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Kai DeBerry-Bostick, a 28-year-old former cheerleader, was late to her accounting job in Laurel, Maryland. Police barriers blocked her normal route to work, closing off the crowded farmer’s market to keep vehicles out.

DeBerry-Bostick decided the barriers weren’t for her, though. A police officer’s body camera captured the woman lifting a barrier, breaking police tape, and driving her BMW into the middle of the crowded market.

“I need to get out, I need to get out,” DeBerry told the officer. The department uploaded the video, with audio, to their Facebook page. “I gotta go.”

The officer tried to calm the woman and urged her to call a cab or an Uber. She refused, saying she works in Virginia, and continued to move the barriers. He reminds her that she can’t move the barriers, which she ignored.

“I have to, sir,” she said. “I’ve got to go to work. What do you want me to do?”

She almost ran over a man pushing a stroller

After she removed the barriers, she got into the driver’s seat and drove into the market, nearly missing a man with a stroller. The officer jumped in front of the BMW to encourage her to stop, but it failed—he sustained minor injuries from her pushing him out of the way.

The video shows market shoppers running and screaming as they flee the BMW, while the officer yells at her to get out of the car.

Finally, officers were able to pull her out of the BMW and arrest her. Authorities charged her with assault for hitting the police officer and held her at the town’s lockup.

Market shoppers weren’t harmed by DeBerry-Bostick’s actions.

Viewers were shocked by the entitlement

Inside Edition’s coverage of the incident garnered plenty of attention. Nearly 700 people felt shocked by the woman’s sense of entitlement and disregard for public safety. One viewer mentioned that breaking the police tape should have warranted a stronger reaction from the officer.

“Once she broke the police tape, she shouldn’t have been let back into her car,” they wrote.

Another couldn’t help but make a punny joke about the incident and her job as an accountant.

“She didn’t ‘account’ for how much longer her erratic behavior would cause her to be late for work,” their comment read.

Someone else noted her loyalty to her company was obviously to a fault.

“Her willingness to be criminally charged for a corporation that doesn’t care about her is impressive,” they wrote.

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