D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson Monday joined calls for D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles to resign amid allegations that city lawyers destroyed evidence in the controversial mass arrests of hundreds of people caught up in anti-globalization protests.

“He shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place,” said Mendelson, D-at large, who chairs the council’s Judiciary Committee. “It was my view then, and it continues to be my view.”