Newly released security and body camera footage shows the moments leading up to the arrest of South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass last month outside a Stateline bar.

The video, obtained by the Tahoe Daily Tribune from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, has no audio. It shows Bass, who was mayor pro tem at the time, walking past AleWorX, a restaurant and bar on the Nevada side of the state line, before stopping to talk with a doorman.

At first, the exchange appears calm. But the footage later shows the two gesturing aggressively toward each other before the doorman kicks toward Bass, who then steps back.

Bass called the Douglas County Sheriff's Office to report what he said was battery. However, deputies later told Bass they believed he was the aggressor after reviewing the securit

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