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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...

An elected official in Chicago was arrested Sunday after crashing her car while drunk and reportedly questioning a police officer over the size of his penis. Samantha Steele, a 45-year-old Commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review, was arrested around 8:50 p.m. in the 5000 block of North Ashland Avenue, near the Winnemac and Wolcott Gardens neighborhoods of Chicago, police confirmed to Newsweek. She was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol. The Democrat told police that she crashed her Dodge Charger into a parked Subaru Forester while making a wide right turn, according...