a bus stop.<\/p>\n Lee County School Bus 1825 stopped with its red lights flashing and stop signs extended. Three children boarded.<\/p>\n The witness told deputies that Stansel then punched the boarding side of the bus twice and threw her body against the rear of it as the bus drove away.<\/p>\n Another witness described watching Stansel move from the bus toward nearby vehicles.<\/p>\n She told a deputy that Stansel walked toward her truck, appeared to move as though she might hit it and then<\/p>\n If you want more stories like this, follow Guessing Headlights<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman was arrested after witnesses told deputies she punched a school bus, threw herself against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-421085","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\/421085","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=421085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}