Two more Georgetown students are weighing in on the alleged police brutality at Philly Pizza last night.

Ben Wormald (COL ‘11) confirmed Dan Nunn’s account in the earlier post, saying the arrested guy was a Princeton student from DC. He said the police put the student in a chokehold.

“It seemed a little bit disproportionate to whatever he could have done, unless it was a sting operation,” he said. Wormald said that students who complained to MPD officers in the area were asked how many beers they’d had, and threatened with a trip downtown to find out.

After the jump, student Jay Bush’s account. What the arrested guy said is heartbreaking.

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A young man visiting from out of town was thrown into a stop sign by Metropolitan Police last night at Philly Pizza, according to sophomore Dan Nunn.

Nunn and his friends were eating pizza across the street from Philly’s last night around 1:45. They were sitting on the curb with their feet in the street. An unmarked Metropolitan Police Department car pulled up with its sirens on. Three officers demanded that Nunn and his friends get their feet out of the street and threatened to arrest them.

After, the officers crossed the street to the pizza line. They turned someone in line around, and the guy put his hands up to show he wasn’t doing anything. Nunn said then the police started shoving him.

“Everybody starts freaking out,” Nunn said. The police then pushed the man into a stop sign and put him on the ground, where they got on top of him and cuffed him. After that he was taken away in their car.

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