According to a police affidavit, she then sat down with her husband and had two shots.
Officers reported she smelled strongly of alcohol.
When they tried to handcuff her, she began screaming racial slurs at police.
"You will not take my child and place her with a f***ing n****r," she allegedly said.
According to media reports, once she was placed in the patrol car, she allegedly smashed her forehead into a steel bar.
Her blood alcohol level was double the legal limit.
She was charged with abandoning or endangering a child, resisting arrest and making a terrorist threat against a public servant.
Vaughan was photographed smiling for her mugshot.