A video taken by Twitter user @TFam_1 appears to show police throwing a man to the ground at a UT men's basketball game against Mercer in Thompson-Boling Arena on Wednesday evening. Few details about the incident are available. Submitted / Tyler Fambrough
A man faces charges of public intoxication, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer after a video captured police throwing him to the ground at a University of Tennessee men's basketball game on Wednesday evening.
Two officers and a security guard appeared to be escorting the man out of Thompson-Boling Arena when one officer slid his hands under the man's armpits and took him down from behind, the nine-second video shows.
Tyler Fambrough, a freshman at UT, recorded the video and posted it on Twitter, where it had been retweeted more than 1,000 times as of 9:15 p.m. ET.
The man's identity, and whether or not he's a student, has not been released. UT spokesman Tom Satkowiak confirmed the man had been charged but had no further details Wednesday night.
A representative for the University of Tennessee Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Chants of "Fire (John) Currie," Tennessee's athletic director, shifted Wednesday evening to a UT men's basketball game against Mercer in Thompson-Boling Arena. Phil Kaplan / USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee
The incident took place during a boisterous game, in which the Vols beat Mercer 84-60. During breaks, the crowd repeatedly launched into chants of "Fire (John) Currie," while some attendees held signs calling for the athletic director and even UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport, to be terminated.
It was during a "Fire Currie" chant that police approached the man who was later arrested, according to Keegan Mix, a sophomore at UT who said he saw it happen.
Mix said he was sitting several rows above the man, behind the backboard between sections 123 and 124 in the student section.
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When the man got up to leave, Mix said he began yelling. Mix said he couldn't hear what the man was yelling about.
"He was yelling and stuff, but he was complying. He was still walking out," Mix said, adding that he saw the man start resisting after one officer put a hand on his shoulder.
The chants at the game were just the latest indication that Vols' fans ire over the coaching search turned national punchline will not subside quickly.
The fiasco began Sunday when news leaked that Tennessee was finalizing a deal to hire Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano as head football coach.
By Sunday night, the deal had unraveled amid a maelstrom of backlash from fans, state lawmakers, local business owners and donors.
They complained about Schiano's track record at previous coaching jobs, but primarily voiced anger over testimony indicating that Schiano, who worked at Penn State from 1990-95, might have known about convicted child sexual abuser Jerry Sandusky's crimes, something Schiano denies.
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Currie issued a statement Monday saying Tennessee "carefully interviewed and vetted" Schiano, and reviewed the 2012 report by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who investigated the Penn State child sex abuse scandal that rocked the college football world.
"Coach Schiano is not mentioned in the Freeh report and was not one of the more than 400 people interviewed in the investigation," Currie's statement read. "We also confirmed that Coach Schiano was never deposed and never asked to testify in any criminal or civil matter."
Even so, Vols fans rejected the possible hire in a turn of events some pundits called unprecedented.
Since then, the coaches Tennessee has targeted to replace Butch Jones have reportedly turned down the job.
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