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Brickbat: Big Blue Madness

Charles Oliver | 12.28.2012 6:00 AM


The University of Kentucky has fired police officer David Thompson for pushing student Graham Gaddis. Gaddis objected when Thompson and another officer tried to enter and search his dorm room for alcohol. Gaddis recorded the confrontation with his webcam.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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