Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor has been placed on administrative leave after body camera footage taken from a traffic stop last month revealed she told a deputy she was “hoping that you’ll just let us go tonight” and flashed her badge.O’Connor was a passenger in a golf cart, which was pulled over for driving on a roadway without a license plate tag, according to footage of the November 12 incident obtained by CNN from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.As the deputy explained why the couple was stopped, O’Connor asked if the deputy’s body camera was operating and then identified herself as the Tampa police chief.“It was poor judgment on our part to be driving a golf cart on a public roadway without the appropriate tags,” O’Connor said.“This was the first time we had exited the golf-cart friendly community in which we own property with this vehicle, prompting the need for a license plate.”“In hindsight, I realize how my handling of this matter could be viewed as inappropriate, but that was certainly not my intent."