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andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbaneAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:38pm
next step: civil suit?

lawyer people please say yes
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  bwrites enjoyed the time we shared togetherandsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
  6/12/15 1:02pm
  If I could redo my career I’d probably be in porn, BUT my back-up redone career would be a lawyer that travels around the country suing the ever loving fuck out of the government for fucking up.
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  Sipowitzandsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
  6/12/15 1:10pm
  If the previous UVA suit against ABC agents is any measure, he’ll at least get enough (over $200k) to cover his entire undergrad career. Now, considering the previous suit didn’t involve being assaulted to a bloody pulp and shackled like a slave, I’m hoping he’ll at least get $500k for his “troubles.”
  
  ETA: “” to make it clear that troubles is obviously a very inappropriate and under-deserving word for what the man went through.
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Angelo GalloAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:37pm
We have turned into such a police state that there are actually people employed by law enforcement to literally police college kids walking into and out of bars. Yeah, this isn’t exploitive bull crap. A division of law enforcement, not funded to capture rapists, gang members, murderers, home invaders, gang bangers, bank fraudsters... Nope. Go get that college kid that is old enough to die for our country and kill for our country but she/he is not old enough for a beer or they are possibly intoxicated. This is getting out of hand.
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  MalcireAngelo Gallo
  6/12/15 12:57pm
  It’s not just college kids. ABC folks monitor bars all over. From what I’ve heard they even occaisionally visit the dive bars in the next town over from me and the only thing they have are a couple trade schools (no real campus or housing and a good portion of the students are legally able to drink).
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  Andrew DaisukeAngelo Gallo
  6/12/15 1:05pm
  Well said.
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MalcireAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:52pm
So only tangentially related but why do towns want agents of the state government just prowling around and making arrests in the first place? I mean they wouldn’t want State troopers giving speeding tickets when their own police already do.

Also what the hell is there justification for beating him. From what I remember he didn’t attack them or anything. Even if he tried to run shouldn’t they be limited to subdueing and cuffing him?
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  DaisyLadyMalcire
  6/12/15 1:44pm
  Most Virginia resident’s don’t want them. There have been several attempts to disband the ABC police force but the extremely conservative General Assembly keeps shutting those efforts down. Everyone was hoping this would be the incident that helped but ... Pipe dreams. We have them.
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  Burned Burners BurningMalcire
  6/12/15 4:51pm
  Also what the hell is there justification for beating him.
  
  They didn’t beat him. He doesn’t allege they beat him. The video doesn’t show them beating him.
  
  They arrested him, albeit violently, and in the process he was thrown to the sidewalk where he scraped his head (visible above) and began bleeding from it. That’s it. Perhaps they should have been more careful but calling it a “beating” is supremely dishonest from Jezebel (who has not actually referred to it as such previously).
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theboogiecatAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:40pm
Of course there are no charges against the ABC officers. Virginia is a fascist state. I’ve practiced law there and seen it up close.

I wish this kid could sue in Federal court. I’m not sure he can. The Virginia courts would be a waste of time. I don’t know, maybe he just wants to go on with his life, but it’s fucking infuriating that they could treat him this way and get away with it
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  Angelo Gallotheboogiecat
  6/12/15 12:48pm
  Two ways into Federal Court: (1) Federal Court Jurisdiction. If your case is based or arises under any Federal Law. (Examples: Civil Rights Violation, State Law Conflicts with Federal, Patent, Bankruptcy, etc.); and or (2) Diversity of Citizenship. One party must have citizenship or a primary place of business in a different state then the party where the cause of action is filed. And the amount in controversy must be for at least $75,000.00 or more.
  
  Should he choose to file a cause of action for civil rights violation(s) then jurisdiction appears to be appropriate with the United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, in the 6th Circuit. He could always sue in State Court, but that would be silly. For your stated reasons, if true. Also, if he has any other claims that may have only been permitted in the State’s court, he can piggy back those claims onto his Federal case.
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  MisterMcGibbletstheboogiecat
  6/12/15 12:53pm
  If memory serves, he’s from Chicago, isn’t he? So he should have diversity of citizenship. Also, the whole civil rights violation.
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John BiggsAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:39pm
This violence against unarmed black men will not stop until police officers are held accountable by actually serving prison time. I don’t care about cops and body cameras. I don’t care about cops charges pressed against them. I want CONVICTIONS. This young man was assaulted and the assailants should be convicted.

Every time I read about this, I think about how it could be me next. Doing nothing but minding my own business. Assaulted by cops. Watching them live life unpunished.
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  bwrites enjoyed the time we shared togetherJohn Biggs
  6/12/15 1:01pm
  I mean I care about body cameras too, but yes convictions all the way.
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  Bob LeDrewJohn Biggs
  6/12/15 1:09pm
  It’s whiplash-level-headshaking outrageous.
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CardinalVicesAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:37pm
I’m saddened that we’re not getting a convoluted explanation as to why the ABC agents aren’t being charged with anything. Isn’t beating up innocent people a crime?
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  CnslrNachosCardinalVices
  6/12/15 12:42pm
  Isn’t beating up innocent people a crime?
  
  At the time of the beating, he was guilty, because they lied and said he was. It makes total sense.
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FrolickingGiantAnna Merlan
6/12/15 12:37pm
“Chapman also said that “evidence did not warrant” charges against the state’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents involved in the arrest.”

what the ever loving fuck?
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  MaryTylerMoore'sHairFlipFrolickingGiant
  6/12/15 12:47pm
  We love to sue so much because sometimes that is the only justice. God I hope he sues the government.
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  luckythirteeeeenFrolickingGiant
  6/12/15 5:16pm
  UGH this kills me. I’m a 19 year old white girl who also attends UVA and I’ve *skipped* into that exact bar showing a really shitty fake and was let in with a chuckle. It kills me that someone, especially someone as accomplished academically and genuinely nice as Martese, was treated this brutally by the ABC for something the vast majority of UVA students do blatantly because he’s a black male.
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Morifarty's ringtoneAnna Merlan
6/12/15 2:34pm
and to not charge the ABC special agents involved in his arrest.

BITCH DID WE SEE THE SAME VIDEO
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  Princess PeachMorifarty's ringtone
  6/12/15 2:55pm
  I wish I could hire you to react to things for me IRL. You say the things I want to say in such a blatant way - it’s great.
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  Morifarty's ringtonePrincess Peach
  6/12/15 2:57pm
  I’m A V REACTIONARY PERSON
  
  IT JUST FLOWS OUT OF ME
  
  LIKE MY MENSES
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LeelahJamesAnna Merlan
6/12/15 2:32pm
I saw this young man walking down the street earlier this week. He seems to have recovered well, and likely has a summer internship. Glad to see him recovering so well!
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DorthyDandridgeEyesAnna Merlan
6/12/15 1:25pm
Someone please explain to me how this bitches get away with beating the crap out of a young man for doing nothing!!! I want answers! He should sue, sue sue!!
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