Tucson students get roughed up after Elite Eight game
It should have been expected, and the Tucson Police should have been prepared to keep the peace on the night of March 29, 2014, before and after the of the University of Arizona’s final appearance in March Madness. Instead, they were geared up for a riot, and one young woman, walking down the sidewalk, felt just how geared up they were when she was attacked by two police officers and knocked to the ground.
Professor Arrested for Assault on Police, But Video May Tell Different Story
On the evening of May 21, a professor at Arizona State University, Ersula Ore, was walking in the campus area. She was approached by a university police officer, Stewart Ferrin, who stopped Ore and demanded to see her identification. She refused, and after numerous requests and warnings the officer handcuffed her and attempted to take Ore into custody. She allegedly resisted arrest and assaulted the police officer. At least that is how the story was reported.
At the time Professor Ore insisted that there was much more that happened that evening, but her story was not taken seriously and certainly it appeared nowhere on the news. But just a few days ago a Phoenix television channel released a video of the incident that appears to back up Ore’s story in essential ways and also offers a unique and vivid sense of the mood and tone of that confrontation.
The video seems to corroborate much of Ore’s story. One portion of the exchange between her and the officer is recorded thus: