"Ms. Agudio, an exemplary young woman and an excellent student who has never previously been in legal trouble, asks that people not rush to judgment in this matter."Being an (allegedly) "exemplary young woman and an excellent student who has never previously been in legal trouble" does not mean that a person is incapable of committing a crime! It also doesn't mean they've never committed one before - perhaps they've never been caught, or never been sentenced, or had a juvenile record expunged. It's true that one should not rush to judgment, though in this case much of the evidence has been publicly available for months. It's perhaps ironic that Ariel Agudio would ask that people not rush to judgment in this matter:Del Valle, Lauren, with Ray Sanchez and Haimy Assefa. "Upstate NY students who claimed bias attack plead not guilty to charges." CNN. February 29, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/us/new-york-albany-assaults-pleas/
January 29, 2016 post on Twitter about plan to go out underage drinking:
ari [Ariel Agudio]
@ariYELLmyname
I really should stay in drink tea, eat soup and cuddle myself tonight but I'll cure myself with shots and dancing instead 😂
11:37 AM - 29 Jan 2016
https://twitter.com/ariYELLmyname/status/693155954808979457?lang=en
January 30, 2016 911 call after getting off the "drunk bus" (misidentified here as the 12) less than two hours later:
ARIEL AGUDIO: Now I’m walking towards Empire but I was just on the 12. Me and my three friends got drunk… ah, jumped. It was a racial crime. They were calling us n[*****] and all this stuff, and if someone doesn’t come? and, and and take this down? or something? I’m going to call the news, because it was ridiculous. They ripped out all of our hair and everything.
January 30, 2016 posting on Twitter within less than an hour of the incident, within perhaps less than a half hour of the 911 calls, to one of the witnesses who recorded parts of the incident and contradicted her story:
February 1, 2016 retweeting typical rising politician Marc Cohen:ari [Ariel Agudio]
@ariYELLmyname
@sennypede don't tell me to watch my attitude, I got beat up by 20 people screaming racial slurs. Don't you dare tell me what to do
1:46 AM - 30 Jan 2016
https://twitter.com/ariYELLmyname/status/693369695936888832?lang=en
February 1, 2016 UAlbany Professor Schalk live-tweeting the rally:ari [Ariel Agudio]
@ariYELLmyname
“@MarcCohen_: Massive turnout at the #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany Rally for social justice ”thanks everyone
6:37 PM - 1 Feb 2016
February 2, 2016 (campus?) police interview:Sami Schalk
@DrSamiSchalk
Black women students sharing list of demands #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany 1. Expel students who committed violence
3:46 PM - 1 Feb 2016
When one goes back to the January 29th post with the plan to go out and illegally consume alcohol, it's somewhat funny to note that what really seems to have provoked the three women to commit assault was another young woman who'd perhaps illegally consumed alcohol singing about consuming a massive amount of alcohol.POLICE: And at no time you heard the N-word or any other, um, racial..."
ARIEL AGUDIO: No, no.
Tucker, Anya and Rachel Yonkunas. "Video of police questioning 3 women accused in CDTA bus assault released." News10 ABC. May 4, 2016. http://news10.com/2016/05/04/video-of-police-questioning-3-women-accused-in-cdta-bus-assault-released/
In one woman's statement, it was a passenger's obnoxious singing of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" that got things started.If only they'd all really been exemplary young people and excellent students!Lawrence, J. P. “Court, UAlbany documents shed new light on CDTA bus incident; 3 UAlbany students plead not guilty as their statements, UAlbany report surface.” Albany Times Union. May 4, 2016.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Court-UAlbany-documents-shed-new-light-on-CDTA-7393885.php
I still wonder where the underage drunks on the bus might have obtained alcohol.
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