A police officer is accused of turning off his body-worn camera and inappropriately touching a woman during a traffic stop in Florida. Now, 46-year-old Reginald McKinney is charged with false imprisonment and battery and has resigned from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office following his arrest, Sheriff T.K. Waters said in a Sept. 25 news conference broadcast by WTLV-WJXX. On Sept. 4, McKinney pulled over a woman accused of driving with a suspended license, Waters said. During the stop, McKinney told the woman he had turned off his body-worn camera, according to an arrest report. He instructed her to come over to his patrol vehicle and showed her on his computer that there was an order to seize her tag, but he said he wasn’t going to do that, police wrote in the report after speaking with the woman. Then he began calling her attractive and asked for her phone number, according to the sheriff. After the traffic stop, the officer told the woman to follow him to another location, which she did, according to the sheriff. McKinney continued making advances on her and made “inappropriate physical contact,” Waters said.

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The woman reported the incident a few days later, saying she was “fearful” because the officer told her he didn’t have his body camera on, police wrote in the report. For that reason, she said she gave McKinney her phone number, and he texted her after the incident, according to police. Waters said that turning off body-worn camera is a “major violation” of agency policy. “This should never happen,” Waters said. “I’m very aggravated by the fact that he did this, because it one, undermines the trust of the public that they have in JSO.” McKinney is the latest in a series of more than a dozen arrests of Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office employees this year, according to WJXT. He worked for the Jacksonville agency for about two and a half years and was a deputy in Clay County for four years prior, the sheriff said.

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