At the UT/Georgia football game this past October, I was sitting in the lower part of section C, approximately row 7.
There was a drunk middle aged man who was harrassing two younger (25ish) men in the row in front of him. He kept trying to push the two guys down into their seats when EVERYONE was standing up. The two younger guys were being very polite to the drunk guy, trying to explain to him that they had to stand up in order to see since everyone else was standing.
Anyways, someone went and told the cops what was happening and the next thing I know, a cop (I don't know if it was KPD or UTPD) yelled at one of the two polite guys who hadn't done anything, "Hey you, come here." The fan asked, "Why?" and the cop went into the row in a quick manner and the fan asked him again why. The cop told him, "YOU SHUT THE F*** UP!!!" and roughhoused the guy, put his arms behind his back, and handcuffed him as he was on the floor in someone's spilled drink and other trash. They hauled him off even though we were all telling the cop, "He didn't DO anything! What are you doing?"
A few minutes later, they handcuffed the other decent fan and also the obnoxious drunk fan. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, all three fans returned to their seats.
I don't know what the point of it all was, but it was ridiculous for the police to be using foul language when women and children were in the section. It made no sense for him to handcuff (and basically assault) the fan who did nothing but be polite.
I wish I would've had a hidden camera and could've put it on YouTube. I'm thinking about ordering a camera hidden in an ink pen just for moments like these.
The cop who did the above was a white cop who wasn't on 'roids, so it sounds like there's more than one bad cop and perhaps the lack of professionalism is epidemic in police forces in Knoxville. We, the taxpayers, pay their salaries and all they do is act like the very thugs they're supposed to be keeping off the street.