A Florida man coughed on cops during his arrest, wishing them death from the novel coronavirus … and it’s all on police bodycam video.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were responding to a domestic violence disturbance Saturday after the suspect, Brent Smith, allegedly came home drunk and threatened his mother with a butter knife, leading to his arrest and some nasty threats towards cops.
In the video, Smith is sitting handcuffed in the back of the patrol car when he tells a deputy, “I hope you die. I hope you catch corona. I hope the coronavirus, I hope it latches on to you, I hope it makes you puke.” Then the guy starts coughing again.
During his arrest, cops also say Smith started coughing and threatened to bash “their f***ing brains in.”
Smith was booked with a slew of crimes … threatening and assaulting a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery on a person 65 or older, tampering with a witness, robbery by sudden snatching, grand theft and violation of probation on an original charge of aggravated battery on a pregnant person.
As if threatening your own mother, allegedly, wasn’t bad enough — this guy had to go throw coronavirus in the mix, as Florida is reeling. The state has at least 19,895 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 460 people have died.