Criminal charges were filed Friday against three men accused of assaulting Merced police officers during a melee last year at a downtown hookah lounge that angered many and triggered protests … Click to Continue »
Read More »What’s happening with the probe in the Hookah lounge melee involving Merced police?
It’s been more than six months since video from an altercation between Merced police and college students went viral, and investigators have not decided whether anyone will be charged with … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced officer lost his body camera during hookah lounge melee. Police want it back.
One of the 12 Merced police officers involved in a large melee last month with party-goers at a downtown hookah lounge lost his department-issued body camera during the scuffle, and … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced lounge suspect now in custody; attorney says police were ‘irresponsible’
Deputies arrested the robbery suspect Merced police say was in a downtown hookah lounge the night of a chaotic and violent confrontation with police, triggering protests in the days that … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced students protest arrests from hookah lounge
Students protested Thursday, July 13, 2017, the arrests and what they said was police brutality at the downtown Merced hookah lounge from the weekend. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Protesters march through Merced, speak out against Hookah Lounge arrests
Dozens of young people gathered at UC Merced and marched through the city on Thursday afternoon protesting the arrests of five people and the use of force by Merced police … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced students protest arrests from hookah lounge
Students protested Thursday, July 13, 2017, the arrests and what they said was police brutality at the downtown Merced hookah lounge from the weekend. … Click to Continue »
Read More »‘Total chaos’ at lounge event; Merced officer injured, several people arrested
A Merced police officer was injured and multiple people were arrested early Sunday after “a large melee” at Chandelier’s Hookah Lounge & Smoke Shop on Main Street where police fired … Click to Continue »
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