The arrest video of Maria Bucci, a Democratic politician from Cranston, Rhode Island, is going viral. According to bodycam footage, she berated a cop after getting stopped for allegedly driving under the influence.
A video from Thursday, December 18, capturing the conversation between Maria Bucci, 51, and East Greenwich Police Officer Anthony St. Laurent was uploaded to the GoLocal LIVE YouTube channel. The video depicts a cop stopping a woman driver for “erratic” driving.
Officer Laurent questioned Bucci about where she had consumed alcohol that night, to which she claimed to have drunk a glass of wine. The 51-year-old asserted that she was driving her cousin home, but the interaction soon turned confrontational, as the cop attempted to perform a field sobriety test…