A state Democratic senator was handcuffed and briefly detained earlier this month for mouthing off to an Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy and refusing to hand over her driver’s license during a traffic stop.

Body camera footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows State Sen. Regina Goodwin, a Democrat from Tulsa, engaged in a prolonged argument with Tulsa County Sheriff’s Deputy Freddie Alaniz shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 11, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The footage, captured by Alaniz’s body-worn camera, begins with a tense exchange between the deputy and the state senator. Goodwin was pulled over after Alaniz alleged that he observed her failing to stop at two stop signs.

After pulling over, Goodwin immediately got out of her vehicle and began berating the deputy, according to the footage, while he attempted to explain why she was stopped while repeatedly asking to see her license.

“Ma’am, I’m not going to ask you again. Can I get your driver’s license, or can I take you to jail on running a stop sign?” Alaniz asked Goodwin shortly after pulling her over and asking repeatedly for her license. “I’m not going to ask you again. It’s not for debate.”

The two engaged in a heated discussion, with Goodwin claiming that the officer was “escalating” the traffic stop.

“That is not true. That is not true at all. I was having a conversation, and you just all of a sudden said, ‘I’ll arrest you,’” Goodwin said.

No, I said, ‘Or, I can arrest you if that’s what you want,’” Alaniz said.

“I think you really escalated something,” she said. “No, sir — that is, why would that even be an option for you?”

Alaniz: “Because you’re refusing to give me your driver’s license.”

Goodwin: “There was no refusal of me to give you my driver’s license.”

“I asked you over five times to give me your driver’s license, and you kept debating your driver’s license,” the officer responded.

“I was not at all debating my driver’s license, sir, that is not correct,” she replied.

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“I was not at all debating my driver’s license, sir, that is not correct,” she replied.

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After the initial heated exchange, Alaniz arrested Goodwin and placed her in his patrol vehicle. Her attorney, Mike Manning, who witnessed the incident, spoke with the deputy.

“I realize you have a job to do, officer,” Manning said. “I realize Sen. Goodwin can be a little bit strong-headed at times, but don’t you think you can write her a citation or something? She’ll give you her driver’s license.”

“Yeah, yeah, I can absolutely do that,” Alaniz said, per the camera footage. “I don’t need to ask her 10 times for her driver’s license.”

“I saw it. I realize,” the attorney responded.

“I don’t have an issue writing her a citation or letting her go, but I’m the one that’s in command of the traffic stop, not her,” the deputy said. “She blatantly ran two stop signs, and I was just going to give her a verbal warning and tell her not to do that, but her demeanor — the way that she was — I can’t have that.”

The officer also called his superior to the scene, stating he pulled Goodwin over for running two stop signs and “hauling butt” down the Tulsa street.

“She ran this stop sign back here and the other one that’s a little further down. Just came up, slowed down, and then [zoom] right through them,” Alaniz explained. “She was driving so fast that, when she was hitting the puddles of water, it was just [splash] shooting them out. So that’s why I came up and pulled her over.

“And as I was getting out, she got out of her car, ‘Why are you stopping me?’ You know, just kind of got very verbal. I asked for her driver’s license numerous, numerous times, and she wouldn’t give it to me,” he added.

Goodwin, who was elected to the state Senate in 2024 after serving a decade in the state House, was eventually released at the scene with a citation for failure to stop at a stop sign. She faces a Feb. 25 court appearance at 9 a.m. unless she pays the ticket beforehand, Fox News reported.