Brian Downing, Alabama Crimson Fan, Sued By LSU Fan For Simulated Sex Act

NEW ORLEANS -- The Alabama man accused of committing sexual battery on an unconscious LSU fan after the BCS championship football game is being sued.

The LSU fan filed a lawsuit Friday against Brian Downing of Smiths Station, Ala. Downing's lawyer declined comment Friday night, saying he hadn't had a chance to read the lawsuit because neither he nor his client had been served.

Downing, 32, was booked on charges of sexual battery and obscenity but the New Orleans district attorney has until June 20 to decide whether to prosecute.

A video that went viral on the Internet is believed to have been taken at a fast-food restaurant after Alabama defeated LSU on Jan. 9. A man clad in Crimson Tide attire appears to perform a simulated sex act on the LSU fan.

The lawsuit does not specify a dollar figure for damages. It says the LSU fan suffered "mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, anxiety and depression ... damage to reputation" and lost tuition payments "for having to withdraw from school."

Comments

[DBC1971]

08:06 AM on 05/14/2012

Brian Downing, the teabagger, is not a student at Alabama. He is 32 year old Alabama alum. He's married and has a young daughter. A grown man with a family.

[jjordande]

05:32 AM on 05/10/2012

Congratulations you will be a registered Sex offender for life. Remember that fact on your job application.

If this happened to a white woman by a Blackman would you brain dead sympathizers come his defense as commiting a harmless prank and faulting the woman for passing out?

Every one of them should be put in jail including the photo posing opprotunist-- they acted just like Abu Ghraib & Gitmo soldiers abusing prisoners.

If you want to reply to me don't talk trash and hide-- SHOW YOUR FACE.

[Clyde Pendleton]

01:31 PM on 05/08/2012

Here's an idea, sir: Don't get plastered in public to the point of passing out and maybe, just maybe, you wont have a pair of testes in your grill.

[jjordande]

05:37 AM on 05/10/2012

If this were your child and a moroon wrote your comment-- what's your response?

[Clyde Pendleton]

01:14 PM on 05/10/2012

You seem to be missing the point of not getting black-out drunk in public. In no way am I defending the guy who committed the crime but one shouldn't put themselves in that situation to begin with.

[PhloxJeana]

02:28 AM on 05/08/2012

Can you imagine what kind of wyte-trash these people would be if they weren't in college?

[KIVPossum]

02:02 AM on 05/08/2012

Five minutes on the video and two seconds of simulated sex. Certainly the guy that did it was way out of line, yet to single him out as the one that caused ''''mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, anxiety and depression ... damage to reputation""" is a bit over the top.

Got a dozen people stacking things on a passed out drunk, squirting something in his ears.

He should have been hauled off in the paddy wagon to the local jail for public drunk.

[wonderfullone]

12:02 AM on 05/08/2012

This 32 year !d!ot deserves to get sued and the DA needs to prosecute him for sexual assault.

[PhloxJeana]

02:31 AM on 05/08/2012

He's either a slow learner or someone else is paying for his tuition. I wonder if college has been the best 14 years of his life.

[wonderfullone]

09:09 PM on 05/08/2012

He's both.

[Hailey Delamaire]

03:32 PM on 05/07/2012

Methinks someone might be hiding in a very dark, confined space in his own head, especially given that I know of no straight men who ever would do such a thing. Let alone any men with CLASS who would do such a thing...

[LesaSays]

01:36 PM on 05/07/2012

I am sorry but the dude who pulled out his junk has some big issues due to his small issue!

I think he needs to rethink his sexuality because that is not a normal reaction for a hetrosexual man to make! I KNOW a GAY man would react that way, that was an assult! Then he struts around like a fool after showing the world his tiny little peck er!

[PhloxJeana]

02:30 AM on 05/08/2012

Gay or straight matters not. Anyone over the age of 5 with a lick of sense wouldn't do that.

[lowtotheleft]

12:16 PM on 05/07/2012

"You sure got a pretty mouth"...Go ahead sountherners, prepetuate the streo type.

[Cody Wandel]

12:03 PM on 05/07/2012

Bad news for Frat boys everywhere

[MyNameIsMickey]

11:59 AM on 05/07/2012

.......oh, the guy was arrested. AOK!

[MyNameIsMickey]

11:58 AM on 05/07/2012

If it had been a girl instead of a man, people would have been arrested. I hoped he gets every penny in his law suit.

[mbsa1230]

11:58 AM on 05/07/2012

Stop the insanity....
There was no sex act....
The drunk guy should be cited for
public drunkeness and the idiot
who pulled out his junk cited for
indecent exposure.
That's it, pure and simple.
Stupid lawsuit.

[reasonable84]

02:22 PM on 05/07/2012

Exactly !

[KIVPossum]

02:03 AM on 05/08/2012

yes

[Donna O]

11:32 AM on 05/07/2012

OMG.... Well, there ya go! Now I bet everybody wants to go to school in Alabama! What a bunch of heathens.. I hope someone does EVERYTHING to you that you stood there and allowed done to this guy.. and all the people that wanted their pictures taken in front of him.. did it EVER occur to you that he may have had a health issue? Just curious, you worthless ingrates.! Why didn't you get the management of this place and have them call either 911 or the Police? Ooops, that might have taken some CHARACTER to do that, a virtue NONE of you seem to have.

[servicemasterwv]

11:32 AM on 05/07/2012

they need their voting rights taken away no wonder this country is in such a mess with fools like this walking the streets !!!!!!!

[Katya Mabry]

01:11 PM on 05/07/2012

LOL honey, i'm pretty sure you're getting the 'fools like this walking the streets !!!!!!!!' confused with someone else.

someone who completely ruined this country when these college students were still in middle school. that someone happens to be a man named mr. george bush.

it's cute that you think college students are running the country. how patriotic of you. :)

[LesaSays]

01:39 PM on 05/07/2012

Common lets not drag Bush int this that is just silly, that is like blaming Obama for what happens at Duke!

[servicemasterwv]

03:12 PM on 05/07/2012

lol im talking about the gene pull that runs in the familys babble somewhere else lol