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Christina Laboy (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office).
On the early morning of Feb. 24, 2024, it looked like Palm Beach County deputies were going to going to let DUI suspect Christina Laboy, 46, go home as long as someone picked her up. One said she had been going more than 100 miles an hour, but Laboy, who admitted to having a glass of wine that night, did not have enough “indicators of impairment.” Even so, she became incredulous they were even detaining her. Laboy, who is white, firmly suggested there was a “black and white factor.”
From there, the situation escalated to her arguing with police at length. She engaged in a lengthy rant about the deputies’ races, a reference to Black murder victim George Floyd, a mention of “dumb immigrants,” and she repeatedly called the female deputy the b-word. It ended with the male deputy receiving a bleeding scuff to his right hand.
“Don’t get in my face like that, you b—-!” she shouted at the female deputy in one representative exchange.
“Because I’m f—ing white, you want to play the Black card. Because I’m white and this cop is Black,” she said on the phone while deputies watched. “That’s what it is. And his b—-, whatever she’s f—ing Spanish, talking and s— to my face.”
“F—ing America, you’re the f—ing minority as a white motherf—er in America,” she said. “Dumb immigrants here and you can get every f—king thing you want.”
Deputies arrested Laboy told the female deputy, “I’ll f—ing f— the s— out of you, you little f—ing douchebag.”
Sounding exasperated, the male deputy said, “all right,” and handcuffed her.
The chaos continued. Laboy struggled at length as police tried to put her in the vehicle, and she claimed the male deputy was sexually harassing her.
“Stop kicking me,” the male deputy said.
Laboy denied kicking him and demanded they loosen her handcuffs, but police considered her argumentative.
“You want to beat up a white girl,” Laboy said before the male deputy managed to shut the door on her.
However, he soon noted that his right hand was scuffed up.
“She can get one count of battery,” he said while examining his injured hand. “One count of resist and one count of corruption by threat.”
Records show that prosecutors ultimately charged her with resisting an officer with violence, and battery on a law enforcement officer. They dropped the case on Sept. 17, 2024. In exchange, Laboy had to follow a six-month pretrial intervention program.
