Nevada Lawmaker Complains of Mistreatment After Arrest Over Threats
Seems a little wacky
It's been a bad month for Steven Brooks.
The Democratic Assemblyman from Las Vegas is in pain from medical problems and, he says, a physical beating he took before he was arrested and accused of threatening to harm Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick.
"I've had a month of hell," Brooks said in his first interview since his arrest Saturday. "I had the worst month I had in all my life and the new year just started."
The disjointed, 35-minute interview took place in a sparsely furnished North Las Vegas apartment. Present were Brooks, his attorney, Mitchell Posin, and a man who only identified himself as Darren and said he is Brooks' driver.
Brooks was shirtless much of the time, walking with a heavy limp and showing a reporter myriad swollen spots on his face, neck and torso that he and Posin attributed to mistreatment before and after his arrest.
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