Olympian Sha'Carri Richardson pleads with officer to ‘work with me’ during speeding arrest: ‘I’m begging you’

Bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed Olympic golden medal sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson "begging" an serviceman not to apprehension her aft she was caught driving recklessly.

Sgt. Gerald McDaniels, driving successful the halfway lane, spotted the Olympian flashing her brights astatine the car successful beforehand of her and announced that Richardson's Aston Martin topped 104 mph connected State Road 429 adjacent Stoneybrook Parkway successful Winter Garden, Florida. The serviceman reached speeds of astatine slightest 110 mph successful bid to drawback up.

"I would hitch that grin disconnected your face," the sergeant told Richardson upon approaching her rider window. "You're being stopped for dangerous, excessive speed."

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Sha'Carri Richardson of Team United States looks connected aft failing to suffice for the Final during the Women's 100 Metres Semi-Finals connected time 2 of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 astatine National Stadium connected Sept. 14, 2025 successful Tokyo, Japan.  (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Richardson said her backmost tyre was astatine 29 PSI and that her telephone slipped, switching the mode successful her car and causing her to speed. That did not delight McDaniels.

"You're driving astatine 104 miles an hr successful a 65 mile-an-hour portion with subpar equipment, flashing radical to get retired of your lane, pursuing excessively close, utilizing each lane to walk everybody, cutting maine off, passing a car connected the wrong enarthrosis with your hazard lights on. You're going to jailhouse for unsafe excessive speeding," helium said.

Richardson replied that she did not cognize she was speeding, to which the sergeant answered, "That's wherefore they springiness you a speedometer."

"I americium a law-abiding citizen, sir," Richardson, who was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend, chap Olympic sprinter Christian Coleman, past year, kicked disconnected a level successful 2023, and barred from the Tokyo Olympics owed to a affirmative marijuana test, said.

Gold medalist Sha'Carri Richardson of Team United States celebrates with the nationalist emblem aft competing successful the Women's 4x100 Metres Relay Final connected time 9 of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 astatine National Stadium connected Sept. 21, 2025 successful Tokyo, Japan. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

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After immoderate backmost and forth, the officer's determination was final, and world acceptable successful for Richardson, who said determination was "no intention" for her to interruption the law.

"Please sir. I truly was not intentionally speeding. Sir, please. I'm begging you," Richardson said. "Don't instrumentality maine to jail. I volition bash everything. Please, sir. I committedness you, I don't privation to spell to jail, I'm close here."

The constabulary report, besides obtained by Fox News Digital, said that Coleman showed up to the country and was arrested for resisting aft refusing to place himself. His car was recovered to person smoking paraphernalia. Another sprinter, Twanisha Terry, besides arrived.

Richardson and Coleman moved past their contented past year, which occurred astatine Seattle-Tacoma International Airport connected July 27, conscionable 1 week earlier the U.S. Track and Field Championships. Coleman declined to beryllium a unfortunate successful the case, a constabulary study said, and made it wide that helium wanted to determination connected from the "sucky situation."

Richardson has an Olympic golden medal from the 2024 4x100-meter relay successful Paris, and she won the 100 meters astatine the 2023 World Championships successful Budapest. Both Richardson and Coleman won satellite titles successful 2023 and 2025 successful their respective 4x100s.

Christian Coleman and Sha'Carri Richardson airs for portraits during a workplace photograph league connected the sidelines of the World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo connected Sept. 21, 2025. (Andre J Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images)

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Richardson settled for metallic successful the 100 meters successful Paris, portion Coleman inactive awaits an Olympic medal — helium did triumph the 100 and 4x100 astatine the 2019 World Championships.

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