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Alleged Rutgers Football Assault "Like an HBO Boxing Match:" Report
Like "Ronda Rousey getting kicked in the face," a judge said of video of the Rutgers football players' alleged attack.
A Superior Court judge Wednesday compared a video of the alleged Rutgers football assault to “Ronda Rousey getting kicked in the face,” according to MyCentralJersey.com.
“How unbelievable it was to me that it was over a parking spot. It looked like an HBO boxing match or Ronda Rousey getting kicked in the face. To see a person getting blindsided by a bunch — wow — and then getting stomped,” Judge Dennis Nieves said Wednesday in Middlesex County Superior Courthouse , according to MyCentralJersey.com.
This is the latest development in the case of eight former Rutgers football players charged with an unprovoked assault on a group of people in New Brunswick on April 25.
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It was an attack that left one student with a broken jaw.
One of the former RU players has also been charged with separate home invasion cases, and another has been linked to an aggravated assault case.
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