(This story has been updated to accurately reflect the most current information.)

Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters held an hour-long briefing Monday evening to provide context and officer-worn body camera footage in support of his officers’ actions seen by millions in viral videos. physical tactics to subdue some disruptive fans on saturday Florida-Georgia match at EverBank Stadium.

The Times-Union advises those viewing the attached videos to use common sense due to their violent content and use of profanity.

The Sheriff’s Office response had previously been limited. But on Monday, the sheriff said the Professional Standards Division’s initial review found that none of the officers involved violated policy.

“In this case, the cell phone camera footage that has been in circulation since Saturday fails to comprehensively capture the circumstances surrounding these instances,” Waters said. “… Cell phone cameras did not record the events that led to the arrests.”

This included threats to kill one of the officers and attempts to take his gun.

He stated that this was another case of partial videos being posted on social media showing the worst portrayal.

“Once again, we are seeing intentionally misleading video clips, lacking appropriate context, being posted on social media to promote a false narrative,” the sheriff said.

He said the Sheriff’s Office had 128 officers and 12 supervisors working on the game. They arrested eight people and expelled 35 people. He said all but four complied with officers’ attempts to assist “security guards,” civilians who keep an eye on things and sometimes need official law enforcement.

These four people were identified as Walter Brown (39), Michael Wayne Long (58), Alexander Michael Long (27) and Brandon Boley. Boley’s age and charges were unclear because he did not show up at the Duval County jail. however, each of the others was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer, disorderly intoxication-public nuisance, and trespassing/resisting order to leave.

The police officers were identified as ED Kelly and DJ Bowers in one of the videos, and J. Anthony, JS Beasley and A. Catino in the other video. He noted that the black officer in the two videos is not the same person as some have claimed. One of those officers in the first video also later received online death threats, Waters said.

“I don’t need context, ‘The N-word,'” the sheriff said, quoting the threat. “You better hope I don’t find out who you are. I’m going to hunt down these ‘N-words’ and I’m going to kill them. I’m coming. The equalizer. I don’t care who they are. I’m getting ready to start they put bullets in them.”

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Jeremy Williamson posted one of the videos his Instagram accounts.

He believes the incidents started when officers tried to verify a fan’s digital tickets, but the man said he paid for his seats and did not leave. While two officers try to get him to cooperate, they become impatient and one of the officers uses his taser against him. She is seen grabbing the man’s shirt and walking away.

He appears to expel the Taser barbs and gets hit with them again. He stiffens up and is pushed into a row of chairs and punched repeatedly by one of the officers, who also has handcuffs on one hand, probably on the video recorder, yelling five times, “This is assault,” “You can’t do this!” other fans scream as they continue to struggle.

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“You’re both going to lose your jobs,” says the voice behind the cell phone recorder. “…And you wonder why we don’t respect all of you.”

Williamson told the Times-Union in a phone interview Sunday that it was excessive and unnecessary.

“What we witnessed was 100% wrong,” he said. “This was police brutality. Regardless of the words that came out of the man’s mouth, there was absolutely no excuse for what he did.”

In another video posted on X by Ohio’s Tate at Barstool TateThe two officers are seen fighting and repeatedly punching two fans in the stands. One is on top of a man on the stairs, punching him, and the other repeatedly hits another man, while the fan’s arm is bent toward the officer’s neck.

Other fans can be heard gasping and screaming; among them was someone asking, “Why are you punching him?” He also shouts:

The video does not show the circumstances that led to the use of force. The officers in both videos appear to be wearing Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office uniforms.

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Jacob Vorpahl, director of public liability and professional standards at the Sheriff’s Office, explained each incident step by step.

The first started with a stadium official making sure people had tickets appropriate for their destination. He asked some children to find their parents and come back with their tickets. When Brown arrived, he pushed the security guard away and accused him of kidnapping his children and threatened to kill him. So he asked sheriff’s officers for help.

When Bowers and Kelly approach Brown and tell him he’s been fired, Brown immediately becomes uncooperative and says the employee assaulted him. He also tells a woman, “Remember what I told you, I’m either going to kill a cop or I’m not leaving.” He also encourages officers to “Follow me.”

He claims that he has not done anything against the law, but continues to argue and uncooperative with the employee, claiming that they are trying to kidnap his children. Bowers tells him there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. But Brown replies: “If I go back to prison, I’m going to fuck your ass, DJ Bowers.”

That’s when Kelly uses her Taser on him. This only worked for a short while as Brown became more belligerent and threatened Kelly, “You want some now… Get your gun out.” This time, Bowers fires the stun gun and Kelly begins hitting Brown, and the two struggle until he is handcuffed.

Vorpahl said officers tried to use the least amount of force necessary, but Brown continued to escalate the situation, forcing officers to increase their use of force. He also said there were some comments on social media that Kelly was using his handcuffs like brass knuckles. He explained and demonstrated how the officer held his cuffs exposed on both sides but not rolled up like brass knuckles.

Vorpahl showed how Brown pulled Kelly’s shirt so he couldn’t break away from her. He also emphasized that Brown tried to take Kelly’s gun from his holster during the struggle and showed video footage in which this was circled.

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The second incident began when a security guard was tipped off to the two Longs, who the Times-Union learned were father, son and friend Boley, three men who were acting particularly unruly, making threats and getting in people’s faces. The security guard repeatedly warned them that they would be kicked out. Another fan then went to a police officer to help the employee secure it.

The employee points to the three men, saying he needs them. But the men still refuse despite the officer’s presence, and the father asks why they are doing so as he and his son point to the others in front of and behind them. Two other officers also arrive, but the father can be heard saying, “I’m not going.”

The incident then erupts when one of the officers tries to take the father away, and his son is seen jumping on the officer in what Vorphal describes as a “bear hug.” A taser is used, but it’s hard to see who’s on it.

The second responding officer’s body camera shows him trying to restrain his son and ordering him not to swing. “I’m not swinging,” the son says over and over. The officer pins him to the ground and pins one hand behind his back while the son continues to scream, “I can’t move.” He was eventually handcuffed.

The other man is also seen to be involved and is initially pushed backwards by a fan behind him, but little else is shown otherwise.

“They were asked to leave multiple times without using any force,” Vorphal said. “They stayed in their seats over and over again, wanting to negotiate the situation, not wanting to comply with the officers’ commands… only then did the incident escalate to JSO use of force.”

It also showed how Michael Long adopted a fighting stance when the officer tried to grab him and put his hand in the striking officer’s face (which was not visible in the posted social media video).

Alexander Long, who was released with his father on $5,000 bail, referred the Times-Union to attorney George Fallis. He issued the following statement: “I am waiting for the Sheriff to conduct his investigation before making any comment regarding the incident.”

This article first appeared in the Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville sheriff responds to violent arrests in Florida, Georgia