https://goresee.com/videos/watch/547e03f9-67de-43f2-9f04-930c9fed765b Dramatic body camera footage shows a woman carrying a 12-inch kitchen knife and refusing to drop it despite deputies' demands after said deputies responded to a domestic disturbance at a home on Beth Lane in Palm Coast. Deputies said they discovered that Melanie Botts, 36, had threatened her 61-year-old boyfriend with a 12-inch kitchen knife and that Botts' 11-year-old son was there when it happened. The boyfriend told deputies that Botts had left, but then they found her in the backyard, holding the knife up to her neck. Deputies said Botts began an intense exchange with them, screaming profanities, demanding that they shoot her, encouraging a K-9 to bite her and refusing to drop the knife. After numerous attempts were made to get Botts to drop the knife, a sergeant deployed his agency-issued Taser, causing Botts to drop the knife and allowing deputies to detain her. Botts was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, resisting arrest without violence and violation of probation. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:53:10 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://goresee.com https://goresee.com/lazy-static/avatars/bb9fff0d-960e-4039-8f1f-2caff7abf25e.png https://goresee.com/videos/watch/547e03f9-67de-43f2-9f04-930c9fed765b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://goresee.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.