Texas police bodycam footage of arrest of Allen West’s wife ‘stinks of harassment’

New footage released by the Dallas Police Department raises new questions over six months after officers claimed they arrested the wife of Texas gubernatorial candidate Allen West for drunk driving.

The two hours of footage, obtained by Just the News, shows officers asking Angela West to move her car to another area after she was initially pulled over by police. Additionally, officers are seen in the footage to be surprised that the breathalyzer test they conducted on West showed she was above the legal limit, which was omitted from the police report of her arrest in Aug. 2021.

Bernard Kerik, a former commissioner of the New York Police Department, told the outlet Monday that the arrest “stinks of harassment or abuse of power.”

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“If the officer actually thought she had been drinking, and was impaired not to drive her car, she wouldn’t have told her to go around the corner and park somewhere else,” he said.

The video shows the officers note that West did not sway during a field sobriety test they conducted on her. Kerik said that West “obviously had not been drinking, and from what I saw, other than being nervous, she did fine in the sobriety test.”

Dallas Police Department officials have defended the arrest, saying the officers did not include the breathalyzer test in their reports because West did not initially perform it correctly, leading to a blood test being administered instead. They also said officers did not give a Miranda rights warning to her but did give a statutory warning after she was arrested.

Angela West was cleared of her drinking while intoxicated charge on Sept. 1 last year. Allen West, a former Florida congressman who now leads the Texas GOP, asked on social media for a full apology from the DPD, saying his wife’s “honor and reputation should have never been assailed.”

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West has not yet responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

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