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Providence police confirmed in tweets that Lugo was the officer in question and said the department is conducting a criminal investigation. Lugo tweeted on Saturday that he was dropping out of the race for a seat in the state’s legislature before shutting down his Twitter account altogether, according to the Daily Beast.

The Washington Post reported that the cop claimed he was there “to protect someone that a group of agitators was attacking,” and asked for privacy for he and his family.

Somebody should probably break the news that privacy is no longer a thing when a man with a badge punches an unarmed woman in the face.