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The Associated Press reports:
Mississippi’s governor and two other top Republicans say a state lawmaker should resign if he punched his wife. Second-term Republican Rep. Doug McLeod of Lucedale was arrested last weekend and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence.
George County sheriff’s deputies say McLeod bloodied his wife’s nose after she didn’t undress quickly enough when McLeod wanted to have sex.
Deputies report McLeod was drunk when they arrived late Saturday. Gov. Phil Bryant’s spokesman, Bobby Morgan, says Wednesday that Bryant considers “abuse of any kind is reprehensible.”
CBS News reports:
Another woman in the house said McLeod’s wife ran into her room, and the woman locked the door. The woman said McLeod started banging on the door and threatened to “kill her (expletive) dog” if she didn’t open it, according to the Sun Herald.
The police report said McLeod “had slurred speech and walked slow in a zigzag pattern,” and was so drunk that he needed to grab a handrail to maintain balance. McLeod was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, and released on $1,000 bond.
McLeod, who has served in Mississippi’s House since 2012, co-sponsored a bill this year to ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected — which usually happens about six weeks into pregnancy. Mississippi passed the ban this month and it is now being challenged in federal court.
George County deputies report state Rep. Doug McLeod punched his wife and bloodied her nose. When officers told McLeod a domestic assault had been reported, they say he replied, “Are you kidding me?”https://t.co/5c1pVOOzHa
— WWMT-TV (@wwmtnews) May 21, 2019
#Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn and state Republican chairman Lucien Smith issued statements that Republican Rep. Doug McLeod of Lucedale should resign if allegations that he punched his wife over sex are true. https://t.co/Dc1Gs9zrMb pic.twitter.com/pcrKmSkn5n
— Jackson Free Press (@JxnFreePress) May 22, 2019
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