No, I'm not driving. >> no? Well, you're hit two cars, so we got to give you a traffic accident. And it's good. >> I'm going to hit the car. Are you going to do field sobriety test or no? >> No. Body cam footage shows officers investigating a suspected DUI after a crash involving multiple vehicles. What begins as a traffic accident soon turns into a tense roadside standoff. Are you all right? Able to turn anything? Let's walk to your car cuz I don't want you to get hit by a car, okay? Well, I'm a lawyer. Yeah, I see that's your car. You're ma'am right over here. Right over here. Right over here. I want you to have a seat in your car. Okay. Let's start off with your driver's license and your proof of insurance, okay? Okay. He wants a driver's license and a proof of Who's this? My attorney. Your attorney? All right. You can call him in a little bit cuz right now everything's recording audio video. But you're involved in a traffic accident. I'd like to see your driver's license and your proof of insurance. Ask him. Okay. He's not driving. >> Just Just hang. Yeah, just hang up, Samantha, and I'll be there. Tell him I'm on my way. >> He's on his way. Yes. She said he said he'll be on your way. Let's start off with your driver's license and your insurance. >> him. I know, ma'am, but I need to see your driver's license to verify you're okay to be driving. And number two, your insurance so we can start the paperwork. There's some damage done to your car. I'll wait for him. Okay, but we don't have to wait for him. I need to see your >> to wait for him. >> [music] >> Hey, ma'am. We don't need to make this anymore complicated than it already is. It's just a minor accident. I just need to see your driver's license >> for him. Okay, ma'am. Do you want me to handcuff you and arrest you? No. Because right now at this point you're refusing to provide me any I am. You are. You realize that, right? >> Yes. I've been elected official. You're what? >> I don't want any of this. Well, ma'am, you're involved in an accident. You've hit up several cars. Two. So, yeah, I need to see your driver's license so I can start the paperwork. >> pulled out in front of great. I'll ask you that in a second. But I really need to verify this is your This is your car? No, it's my friend's car. >> It's your friend's car, okay. Do you have a valid driver's license? >> Okay, great. >> And I have insurance. >> How about an ID? I do. Okay, can I see some of those so I can know who you are? >> my attorney. I'm just trying to work with you here. >> But you're not providing me your driver's license and your insurance. Nope. And why are we waiting for your attorney for? He's my friend. He's your friend? Okay, but he wasn't here in the car. Nope. Is that him there? No. So, you want to give him a call? He's coming. Okay. You want to give him a call so I can talk to him? You want me to talk to him? Yeah, to you. Your client here was involved in an accident. How far are you? Uh like 25 minutes. Okay, I need to see her driver's license and her proof of insurance. And she's under the standing that she doesn't have to provide that to me until you arrive. Can you advise your client? That is not true. That's >> I I would be happy to advise her what the law is. Okay, please. Can you advise her so I could get this paperwork started? >> Okay, thank you. You listen to him? All right, so go ahead. It is by state law you have to give him your driver's license and your insurance. >> Great. That's great advice. >> start the paperwork. Great, thank you. And you said this is not your car, right? No, it's my friend's car. >> happen to have Do you happen to know if he has insurance? >> He does. Can you go look in the glove compartment for me? It's a fancy car. Yeah, I understand. I just need to look and see if he's got insurance. I don't know how to open the fancy You want me to take a look to see if he's got it? I don't I think I got Oh, there you go. Well, you're here to car, so we got to give you a traffic accident, okay? Okay. And uh I don't know what we're going to do about the car because it's not drivable. Your tire is pretty messed up. It's not going to allow you to drive home, so is your attorney maybe going to be able to drive you home? >> Yes. And I'll pay for the ticket, wherever it needs to go. Well, you probably want to let the owner know that you were involved in an accident. Let him know. >> He's my very best friend. Oh, good. Okay. He's so sorry. That's accident. People know you know, people happens. >> He's very easy. Okay. Hey brother, how are you? Just give me a few minutes. She's waiting for her attorney, a good friend to come. All right. And uh maybe we'll have him have her go in his car while we relocate the car maybe over here somewhere. Or maybe put it in front, I don't know. She's not the owner of the car, so we got to figure out what's going on. Hello, how are you doing, ma'am? Is that DMV? Are you good? I'm working. Have to be good. Are you working right now? Where you working at? I was just driving. How much did you have to drink? What is she looking for? Right here. I've already got her driver's license here. I'm fine. It's fine. Ma'am, we need you to exit. It's not It's not you telling us we're not taking your word for it. We don't take nobody's word for it. We don't need that. I don't need that. I already I already told you to step out. >> you to We just need you to exit and so we know you're good. You just got involved in an accident and it's like 3:00 in the But my friend is coming. If I go outside, I'm not going to be like so secure and then my friend is coming. >> Secure? Secure? Everything is on video and audio recording. I know. Yeah. So, can you exit? I can't. Okay, please do. I'm waiting for you. Can you hold on? What What I'm not holding anything >> Just Just put it in the dashboard. That's fine. No. We are not going to hold anything for you. >> I don't need it anymore. You can put it in the dashboard, that's fine. Just need you to step out. I'm good. Ma'am, we know you're good. We heard you, but you need to step out so we can see if you're good. Okay, I know you're fine. Just exit the car then. I don't have to exit the car. Yes, you do. No, I don't. >> you a lawful order. You You were You were involved in an accident. You're going to have to, or we're going to assist you make you exit. Okay. So, you better off to just exit. Are you going to exit or not? All right. You need to exit. I will be fine. What started as a crash investigation is quickly becoming a DUI case. Oh. Is she okay? Well, we're in the middle of an investigation, a DUI investigation right now. It appears that she may have been drinking. Involved in a two-car, three-car accident. Oh. Yeah, that's what we're relating at this point now. So, we're trying to ask her to step out so we can do a field sobriety test, which we're supposed to do, to determine if she is or not. >> Yeah. But she doesn't want to get out. So, advise her nicely to get out or we're going to have to get physical and wiggle her out of that car, which is not going to be any good for her. I don't know if you can talk to her and tell her that, you know, she has to just step out and listen to our orders. You've been talking to some kind of attorney, a friend of hers. Okay. >> and he's been cooperating. He said, "Yeah, just give them your officer's driver's license and proof of insurance," which you have now. >> Okay. But she doesn't seem to want to exit the vehicle. Did she say she knows you? Did she say you touched her? >> He's my friend. Okay, so exit the vehicle, then. >> No, I'm not leaving the vehicle. Ma'am, if you don't exit the vehicle, I'm going to help you to exit. And you don't want that. You don't want that. I do. >> official. I actually do. Elected official of what? Cook County. Cook County, you're elected what which which which office? What's your name? I'm Sam. Sam who? You want me to talk to her? Hey, Sarge, is it okay if her friend tells her to walk out, to step out? No, she's saying she's an elected official of Cook County. I don't want to be on the video. >> Okay. Oh, you want on video? You're on video. You're on the video, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. So, you need to >> I'll wait for my attorney. Okay, so No, I'm waiting for my attorney. So, she's not exiting. We're going to have to make her exit, and so we do. She is not complying right now, as you can see. Does she She said she's an elected official of something. We don't know what. Does she need to be compliant at this moment? Of course she does. Well, I mean, can she wait can she wait for her attorney? No. Well, we got to tell her she's involved in an accident. I should help you. She got to do the field sobriety test. Even is here, there's nothing he's going to tell her. She was involved in an accident and we're doing our investigation. And obviously she doesn't want to Ma'am, okay, here's the thing. You were involved in an accident, correct? So, you're going to have to exit. If you don't exit, then we're going to make you exit. Can you give her a second? So, take a little second. That's all you have to do. That's the attorney. We told her you have to exit. Okay, we told her to exit. I'm waiting for him. Yeah, you got to come out. Get out of the car. It's fine. Now you can hang up the phone, ma'am. No. >> doing our investigation. >> Okay. Now, tell your attorney, uh, since he's on the phone, are you going to do field sobriety test or not? No. What happens next will decide whether she leaves the scene or goes to jail. Okay. No, I'm not I'm >> being arrested? You say no? I was waiting for that. I was waiting for that. We were waiting for that. Because she is refusing. I asked her to do field sobriety test and she refused. And she smell like alcohol. She's been drinking. We can Oh, so you've been recorded all this time. You've been recording. >> Yeah. All right. Okay. You want to do field You want to do field? He's on the phone. He can hear you. They're arresting me. Okay. I I'll be there in I I'll be there in 5 minutes. 5 minutes. He's not going to wait. Let's go. You've been transported. She's not doing the field sobriety test. She's a She's under arrest right now. >> my purse. Take her my purse. Here's the purse. Thank you. I'm not going. Okay, she can Can you give him 5 minutes? I I'm not that mean. 5 minutes to get here. I'm just escorting you to the car. >> Can you give her 5 minutes? I'm not that mean. >> She's not doing the field, so we're not going to be uh She's been drinking. She's struck a of cars. Okay? she's struck a bunch of cars. We're taking you in. Come on, ma'am. Let's go. Have a seat, please. No, no, we're not. We're going to sit in the car. That's why that's why you got Uber, you got taxi. You could have done all of that. Okay, have a seat in the car. Let's go ahead and sit in the car. Have a seat. Have a seat in the car. Have a seat, please. All right, you got a small You got a small wrist? No, we have to. No. You want to do the field? You want to do the field? We asked you to do it and you said no. Okay, have a seat in the car. All right, come on. Give me your chance. Sam, so you wearing the lenses. Yes. You wear glasses. You have them on right now. I contact. >> Can you see me with that with that Can you see me with them? Okay, you're good. I mean, I can cannot see like All right, so now how's your head? You have any injuries? Your head is good? You hit your head? When? When I hit the car. I don't know what good means. So, you want an EMS? You want to call an ambulance? Yes. You want us to call an ambulance for you? Okay, we'll call an ambulance. But I can be a I can do the sobriety. You can do it? You sure? Okay. No. So, put both feet together like this. Yes, I would like an ambulance. Put both feet together. I would like an ambulance. So, you're under arrest. That's weird, but yes. Okay. So, letting you know you're under arrest. So, now when we go to the hospital, you're still under arrest. She should have called you, called her attorney. So many people you could you could have called. I'm the only person that Okay, that's fine. I'm Sam. Sam? Okay, what happened to that chick? I was driving. Okay, where were you coming from? My friend's. Are you No, I'm just yeah. It's fine. Were you Were you Were you drinking? No. No? No. Are you uh Ma'am, if you're going to be interrupting, then probably have to sit over here cuz you're interfering right now in the investigation right now. So I can't just have you stand Ma'am, can you I'm just going to ask you to stand over here for me? Okay, please. Okay. And let him do the questioning that which we do with everybody involved in accidents. I know, but where were you coming from prior to that? They pulled me out of the car. I don't know. Okay. All right. Did you take any meds today? >> No. No? I just want to see if you're like safe to go home. You have to submit like a few tests for me. Are you willing to do it? Either you do it, yes, simple yes or no. No. You don't want to do it? No, I just want Ma'am, I already have enough to like take you in. My attorney will be here. Your attorney's on the way. He would like to talk to this officer. Okay. Our attorney would like to talk to this officer. She could He's right behind the ambulance. Okay. Uh you know the she could call at the station. So Did you Did you put her DUID ticket? Yeah, yeah, we got it. We got pictures of everything. Okay. All right, so Okay, all right, it is what it is. I mean, I smell So It's up to you. I'm going to give you a few tests. I just want to see if you're safe to drive home. >> doing any of those tests. You're going to go under arrest for DUI. No. What do you mean, no? No. I mean, what do you mean, no? No. Wait for my attorney. What do you mean, no? Talk to my attorney. Yes, we're going to wait here. No, she could He could come to the station. She's going to get under arrest for He's parking his car right now. Just stand up, ma'am. No. I'm going to put down my report that you're refusing field sobriety test, okay? So, bye. I got enough here. She refused, so uh I got enough. Yeah, once we go to the station, then then you can call You want to go to the hospital? Yes. What do you What do you mean no? We called an ambulance. We just wasted their You said, "Do you want medical attention?" We just wasted their time. It's not happening your way, man. That's for an ambulance. You wasted these five people's time. You just refused them. Yeah, but uh hold on. You're under arrest. >> You're under arrest. One second. You're not going anywhere. Make sure your cuffs have very small wrists. I'll make it loose, okay? That alcohol smells strong. Why would you It's a half-empty It's half-empty. Bottle of wine is half-empty, uh Samantha. Oh my god, you guys are You drank it. I mean, it's illegal to drink and drive. It's illegal to have open alcohol in the car. You know, can I go with you? Oh, they called her attorney. Saving the day. She's going to have to He's coming in right now. All right. You going to go ahead. No, I need to see my attorney. They're not moving. Right there. Uh is this Is the cuffs okay? Yeah, no. My attorney. So, she's been uh placed in custody for driving under the influence of She refused field sobriety test. She has a open She has open bottle of wine in the car. >> open bottle of wine in the car. Okay. You guys are just regular traffic crash. Yes. I'll do the I'll do the 501 car switch, okay? Let's go. I got I got all the stuff on the phone. I'll give you the phone. Uh Regular traffic crash? No, no. This one. Okay. We're doing this one. Regular traffic crash? And this then uh I'll do the 501 part. So, they're saying that you hit your head. So, I don't know if you're fine or not. Yeah, so I don't know if you're fine or not.