WHAM reported on Friday that a district attorney from upstate New York became verbally abusive towards officers and requested preferential treatment after driving away from a traffic stop. According to bodycam footage obtained by WHAM, Sandra Doorley, the District Attorney of Monroe County, refused to pull over her car when a police officer tried to stop her for speeding 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. Instead, Doorley proceeded to drive home while contacting the chief of police to express her dissatisfaction. Upon reaching her driveway, she encountered officers who she tried to manipulate using her position in order to avoid taking responsibility for her actions.
“I didn’t want to pull over on Phillips Road. I just figured I’d pull up to my driveway,” Doorley tells an officer.
Watch the full interaction:
Doorley requested the officer to simply issue her a speeding ticket, however, the officer stated that her failure to stop after he tried to pull her over constituted an “arrestable offense,” as shown in the recorded footage. In another video segment, Doorley asserts to an officer that she possesses a superior understanding of the law compared to him and instructs him to “leave my residence immediately.”
“You know what I’ve been dealing with all day? Three murders in the city,” Doorley tells an officer. “Do you think I really care if I was going 20 miles over the speed limit?”
Doorley issued a statement one day before the release of the bodycam footage, wherein she acknowledged her actions and confessed to pleading guilty for speeding in a municipal court on Tuesday.
