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The politician from Palm Bay has made a name for himself over nearly a decade in the Florida legislature, lending his name to some of the most controversial state laws in recent memory.

“I’m not trying to get in the weeds with a whole bunch of that,” an investigator told a paramedic explaining the ketamine injection he gave 18-year-old Giovani Berne before Berne’s heart stopped in Palm Bay, Florida, in 2016.

Brandon Kapas, 24, got into a confrontation with Palm Bay police officers Sunday afternoon following a disturbance at his family’s home, police said.

Palm Bay detectives said they were trying to determine the connection between Kapas and his victims.

The wounded officers from the Palm Bay Police Department were being treated at a hospital and are going to survive, Police Chief Mariano Augello said at a news conference.