Newly released body cam footage shows Hawks stars Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald being arrested in the US as their Australian friends plead for leniency from arresting officers.

The players were arrested for climbing on a cherry-picker last November on a a night out, during a team trip to Phoenix, Arizona in the USA.

A police report stated Moore had a small bag containing a crystal substance and a rolled $100 bill in his possession at the time of the arrest.

He told officers it did not belong to him and was not charged over the substance.

Both men pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing.

Arrest video Hawks players. Nine

In the vision, police on bicycles approach the players as they climb into the cage of a scissor lift in a car park.

When Moore and Macdonald step down, they are handcuffed. As that happens, teammates plead for the officers to let the players off.

“Officer, we’re from Australia we literally don’t know the rules around here,” one says.

Another tells the officer: “I’ve got a family full of police officers.”

A friend asks: “Is there any way we can just call it a night and all go home or what?”

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However, the officer was having none of it.

“No, they are going to go to jail tonight.”

News of the arrest remained secret for months before Moore came clean in an interview days before the club’s high stakes clash with Essendon.

The court case will be heard later this year.