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Dianna Russini was seen trying to get out of a traffic ticket in new body-cam footage.<\/p>\n
In January, the former NFL<\/a> reporter for The Athletic, 43, got pulled over by a police<\/a> officer for using her phone while driving in New Jersey with her two sons. On Monday, June 29, Adam Herbets of Center Square shared the body-cam video showing Russini’s interaction with the cop on X.<\/p>\n In the seven-minute, 10-second clip, the officer approaches Russini’s vehicle and asks for her license and registration. Russini introduces herself as an NFL journalist who just broke a story about Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott being fired<\/a>. She claimed she was sending a tweet about it before she was stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I’m an NFL reporter, and I just broke that Sean McDermott got fired from the Bills. And that I what I was just sending to send [sic], a tweet. I was gonna pull over, because I have to make calls. I know you don\u2019t care, but I just wanted you to know my reason why,” she says in the clip.<\/p>\n The officer says, “Obviously you were on your phone for a while….I understand you’ve got a job.” Then, Russini says, “You know who I was on the phone with? Brian Daboll. He wants the job.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Russini then asks the officer if he’s a Giants or a Jets fan. “I’m actually \u2014 I’m not a fan of either,” the officer replies. “What is your team?” Russini asks. “I’m a Vikings fan, unfortunately,” he says.<\/p>\n The sports journalist then shows him her phone, and a text exchange with Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell. She also adds, regarding the Vikings, their “quarterback sucks.”<\/p>\n After going to his vehicle, the officer eventually returns and tells Russini, “I’m gonna cut you a break on the cellphone. I understand your job requires you to be on the phone a lot. Just try to wait ’til you get home, OK?”<\/p>\n In February, Russini was a guest on the radio show, Stugotz and Company, <\/em>where she claimed she FaceTimed O’Connell, which helped get her out of the ticket.<\/p>\n “Do you want to talk to the coach? You should talk to the coach,” Russini said she told the officer as she recounted the incident on the show.<\/p>\n “I FaceTime the head coach,” she said, without naming him. “Head coach is in his office. He said, ‘What’s up?’ I go, ‘I just got pulled over and I just wanted you to meet my friend, Officer Joe.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The coach got her out of the ticket by telling the officer, “You should let her go, she’s a good citizen,” Russini said. The podcast host, Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, laughed and said, “I wish I had that kind of access.”<\/p>\n Russini’s false claim was then recounted in an anecdote in a New York Times<\/a> expose about her last week.<\/p>\n