Thursday, Tennessee state police released a video of a traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is the event that Trump administration officials have used to explain why they removed the Maryland man who was wrongly sent to El Salvador in March.

US officials have said that the fact that Abrego Garcia wasn’t arrested during the traffic stop in November 2022 supports their claims that he was a member of MS-13 and involved in trafficking people. No charges were brought after the stop, and the parts of the redacted report that have been made public do not name human trafficking.

Still, the traffic stop in 2022 could add to the political and legal stalemate over Abrego Garcia, who is still in El Salvador while a federal judge asks the Trump administration for answers and more proof.

So far in the court case over his custody, his lawyers have said that the US in Abrego Garcia’s 2019 immigration proceedings didn’t give them many reasons to think he was connected to a gang other than the fact that he wore a Chicago Bulls hat and that a confidential source gave them a tip.

In the years since, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers had a hard time getting more information from police about the claims that he had ties to MS-13, and the federal government didn’t give him more time before sending him to El Salvador.

His lawyers told the federal judge last month, “There is no known link or association between him and the MS-13 gang.”

When asked about the bodycam video, Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told CNN that his client “has been denied the most basic protections of due process—no phone call to his lawyer, no call to his wife or child, and no opportunity to be heard.”

Sandoval-Moshenberg also said, “This video doesn’t show any signs of a crime.” That being said, the point is not the traffic stop; it is that Mr. Abrego Garcia should have his day in court. Again, bring him back to the U.S. and put him in front of the same immigration judge who heard his case in 2019. Let him talk for himself.

Abrego Garcia can be seen saying “Hello, sir” to a state highway trooper after being pulled over for speeding on Interstate 40 near Cookeville, which is between Nashville and Knoxville. The bodycam video was released by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

“How are you?” The guard tells us.

“All right, how about you?” Then Abrego Garcia answers. The trooper says, “Okay.”

“There are a lot of people here, right?” the trooper then says, pointing to other people in the car with Abrego Garcia.

Abrego Garcia tells the trooper that there are several people in the car and that he and the others are workers coming back from a St. Louis, Missouri, construction job.

The officer tells Abrego Garcia that he pulled him over because he was going 75 mph in a 65 mph zone. Abrego Garcia says he’s sorry and that he thought the speed limit was faster.

When the officer asked to see his ID, Abrego Garcia told him that his driver’s license had expired and that he was waiting for immigration papers to renew it. He tells the police officer that his boss owned the car, which had a Texas license plate.

There are no arrest records for Abrego Garcia.

“Is there anything illegal?” asks the trooper.

Abrego Garcia says, “Nothing, sir.”

“No drugs or anything?” the police officer asks.

The answer from Abrego Garcia is “Nothing, nothing illegal.”

The policeman then uses a police dog to search the car. From the movie, it looks like they don’t find anything fishy.

Even though the traffic stop is going on, more police cops show up. One trooper thought that Abrego Garcia might be taking illegal aliens to Maryland for money.

“Do you know what you have here?” “He’s dragging these people around for money,” the officer said. He pointed out that there was no luggage in the SUV.

In the end, the police seem to say that there were 11 people in the car, including Abrego Garcia.

The highway patrol gave CNN a redacted copy of a police report on Thursday, but it didn’t say anything about their fears of human trafficking. It showed that Abrego Garcia’s license in Maryland had ended about two months before he was pulled over in Tennessee.