Rhode Island State Senator Joshua Miller, 69, a Democrat representing Cranston and Providence, has been arrested and charged with Vandalism/Malicious Injury to Property.

He is accused of deliberately defacing another man’s car because of an anti-Biden bumper sticker on the vehicle.

Miller denied causing any damage to the vehicle and alleged that the car’s owner had followed and verbally threatened him.

Miller further speculated, “I am a state senator. I think he recognized me. I think he is one of those ‘gun nuts.”

The surveillance footage from the shopping center showed Miller standing next to the damaged vehicle. When police later visited Miller’s home for questioning, the senator confessed to the act.

In the body camera recording, Major Todd Patalano can be heard asking Miller, “We got evidence, so you tell us how you want to handle this. You keyed his car?” to which Miller admitted, “Yeah.”

Miller justified his actions by stating the car owner was yelling at him and “dared him,” to do it. In response, Patalano suggested, “We can make either make a big deal of this or a little deal, so.” To which Miller sought the officer’s recommendation, expressing his unwillingness to be accused of a cover-up.