A Houston woman and her husband filed suit against state Rep. Borris Miles on Friday, asking that he be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and claiming he forced a kiss on the woman at a holiday party."Displaying a pistol"?
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has been investigating a complaint that Miles entered a St. Regis Hotel ballroom uninvited, confronting guests, displaying a pistol and forcibly kissing another man's wife.
He reportedly "referred to himself as a 'gangster' and a 'thug' as he "threatened a business rival and brandished a gun."
And this same article tells us:
In July, Miles made news when he shot a man in the leg who was apparently trying to steal copper wiring from a home Miles was building. He is licensed to carry a concealed weapon and was not charged in the shooting.
Just one thing about that. It didn't stop him from "oppos[ing] a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force."
I guess now we can see why.
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2 comments:
Sometimes it's fun to guess someone's party affiliation in a piece by a journalism malpractitioner. It's never actually written here, but implied by the last paragraph, (which contains a misspelling.)
Kind of like how forcible rape or assault with a weapon is not mentioned.
State Rep. Borris Miles of Houston – who voted against Texas' castle law – shot and wounded a man he said was trying to steal copper from his new home in July. Mr. Miles was upstairs in the home, then still under construction, when he heard noise downstairs. He found two men cutting pipes. When he yelled, one threw a pocketknife, and Mr. Miles, who has a concealed-handgun permit, shot the man in the leg. He was not charged in the case.
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