Jackson Jambalaya

Sue their ass.

Time to lawyer up. Somebody is about to get that ass sued!!!

"Not above the law".

Clearly she's a rookie dealing with law enforcement and the judicial system.

Kingfish, please keep us posted with details. Hard to tell any thing from the video except there were 3 or 4 security types there. Does anyone have a video of what supposedly was going on behind this fan? Or, lacking a video, what was alledged to be happening?

Trying to find out.

Typical for a Black Bears home game.

Looks like he was resisting to me.. It looks as though the cops were trying to take him out of area (somewhere) and he was tugging back.. So the police gave him a couple of "taps" to remind him who was in charge. Fan was probably drunk too.. Last but not least.. Army hand to hand combat training needs to include "bobbing and weaving" into their regimen...

THERE ARE NO DETAIL'S, AND THAT VIDEO SHOWED NOTHING!! DIDN'T REALIZE MY CAP LOC WAS
on Sorry, not gonna' retype,...but what happened,.....Really????

There's two sides to every story, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's hard to believe that the man was just minding his own business, and then police officers picked him out of everybody there and just decided to whip his butt. But on the other hand, Ole Miss beat LSU. Go Rebels!!!!

Umm uhhhh no matter what he did, it's what the police didn't do that may see the light of a fat payday. You're supposed to get people medical attention when it's obvious that they need it. According to her, they didn't do that.

Come on Oxford, you DO have a peddley little law school up there. Time to use some common sense. Call an ambulance or transport people to the hospital if they need it.

Ok dumb a$$ above, no where in professional law enforcement training does it teach to punch someone in the face (which can clearly be seen in the video). Was he drunk and obnoxious and cussing (probably so...it's a college football game...no excuse...just a fact). Should he have been removed from the game? Possibly. But, again, the law is supposed to be setting the example, not getting a big head & punching someone in the face. Do people get hurt in legitimate takedowns? Absolutely. However, that's not the case here. He was clearly punched by a person representing "law enforcement." I agree, lawyer up, get as many videos as you can, get some sworn affidavits from your friends, contact Ole Miss' lawyers and you'll get a pretty payout. And honestly-you deserve it. This video can be used in a "How not to..." Training video.

A drunk, cursing Ole Miss fan?

Well sir, I have now heard it all.

there are a couple of jail cells under the south end zone. if he had just submitted, he would have been let go after sobering up. cop shouldn't have used fist though, baton would have been better, especially a red one...

Off duty cops follow stadium and athletic department rules, one of which is to not punch with fists or hit with sticks. Handcuffs and restraint, ok. Sucker punch, not ok. Home team athletic budget pays for cops to work the games. Stadium rules apply.

On a related note, cops are not used to working venues where public drunkenness, open drinking and related misbehavior rules the roost prior to game time.....and then expect everybody to act all proper and shit after the kickoff. Cops be like "WTF?"

His buddies appear to be helping him resist arrest. But all the other fans are telling the guy to get gone. I must admit I have sat near people that I wish would get an ass beating.

Welcome to Ole Piss...pretentious, a-hole fans ONLY trumped by more pretentious a-hole officers. Ole Piss by damn! I hope my kids want to go out-of-state!

Mess with the POPO get a free asswhipping. It's that way whether you drunk or not.

Black (bear) lives matter!

You can't let everyone drink and party in The Grove, then expect them to suddenly sober up and act appropriately in the stadium. It's a shame this happened. Why didn't security just cuff and remove him?

The middle class who think protocol matters are hilarious.

Poor whites and blacks are little familiar with how it works. Man up and grow a pair, folks. Mess with the bull, get the horns.

Kudos the witness for setting the matter in the proper light.

This woman is the worst. Her husband was drunk and belligerent. He needed a double tap to calm down. Being a soldier doesn't give you the right to act a fool. Have some decency.

DON'T TAZE ME 'BRO!!!

If the cops want to fight drunk fans they should have to get drunk first. Drunk vs. drunk is a fair fight and almost always no one gets hit, much less hurt. Drunk vs. sober is a dangerous mismatch.

Drunk lives matter!

When I saw the last name I thought that the a-hole who runs Homeland Security got his ass whipped, too bad for the police, I would have paid for their defense...

This was a blatant overuse of force by the police.

7:51, Welcome to the real world.

Next lesson, prosecutors and judges get re-elected by convictions and long sentences, not on truth.

looks like the short, fat, red-faced, Eric Cartman-looking cop hit the guy in the face unprovoked. I would have liked to seen him try that without his p****y posse of cops with him. Typical POS cop.

LAWYER UP!

Everyone comes out of the woodwork to detract a team on its way to a National Championship.

The truth is starting to come out. I knew there was much more to the story. The wife wants to make it sound like the officers just walked up to him and punched him. I don't think so! The local news reported that mama-in-law has hired an lawyer. By the way, what is a two time veteran? Got kicked out once for stupid s*#t such as this then rejoined?

News reported that the mother in law hired a lawyer? What grown ass man provokes and then gets his ass whipped and has to have his mama in law step in. This guy is a loser on about 19 levels. I'm a lawyer and generally don't like morons wearing badges, but this tool needs to grow up, he doesn't need a lawyer.

I'm 7:51, this is not an example of the real-world for how cops should be allowed to operate. The man showed no signs of aggression or violence. If you don't wanna hear someone drunk and cussing at a football game, then stay home. Mr. Witness, I'm sorry but this doesn't justify strong-arming any individual just because he doesn't abide by your version of the 1st Amendment.

I HATE cops. But a cop in a football stadium is not going to punch someone who knows how to treat the cops the way you have to treat them. You don't get to argue with cops. Especially when you are drunk. Just say yes sir, and keep your mouth shut. NO exceptions. In the video I saw a very drunk guy talking at the cops. Big mistake. Drunk guy should have sat down and shut up. Drunk guy needs to find anotbher drunk guy to fight like the Misshippi St fans at Ark.

The vast majority of cops are nothing more than hotheads that love the power a badge and gun gives them, and they're too stupid to get a real job. As long as we pay our officers a salary at the bottom of the barrel, then we will continue to have officers from the bottom of the barrel.

The FB post differs just a wee bit from his wife's, doesn't it?

Typical ole miss drunken liar..

I was in the Walmart parking lot in the City of Madison. Saw a Cline Tour Bus and lots of men and some women standing outside wearing black. I asked one of them where they are going. One of the guys said they are all in law enforcement and have been hired to work security at the Ole Miss game. He went on to say many work for JPD, Hinds County and from other law enforcement branches. Those working security at Ole Miss ARE law enforcement officers and just not a security guy and/or mall cop.

I ashamed the wife is playing the veteran card, and believe he got what he deserved.

I love how so many of this douchebag's defenders believe that excessive drunkenness and liberal profanity are actually the norm at football games. They're not. I suppose this is a teachable moment, though: the rest of the state (and most of the conference) is embarrassed by UMiss precisely because of these spectacles and the knee-jerk defenses of them. Again, it's embarrassment; not jealousy or envy. For a fanbase that regularly crows about class and sophistication, y'all sure do seem to get caught showing your asses a lot.

1130pm. Sure does. Of the two accounts the wife and the witness, I think I will go with the withess. The video shows really nothing, but why would the security even have been there if he was behaving properly? Also, him being in the National Guard and a veteran has nothing to do with him making an ass out of himself at an Ole Miss football game.

7:20, you still don't get it. Being an ass does not justify getting beaten to a pulp. This is not North Korea. I don't have to act like a trained dog when a cop walks by. He should have been escorted out, if anything at all, not punched whatsoever.

However, he was suckerpunched twice while they held him down. How brave of them.

I'm certainly against cops punching citizens for no reason. But I'm more against drunk jerks using really strong profanity at a game around my wife and children. He's got a fat lip not a severe concussion. Go home sober up and be grateful you didn't really get your ass kicked. The fact that "mama" is stepping in for a grown man tells you a lot.

I'm not sure I believe the story about the Kline bus. I have a relative who is a policeman who works all the Ole Miss home games, as do many other off duty policemen from an area within a seventy mile radius of Oxford. The same is true of other college football games.

I doubt they bus them in from Jackson though. These are men and women who are trying to make extra money on days off. They provide their own transportation, uniform, and, if armed, weapon.

They are under the jurisdiction of the school on these occasions, regardless of the uniform. Their day starts at 6:00 a.m. (earlier for a morning or noon game) and doesn't end until way after dark. They're not their to cheer or watch the game or tolerate shit heads.

That said, the officer should never have punched the man and he'll be called to task for that. At minimum, he won't work another game.

Keeping order in a 65,000 seat stadium must be just a little stressful. Police work in general is stressful. He was asked to leave, he didnt--all bets are off when you are yelling at stressed out cops. He's lucky he wasn't tazed or shot.

at 9:26 PM A.K.A. 7:51 said..... "If you don't wanna hear someone drunk and cussing at a football game, then stay home"....

You are a true example of a putz.

8:23, A cop doing something like this on the street in a 1-1 or 2-1 encounter is a world away from a cop encountering a drunk/belligerent man in a 65k seat stadium who is openly defiant and disrupting everyone around him. The potential for harm to others is escalated. That's how melees are created. You're asked to leave, and you don't, well you deserve a tap and if one doesn't work, a double tap will do. I would have done the same thing. Completely justified.

The wife here is the worst. How sad it must be to have to cover up your idiot husband's drunkeness.

8:23, I know in your safe, most likely lily-white world, cops are respectful to you.

If you have any experience on the bottom of the American economic system, you know things are different, and clearly you lack a full education on how America handles its different classes, and this guy just a got a taste of how it's done. (Actually this is a bad analogy as it reads like this guy earned his fair and square and you are just a little miffed "a guy who wasn't supposed to be treated like this" was on the receiving end.)

as a former ole miss student, and fan. Ole miss is quite honestly the worst place for obnoxious loud mouth drunks. I know every school has them, but ole miss definitely has more than any place in the SEC. I have taken my son, who 11 years old,to just about every SEC venue in the last 2 years,Oxford was the only place, between Baton Rouge, Auburn, Starkville, Tuscaloosa, Fayetteville, Gainesville, Columbia, Athens, and Nashville that we ever had to call security because every other word coming out of this aholes mouth was the f bomb. We heard stuff at other stadiums, but not to the extent in Oxford, which is terrible, because Oxford is an awesome place. Not knocking Ole Miss, just my honest perspective. Like I said every school has them, maybe went just caught them on a bad day.

As for the jerk above, when the police/ security tell you to do something you either do it or face the music, I doubt the officer woke up that morning saying hey I feel like punching some drunk asshole.

Never heard anyone complain when this happened in Oxford... Look like too much force to me for just tossing a little popcorn ..link below

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/alabama-crimson-tide-lose-ole-miss-fan-tackled-security-guard-video-100514

The man was a very poor example of our service men. The cops were a poor example of law enforcement. The wife and mother in law should start looking for a real man instead of a drunk. Maybe the man had two good reasons to drink.

Got what he deserved, law enforcement is tired of these idiots. I know he's Rambo, daddy of the year and the greatest thing since sliced bread: dude went to jail and got everything he asked for. Representing the military. I would of been ashamed to tell anyone I was in the armed forces acting this way

I can't help but wonder what the social media narrative would be if the guy would have been black and not white

More on the Cline Bus rental transporting the hire enforcement officers...BTW, I was not alone when we were told they were heading to Oxford and work security at the stadium. We watched as they got on the bus receiving those bright yellow vests. I was wondering why would they bus all the way there and wondered how much money will each get as they deal with drunks and those unruly....

A few brief observations:
First, it appears (from witness account)the spectator was clearly causing a problem...he was IN THE WRONG.
Second, the LEO reacted (notice: not "responded") inappropriately to the spectator's behavior.
Third, wife and mother-in-law are not helping matters.
Fourth, regardless of the LEO's inappropriate reaction, the spectator/family probably will get a sizable settlement out of UM due to the LEO's actions. THAT is the worst part of this whole mess.

Why is everyone shaming the victim here? The man was ASSAULTED for what? Talking back to a police officer, and not even a real police officer on duty...a pretend mall cop that volunteered to look cool at a game and possibly score with a drunken Ole Miss chick. This was his way of asserting his authority.

His name WILL be revealed and he WILL face the proper charges. The officers made no attempt at restraining him peacefully. They are supposed to be officers of the peace.

All security wears bright yellow shirts that say security across the back. UPD hires hires officers from other departments to work the game on a temporary basis. Those guys wear year best that have the UPD patch on the front and Police on the back. So now go watch the video and look. I work for UPD so don't get us all confused

http://m.wmctv.com/wmctv/db/381569/content/EQK3EEzu

Watch the video and you will see that this great guy is a liar along with his wife's. This is footage that no one has seen from before and after. Police were absolutely right.

What footage? I saw three clips and it showed the same thing over and over. The reporter referred to it but did station actually show it?

"All security wears bright yellow shirts that say security across the back. UPD hires hires officers from other departments to work the game on a temporary basis. Those guys wear year best that have the UPD patch on the front and Police on the back. So now go watch the video and look. I work for UPD so don't get us all confused" November 23, 2015 at 11:46 AM

I sense that there is some sort of 'bot' interpreting speech, here. I see the same sort of error in your post, that I see in the closed captions for foreign films. Is Ole Miss paying a (really cheap, overseas) firm to "monitor conversations" on the Internet? Are you a real officer? Do you let a 'bot' type your reports for you? That could be really dangerous. "Those guys wear year best..." Something here is VERY WRONG.

This video definitely does not give the full picture. Right b4 the cop punches the guy it looks like he could have possibly kicked the cop. I'm of the school you do what the cops say and if you don't, well, something is gonna happen.

dummie at 10:35

Don't wonder.

10:35, I totally agree. Perhaps if the individual were black, then this would definitely be on the cover of every single issue of the news

Probably the same kind of guy that goes to a concert and then talks the whole time.

Or one that talks during and/or gives a verbal play by play in the movies. Man, I hate those people.

This is in response to Anonymous 11/23, 11:35 A.M.
Did you not read the WITNESS account of this incident? It hardly appears the spectator was a completely innocent victim in this mess. Granted, the officer appears to have exceeded proper procedure, and there is very little if any excuse for that.
However, you have access to a very limited video clip, without benefit of audio and/or what behaviors (on BOTH sides) led up to the "punch."
Also, you must have access to a world of information regarding game security officers, who they are, what training they have, etc., or you would not be making comments that seem to be totally baseless. Must have fresh batteries in your crystal ball, Bubba.
Someone with your take on this matter is most often a person who despises law enforcement (read: authority) in general.
Or...maybe it's the rest of us who are clueless, but I think not.

The FBI has been calls in to investigate by ole missy

Nothing here is relevant other than the fact that NO police department protocol calls for or allows a police officer to punch somebody in the face. None. Period.

It's totally irrelevant whether you love or hate police, what you think about drunks, who insulted your wife at a game, how you feel about unruly people or what you think about the stress officers are under.

At the end of the day and at the end of the game, the officer who decided to punch this man in the face will face the music. As has been noted, he was not on duty in his official municipal capacity so he won't be demoted or otherwise sanctioned; but you can bet sweet Luther's mule's left nut he will never work another game in Oxford.

PS: Each officer working a game has his designation on his clothing. Either campus police, highway patrol, a municipal police department or guard service. Identifying these people is not rocket science. If they are not armed, they are more than likely guard service employees (renta cops). All should be obeyed. None have the authority to punch somebody. Period. This cop is exactly the kind of thug who throws somebody into a paddy wagon and gives him a concussion.

One of the key to being a successful drunk is knowing when you can run your mouth and when to shut up. With cops, you ALWAYS shut up.

"sweet Luther's mule's left nut"

I saw them open for U2 back in the day.

Good times, man, good times.

The hot headed cop is Blake white, from new Albany pd

Look up the YouTube video of Dallas police officer Terigi Rossi threatening a teenager. Shows just how out of control cops are.

Somebody posted that this New Albany policeman has been 'suspended from duty'. Not sure of the truth of that or what it would be based on since he was not on duty or representing New Albany when he clocked the dude in the stands.

One thing for sure, since Ole Miss threw the officer under the bus and called in the FBI, they will probably have a hard time getting off duty officers to work security from now on.

The requirements for being a police officer in MS are pretty low. The age has already been lowered from 21 to 18 . And now a past history of drug use is not necessarily a barrier. The physical and agility tests are minimum as are the psychological tests. The educational requirements are a GED, ACT score of 15, or high school diploma or military service. You need a driver's license.

You can be " on the job" in small towns while awaiting an opening in the police academy class.

There are lots of job openings. It doesn't pay well.

This is like teaching. You will have some great people who simply are dedicated to the job and care more about what they do than what they get paid for doing it. And, then, you'll be filling the shortage with warm bodies.

So those of you who expect great training and a person with good judgment in a law enforcement uniform are likely to be disappointed.

As for this video, I can't tell. But, common sense tells me that 4 to 1 should be an advantage in taking down an unarmed drunk without having to punching him in the face.

I would remind everyone that we have had ISIS wannabees in MS. I would remind that large sporting events are a target.

The question isn't who's right or who's wrong in this dust up, but whether we are doing enough to recruit and train and pay those we expect to protect us? We need smart, well trained law enforcement with good judgment. How will we get enough on board?

"they will probably have a hard time getting off duty officers to work security from now on. "

They will definitely have a hard time recruiting off duty officers who think it is ok to punch an obnoxious drunk in the face because he is mouthing off.

How is that a bad thing?

It's funny how different people see the video and see different things. I don't see a massive amount of resistance on the part of Barnes. It's more like he's jerking back and saying, "Hold on a second."

A friend of mine pointed out that usually when the cops come to get a guy like this he has generally pissed everyone off so much that they will be cheering for the police. These people don't seem to be happy about the way the guy is being treated at all.

I've seen the Matthew Vincent post that you've put up as an update. I'd live to know how close "next to me" is. Also, there are some people out there who see any drinking or rowdiness at all as obscene drunken behavior. I don't know if Vincent falls into this category. I've also seen another post from someone in the general area which backs up Barnes' version, as well as a Twitter post made during the game which just says he say a fan get punched in the face by a cop. Vincent claims in his post that security spent a considerable time asking him to "cool it." That certainly doesn't show up in the video.

I might also add that I have seen some posts on Facebook that some of Barnes' injuries happened while he was locked up in jail when he was beaten up by another inmate. I don't know if this is true or not, but it certainly doesn't relieve the university and/or county of liability, as they should have immediately transported him to the hospital, as he was clearly in need of medical attention.

No matter what the facts are, three police officers are supposed to be able to remove an unarmed, belligerent fan from a stadium without punching him square in the face with a fist. There is an older couple who looks at all of this first with a bit of detachment and then with a look of dismay. I hope the FBI is able to find out who they are and interview them, because I suspect they will be able to give the most honest telling of events.

Even if Chris Barnes did something wrong, he still did not deserve to be punched in the face, and he still had a legal right to receive medical treatment which he was denied.

The wife's statement regarding her husband being a "two time veteran" is weird sounding to me in that veteran status is earned for Active Duty, for other than training, not less than 180 days or 30 days in a combat zone. You can't get the status twice. Guess she is referring to his having mobilized/deployed twice with the Guard. That being said, she embarrasses me as a Guardsman of 36 years flipping out the "veteran" card. What's her point?? Does it mean he should get a free pass when being drunk and disorderly in public or that he deserves a police beat down less than the next guy? It is not germane to the event and puts all other Service Members in a bad light.
Next point, I'm also a cop for 34 years. Concur with other comments about striking the head/face. We are basically taught not to do it unless there is a lethal threat presented and no better striking target. Also bad PR is generated when you open up the head which tends to cause a bleed like a stuck pig.
I can say this for the young officer, this ain't your local high school Friday night football event. Unless you are well trained for this sort of venue and the stress it brings, you could screw up quick as apparently happened in this instance.

Both sides should have handled themselves differently. I don't think that is in question. The wife's comments about his "innocence" because he was in the guard, stopped drinking because he "didn't like it anymore", etc.....just make him (and her) look foolish.

Why didn't the officer just use his tazer instead? Maybe they aren't carrying one? If they aren't....they should be. Seems like a good way to subdue an obviously drunk patron who is disobeying an officer rather than coldcock him like he did.

God forbid the chaos that this would have created if he were not white.

Anonymous 10:17, If they don't have Tazers, I suspect it is because the university doesn't want them to use them. On rare occasions they can be deadly. I don't think the university ever dreamed that some rent-a-copy would just punch a fan in the face like that.

Also agree with your comment that he stopped drinking "because he didn't like it any more." No guy his age quits drinking because he doesn't like it. He quits either because he joins a fundamentalist church, is drinking way too much, or more likely because he drinks occasionally but to excess and does really stupid stuff when he gets drunk.

This investigation is going to provide us with some more information, but no matter how bad a light it puts him in, the fist in the face and denial of medical aid are just inexcusable, and dear God the university has gotten so much bad press over this.

I sure wish we knew who shot the video. They had a pretty good view of the whole thing and saw fit to post it somewhere where Barnes' wife picked it up. I'd love to hear their version of events to go along with the video. It would have been helpful if they had narrated a little bit.

ALL of you have forgotten what is going on in the world and the feds asked all sporting venues to beef up security because of terrorists. The cops were surely on edge and if you will notice, there was an awful lot of talking going on before the action began. I am sure that the cops were trying to talk him down and he wasn't having any of it. I guess we're going to have to start calling it "football rage," kind of like the "road rage" phenomenon. Back in my day, the only fights were between fans. This incident just represents the further fall into barbarianism on both of the men's parts. Parents, take care how you raise your children, if you do, indeed, raise them.

If the unruly, drunk, 'patron' at the Ole Miss game had been a woman, would the officer have wound her clock for resisting? No, he would have called the other officers to assist him and they would have restrained her and cuffed her and marched her out of the stands.

Pure and simple, this was a case of a cocky-cop bound and determined to go 'Rocky' on a drunk in front of dozens of other drunks. Won't be nunna this crap happenin' down in StarkBurg.

Cop that punched him was Brock White, New Albany, PD. Apparently, a normally nice guy. Sings in a gospel trio and has a pretty good voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJI3qaa_nNg

HAHAHAHAHAHA! police photo shows family doctored their photo in CL tonight. What a bunch of assholes this family is.

- games are very loud.
- so seeing a guy shout when talking to police does not equate with resisting, in my mind
- can anyone tell what the guy is actually saying?
- did police do a alcohol level test on guy?
- if I was a fan at a game and wrongly accused of being the trouble maker, I too would protest before being escorted out
I am going to guess this will all hinge on alcohol level of the spectator, and the charge should be (if any) resisting being thrown out of the game, not resisting arrest.