Graphic YouTube video shows Alabama fans assaulting LSU fan

NOPD sex crimes unit aware of incident

By Matthew Jacobs

Editor-in-Chief 

screenshot courtesy of YOUTUBE

In a YouTube video, Alabama fans are seen harrassing an LSU fan Jan. 9 after the national championship game in New Orleans.Click here to purchase Reveille photos.

A YouTube video surfaced late last week showing a University of Alabama football fan sexually assaulting an incapacitated LSU fan at the Krystal restaurant on Bourbon Street in New Orleans after the national championship game.

The LSU fan remains asleep on a table as a sea of crimson-clad Alabama fans surround him mockingly, placing various items on and around his head while asking whether he is dead and saying he will soon "be all over YouTube."

Approximately three minutes into the video, an Alabama fan pulls his genitals out of his pants and places them in the LSU fan's face and thrusts his hips. The Alabama fan then proceeds to mock-sodomize the LSU fan.

The video garnered more than 10,000 views before being removed by the poster on Sunday afternoon. Some YouTube commenters called for the Alabama fan's arrest, citing sexual harassment and remarking that his actions are "embarrassing" and "a disgrace."

Remi Braden, director of public affairs for the New Orleans Police Department, said NOPD's sex crimes unit is aware of the video. Braden said the actions appear to be sexual assault, but officials cannot open an investigation unless the victim comes forward, which he had not as of Monday.

Twitter user KonwayTweety posted on Sunday that he is the Alabama fan in the video, saying it's "awesome" that the popular sports blog Deadspin reported on the incident. In response to a tweet saying the assault would send him to jail, the Alabama fan tweeted, "My dad is rich...I wont be going to jail...#RollDamnTide boy."

Communications officials from the  University of Alabama's police department were not available for comment by press time.

"This took the rivalry to a whole new level," said Trey Woodward, LSU international trade and finance sophomore. "It's complete defamation."