After weeks of shifting answers to questions about a 1983 misdemeanor assault charge, Republican senate candidate Darryl Glenn says he was briefly accused of hitting his dad.
“My father hit my mother, and I got between them to try and protect her. The police were called,” Glenn wrote in a press release. “He claimed to the police that I hit him. I do not believe I ever hit him. My mother swears I did not hit him either, but it wouldn't have been beyond him at the time to claim I did.”
Glenn’s response follows a series of articles and an editorial by The Denver Post.
The Post reported that Glenn first told them he’d never been arrested or interviewed by the police and claimed the charges might belong to another Darryl Glenn.
Glenn then told the Colorado Springs Independent that his older half-brother Cedric might have been involved.
When The Post shared the police report this week showing Glenn’s birthdate and signature, his press secretary Katey Price insisted the Republican nominee didn’t know what happened.
FULL STATEMENT: Read Glenn's full statement here
That changed Wednesday when Glenn admitted he is the Darryl Glenn in the Nov. 20, 1983 police report.
Despite that admission, Glenn maintains he never lied about the incident.
“I told the truth when I said I have never been arrested. I have never been handcuffed or fingerprinted. I have never appeared in court as a defendant … ,” Glenn wrote. “I think my dad initially wanted to press charges that night and a report was filed. I know that a few weeks later my mother and I were called into a meeting in a Judge’s chambers. He asked us a few questions and then sent us home.”
He claims he didn’t recall being accused of striking his father when The Post initially asked about it because it was one in a series of dark and violent nights in his parents’ house.
“I only have these details now because of what my mother told me this past week,” Glenn wrote. “It’s probably hard to understand this unless you grew up in the kind of environment that I did.”
