re: Jose Vargas

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It's funny how stories get out and probably get changed. I heard that what actually happened was

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What had happened was this: One evening Vargas had stopped at a Church's Fried Chicken outlet near campus. A group of five teenagers there began taunting him, and one of them took a liking to the chain Vargas wore around his neck. A poke in the chest, a yank on the necklace—on which hung a ring given Vargas by his mother—and Vargas reacted instinctively, tackling the young man and crashing with him through a plate-glass window. The other teenagers fled as Vargas pinned his assailant to the ground, removed his own belt and began choking the fellow with it.

Vargas isn't sure what caused him to stop and let the kid get away, only that he's glad he did. He immediately phoned Brown, who rounded up some players and some baseball bats. "Justice wasn't served," Brown says. "So we formed our own little vigilante group."

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