Newly released bodycam footage shows the moment New Jersey mayor Gina LaPlaca staggers and starts crying while being arrested for allegedly driving drunk with her toddler on St. Patrick’s Day.
Cops approached the Lumberton Township mayor in the driveway of her home around 5:40 p.m. on March 17 after a concerned resident called 911 to report her erratic driving, the footage released by Lumberton Police shows.
Officers get out of a patrol car and wait for the 45-year-old Democratic Mayor to take her son, whom she had just picked up from daycare, out of his car seat.
“Are you OK?” one officer asks the mayor as she lifts the toddler out of her BMW Sedan
“Yes, I am,” replies LaPlaca — just to immediately lose her balance and stagger into her car.
Cops then ask her about her side-view mirror, which is completely crushed, according to the footage.