Vincent J. Curtis
29 Jan 23
This update is based on a report dated January 25th from the New York Post, reporting on the reportage of the UK Daily Mail. The story is about a report that Madison worked for the bar where she drank before being attacked.
These are the new alleged facts:
- Madison may have worked for the bar “where she and the four male suspects boozed it up in the hours before her shocking death.”
- Madison and some of her Alpha Phi sorority sisters may have worked behind the bar. Madison posted online several photos of her and her sorority sisters at the bar, one of which had the caption, “3 little Reggie’s workers.” Nevertheless, it is unclear that she was formally employed by the bar.
- Police said she was capture on surveillance video entering the bar at about 10:00 pm January 14 (that would be a Saturday night) and was not working at the bar.
- She met up with the 17 year old suspect, and left with him in a drunken state between 1:00 am and 2:00 am Sunday morning (Jan 15).
- Three other men joined the pair and got into a car.
- One of the suspects, white, 18 year old Casen Carver, told police that Madison was “very unstable on her feet, was unable to keep her balance, and was unable to speak clearly without slurring her words.”
- The story repeats the claim that Madison’s blood alcohol level at death was 0.319%, nearly four times the legal limit to drive.
- Two suspects, the 17 year old, and 18 year old Kaivon Washington, who is Black, allegedly raped Madison in the back seat of the car, and though she was in a drunken state was able to give consent, the suspects alleged.
- A judge who reviewed the video recordings made by one of the suspects, said it showed the four accused “callously laughing as Brooks slurred her words inside the car.” The judge also reviewed footage from the bar that shows her stumbling, falling over, and needing assistance to stand prior to the assault.
Analysis:
The events leading up to Madison’s leaving the bar get curiouser and curiouser. That she was drinking only with the 17 year old, a person two years her junior, might explain why Madison was not on her guard. But what was she doing drinking herself into a high state of intoxication with a 17 year old for three hours or more? How could she get to such a state without someone in the bar intervening? What was the 17 year old doing, drinking Coke the whole time? Who was paying for the drinks, and in the paying did the waitress notice Madison’s growing impairment?
Over three hours of drinking, did she ever go to the bathroom, and was her unsteadiness noticed then? What did she drink – hard liquor? If so, what? It should be on her bar tab.
Why did no one say anything about a 17 year old remaining for hours in the bar, into the wee hours of closing time, in fact?
Did Madison have a cell phone? Young people nowadays don’t go anywhere without their cell phones, if only to take selfies, which Madison seems frequently to have done. Did Madison text anyone or receive texts? What do they say? Did she take any selfies in the bar? What has become of her cell phone? If she didn’t take it with her, why not?
If Madison was so unsteady on her feet, what do we make of the video allegedly showing her jogging to catch up with four men as they approached a car?
The car was said to be owned by the 18 year old white guy, Casen Carter. Was he the driver that night? Madison was supposed to have been seated in the front passenger seat initially, meaning the 17, 18 and 28 year olds would have been seated in the back seat. How did it come to pass that Madison was raped in the back seat? That would involve, stopping the car, getting out, and in, in the pouring rain that night. Why didn’t Carter drive the mile back to campus, instead of letting her our 3.5 miles from Reggie’s bar, if he wasn’t going to rape her, only watch?
The report mentions that a trace amount of THC was found in Madison’s system, but THC remains in the body days after intake. Smoking weed in the bar would be very obvious and obviously illegal, and so could not play a role in Madison’s intoxication. The story does repeat the claim of a blood alcohol content of .319%, which I claim is not possible. At that level Madison would be in a coma. She would have been vomiting and losing bladder control somewhere in the .20% to .25% range, half a dozen drinks before. There are no reports of Madison vomiting or pissing herself that night.
If Madison did work for the bar, even informally, that might explain why they tolerated her presence there, though underage. And it might explain that she was served as many drinks as she asked for, and didn’t have to pay. The claim in the story that she boozed it up with four men is contradicted later in the story by the video evidence that she was only with the 17 year old, and it doesn’t say for how much of the 3 hours or more she spent in the bar was with other people, who, or how many. This part contradicts previous reports that Madison was out with other LSU friends, including her ride home, who left her as she become more intoxicated.
If she was that unstable on her feet and unable to keep her balance, did the 17 year old help her get to the car? And if it wasn’t him, who provided her with the assistance she needed to keep upright, make it out of the bar, and make it to the car?
More questions than answers, and lots of
contradictory evidence. But, we’ll stay
on top of it.
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