When Brett Kavanaugh was a junior at Yale, he and several friends were questioned by the New Haven Police Department in September 1985 after an altercation in a bar left one man bleeding from the ear. The police report, which called the incident "an assault," was uncovered by the New York Times and corroborates an account given by Kavanaugh's former Yale classmate, Chad Ludington, who charged that Kavanaugh instigated a bar fight by "throwing his beer in the man’s face."
Ludington, who called himself "deeply troubled" by Kavanaugh's "blatant mischaracterization" of his drinking at Yale, said the bar fight night was "one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett."
That September night, several friends including Ludington, Kavanaugh and the star of the Yale basketball team, Chris Dudley, went to a bar called Demery's after seeing a UB40 concert. They were looking at a guy who they believed resembled UB40's lead singer, but when the gentleman took offense, Kavanaugh threw a beer in the man's face, according to Ludington.
The police report said the victim, Dom Cozzolino, accused Kavanaugh of throwing ice on him, rather than a beer. Dudley, the basketball player "then hit the man in the ear with a glass, according to the police report," wrote the Times.
Dudley, a former NBA player and Republican who ran for governor of Oregon in 2010, has issued blanket denials about Kavanaugh's drinking. "I never ever saw Brett blackout. Not one time,” Dudley told Bloomberg News.
But Ludington, whose account maps that of the New Haven Police Department, recalls something entirely different. “I can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, Brett has not told the truth,” Ludington said.
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