On Friday, Oct. 30, officers from the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) detained and arrested a Pomona College student on campus. Officers dragged the student from the pavement area outside Clark V Residence Hall onto North College Way between 10:14 and 10:17 p.m., where they were handcuffed.
The student later received a citation for battery of a peace officer; multiple eyewitnesses contested the validity of the charge.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LAFD) invited ABC to campus, according to an Oct. 31 email from the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) to the Pomona community. According to multiple sources, administrators who later arrived on scene on Friday evening cited the Fire Department’s alleged concern over a recent increase in alcohol abuse reports at the Claremont Colleges…