Posted on 03/19/2015 7:45:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
This is a developing story, and will continue to be updated with the latest information available.
Martese Johnson, a third-year student in the College and a member of the Honor Committee and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, was arrested around 12:45 a.m. on Mar. 18 in front of Trinity Irish Pub on the Corner. At the request of University President Teresa Sullivan, a state investigation into the use of force in Johnson's arrest is now underway.
Johnson was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing justice without threats of force, and profane swearing or intoxication in public at 4:21 a.m. The arresting officer was Alcohol and Beverage Control special agent J. Miller.
Miller noted on the arrest record that Johnson “was very agitated and belligerent but [has] no previous criminal history.”
In the course of the arrest, Johnson sustained a head injury requiring 10 stitches.
Johnson was held at $1,500 bail with the specification he be released on an unsecured bond when sober. He was released at 6:01 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Johnson has since retained Richmond attorney Daniel Watkins of the firm Williams Mullen as his lawyer.
An email from Black Dot, signed by “Concerned Black Students,” said the arrest was unprovoked as Johnson was not resisting questioning or arrest. The email included a photo of Johnson bleeding while being held outside Trinity.
“Outside of the doors of Trinity Irish Pub, a mass of University students bore witness to the officer’s animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling of Martese,” the email said. “He was left with his blood splattered on the pavement of University Avenue.”
The email asks for a “swift and thorough investigation on the state, local and University levels.”
Black Student Alliance President Joy Omenyi, a fourth-year College student, said the BSA supports Black Dot’s statement.
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“In the course of the arrest, Johnson sustained a head injury requiring 10 stitches.”
Ma! I’ll be gettin’ a million dollars per stitch from the po-leese!
Gee. A college kid drunk and disorderly on St. Patty’s Day. What are the odds? *SNORT*
Despite the hype, I’m not sure this is what it looks like.
He’s got scrapes on his forehead from the takedown that bled a lot but i think the brutality meme is pretty strong.
“the officer’s animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling of Martese”
Insensitivity? There’s no excuse for that!
Whack his pee pee/
Back in the good old days when I was in college, you knew that if you got drunk and mouthed off to the police or, God Forbid, resisted arrest, you got smacked. It stopped you from mouthing off and resisting arrest. I guess that’s not the rule anymore.
The Booze cops are particularly out of control, last year they arrested some girl for having bottled water.
Dude was yelling “lawsuit” right out of the box. I am quite surprised at the laid-back demeanor of the two LE involved. Every word out of Martese’s mouth was prefaced by “You f@cking racists and How did this happen”.
Frankly, the sympathetic and disconnected black-whatever concerned student groups aside, there’s no evidence in the video of it, except on his part.
Nowadays Precious Snowflakes Mom helicopters in and threatens to call her lawyer immediately...
Don’t stand in your doorway with a hand tool in Dallas, or the cops will shoot you to death.
So I suppose it could have been a lot worse for Martese.
I have a friend who lost all 4 front teeth on the top in an encounter with a cop.
He was being arrested for drunk driving and was already in cuffs when he decided it would be a good time to head butt the cop. He missed and tried to do it again so the cop gave him a forearm to the face and put him down.
As much as I hope to NEVER run across a rouge cop, you can bet your buttons I’m going to do as they tell me in any situation. Of course, I can’t imagine putting myself into a, ‘situation’ that requires their, ‘assistance’ in the FIRST place! ;)
I’ve been in handcuffs at least a dozen times in my misspent youth yet never once had a cop get rough with me including a couple of times it would have been justified.
Heck that’s Dallas. Here in NM they popped a guy with a spatula.
Al Sharpton...Rev. Al Sharpton...please pick up the “White?” courtesy phone.....Rev. Sharpton.
He needs to review the Chris Rock video (somewhat NSFW), “How not to get your ass kicked by the police.”
(again, somewhat NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR465HoCWFQ
There’s a reason why the words drunk and disorderly go together. :-)
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Only for some of us.
Here’s a good topic and conversation-starter for Starbucks’s new sociology project.
The pic shows he’s still running his mouth. Another of obamy’s sons. The Honor Committee must be so proud. Actually, they probably are. Disgraceful.
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