Police dashcam video showing the arrest of a former Miami-Dade teacher suspected of driving drunk with her child in the backseat last month was exclusively obtained by NBC 6 Friday.
In the nearly two and a half hour video, Saryna Parker, a former 8th-grade science teacher at South Dade Middle School, can be seen stumbling during a field sobriety test and is heard slurring her words, telling a Florida Highway Patrol trooper she wanted to kiss him and complaining about the students she taught.
"I’m so f---ing tired of dealing with these prick-a-- teenagers...let me go home for a while," Parker says in the video.
And at one point during an off-camera incident, you can hear a noise when the officer says Parker kicked him in the groin. She can be heard admitting she kicked the trooper but says she was kicking the door.
It was on March 17 when an FHP officer responded after it was reported that Parker crashed into a car on South Dixie Highway near Southwest 182nd Avenue in Homestead.
Parker faces charges of DUI with property damage, DUI, careless driving and battery on a police officer. Police initially charged her with child abuse for having her child in the car, but prosecutors did not pursue that charge.
Parker, 43, was booked into jail and later released on bond.
School board officials said Parker was a probationary teacher and has been fired. She will never be allowed to apply to Miami-Dade Schools again, officials said.
The arrest report said Parker was driving her Cadillac when she slammed into the back of a van. During the traffic investigation, the responding officer observed Parker slurring her speech and noticed the smell of alcohol on her breath, and saw a 10-year-old child in her backseat, the report said.
According to the report, Parker said she "wasn't driving" and said she needed to use the restroom. The officer tried to grab her arm and she "violently pulled away" and started walking toward Burger King to use the bathroom, the report said.
Parker was detained and asked to perform a field sobriety test, to which she consented. During the test, she was unsteady, swayed, failed to follow directions, stumbled and at one point touched the trooper on the back and said "I feel like I want to kiss you," the report said.
Parker was placed under arrest. As she sat in back of the patrol car, she "violently kicked me in the groin with her right leg then continued to kick my right rear passenger side door," the officer wrote in the report.
The report said Parker was uncooperative and "very belligerent" during the incident.
This story is courtesy of our news partner NBC6.
