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Police Account of Devin Butler Arrest Disputed by Eyewitnesses

Related Topics: Resisting arrest, Witness

Earlier this week formal charges were placed on Notre Dame cornerback Devin Butler following an incident last weekend in which Butler allegedly resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. Multiple eyewitness accounts from the scene of the alleged incident, however, are not only refuting the police report but stating that Butler was abused by the South Bend Police.

According to the South Bend Tribune, both Haleigh Bailey (Devin Butler’s girlfriend) and Selina Bell (Torii Hunter Jr’s fiance) are disputing the claims by police that Butler resisted arrest and assault an officer. According to Bailey:

“I was there that entire night,” Haleigh Bailey, Butler’s girlfriend, wrote in a message to The Tribune.