Racial tensions flare at U-Va. after a black student sustains head injuries during arrest
Racial tensions flared at the University of Virginia after a black student sustained head injuries while white police officers arrested him outside of a popular Irish pub early Wednesday morning.
The injuries, captured in cell phone videos and photographs from a crowd of students nearby, left the student with bloody streaks down his face, an image that quickly spread on social media. In one of the videos, obtained by The Washington Post, the student calls three officers from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control “racists” as they try to handcuff his hands behind his back.
The student, junior Martese Johnson, 20, was arrested after he was denied entry to the Trinity Irish Pub at about 12:45 a.m. The incident occurred on the sidewalk near a strip of restaurants and bars adjacent to campus called “The Corner.” ABC officials said that Johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice but declined to detail why he was physically taken to the ground.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office issued a statement Wednesday afternoon in which he said he was calling for an investigation into the arrest.
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