Bodycam of Tiger Woods arrest shows golfer being handcuffed

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Body camera footage of Tiger Woods' apprehension has been released, little than a week aft the play icon was taken into custody pursuing a car clang successful Florida and charged with driving nether the influence.

The video shows Woods being handcuffed aft failing a sobriety test.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office, which responded to the collision, shared video of the apprehension connected Thursday. It shed much airy connected the incidental that deputies recounted successful an affidavit detailing Woods' demeanor arsenic helium interacted with officers and attempted, lone partially correctly, to implicit a bid of sobriety exercises.

In the assemblage camera video, Woods told deputies that helium had been checking his telephone portion driving and deed the car successful beforehand of him.

"I looked down astatine my telephone and each of a sudden, boom," Woods said. No 1 was injured.

Woods, 50, had to ascent retired of the passenger's broadside doorway of his Land Rover successful the aftermath of the March 27 clang connected Jupiter Island, due to the fact that the car had flipped onto its broadside aft clipping the trailer attached to a pickup motortruck driving successful beforehand of him, according to the apprehension report.

Deputies observed the jock "sweating profusely," with glassy and bloodshot eyes that helium initially concealed down a brace of sunglasses. In the report, they said Woods was driving down the motortruck and failed to announcement erstwhile it slowed down successful beforehand of him to crook into a driveway. His SUV past swerved implicit the treble lines moving down the halfway of the thoroughfare and struck the trailer earlier rolling over.

Woods told deputies that helium had not consumed intoxicant that time but had taken "a few" medicine medications, the names of which were redacted from the apprehension report. Two pills were recovered successful the pouch of Woods' pants, according to the report. They were aboriginal determined to beryllium the painkiller hydrocodone.

Throughout his interactions with responding officers, Woods appeared to beryllium alert but his "movement was lethargic and slow," the study said. He agreed to acquisition tract sobriety tests, which were meant to measure his coordination and quality to travel instructions, but did not execute each of the tasks correctly.

Woods was taken into custody without incidental and subsequently transported to the Martin County Jail, deputies said. Once there, helium agreed to an intoxicant enactment test, which did not amusement the beingness of intoxicant successful his body, but refused to taxable a urine test, which could person detected different substances successful his system. In summation to the DUI, Woods faces further charges for refusing the urine test.

A tribunal papers filed Tuesday by Woods' attorneys showed helium has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges and waived his close to arraignment. Woods said aboriginal successful a societal media station that helium would beryllium "stepping distant for a play of clip to question treatment."

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