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    Jia TolentinoJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 4:12pm

    I was underage for my entire time at UVA and got caught with a fake ID literally every weekend for four years. This story has me in a fucking rage. If anyone's reading this from Charlottesville with further info you want to get out, email me.

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      Jia TolentinoJia Tolentino
      3/18/15 4:22pm

      sorry the tag got cut off in the post that normally has my email: jia@jezebel.com

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      charlie0001849Jia Tolentino
      3/18/15 4:24pm

      Both the Cav Daily and Daily Progress have posted stories: http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2015/0..., http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/uva....

      I am also a UVA alum, and I, along with just about everyone I knew, got into bars with crappy fake IDs every weekend. I rarely heard of anyone getting in trouble, aside from a bouncer confiscating it or, at worst, an underage citation. This story is super upsetting.

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    TheLastHalfDonutJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 3:40pm

    Cue the white assholes saying "He broke the law, what did he expect" in...3...2...1...

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      thebloodofthematadorTheLastHalfDonut
      3/18/15 3:54pm

      I was just thinking this. "If he didn't want to get beaten, he shouldn't have broken the law!" UGH WHAT. Because now I guess we live in Amorite Babylon, where you are beaten for even small criminal infractions??

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      festivusaziliTheLastHalfDonut
      3/18/15 4:06pm

      I broke this same law SO MANY times when I was under 21. I also got caught once. Do you know what happened to me? I got a small ticket, and the officer politely described the process I had to go through if I wanted to fight it in court. You can guess the color of my skin.

      Everybody breaks the ID/underage drinking law in college, and anyone who thinks breaking that law justifies a beating is a sociopath.

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    HarvestMoonJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 3:35pm

    I certainly hope there are also Concerned White Students at UVA who stand with Martese.

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      Morifarty's ringtoneHarvestMoon
      3/18/15 3:40pm

      I'm sure there are but it is not their time to talk.

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      HarvestMoonMorifarty's ringtone
      3/18/15 3:42pm

      They don't have to do all the talking, but they must let their outrage be known.

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    KojimokoJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 4:04pm

    It's sad to be constantly reminded that there is no Model black man. I pride myself in graduating from Yale, having no prior convictions, and being a well mannered guy, but I know deep down that none of those things will protect me if I'm ever suspected of a crime by a white cop. From what I've read, none of the cops verified at the time if Martese did indeed commit a crime, they saw him talking with the bouncer about the discrepancy and then took it upon themselves to brutalize this young man.

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      Subrina_SavageKojimoko
      3/18/15 4:10pm

      This hits it on the nail so hard.

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      GirlwithNoName64Kojimoko
      3/18/15 4:54pm

      That is why respectability politics are bullshit, and we need to stop buying into them. This story would be just as egregious if he was a 20 year old high school drop out with multiple prior drug convictions. And all of those things would be said but they would also be irrelevant b/c they factored not one iota into either 1) whether he deserved this treatment and 2) why the cop decided to act upon him as he did.

      I understand that certain victims are more "sympathetic" than others in almost every context you can think of, but we need to fight the reports of these incidents that even go into the background of the victims. It doesn't matter. All people deserve to be treated as humans, with respect, and in compliance with the law.

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    RexpaneJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 3:40pm

    It's absurd that we have to qualify a brutal (edit, not killed) attack like this with "he didn't resist".

    Resisting arrest is NOT a felony punishable by death. Famous white people resist all the time and are not even touched.

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      ihatepickingnamesRexpane
      3/18/15 3:44pm

      He wasn't murdered but otherwise yeah.

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      motherawesomeRexpane
      3/18/15 3:45pm

      I don't think he died, but your point still stands.

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    SamBargeJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 3:49pm

    She added, "We knew that increased police presence for the protection of women would have a negative impact on black students. It sucks that we had to be proven right this way."

    This pisses me off. I hate that the fucking systemic sexism and racism runs so deep that an attempt to address one involves an escalation of the other.

    What the fuck is wrong with us? I mean human beings. As a species, are we just fucking deficient or what?

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      raisedbycats, IRL crybabySamBarge
      3/18/15 4:12pm

      I love people but I hate mankind.

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      kitteneyeSamBarge
      3/18/15 4:26pm

      The funny thing is that sure, there is more police presence because of recent issues. But if you're a woman and reporting rape, good fucking luck dealing with the police department. Their increased presence to protect women is sham to look like they're actually making changes and doing something.

      You sort of think that the only way to get this right is to eliminate the entire police system in this country and build it from the ground up again.

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    Morifarty's ringtoneJia Tolentino
    3/18/15 3:46pm

    "We knew that increased police presence for the protection of women would have a negative impact on black students. It sucks that we had to be proven right this way."

    And after I read that I cried and cried and cried until all the tears in the world had been used up and I disintegrated into dust.

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      Falcon Depth BrunchJia Tolentino
      3/18/15 3:36pm

      I want to be shocked but frankly I'm just saddened and fucking irate.

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        goblinmarketJia Tolentino
        3/18/15 3:40pm

        I've seen white kids get caught with fake ids, causing considerably more trouble than Martese apparently was, and all that the cops did to them was confiscate the fakes and send them on their way. Not even a shove.

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          AnnieW50goblinmarket
          3/18/15 4:52pm

          Yeah, the only time I saw more happen was when my 15 year old friend got caught in a bar. The bar called the cops and they, the cops, escorted her home to her parents. She's white.

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        MatronMamaMortonJia Tolentino
        3/18/15 4:42pm

        Sadly, as a black female UVA student, I can't say I'm surprised by this. Racism all to often goes unchecked at this University. I've watched my fellow Black colleagues be pepper-sprayed at parties. I've had drunken white girls tell me to my face that I didn't deserve to be at the same party as them because of my skin tone. I've seen a dear friend of mine be thrown out of SAE as their president called him a "fat nigger." And now, in my final semester, I see this. At my time at this University, I've learned one thing: that not even a world-class education can (or is even willing to try to) liberate the mind from racism. So as T. Sully and the administration gear up to do damage control, I want them and everyone else to know that WE DESERVE MORE. I don't want bullshit statements or "requests," I WANT JUSTICE. Show your students and the world that black lives matter.

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