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 Mike Cornell said.

Cornell was frustrated and alleged that his officer tried to cover up the crash.

“Close to a $1,000 worth of damage,” Cornelll said. “And then you not only you did this, but you deceitfully kept it from us.”

Cornell and his police command staff showed us where they said the officer attempted a U-turn, hit a large rock, and dragged it into the grass where he got stuck.

“He paid a resident some money to jack the vehicle up off a rock so he could hurry up and get back to the station and act like it never happened,” the mayor said.

Captain Toreyon Times, the acting Riverview Police Chief, did not believe the officer was drunk.

Mayor Cornell said the officer did not take a breathalyzer test.

“I don’t know if we even have something like that here,” he said.

The mayor said they would have brought the St. Louis County Police Department to administer a breathalyzer if they saw a hint of intoxication.

“We got close to him. We didn’t smell any alcohol on him,” Cornell said.

The mayor said that was less than an hour after the Facebook Live post. The mayor said he cannot name the officer since it’s a personnel issue, but said the officer was suspended for three days without pay.