Shocking video shows the moment a university police officer appears to punch Chris Barnes, a soldier with the National Guard, while he was at the game with his wife, Holly, after three officers approached him and tried to remove him from the stands.
His family say he had done nothing wrong and that police had mistaken him for someone who had thrown a cup from a few rows behind, reported the Clarion-Ledger.
Barnes appears to be arguing with the cops and, as he tried to resist their attempts to eject him from the game, one officer punched him in the eye.
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A video posted on Facebook by Holly Barnes shows the three police officers confronting her husband and wrestling him to the ground when he refused to leave.
She claims her husband suffered a concussion andorbital wall and maxillary sinus fractures as a result of the assault.
The Oxford Police Department confirmed Sunday morning the officers in question don't work for the department.
"The officers involved are not officers with the University Police Department, but are certified officers from other jurisdictions hired to work security at home football games," wrote Ole Miss campus police in a statement provided to the media.
Barnes' family now plan to take action over the "wrongful assault."
Barnes' family now plan to take action over the "wrongful assault."
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