Tesla Saves Owner From Prison

I walk

out of the garage and this police officer has got a gun pointed directly at me asking me to turn around, get on the ground, and release my fingers behind my head.

And the entire time you can hear me just saying, for what? Like I'm so confused. I don't know what's going on.

At this point, I think he's got the wrong house, the wrong guy. Like I don't know what he's doing. So I'm Like, for what? For what? I'm sorry, but I don't know about it.

No, you definitely saw me because you saw me as soon as you whipped around those cars and almost lost control coming around 434.

Listen to me. I literally watched you. I turned around, immediately hit my lights and sirens, and you took off on me. I didn't see it. I was coming home.

I have a meeting. I don't believe you. I promise you. So hang out right there. I'm a good guy, bro. I don't care.

Just hang out right there. Don't move. Kevin Finley had just returned home from dropping his kids off at school.

As his garage door is closing, he hears something outside that sounds like the police.

At first, he thinks something maybe happened to his elderly neighbor. So he reopens his garage door to see what's going on.

And he's shocked to see a police officer aiming a gun at him, shouting commands at him.

Let me see your hands! Put your hands up! Walk over here! Walk over here!

One at gunpoint. Come here. Keep walking. Turn around. Turn around. Get on your knees.

Get on your knees and release your fingers behind your head.

He's handcuffed behind his back as more police officers arrive at the scene. I didn't see him. I swear to God.

He learns that Winter Springs, Florida police officer Eric Schwartz is accusing him of fleeing an attempted traffic stop, a felony.

But this is Kevin's first time seeing Officer Schwartz ever. He knew nothing about any attempted traffic stop.

But this officer is saying that he did. When there's lights behind you, lights and sirens, and you take off.

And this could send Kevin to prison. You definitely f***ing saw me. Lean against my car, spread your feet. Wider.

Don't move. Is the officer lying or is this just some crazy mistake? The lights and sirens are still on.

He starts closing his garage, so I'm like, oh, he's running.

So I get out of my car and start going this way, and next thing I know, he's opening his garage.

So obviously, I don't know if you just opened your garage and now you have a gun in your hand or something, but yeah, so he was ordered at gunpoint at that point.

As these thoughts are racing through Kevin's mind, he remembers that his Tesla is equipped with cameras that would have filmed him driving from all directions.

The truth would be on the Tesla's cameras. And it was.

But the craziest part about it was that the cops and prosecutors didn't even care about the truth.

We thought they were going to drop it, but it seemed like this is a game, like to see who will take a plea deal and, you know, who will continue to kind of like a game of chicken, essentially.

He's swearing up and down that he didn't know I was behind him. He said he didn't fishtail. He said a car wasn't going.

He went around the car. He didn't fishtail because he has an all-wheel drive Tesla. It doesn't do that. and he was just a good boy listening to Christian music.

So, I don't know. And he's swearing he didn't f***ing see me the entire time.

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I first came across this case when I was scrolling on X one day and I see this post of a media story that had been reposted by Elon Musk.

The story was basically, man's Tesla saves him from prison. So I bookmarked that, wanting to come back to it later.

Eventually, I get back to it and I watch this local TV news piece about what happened to this guy, Kevin Finley.