Viral bodycam video shows transgender University of Central Florida Jarrett Vick being pepper-sprayed, tased and arrested after a confrontation with campus police escalated when the student accused an officer of misgendering him.
The Feb. 5, 2025, footage shows the blue-haired student shouting at an officer inside a campus building after police reportedly responded to a disturbance. A UCF Police Department spokesperson said officers had responded to reports that a student was involved in a verbal altercation with several juveniles and became combative with officers when they arrived, according to Storyful.
“What’s the problem?” the officer asks at the start of the video.
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“Why do you let those kids get away with this? They are not supposed to be here,” the student responds, according to the footage.
The officer then warns the student to calm down or face being placed in handcuffs and taken to a Baker Act facility, which is reserved for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. “F–ing try it!” the student yells back.
The officer can later be heard calling for another unit. “Can we get another unit … he is having a breakdown.”
The student immediately objected to the officer’s pronoun use. “She! She! Just say the right pronoun!” the student screamed.
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The pronoun dispute continued even as officers tried to put the student in handcuffs. At one point, an officer warned, “I’m gonna spray him,” referring to his pepper-spray, before the student became enraged. “Don’t say him!” the student yelled at the officers.
“Okay, her. I’m going to spray her,” the officer said as he scuffled with the student with handcuffs in hand.
“Thank you,” the student said as they continued resisting arrest.
As the officer had his pepper-spray deployed, and was calling for the student to calm down, the student began pleading for help from a nearby university administrator.
“Stop! Josh, please!,” the student could be heard yelling in the footage as cops tried to wrestle Vick to the ground.
“Can you please just tell them to use the right pronouns?” the student also requested of the administrator amid the altercation. “Please, you know it’s causing me a lot of distress.”
As police tried to take the student into custody, the video showed the student resisting orders to get on the ground.
The student was eventually tased and handcuffed before being placed in a patrol vehicle. In the aftermath, one officer can be heard saying the out-of-control student threw a closed fist, grabbed an officer’s microphone and kicked an officer during the struggle.
The student was arrested and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer with violence, according to a UCF Police Department spokesperson cited by Storyful. The student pleaded not guilty to the charges, and Orange County records listed the cases as closed, according to the New York Post.
The UCF spokesperson told Storyful that the student was enrolled at the university in spring 2025 but is not a current student and did not graduate from the school.
