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A 21-year-old Kansas lawmaker is facing calls to resign after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving last month — his latest brush with the law since being elected in 2020.
Democratic state Rep. Aaron Coleman wasarrested on suspicion of DUINov. 27, though he has yet to be charged over the incident, as investigators await the results of tests to determine what he was under the influence of.
“At this time, test results are pending from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation,” Assistant District Attorney Ted Baird wrote in a report Monday, according to theAssociated Press.
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The November arrest comes on the heels of a misdemeanor domestic battery charge stemming from an Oct. 30 fight Coleman had with his 18-year-old brother.
Coleman pled not guilty to the battery charges and has a hearing scheduled for Jan. 7 for that case.
He did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Lawmakers in Coleman’s own party are urging him to resign in the wake of the arrests.
House Democratic Leader Tom Sawyer echoed those sentiments, saying in his own statement: “For the sake of the state of Kansas, his constituents and himself, he should resign and concentrate on getting the help he badly needs. The stress of the Legislature is not a healthy environment for someone in this mental state.”
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Throughout his campaign and after getting elected in 2020, Coleman has been at the center of several controversies which have led lawmakers to call for his resignation.
The politicianpreviouslyfaced backlashafter reports surfaced that he shared sexually exploitative images of teenage girls when he was younger, was charged with threatening to shoot a fellow student and tweeted about one day putting out “a hit” on a sitting governor.
In Aug. 2020, the representativeadmittedthat he had harassed girls — including sharing a nude photo of one girl in retaliation for her not sending more illicit photos — when he was in middle school after stories surfaced about his abuse of women.
source: people.com
