Kathleen Thomas was born without a right hand, but that didn’t stop a cop from issuing a ticket for driving while talking on her cell phone with her right hand.

The cop who wrote the ticket, even after she showed him her non-existent hand, moved to dismiss the charge before she was due to appear in court Wednesday. The incident occurred in Lake Worth, Fla., in February.

In body cam footage obtained by Thomas and which she posted online, the cop explains to the driver that he has pulled her over for distracted driving because she was holding her cell phone with her right hand. Perhaps very unexpectedly for the officer, Thomas holds up her right arm, which ends in a stump.

“So obviously not,” she says, bursting into laughter. “So you want to just call this a day, or … ?”

“I don’t want to call it a day,” the police officer responds. “You had a hand up.”

He continues to argue with her, although Thomas tries to explain that what he thinks he saw is logically impossible.

“Hand to God, you did not have your phone in your hand?” he asks.

“Hand to God,” she says, holding up her right hand again.

In the end, the cop issued the citation anyway.

The video went viral online, and the cop eventually dismissed the ticket.

“As with any enforcement action, motorists have the right to contest citations through the judicial process, where all facts and evidence can be fully evaluated,” Teri Barbera, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department, said in a statement.

In an interview with CBS, Thomas said the interaction made her uncomfortable, but she hopes that the incident will become a teaching moment leading to better training for officers.

In the interview, Thomas offered a message to the cop who pulled her over.

“Explain to me your side. Explain to me what you were thinking,” she said. “How did we get to this point? And then from there, kind of just see where our two sides can kind of come together and say, Hey, look, here’s how we discuss limb difference. Here’s how you address somebody. Here’s things that you probably shouldn’t do, like make them raise their hand to God.”