The Philadelphia district attorney’s office is investigating after the arrest of Philadelphia city official, Celena Morrison, and her husband.
Morrison, Philadelphia’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, was arrested with Darius McLean during a traffic stop Saturday morning, according to police records.
The arrest was captured on video recorded by Morrison, and in it, McLean could be seen on the ground on the shoulder of roadway with an officer standing over him.
“Do you wanna get Tased? Put your hands behind your back!” an officer is heard saying.
“Ok! They are!” McLean responds.
“That’s my husband! That’s my husband, please!” Morrison, who is off camera, can be heard saying.
“I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor,” Morrison says to the officer after telling her husband not to worry.
“It’s cause I’m Black,” McLean says. The officer refuted this during the video before turning toward Morrison.
“Turn around,” the officer tells Morrisson.
In what appears to be a scuffle of some sort, the camera ends up on the ground.
“Give me your hands, or you’re getting Tased!” the officer can be heard saying, as screams can be heard in the background.
“Don’t worry. I don’t know why this is happening,” Morrison tells her husband off camera. “Stay calm, we ain’t done nothing wrong.”
Morrison then says the officer punched her. “Why are you so aggressive?” Morrison asks the officer.
Toward the end of the video, the officer yells at McLean, instructing him not to reach for anything.
“I need my glasses!” he responds.
NBC News does not know what happened prior to the recording of the video.
According to a police report, a Pennsylvania State trooper pulled over a gray Infiniti sedan on Interstate 76 at 9:09 a.m. “after multiple vehicle code violations were observed.”
No additional details are given about the alleged violations.
“Prior to the trooper making contact with the operator of the Infiniti, a green Dodge sedan arrived at the location of the traffic stop and…
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