Video: Former R.I. mayoral candidate taunts police during drunk driving arrest

“I told my kids if they ever became a cop, I’d kill ’em,” Maria Bucci allegedly told the officer who arrested her. “Only clowns become a cop.”

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Caught on video in a testy exchange with police, a former candidate for mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, was arrested last week on a drunk driving charge after she twice demanded, “You know who I am, right?”

Maria Bucci, 51, now the chairwoman of Cranston’s Democratic Committee, was arrested in East Greenwich on Dec. 18 and charged with driving under the influence – first offense, blood alcohol concentration unknown. She also received several traffic citations, according to a police report and court records…

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