Overview
- New body-camera reporting Saturday by the Washington Post shows officers at a February 2025 call nearly arrested Rep. Cory Mills after a woman first showed bruises and accused him of assault.
- The video captures an officer saying superiors were treating it as a “family disturbance” rather than an assault and shows plans to transport Mills that were later dropped.
- The footage also shows Mills warning an arrest would be “weaponized” and an officer telling him he would be handcuffed if he ignored orders not to make calls.
- Prosecutors declined to approve an arrest warrant the next day, the complainant later withdrew her allegation, and police referred the case with no charges filed.
- Mills denies wrongdoing and rejects comparisons to the recent resignations of Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales, as a House Ethics probe and a Florida restraining order tied to a separate ex keep political pressure on him and party leaders.