Unredacted police report confirms Kavanaugh friend was arrested following 1985 bar fight

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A police report confirms that a friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was arrested in 1985 while they were students at Yale, following a contentious incident at a local bar where Kavanaugh was blamed for throwing ice on another man.

According to an unredacted police report on the incident obtained by CNN, Kavanaugh’s friend Chris Dudley “was transported to Union Ave detention facility by prisoner conveyance” after he struck a man on the ear with a glass. The report also lists an “A” to note that Dudley was arrested, but it’s unclear if Dudley was ever charged.

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