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Body-Cam and Records Show DC Police Backed Off Arrest of Rep. Cory Mills After Warrant Denied

The records intensify scrutiny of decisions that kept the congressman from being booked.

Overview

  • The Washington Post published body-camera footage and internal files that show a supervisor told officers not to arrest Cory Mills after the woman changed her account following an apparent conversation with him.
  • Video captures Officer Richard Mazloom telling the woman that his bosses were treating the call as a “family disturbance” instead of “an actual domestic assault.”
  • Investigators had prepared a transport unit to pick up Mills before the plan was canceled, according to dispatch details captured in the footage.
  • Police later asked interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to approve an arrest warrant, which he refused.
  • The episode is under a House Ethics Committee inquiry, and Mills calls the allegation “patently false.”