Rhode Island councilman faces calls to resign following drug arrest

Police in Cranston, Rhode Island, released bodycam footage showing the arrest of Republican City Council member Matthew Reilly on a drug charge on Monday, May 15. Reilly is facing calls to resign from city leaders, reports said. According to the Cranston Herald, police found Reilly asleep in his car after a passerby flagged to Officer Luis Collado that a man was possibly choking. The video shows Collado waking Reilly, who is asleep in the driver’s seat of his car with a pipe in his hand. Collado questions Reilly, who says he had smoked crack “earlier” at his home but said he did not have drugs in the car. Reilly said he had been clean for 13 years but relapsed recently following a bad divorce. Credit: Cranston Police Department via Storyful