A North Dakota lawmaker told authorities they’d “regret picking on him” during a “verbally abusive, homophobic, racially abusive and discriminatory”tirade aimed at officers who were arresting him for drunken driving, according to a police report and bodycam footage. Republican state Rep. Nico Rios‘ confrontation with police occurred on Dec. 15 as he was driving home from a holiday party. He was pulled over in Williston after authorities said he failed to stay in his own lane. Bodycam footage shows Rios, a first-term official who won his seat in 2022, initially trying to hand officers his busin…
