A member of the D.C. Council who called 911 early Friday as a woman was being attacked outside his front door was harassed by a call taker who at one point asked if he was drunk, he said Friday.

At 1:15 a.m. Friday, At-large Councilman David Catania was awakened by the muffled screams of a woman “pleading for her life,” he said. Admittedly disoriented, he grabbed his phone and called 911, he said, and was confronted by a woman who “loved her words more than her mission” and spoke in a “textbook badgering style.” At one point he claimed the woman asked if he was drunk.