An off-duty Rhode Island police officer who was running for state Senate is under investigation for allegedly attacking his female opponent during an abortion rights protest Friday night.
it launched a criminal investigation into the incident and placed Lugo on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation and an administrative review.
After turning himself in on the charges, Lugo was arraigned in front of a justice of the peace and released on his own recognizance, state police said in Saturday’s statement. He is due in district court July 8 for re-arraignment, police said. Online court records did not appear to show the case, and it was not clear if Lugo had an attorney late Saturday."I will not be running for any office this fall," he
. He was running for District 29 as a Republican. The account did not appear to exist later Saturday.Lugo said in a statement to CNBC that he was in"a situation that no individual should see themselves in" and tried to"protect someone that a group of agitators was attacking." "At this moment, there’s a pending internal investigation, and as the facts of the incident come to light, I request that my family and I have privacy," he said then.
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