It was after midnight when Devin Johnson walked into a bar through an exit gate in Ohio in 2023, only to get shoved out by several employees who continued shoving him down the sidewalk, tackling him to the ground until a police officer arrived and punched him several times on the back of his head.

Johnson, a then-20-year-old student and football player at Miami University, had been celebrating with teammates after beating the University of Buffalo and clinching a berth in the Mid-American Conference championship game.

But at one point, he stepped out of the Brick Street bar in Oxford for fresh air where he had already paid a cover charge to enter, according to a federal lawsuit filed Nov. 18, accusing the staff, cops and city of conspiring against him to violate his Fourth Amendment righ

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