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As linsey davis reports, his arrest has reignited the debate about race and law enforcement in this country. >> reporter: this viral video of the arrest of the martese johnson, 20-year-old student at the university of virginia leading to tension and turmoil at uvas campus. the governor calling for a criminal investigation. >> were going to get to the bottom of it. someone will have to answer. >> the arrest caught on tape. the college junior requiring ten stitches after witnesses say officers act...

Kinds of injuries and needing surgery and multiple stitches to the head over those kinds of misdemeanor charges, to me thats excessive force. but what would justify it because youve asked the question, is if he put up a fight. if he got belligerent. if he got abusive. but there is no evidence of that. but ive got other questions, john. i mean were talking about st. patricks day, were talking about a college campus. i know that people are very concerned about racism. and the profiling of young bl...

Honor committee and also a fraternity, was arrested after trying to get into a bar after midnight following st. patricks day. and this is what he looked like during the arrest. >> i go to uva! i go to uva! >> stop fighting! >> you racist! how does this happen? how does this happen! you racist! >> they were just like, we need a picture i.d. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> according to his lawyer, his head wound required ten stitches. johnsons lawyer offered details of the incident. >> martese presented ...

Fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi and cnn anchor don lemon. i know you have been getting some new reporting on the arrest of this young 20-year-old martese johnson. what are you learning? >> this is just in wolf. i just spoke with a source close to the family and what they are telling me is we had hoped to get some new information to possibly be able to speak to martese this afternoon. in the process of doing that, that had to be halted because martese had to be taken to the hospital...

>> you can say youre being racist and i protest what youre doing and i disagree with you, how dare you, but you fing racist, is that troublesome? >> i dont know if it is. when youre in a situation like that and you have stitches and blood flying out of your face, i dont know how accountable youre going to be for the derogatory language you use based on the feelings you have at that particular time. >> its too early to tell in the investigation. well let the investigation play out. but i think cr...

Idio idiolog. but no place an ambassador serves without a threat and these threats are not unusual. they occur in a lot of places. and i had situations in both australia and japan in which there were threats made. there was an off-duty policeman from a city outside tokyo that flew a molotov cocktail into the compound one day. it didnt hurt anybody, fortunately, but security is something every ambassador is concerned about. not just about himself but the people under him. thats the primary concer...

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Lets let the investigation go forth. i want an independent investigation. i want to know exactly what happened. >> state police have now launched the investigation called for by governor terry mcauliffe, looking into the bloody arrest of a 20-year-old black university of virginia student wednesday. that allegedly left him needing ten stitches in his head. more than a thousand protesters turned out to demand justice at a campus march last night. nbcs willie geist has more. >> yo his head is bleed...

He was finally caught when police cornered him on the balany of a vacant apartment. they hit him with a stun gun. hes a white supremacist and hes been in and out of prison for more than 20 years. outrage at the university of virginia after a black student is left bloodied by police. take a look. >> i go to uva. i go to uva. >> stop fighting. >> the governor of that state is calling for an investigation ininto his arrest. he was stopped by alcohol beverage control agents after he was turned awa...

Parachute failed to deploy. virginias governor ordered an investigation in to accusations of police brutality in the arrest of a college student left bloodied in a takedown. martese johnson is the name of the student. you are seeing him there. he needed ten stitches after this. he had a wound to his head. witnesses say when state liquor agents approached him outside of a charlottesville bar, johnson did not resist questioning. instead, they say the agents grabbed him, forced him to the ground ...