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ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida congressman is under investigation for an alleged assault of a 27-year-old woman, police reports from the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. show.
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican who represents Florida’s 7th congressional district, is accused of grabbing and shoving the woman Wednesday afternoon at a luxury apartment building in The Wharf area.
When officers spoke with the woman, they reported seeing bruises on her arm that “appeared fresh.” That’s according to just one of the police reports obtained by the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C.
News 4 said reporters obtained multiple copies of the police report, each showing varying levels of detail about what happened inside the luxury apartment building.
The initial report states that the woman told officers “her significant other for over a year grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out the door.” While police were with the woman, Mills called, and police wrote that she “let officers hear (Mills) instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises.”
The report described her demeanor as “physically shaking and scared.”
Police said the responding officers told Mills he would be placed under arrest, but then the woman recanted all of the details, including the origin of her bruises.
A second version of the police report obtained by News 4 a day after the incident states that officers responded for a family disturbance and there was no probable cause for arrest.
When News 4 reached out to police for comment, they provided a third version of the report that the department had changed to say officers responded to a possible assault and that it was being investigated.
While D.C. police investigate the initial incident, a second internal investigation is underway into “making sure that all of our members did what they’re supposed to do, according to MPD policy,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told News 4.
The internal investigation will be focused on why officers made no arrest and why the situation was reclassified as a family disturbance, D.C. police said.
Mills was just sworn into his second term in office and is an Army veteran. Online bios have indicated that he is married and has two children. His office provided the following statement to NBC:
“This week, law enforcement was asked to resolve a private matter at Congressman Mills’ residence. Congressman Mills vehemently denies any wrongdoing whatsoever, and is confident any investigation will clear this matter quickly.”