Police bodycam footage shows a North Dakota lawmaker from Williston making homophobic and anti-migrant remarks to an officer who arrested him on a charge of driving drunk.
Republican State Rep. Nico Rios is due in municipal court on Feb. 5. In a Friday email, he apologized for his behavior.
The officer wrote in his report that Rios “was verbally abusive, homophobic, racially abusive and discriminatory” toward him during the stop on Dec. 15.
Rios was elected last year to the state House of Representatives.
He sits on the House Judiciary Committee, a panel that handles law enforcement legislation.
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AP