Dallas police on Monday obtained a warrant for City Council member Kevin Felder's arrest after he was allegedly involved in a car accident with a scooter before a City Council meeting earlier this month.

State District Judge Tammy Kemp signed the warrant Monday, around the time Felder was in a Public Safety & Criminal Justice Committee meeting. Felder, who was involved in a dramatic incident with a cameraman as he left City Hall, had not yet been arrested late Monday.

Dallas police and Kemp's office did not provide details of the charge.

Police have said Felder, driving a Ford Fusion, on Feb. 13 allegedly collided with someone riding a scooter in the 2500 block of Malcolm X Boulevard in South Dallas. Felder exchanged words with the scooter’s driver and left the scene before police arrived, authorities said.

Felder declined to comment on the incident later that day. He spent much of the Feb. 13 City Council meeting in discussions with Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall, City Manager T.C. Broadnax, and Assistant City Manager Jon Fortune, who oversees public safety. During the meeting, Dallas police had Felder's Ford Fusion towed.

A day after the incident, Felder’s attorney, Pete Schulte, disputed that narrative and said “there was no collision.” Felder had simply confronted someone for “zig-zagging” on Malcolm X, Schulte said.

After WFAA-TV (Channel 8) first reported on the arrest warrant Monday, Schulte said he had heard the reports but had not yet confirmed that to be the case. He said he would have no comment until he knew more.

It’s so nice that some media outlets think (or evidently know) that an arrest warrant has been issued for my client Councilman @felderk. Waiting to confirm that information myself. No comment until I get more info, as, if true, a heads up from @DallasPD would have been nice! — Lawyer Pete Schulte (@AttyPeteSchulte) February 25, 2019

“If true,” Schulte tweeted, “a heads up from @DallasPD would have been nice!”

Felder did not take questions as he left City Hall shortly after 1 p.m. He was surrounded by a phalanx of TV cameras and reporters seeking comment.

A KDFW-TV (Channel 4) video shows Felder walking to his car with a cameraman from KXAS-TV (NBC5) walking backward in front of him. Felder appeared to swat the man's microphone at one point. The cameraman, Mike Heimbuch, quickly fell at the same moment. It's unclear whether the cameraman tripped on something else or fell as a result of the council member's actions.

Felder continued walking without acknowledging that the cameraman hit the ground. He instead went to his car and left the City Hall garage.

Heimbuch declined to be interviewed by news media Monday afternoon. He said he was going to first give a statement to Dallas police. He also said he wanted to have his wrist examined by a paramedic.

John Stone, NBC5's news director, said Dallas police interviewed Heimbuch later Monday.

"And a decision was made not to pursue this," he said.

When asked who made the decision, Stone said he had no further comment.

Moments after the incident, Mayor Mike Rawlings gathered the media in the hallway outside his office to discuss the warrant and the alleged altercation.

At the outset of the impromptu gathering, the mayor said he wasn't aware that a warrant had been signed. Regardless, he said, it's a "tough situation," in part because Dallas police have to investigate someone on the City Council.

Rawlings said he wants to "let Mr. Felder have his day in court” and that investigators “wanted to be thorough” before deciding whether to arrest the council member. He said he has not spoken with Felder about the scooter incident.

Mayor Mike Rawlingsn (left) met with reporters, including Fox4's Lori Brown (center) and WFAA's Rebecca Lopez (right) after an arrest warrant was issued for council member Kevin Felder, who left Dallas City Hall Monday afternoon. During his departure, the council member was accused of shoving a KXAS-TV (NBC5) cameraman. (Robert Wilonsky / Staff writer)

Toward the end of the news conference, a KDFW-TV reporter showed the mayor a video of the incident involving the Channel 5 cameraman. Rawlings didn't comment directly on the video.

"We have to treat each other with respect," he said, meaning the media and council members.

Rawlings said since the initial incident involving Felder and the scooter-rider, he has had just a single conversation with Broadnax, to get a status update. He said the city manager assured him they were neither "rushing" the investigation nor slowing it down.

Felder faces eight opponents for his council seat in the May election, including former council member Tiffinni Young, who Felder ousted after her sole term in 2017, and Sandra Crenshaw, another former council member who frequently files ethics complaints about council members that go nowhere. Felder took part in the ballot drawing for the District 7 race on Monday morning, drawing the third spot on the ballot.