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Posted on 05/05/2026 3:30:14 PM PDT by algore
A top Chicago Democrat mocked an Asian police officer's penis size after being arrested for driving under the influence and tried to pressure an emergency room doctor who treated her to not testify, a court heard.
Samantha Steele, 47, who represents Chicago's District 2 covering most of the North Side and northern suburbs, was charged with misdemeanor DUI after her November 2024 arrest. Her trial began Monday.
Bodycam video shown in a Richard J. Daley Center courtroom captured Steele refusing a field sobriety test and then being arrested after stepping out of her car, according to the Chicago Tribune.
She briefly changed her mind and claimed she would take the test, only to suddenly request an ambulance after complaining of a head injury.
Chicago Police Department officer Danny Wu told the court Steele had cried inside the ambulance and subsequently insulted him at the hospital.
'You have a small penis,' Steele told Wu, per his testimony.
The trial is expected to last two days. Steele did not address the court yesterday and the defense has delivered an opening statement so far.
Steele was first elected as commissioner for District 2 of the Cook County Board of Review, which has the power to decide on property tax appeals, in 2022.
In the report, Wu added: 'While I was reading warning [sic] to motorist Steele repeatedly said 'Is your penis that small.''
Before testimony began, Assistant State's Attorney Brian Boersma told Cook County Judge Donald Suriano that Steele's attorneys had contacted a physician from the emergency room Steele was taken to the night of her arrest to issue her a warning. 'If you testify, your testimony could lead to a malpractice suit,' the court heard.
Prosecutor Riley Mullen said Steele had 'made a choice' on the day of her arrest in 2024.
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One and a half years to go to court over a DUI?
It’s Chicago, Jake.
DYKWIA (Do You Know Who I Am?) Syndrome.
Found Not Guilty of the DUI. Should be thrown out of office for the Asian comments, though. She would be if it were black insults to a black cop.
AWFULS are out of control.
Truman Capote walking past the cells to get to be locked up with the murderer of the Kansas family in the In Cold Blood case to get details for his nonfiction book.
Con in cell: “Why don’t you come over here and #$%@ my @$@#.”
Capote: “No, I have given up between meal snacks.”
Another con’s offer.
Capote: “In your case it wouldn’t make it through the bars.”
Another story of man demanding Capote autograph his member.
“In your case I’ll just be able to fit my initials.”
—Infamous (2006) with Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.
Am I the only one who read that in Capote’s voice?
What is it with Dems obsessing about wieners
It’s Chicago; her behavior is probably considered job enhancement.
Some years back I was helping relatives down in Champaign Illinois, with a cousin who was experiencing dementia and needed allot of assistance. Her income was low enough to qualify her for medicaid (can pay part of nursing home care) and an application for that had been submitted to the state agency handling it. Telephone inquiries on the application kept get answers that essentially meant - “we can’t tell you when it will get denied or approved”. We finally got a social worker person at a hospital to help us. She had helped putting the application together many months before. She made some calls and finally got an answer. We were in January, and the application had been submitted the prior October. What the social worker person found it was that it would be months before we had a real answer. The state agency was still working on medicaid applications submitted the prior June - applications submitted four months prior to our cousins’ and six months prior to our inquiry with the state agency.
Illinois state government costs so much because too many people on the state payroll work to little and too slowly which requires many more state workers than usual just to keep going. Illinois state government has 500 employees for every 10,000 people in Illinois. In contrast the Florida state government has about 706 employees for every 100,000 people in Florida. That translates to about 5,000 state employees in Illinois for each 100,000 people or about seven times as many employees per capita than Florida. That’s a lot of people just shuffling a lot of papers and getting nothing done.
Insane.
In Arkansas my mom in law was approved by a nursing home for Medicaid in 30 days.
She looks like the type of woman who would lie about being a breast cancer survivor so she can be the queen bee among the other AWFLs at their weekly chardonnay-guzzling gatherings.
Ha. Did you see Murder By Death? Just saw it again after many years. Great movie with the real Truman Capote as Lionel Twain.
She needs to work on that makeup.
Guilty.
She seems to be pretty shady too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Steele_(politician)#Controversies
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/05/05/samantha-steele-chicago-cook-county-board-of-review-crime-dui-drunk
"She wasn't drunk, Your Honor, that's actually just her real personality."
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