RIVERVIEW, Mo. – A viral video from the City of Riverview captured the aftermath of what witnesses described as a drunk driving crash involving a police officer. But the city’s mayor and police command staff paint a different picture.

The crash happened on Monday, Sept. 8 in a grassy area near an apartment complex on Toelle Lane.

“911, come check on your peoples,” someone shouts during the video.

You can see a Riverview police vehicle in the grass and a uniformed officer out of his car, standing in the street.

“This is a police [officer] over here in our apartment drunk,” someone else says on the video.

Tens of thousands of people saw the Facebook Live post, often making light with comments like, “protect and swerve.”

“I was kind of pissed off you didn’t tell us,” Riverview Mayor Mik

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