[Lowlight] Video of Dillon Brooks interaction and arrest with the Scottsdale Police Department
It turns out he blew zeros, no wondering he got released quickly
IIRC the cop took marijuana as DUI
I’m just shocked the breathalyzer was accurate
I bought a pretty good one for a bachelor party recently. The readings are sort of all over the place if you’ve been drinking, I don’t believe their precision claims. But it always reads zero for a person who hasn’t had a drink.
I actually have a little inside info! I work for a company that makes breathalyzers. The thing that reacts to alcohol in your breath gets “saturated” right after an alcohol sample, which can sort of skew any samples taken soon after. Not sure if all breathalyzers use the same technology.
Also keep in mind (maybe obvious) that if you use a breathalyzer right after you take a drink, you’ll have a much higher BAC since there’s residual alcohol in your mouth.
Used to conduct breathalyzer exams in a previous job. Usually an employee sent to us after a motor vehicle accident. I wouldn’t doubt operator error.
As the other guy said, you have to not have taken a drink for ~20-30 mins for an accurate reading. If you take a sip of bourbon then do a breathalyzer, it’s going to read like crazy high levels. And trying to get someone hammered to take a breath test and wait 30 minutes without drinking is hard.
Things I’ve learned: #1 .08 after 30 minutes is a lot more fucked up than you think (please don’t drink and drive guys, most people don’t wait 30 minutes since their last drink to take these tests). #2 Once you hit .08 make sure you have a good 8-9 hours for beer or 10-12 hours for liquor before you plan getting on the road/using your state issued alcohol detector. Your BAC will not go down. The liquor thing is crazy, but true. #3 unless you drink anything but vodka, you’re 100% going to smell like it in the morning. No amount of cologne can hide it.
I guess you never heard of Hennigan’s Scotch. It’s known as the “no-smell, no-tell” scotch, it is completely odorless, allowing for secret, all-day consumption.
Not saying Brooks was high necessarily but being high doesn’t show up on those tests reliably. In order to prove someone was driving high you basically have to find the weed.
no, that is not at all how it works in arizona, you can get a DUI for smoking weed weeks before being pulled over
*28-1381.* Driving or actual physical control while under the influence A. It is unlawful for a person to drive or be in actual physical control of a vehicle in this state under any of the following circumstances: 3. While there is any drug defined in section 13-3401 or its metabolite in the person’s body.
I don’t know the specifics of what evidence is needed in Arizona, but I do know there’s no reliable breathalyzer test to tell if someone is high in the same way there is to tell if someone is drunk.
It doesn’t show up on a breathalyzer test but if they took his blood (which would be the case if he was suspected of using marijuana) they would have to send his sample to a lab and have it analyzed which would obviously take longer to figure out than the time that he was in jail.
And whoever Brooks hires to defend him will have that time to rip the PD to shreds.
Precisely… there’s just no medical way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was medically under the influence at the time of arrest.
Did you read the comment chain? Arizona state law considers the presence of a metabolite in your body as DUI. The state need not prove that you were actually intoxicated at all to secure a conviction. It’s madness
Every state has an express consent law that basically says by using the roads you consent to a blood or breath test if there’s probable cause to belief you’re driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
There is, but it’s not a breathalyser for cannabis, it’s a saliva test. I don’t know about cops in arizona, but since they straight up arrested him it seems like they don’t do saliva tests.
if you have metabolites in your blood, that is enough per statute (previous post edited)
Incorrect
Prop 207 supersedes the old law. Has to be active thc
If the drug is marijuana, then per Prop 207 the Stare needs to prove the marijuana impaired your ability to drive. Just having marijuana in your system isn’t enough.
Prop 207 didn’t change the standard of impaired to the slightest degree. Presumably the officer had reason to believe impairment before handcuffing Brooks.
Exactly. People just make things up now
Kinda like cops
That’s old
The standard now is that there has to be ACTIVE thc metabolites.
Courts ruled on it a couple years ago
Kirsten v. ADOT (2024)
Everyone is upvoting incorrect info. Peak reddit
This is also how it is in Germany (and possibly other places). They will legit bring you into a station and make you piss, if you pop for anything you get a DUI.
At that point it’s illegal to drive within a few days for an occassional smoker and a regular smoker could basically get a DUI anytime they drive.
That’s how it is in Canada. If you smoke weekly you pretty much could get a DUI at anytime
huh? a breathalyzer isnt for weed.
Driving while high is also dangerous and should be punished.
Much harder to quantify and make objective and provable than alcohol, unfortunately.
Fair, however its still a selfish thing to do.
He also sounds like he was on his phone or something, he says later in the video he’s watching the cop driving and doing the same thing he was (splitting lanes) because “everybody is on…. Is doing something in their car while driving” lol
yeah that’s my armchair detective read on it. other reasons to think this are a) “I haven’t smoke in 6 months” would be a really odd lie, and b) in my experience driving high makes u paranoid af, especially about a thing like lane discipline. the reaction time aspect is what makes driving high actually potentially dangerous imo. but this more anecdotal so idk
6 months would line up with when conditioning would start for the start of season.
He looks and sounds blazed af though.
That’s literally how he sounds all the time lol
Lol, take it you’ve never heard him talk before?
Being high on marijuana is DUI
Under the influence of Marijuana is still DUII
Dude’s not even drunk and those comments from earlier were reaming him
I’ve seen comments comparing this dude to legit murderers, this sub is about as irrational as can be when it comes to Brooks.
Reddit in general is irrational
Redditors just want upvotes for pearl-clutching, even when all the facts aren’t out yet, there are still upvotes to get. Bonus points when it’s aimed at people they already dislike because of bias.
If we want to be real. It’s not specifically for “pearl-clutching” it’s for dopamine. The way social media has evolved itself into our daily lives is by creating a dopamine positive reinforcement loop tied to the little “bloop” or red symbol of a notification. Essentially we literally became addicted to and psychologically dependent upon social media, more specifically receiving a notification.
It’s why social media echo chambers are SUCH a huge thing right now(beyond the other implications). It’s one of the easiest ways to get a “hit” for your notification addiction.
I could be way off and wrong, but this is just my observation of how things have evolved over the last 2 decades.
Ok sure he might’ve blown 0 on the breathalyzer but I’m still going to petition for the death penalty
This app
Happens every time. Police reports are always one side of the story and are always biased to make the cops good/right
A lot of people don’t understand this. The police write the report and their report is always the first impression. I’d say a lot of the time the REAL offense isn’t nearly as bad as it’s written.
their excuse is the other side is going to embellish just as much. its bs. they dont care about real justice they care about getting a conviction.
maan i can hear the cop in this vid being short and talking down to him when dillon is being chill. sop i guess.
I recently saw stuff on Randall Dale Adam’s and it’s fucking sickening what police did to him
They told a witness to lie and they’d let her daughter off of her pending charges, left evidence out of the court, paid the psychiatrist off to lie, among other things
The guy spent 12 fucking years in prison
Also, instead of being acquitted in a retrial, Texas simply dropped the case, so because he wasn’t found innocent in court, he got NOTHING for his time spent in prison when he should’ve been given like 600k
people need to understand cops are 100% always in the wrong, even when theyre right
Brooks probably got pulled over for being black in Scottsdale.
And driving a rolls
people always jumping into conclusions. Out of all players they attack someone who’s a genuine dude too (off the court)
You know what pisses me off about all the Dillon Brooks haters? Pat Bev was the real piece of shit all along yet he somehow tricked a bunch of people.
Pat Bev trick y’all
I don’t know. I always hated Pat Bev
He wasn’t arrested for being drunk…
All the comments accused him of drunk driving.
because redditors don’t know how to read
Are you tryIng to tell me that on Reddit - specifically the basketball-free NBA sub with the basement-dwelling children who frequent here - that conclusions were jumped to?
Impossible!
“You blew zeroes which I anticipated”
Hope you anticipated that shit getting dismissed. No weed in the car. No obvious impairment. No resisting. That’s a ridiculous arrest there.
Holy shit i never thought i would feel like Dillon Brooks is a victim
He stayed remarkably calm and handled things really well
Calmest I have ever seen him. I was disappointed
He came across as pretty chill in the court of gold documentary, way different than I expected
Everyone remembers Thabo Sefelosha RIP
Thabo Sefolosha is very much alive.
Killed his career though.
Went from Dillon the villain to Dillon the victim in less than 24 hours.
I had similar shit, happened to me as a teen. The cop said he had seen weed in the car, but I had been arrested like eight months before and had my car utterly tossed in searched clean, and hadn’t smoked since.
The most pathetic/hilarious part was I had a bag of baking soda in a Ziploc because we got extra credit for bringing some in for this one chemistry class in high school, and when the cops found that they literally hugged each other, even though if it had been blow that would’ve ruined my life.
They brought five different drug kits to keep testing it before they had to let me and a buddy go. Most cops are bastards.
that power dynamic and just general predatory satisfaction celebrating that you get to destroy someone’s life, a teenager’s life at that, is legitimately unbelievable to me. they seem either unhuman or far far too human
I mean if he was high wouldn’t he still blow zeros? I’m confused lol
That’s why they added the “no weed in the car, no obvious impairment”.
I’m not saying he wasn’t high because I don’t know, but cops have famously used the “I smell weed” lie and there was none in the car so I imagine most people are going to be assuming he’s innocent (which is what we should be doing until he is proven guilty).
Even as a white dude I’ve had the “we smell weed” shit done to me 3 times. Having not smoked in over 10 years and never having had another person in my car before and never being around weed and having bought the car new. Everytime it was “very potent” or “reeked”. Oh or “when you opened your window it hit me in the face”. Maybe more than 3 times.
I’ve got 3 pieces of plastic that are part of my car that just sit in my backseat. I know one goes under the glovebox somehow but I don’t even know about the others. Just pull somebody over, rip their car apart and then leave angry. Not surprised half of them beat their wives.
Theres no way to prove he was high at this time. Brooks got the best lawyers in the state, this is definitely getting dropped
yeah this sub tore him the fuck apart and it just seems like he came across a cop on the wrong day. just sounded quiet and pissed off, not really high. why the police department felt the need to release this footage is beyond me.
Brooks lawyers 100% demanded the footage to be made public.
FOIA came thru same day
Honestly this video shows nothing to judge. And there isn’t anything to judge because nothing came of it either. So I would imagine the charges will be dropped and the ppl on high horses should buck off
This is Reddit. Those who were on their high horses would either ignore this or double down lol
And brooks should sue the department for defamation. Fuck these quota cops
Being pulled over, and arrested for suspicion of DUI isn’t defamation, even if it was later proven he wasn’t DUI in any shape or form.
It’s the classic cop tactic. You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride. If a cop wants to fuck with you there ain’t much you can do about it.
It was probably a FOIA request that someone made to get the footage, and not the PD that decided to release it. I don’t see why the police department would have any reason to release it either.
I find it over the line impossible that a police dept processed a FOIA request in less than 24 hours. That is unheard of.
This sub really just says anything. FOIA requests completed in a month is considered fast. 24 hours?! Cmon now
Maybe, but they gave it to someone though. They’ll give some people bodycam footage the day after it happens. Maybe it just depends on who’s asking for it.
This sub will upvote anything lmaoooo
In what world is a FOIA request completed in under 24 hours?!
Reddit making someone guilty without critical thinking? I’m so surprised.
Cop on the wrong day? You mean everyday
Duillon Brooks blowing 0.00 and getting arrested is like a real life flagrant 3
The cop accused him of being high, not drunk
No field sobriety test conducted
Depending on your state, don’t agree to a field sobriety test. They’re not legally required in most states and the results can be misinterpreted and used as evidence against you.
but then you’ll always be arrested
Brooks was arrested, but not charged. I’d say that’s a preferable outcome to getting charged using subjective evidence from a field sobriety test. Any defense attorney would advise never to agree to those if you can.
Lol, how convenient that you can’t prove “smells like a dispensary” in any way.
It’s all cap. “Smells like a dispensary”. Well you can’t smoke in dispensaries in Arizona. So he’s talking about fresh unburned weed which means he’s making things up or busting his balls over nothing. Cops doing traffic work should probably know the difference.
My dispensary I go to literally smells like a clean office building. Everything is in air tight packaging lol
Mine were like that too but then the state allowed them to start displaying it in those smell jars and now they smell loud
In AZ smell alone isn’t probable cause , this cop was just being a dick honestly
I do think he said that as a another way of phrasing it smells like weed, not an actual dispensary. Same as if someone say it smells like shit it doesn’t always mean it actually smells like shit, but it’s often used as another way of just saying it stinks. I could easily be wrong but I don’t think every word should be taken exactly as they’re said.
This take smells like a dispensary
Cops do this crap they just make shit up arrest you and figure you’ll test positive
And everyone comments based on bias. A tale as old as time.
Suddenly everyone on this sub is like “yes mr officer, of course we believe you, of course you’re an arbiter of justice 🤓” when it comes to Dillon Brooks. Foh
I hate Dillon Brooks. I hate the police more.
Bro I’d rather wear a Robert Horry jersey to a Pistons game than give a cop the benefit of the doubt
Its the fucking ride and all the nonsense that comes with it. Cops can and will fuck up your day/week/month for laffs.
As a defense attorney, you’re not wrong. My first thought when it got reported was that it had to be a non-alcohol DWI because DB’s been around long enough not to fuck around with driving drunk.
You’re a defense attorney and have never seen people do things that they should know better?
When I lived in Phoenix during Sheriff Joe they could give you DUIs because the cop felt you were drunk, didn’t need a breathalyzer or anything just a feeling
Entitled ass annoying ass cop is all I see here
lol, getting pissed at Brooks for having a broken hand
I think the arrest was horseshit, but it seemed more like he was trying to avoid hurting him while putting on the handcuffs at that point.
Doesn’t explain why he sounds so cunty about it
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Forever and always
Blew a literal zero on breathalizer and still handcuffing him because of the smell of his car. Lmao. Gimme a break
Fishing expedition.
“as I anticipated” STFU, pls, STFU
arizona cops are notoriously bad, and on top of that, it’s a no tolerance state. my friend’s dad got a DUI and went to tent city for like a month. he wasn’t even drunk
Arizona: Come for vacation, leave on probation.
I want to make my way to all 50 states one day. I did a lot of east coast already. What Arizona got?
Grand Canyon, spring training, waste management open, lots of others. Take your pick
Grand Canyon, Sedona, and then Phoenix for insane Mexican food
Some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. Everybody knows about the big ones (gl getting into Antelope Canyon), so I highly reccomend the Mogollon Rim. Its up above Pasen, and offers fantastic views. There’s a really nice trail that goes along it, along with a road. Plus a lot of other great hikes in the area
I dislike Brooks more than almost any other athlete, but I don’t like how this looks. Unless they have a blood sample proving intoxication, this is bullshit.
“I’m watching you drive and you’re doing the exact same thing I’m doing, which everybody does, cause everybody’s doing something in their car”
So this is in response to the officer saying he failed to maintain lane 6 times.. Is he basically saying he was texting or something? Because what else can cause you to drift out of your lane multiple times while youre “doing something”?
Probably saying distracted driving. Cops are on their stupid ass laptop and phone and dispatch while driving too so you’re probably right lol
Cops the worst drivers out here. I do a lot of driving at night and if you see some asshole going 60 in a 45, running stop signs/lights, pulling illegal u-turns, never signaling, 60% of the time it’s a cop.
Cop hit my car the other day while parked on the street. He got out of the car and forgot to put it in park and it rolled into my car. Dumbass.
The pause after saying “doing something on” definitely sounded like he realized he shouldn’t be telling a cop he was on his phone while driving.
It definitely seemed like he caught himself from saying everyone is on their phone doing something while driving, smart move
100% what I was thinking too
Sounds like he was about to say on their phone. Then he realized what he was about to say to say.
He did do a good job of roasting the cop though.
Driving while black. This cop is a chump. I’ve seen enough
I will preface by saying sorry for the racial comment, but I can’t help to wonder how damn often a black man is told by a cop it smells like marijuana in the car after a simple traffic violation
Don’t think you need to apologise for pointing out racial bias in policing, regardless of whether Brooks was high or not
He blew 00s, now suddenly his car smell funny. Yeah ight, I seen this playbook before
He appears to have blown zeros after the cop mentions the weed odor. It’s why the cop said he anticipated DB blowing zeros…bc he didn’t think he was drunk, he thought he was high. And no I’m not defending the cops he seems like a prick…but he didn’t switch the story here after DB blew zeros
sprinkle some crack on him, Johnson
He does on Reddit or they will downvote
“It smells like a dispensary in there.” Oh yeah, which dispensary did you go to that smelled this way?
I work in criminal public defense and I will say it’s not really a race thing, it’s a policing thing. It’s a tactic they use all the time. They all seem to have incredibly strong noses.
I’ve gotten wayyy too many DMs calling me a boot-licker and all the other cliche reddit insults so let me say this: obviously police bias exists. Shut up, I know. Point is, cops are dicks to everyone and I’ve seen this tactic used on more traffic stops than not.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12/19/policing_survey_2022/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Bureau%20of%20Justice%20Statistics%2C,experience%20the%20threat%20or%20use%20of%20force. It IS A race thing.
Why are you apologizing for a an event that is a regular occurrence among the Black community? You shouldn’t, you’re right. Cops are gonna profile, nothin new
i knew my goat would never be drinking and driving
Diabolical title. Fuck the Police
Lol, it’s so obvious that he was dicking around on his phone. The fact he was able to stop himself admitting it right at the end is a good indication of being sober.
I mean, let’s not pretend that dicking around on your phone while driving is ok either lol
Either way it’s not an arrestable offense lol
Ima screenshot all the clowns that jumped to conclusion in the other thread
and then what?
Then he’s going to name names man! Just like the Epstein files!
He has screenshots of random redditor comments saved? Idk why ppl say these things tbh lmfao
make a scrapbook
He blew fucking zeros. Jesus.
He blew for weed? I assume that was an alcohol breathalyzer
There is no weed breathalyzer.
It was. That’s why this arrest was BS.
That cop has a punchable voice. I cannot stand Brooks but he comes across super chill and levelheaded in the body cam footage.
Dillion is a very chill and polite gentleman. He came to several Mercury games and was very kind to my husband and I.
This prob how he really is. The stunts are prob him just being in character.
OK so if you think he’s under the influence, then conduct a field sobriety test. Can’t just fucking arrest him for smelling like weed.
Can’t just fucking arrest him for smelling like weed.
Welcome to ‘Murica.
He was ripped to shreds by this sub. Completely fair given the original reporting but just goes to show over reacting and saying some of this shit I read probably not the move
Another dillon brooks W. Suck it haters. I honestly dont care, i’m just a couple pbrs deep
Its the go to response by pigs when they have nothing else and want to search your car. “ I smell marijuana”
Yeah my parents were public defenders, and before weed was legal in Illinois “odor of burnt cannabis” showed up in an absurd number of non-drug cases as a pretext to search a vehicle
Blew zeros?
Arrested for being Canadian in Trump’s America.
I hope he sues the shit out of them
I will admit, I was wrong to quickly call him a piece of shit, he did blow 0.0 so the evidence is irrefutable
That’s my Goat DBrooks!
OP with the rare meta lowlight title since this clip basically exonerates Brooks
Pigs gonna pig
Mods, use of “lowlight” in this context is editorializing something quite serious. I’m not a fan of Brooks at all but this is real life
Yeah dude may be a menace on the court but this is some bullshit
Wouldn’t they have probably cause to search the car and then find the weed?
Im probably mistaken based on the state, but in my experience fresh unburned weed smell isnt enough for probably cause, it needs to smell like you’ve smoked. That’s why people will tell you just wait to smoke until you get to where you’re going
He should not have been arrested
Leave my man alone
why is this considered a low light? If he blew 00s?
why he have to say “what’s wrong with your hand” like that? is having a hand injury a crime now? wtf
Yea dbrook my dog ik he didn’t do shit fuck the pig that was angry that day
I love that one human can put another human in handcuffs legally based on their sense of smell
Even bitch ass Dillon Brooks doesn’t deserve this treatment.
Britney Spears got popped last night too. People out having fun on a Thursday night.
We’d really need to see footage of Dillon driving to tell anything here. As well as a field sobriety test. He mentions his breathalyzer, so I presume one was administered. It’s obvious that he wasn’t drinking, having blown a zero, but they’re charging him (I assume, based on the officer’s comments about it smelling like a dispensary, but I haven’t seen his arrest report) on being under the influence of weed or controlled substance that impairs. They probably got a judge to sign a search warrant to draw his blood to test for substances (if they expect this to stick). There’s a strong possibility that he’s just on his prescription pain killers (like Percacet/oxycodone or Lortab/hydrocodone) after his surgery, but you still can’t drive on those if you’re impaired. Brooks did seem kinda drowsy, but I’m a criminal defense lawyer who was a prosecutor for 10 years, so I’ve certainly seen my fair share of dirty or just shitty cops arresting people frivolously.
Free Advice: Don’t ever consent to a search for your vehicle or home, whether you have anything illegal or not. Assert your 4th Amendment rights. Let me establish probable cause and/or get a search warrant. Don’t do their job for them. Don’t believe them if they act like they’ll be lenient if you show them contraband like a roach or something.
Also, and I don’t condone driving under the influence, but if there’s even a chance that you might have alcohol show up on a breathalyzer, don’t consent to anything (not even a field sobriety test). Refusing it is an automatic suspension of your driver’s license AND YOU WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE PLACED UNDER ARREST, but that’ll happen anyway if you have even a small amount of alcohol in your system (and it doesn’t take much to hit a BAC of .08), but it’ll be much worse on you and basically guarantee that you’ll be convicted if you consent to these. You won’t beat the ride, but you might beat the rap.
These guys got the footage real quick
Wait he blew 0?
I would definitely sue the police department The man blew zeros and he’s in handcuffs a NBA player at that come on now y’all gotta do better.
They have breathalyzer for weed now?
Pretty sure that was an alcohol blow
Cops are gonna cop bro
Cop definitely lost some money on Kalshi or something.
Fuck that cop. Never thought I’d agree with Dillon Brooks
The cop is not a suns fan 😂
If you’re someone who actually believed the cops and automatically demonized Brooks without evidence… Lol. I have a bridge to sell you.