Indiana

Councilmember Charged

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Indianapolis City-County Council Member Doris Minton McNeill has been charged with felony battery and resisting arrest for her alleged altercation with a police officer this past summer.

Special Prosecutor Jim Oliver charged McNeill with D felony battery and three county of resisting law enforcement, a class a misdemeanor.

McNeil was reportedly drunk and belligerent when police were called to her home in District 15.  According to the police affidavit she shoved IMPD Officer Emily Perkins.

She will appear in court sometime next week.

McNeill is part of a string of controversies surrounding Council Democrats.  Councilor Paul Bateman was involved with a local not-for-profit that is under federal investigation.  Former Council President Monroe Gray was found to have violated the Council’s ethics rules.  And Council Democrat attorney Aaron Haith is being investigated by the Indiana Supreme Court for alleged misconduct.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).