he was charged with obstruction of justice without force. and i m not a lawyer like you are, mel, that seems to me to indicate he wasn t physically fighting. you re being mouthy and annoying the officers. i m not clear, i ve been try doing dig into the jurisdiction that these abc cops have. are they working under the arm of the state police or working as a private security force for the government. they re people who monitor bars first of all, they regulate sales of alcohol around the state. but they have policing capacity to make sure kids aren t drinking under age at bars in charlottesville university of virginia is one of the main areas where you have kids underage drinking. this boy says he was not using a fake i.d. but it does seem he was trying to get into a bar and he was only 20. so technically, he was at least trying to break some law. right and you re not going to get, well actually in some i know plenty of college students and in particular i have a story i m not g
officers did yesterday will stay with me forever. 20-year-old university of virginia student, martese johnson, standing alongside his attorney as he he reads a statement days after his bloody arrest by uniformed alcoholic beverage control special agents the abc, outside of a local bar. yo his head is bleeding! new information, johnson s attorney giving their version of what led up to this disturbing scene. what the [ bleep ], how did this happen! he said johnson was asked for identification by an employee of the pub and johnson presented a valid stayed i.d. but officers on the scene questioned him anyway. the conversation resulted in my client being thrown to the ground his head hitting the pavement. the officers knees pressed into his back. his face and skull bleeding and needing surgery. abc says johnson was arrested and charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice. uva student jennifer goldman saw part of the confrontation. i didn t see him resisting.
in terms of what was going on that night. and so i m sure there s also been a crackdown by the campus and by the town in terms of policing underage drinking and late-night drinking. this wasn t the town, and this wasn t the campus this was the alcoholic beverage control officials here. cops who make sure kids don t drink underage mo. i want to read awe statement from the virginia state police about this incident. a different agency they say, we owe it to both mr. johnson and the virginia abc, the alcoholic beverage control to be painstakingly thorough in determining the facts of the situation through interviews evidence collection and analysis and investigative procedure. look the virginia state police have raised questions. said they re looking into this. local police have. the university has. the state government has, there seems to be an immediate reaction from everyone but the abc, that this is necessarily to look into this. do you think it will be a fair investigation, mo?
kicked out of universities just this year losing full tuition for the semester because they were caught trying to get into bars or trying to use a fake i.d. now he s not alleged to have a fake i.d. but i do think that the interchange matters. if he goes up and he s got an i.d. that was issued a couple of years ago and his mother has since moved and you re a bouncer at a bar, use common sense. what are you going to do if you re in a college town if it s st. patrick s day, and your job is do make sure that no kid under 21 gets in here you re going to ask questions. go ahead. it s not a situation that they don t deal with probably every single weekend. as do the abc officers. so i don t think that you know the oh my god, this is a new case a 20-year-old trying to get into a bar. this is something that they re used to all the time. that doesn t seem to me to warrant the kind of excessive force that they used. it s a kid, on st. patrick s day, trying to get into a bar. to have a beer. h
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