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A football player at Louisiana State University said he was “violated numerous times” by police officers last Saturday night, prompting the Baton Rouge Police Department to place three officers involved in the incident on paid leave as it investigates the allegations.
In a statement posted on Twitter on Sunday, Koy Moore, a wide receiver at the school in Baton Rouge, La., said that officers accused him of having a weapon and drugs, leading them to take out their guns and go “as far as trying to unzip my pants in search of a weapon that I repeatedly told them I did not have.