By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-26 15:03:16 | Updated at 2024-11-28 01:43:13
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Newly released bodycam footage shows Illinois Democrat Samantha Steele rolling her eyes and dropping the fact that she is an elected official as Chicago police officers place her under arrest for drunk driving.
In the footage an arresting officer tells Steele, the Cook County Board of Review Commissioner, that if she does not exit her car, he will help her out, warning her, “You don’t want that.”
“You don’t want that,” Steele fires back matter-of-factly. “I’m an elected official.”
Steele then nods smugly at the officer before telling him she works in Cook County. When asked which office she appears to give a nonchalant shrug before seemingly rolling her eyes at the officer’s questions.
The 45-year-old Democrat, who can be seen stumbling and slurring her words in the footage, also repeatedly asked an officer if his penis “was that small” during her arrest, according to the police report.
Steele was stopped by police after she apparently drove into another vehicle on a Chicago street earlier this month.
Both cars had “extensive” damage, while Steele’s eyes were “bloodshot and glassy” and she smelled of alcohol, according to the police report and newly released footage.
Officers also saw an open bottle of red wine on the passenger side floor of Steele’s car, and the commissioner refused to perform sobriety tests.
During her arrest, Steele “repeatedly said, ‘Is your penis that small?’” to an officer, the police report read.
When asked how much she had to drink, Steele also shot back, “I want my lawyer, and I’m not talking to you.”
Steele was arrested after complaining of a head injury and being taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
She was charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol, and is due in court on Dec. 27, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Steele, who represents the board’s District 2, which includes most of Chicago’s North Side and surrounding suburbs, was first elected to the Board of Review in 2022.
