This is not the first time Ellison has come under fire for abuse. In 2006, another one of Ellison’s former girlfriends, Amy L. Alexander, wrote a piece in The Wright County Republican in which she claimed “he could explode in a tirade at any moment. He was a little dictator.”
“He grabbed me and pushed me out of the way. I was terrified. I called the police,” Alexander wrote. “Keith began a smear campaign against me that very day … I feared for my life and for the safety of my daughter.”
In 2012, Ellison called his Republican opponent, Chris Fields, a “lowlife scumbag” and a “gutter dweller” during a local radio debate, after Fields accused Ellison of paying a firm hundreds of thousands of dollars to find information about Fields’ divorce. Ellison denied it and responded by saying Fields was “stupid” for bringing it up.
https://thinkprogress.org/keith-ellison-ex-girlfriend-karen-monahan-speaks-out-b4e8c3bf7095/