After crashing her car in June, state Rep. Victoria Neave refused to answer Dallas police officers' questions, telling them over and over that she loved them and would fight for them, video released Thursday shows.

Police said the "uncooperative" lawmaker's blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit during the arrest last summer near Lakewood Country Club.

Neave, a Democrat who represents parts of Dallas, Mesquite and Garland, was found guilty of DWI in October.

The Dallas Morning News obtained video of her arrest from Dallas police Thursday through an open-records request.

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The video shows Neave's damaged BMW in the middle of the street and the legislator leaning against another car in a nearby parking lot while talking to police.

When an officer asks her what happened, she invokes her Fifth Amendment right and says her attorney is "right there."

"I fight for you all, sir," she tells the officers while leaning against a car.

The officer tells Neave she hit a tree, and she responds, "I didn't hit anybody." He then asks her whether she's declining to perform any sobriety tests.

Victoria Neave ((Courtesy of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department))

"I am an attorney," says Neave, who went to Texas Southern University's law school and runs a law firm. "I fight for you all, sir. That is my attorney, sir. I love you, I love you. That is my attorney, sir."

She repeats that once more

before an officer interrupts her and tells her police are conducting a drunken-driving investigation.

"I love you, and I will fight for you," she says as officers ask her more questions.

The officer tells Neave's attorney that the investigation is "out of our hands right now" because Neave isn't cooperating.

"I'm asking her to perform a number of field sobriety tests," the officer says, "but she keeps saying that she loves me and she fights for us."

Neave was handcuffed at the scene on a DWI charge. Court records show she had a blood-alcohol level of .15. The legal limit to drive is 0.08.

Neave, who admitted in an interview that she was in the car alone when she hit the tree, pleaded no contest in October to the misdemeanor.

She said in a written statement that she will be on probation for 12 months and won't be able to drive because her license will be suspended.

"I disappointed my family, my constituents, my supporters, and myself," the statement said. "I am deeply sorry for my actions. I said then the responsibility was mine and that I would accept the consequences. Today, in pleading no contest, I am doing just that. In addition to paying the standard fine and associated fees ... I'll submit to random alcohol testing, take a DWI education class and attend a Victim Impact Panel."

Neave is running for re-election in the March 2018 primary for the District 107 seat, secretary of state records show. She was first elected in 2016 to represent the swing district, which over the last decade has been won by Republicans and Democrats.

She's unopposed in the primary and will face Republican Deanna Metzger in the November general election, according to state records.

Neave announced on Twitter this month that she's received endorsements from the Texas State Teachers Association and the Dallas Fire Fighters Association.

Staff writer Gromer Jeffers Jr. contributed to this report.