Moment cops found drunk California politician who claimed she was a 'victim' after boozy convention

Troubling bodycam footage shows constabulary struggling to attraction for a lawmaker recovered lying look down extracurricular a nightclub aft a boozy convention function.

Alameda City Councilmember Trish Herrera Spencer attended nan California Cities Conference successful Long Beach, Los Angeles, connected October 17.

Local politicians from astir nan authorities past moved connected to a statement astatine Bo Beau Kitchen & Roof Tap astatine 4pm, which Spencer said she near astatine 11pm.

Just an hr later, Spencer collapsed successful beforehand of the Alegria nightclub and was incapable to guidelines erstwhile Long Beach constabulary were called astatine 12.12am.

Police bodycam footage obtained by DailyMail.com nether Freedom of Information showed Spencer passed retired connected nan sidewalk erstwhile constabulary recovered her.

She was lifted onto a stretcher by paramedics and taken to St Mary Medical Center, wherever different bodycam video showed her belligerent and uncooperative, hurling maltreatment astatine doctors and insisting 'f**k you, no, I'm fine'.

A constabulary study besides released referred to her arsenic 'intoxicated' and said nan passerby who called constabulary 'said it looks for illustration she has feces connected nan backmost of her pants'.

'[The caller] tried to thief her locomotion to nan Metro position aft she fell connected nan sidewalk, but she refused immoderate thief from [him],' it stated.

Over nan adjacent 15 minutes, Spencer, still wearing her convention sanction badge, refused to reply astir constabulary questions and erstwhile she did speak her words were heavy slurred.

Spencer past week said she believed she 'was nan unfortunate of a crime' and done a friend connected Friday disputed that she was drunk.

However, constabulary maintained location was nary denotation a crime occurred, and officers successful nan videos and nan constabulary study mention to her arsenic 'heavily intoxicated'. 

'She's not a unfortunate of crime, she's conscionable effed... immoderate is incorrect pinch her she's keeping to herself,' 1 policeman said to different successful nan footage.

Another bull successful nan infirmary said: 'I'm letting nan unit woody pinch her correct now, she's uncooperative and she's heavy intoxicated.'

The bodycam footage, from nan perspectives of 5 cops astatine nan segment and 1 successful nan hospital, began astatine 12.36am erstwhile nan first serviceman arrived extracurricular Alegria nightclub.

The female officer poked her limb and announced who she was to spot if Spencer was conscious, but she was wholly unresponsive.

'She was retired erstwhile I came, wholly out... her pupils are ace dilated,' she later told a workfellow of nan information she recovered Spencer in.

The policewoman yet roused Spencer and helped her get connected her side, and partially sitting up connected her hands and knees.

'I'm each good,' Spencer insisted, but seconds later admitted 'I'm scared'.

Spencer answered 'no' aliases shook her caput erstwhile asked if she was lost, had been drinking, aliases took immoderate narcotics that night.

'You were passed out,' she said.

'You're not successful trouble, we conscionable want to make judge you're OK. What's going on? I saw you earlier astatine 7-Eleven.'

The policewoman later explained to colleagues that she and her partner encountered Spencer astatine nan convenience shop nearby, while she was still coherent and stepping around.

'She looked a small weird, she looked retired of spot - she conscionable kept saying "thank you, convey you" for our work and that was it,' she said.

Several officers kneeled down and tried to inquire Spencer questions, but overmuch of what she said was indecipherable complete nan booming nightclub music.

A antheral serviceman noted she was bleeding from her eyebrow, but she said she didn't cognize really she fell and suffered nan injury.

As nan officers questioned her, Spencer gripped nan obstruction of nan nightclub's outdoor seating, swayed her caput backmost and forth, and tapped her correct ft connected nan sidewalk.

Spencer was lifted onto nan stretcher astatine 12.45am by 2 paramedics and loaded into nan backmost of an ambulance to beryllium taken to hospital.

The policewoman past went to speak to nan Alegria bouncers, who denied Spencer introduction moments earlier she collapsed outside.

'I don't know, she wasn't speaking,' he said, erstwhile asked what Spencer said arsenic she tried to spell inside.

'Some feline was trying to locomotion to her hotel... Hyatt, that's what he said,' he continued, explaining they they made it to nan area and past she collapsed.

'She didn't speak to us, I conscionable thought I can't fto her in, I thought they were a mates but nan dude was conscionable trying to locomotion her [to nan hotel].'

The different bouncer added: 'They were stepping and past she collapsed, that's erstwhile we had personification call.'

The bodycam footage from nan infirmary began astatine 12.57am and was blurred erstwhile nan policeman walked done nan doors.

Spencer could beryllium heard resisting curen shape doctors, and seen penning astir connected nan infirmary furniture to nan constituent wherever she had to beryllium held down.

'I'm not going to answer,' she said erstwhile asked her day of birth.

'No comment... who nan f**k do you think... f**k you, no, I'm fine.'

Spencer many times insisted 'nothing happened' and replied 'where nan f**k do you think?' erstwhile asked wherever she was.

'Do you portion each time aliases conscionable a small excessively overmuch today?' 1 of nan doctors asked, but she didn't reply.

The serviceman yet walked complete to her and attempted to get her day of birth, but she refused to reply him.

'I'm really gonna telephone main Joshi,' she said, referring to Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi.

The bull asked Spencer respective times if she had been drinking, but she refused to answer. He yet gave up and walked away.

Spencer successful nan days aft her aesculapian emergency became nationalist clarified that she was not arrested, and was capable to drawback her formation backmost to Alameda, a mini metropolis southbound of Oakland, later connected October 18.

'I person small recollection of nan event. I judge I was nan unfortunate of a crime. I americium still suffering from my injuries, including a concussion,' she said. 

'Notwithstanding my injuries, I was capable to drawback my scheduled formation location connected Friday day and began follow-up curen early nan adjacent morning.

'Follow-up curen astatine a section infirmary ER section documented a concussion and abrasions and bruising to nan apical and broadside of my caput arsenic good arsenic bruises connected nan wrong and extracurricular of my arms. 

'My aesculapian supplier explained that she was required by rule to record a Suspicious Injury Report, which is required erstwhile there's a reasonable suspicion that my injuries were from an battle aliases abusive behaviour by a 3rd personification against me, etc. 

'Some of my valuable individual belongings, including jewelry, are missing.'

Spencer appeared to beryllium wearing immoderate jewelry successful nan bodycam footage, and constabulary told her they put her telephone successful her container and kept some safe.

'I want to make judge your worldly doesn’t get stolen,' 1 told her. Spencer besides had a purse strapped to her nan stayed connected until she was successful nan ambulance.

Spencer forwarded questions from DailyMail.com to her friend, retired lawyer Paul Foreman, who said they 'quarreled' pinch her being 'heavily intoxicated'.

'The videos showing Trish astatine nan segment of nan incident and astatine nan ER do not supply immoderate accordant grounds of intoxication,' he claimed.

'They are conscionable arsenic accordant pinch a concussion and different injuries which would nutrient shock. 

'It is besides important to statement that connected 1 video nan serviceman is asking her if she is injured. Thus it is clear that nan serviceman astatine that clip had nary knowledge of nan grade of her injuries and their cause.'

Foreman said Spencer did not retrieve thing caller astir really she sewage into specified a state, and still had 'no representation of nan constabulary brushwood and constricted memory' of her infirmary visit.

'She did not go alert that she mightiness person been attacked until good aft nan incident erstwhile she noticed that she was missing individual effects,' he said.

'Medical unit astatine her consequent sojourn to a Bay Area ER nan adjacent time advised that her injuries raised a suspicion that she had been attacked which required that they study that to nan police.'

Long Beach Police said location was nary denotation a crime occurred. It is not known whether Spencer was tested for intoxicant aliases narcotics successful hospital.

Alameda City Council will astatine a November 6 gathering statement a mobility to admonish Spencer complete nan incident.

'The inappropriate behaviour of a Councilmember undermines nan public’s spot successful each matters that travel earlier nan Council,' nan mobility argued.

Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft, successful adding nan point to nan agenda, based on her behaviour violated portion of the City Council Code of Conduct.

'Members are perpetually being observed by nan organization each time that they service successful office,' nan codification read.

'Their behaviors and comments service arsenic models for due deportment successful nan City of Alameda. 

'Honesty and respect for nan dignity of each individual should beryllium reflected successful each connection and action taken by members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is simply a superior and continuous responsibility.'

The incident is poorly clip for Spencer arsenic she is up for reelection connected Tuesday, pinch 5 candidates competing for 2 assembly spots.