Viral physique cam footage reveals shirtless, alcohol-covered pledges

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – Police physique digicam footage launched following a viral YouTube video reveals the scene officers encountered throughout a 2024 hazing incident on the University of Iowa’s Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

The footage reveals crowds of shirtless males within the fraternity’s basement, some lined in ketchup and alcohol and a few blindfolded, when police and firefighters reply to a fireplace alarm in November 2024.

“You gotta see it from my perspective, what the f— did I just walk into?” an officer mentioned within the footage.

Officers discovered 56 pledges in two darkish rooms in the course of the incident.

“Looks like we have quite a bit of hazing,” an officer mentioned.

The physique digicam footage reveals officers making an attempt to find out what was occurring and asking if anybody wanted medical consideration or was there in opposition to their will. Pledges responded in unison that nobody was there in opposition to their will.

Officers searched all through the fraternity home asking to talk to somebody in cost, however nobody pointed them in the correct path.

During the incident, one individual shouted slurs at officers and repeatedly interrupted conversations between police and pledges.

“You got f—— nothing, there’s no fire here, no nothing,” the individual mentioned.

Officers arrested that particular person and prosecutors charged him with interference with official acts, however his costs had been later dropped.

The University of Iowa suspended Alpha Delta Phi till summer season 2029 following the hazing incident. Three fraternities are at the moment beneath suspension on the college.

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