Florida Deputy Tickets Driver for Holding Phone in a Hand She Does Not Have

A Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy pulled over 36-year-old Kathleen Thomas in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, back in February. His accusation was simple. He said he saw her holding or working a cellphone with her right hand. There was one detail he had not accounted for. Thomas does not have a right hand. Her right arm ends at the elbow. She showed him. He kept going and wrote the citation anyway. The bodycam footage surfaced this week, and people online noticed fast. The video shows the deputy lecturing Thomas about distracted driving while she flashes the arm that physically cannot...