UPDATE: State Atty Aramis Ayala says neither she nor the officer did anything wrong. She wants a sit down with Orlando's police chief to discuss how this widely seen incident affects perceptions of fairness by law enforcement.
ORLANDO (970 WFLA) -- Orlando state attorney Aramis Ayala says the Orlando police officers who pulled her over June 19th broke no laws. She also says she was in compliance with the law as well, with a properly registered license plate and legally acceptable tint on her car windows.
Ayala issued a statement after a body cam video of her traffic stop went viral. Ayala says it's been seen more than two million times and produced a flood of misinformation.
In the video, distributed on several websites, one of the two responding officers tells her he ran the tag and "it didn't come back (with) anything." The officer also mentions that the tint on Ayala's car appeared too dark, even though he had nothing to measure it with.
The body cam was released after a public records request. It's unclear who made that request.
The officer who pulled her over said he ran a check on her plate and nothing came back. Ayala says the plate number is confidential. It's likely covered under a law that protects personal information of criminal justice and law enforcement personnel.
Ayala says she was pulled over June 19th in Orlando's Parramore neighborhood, after finishing the evening class she teaches at Florida A&M University law school.
No ticket was issued.
Ayala says she wants to talk with Orlando's police chief about the incident:
Although the traffic stop appears to be consistent with Florida law. My goal is to have a constructive and mutually respectful relationship between law enforcement and the community.
I look forward to sitting down to have an open dialogue with the Chief of Orlando Police Department regarding how this incident impacts that goal.
Ayala is Florida's only black state attorney, and decided not to seek the death penalty for a man accused of murdering an Orlando police officer, or any other murder suspects. That caused Governor Rick Scott to remove those cases from her jurisdiction, a move she's fighting in the Florida Supreme Court.
Ayala's decision to not seek the death penalty for Markeith Loyd, the man accused of killing Orlando Police Lt. Debra Clayton, was denounced by Orlando's police chief.
The two officers who pulled her over appear to be white, judging by the video.
It's not clear who made the video public. A police support website speculates that the video was released to embarrass the officers involved, perhaps to suggest that they were racially profiling Ayala.
See the video below.