Former ASU Coach and Trustee Get in Fist Fight
Fists started flying at a deposition hearing Thursday morning. Former ASU head football coach Reggie Barlow and a trustee allegedly got into a fight. The deposition hearing was for the wrongful termination lawsuit of former Alabama State University football coach Reggie Barlow. Both men say things turned violent resulting in an arrest warrant being filed against a university trustee for physically assaulting the former coach. According to Barlow’s attorney, Donald Jackson, a deposition of trustee Herbert Young had just started when Young voiced his displeasure with the way Jackson was asking questions. The verbal exchange escalated and things got physical. On the audio of the deposition, you can hear Young yelling, “You will respect me!! You will not talk to me in any kind of way. I don’t care who you are!! You will respect me, so sit your butt down!” Later you hear Young yell, “Disrespectful!” “Get him out!” yelled Jackson. “He’s no board member, that’s the problem!” yelled Barlow after Young. That’s when Young yelled back, “I got something for you too! Come on! Come on with it!” In the audio you can hear scuffling and yelling. Jackson says, “So at this point, I get in between them. I’m trying to separate them. He (Young) reaches over my shoulder. Reggie’s standing in front of the door, grabs Reggie around the neck and trying to pound his head up against the door.” According to Jackson, Young was throwing punches at Barlow over his shoulder. “When I came here this morning to the deposition, I didn’t expect to be attacked by someone who is a trustee of Alabama State,” said Barlow. However, in a statement, Young says that’s not what happened. “I have the utmost respect for how the justice system works. i have never encountered anything of this nature with the hostility and rudeness that was portrayed by attorney Donald Jackson and Reggie Barlow… Mr. Barlow reached around Donald Jackson and struck me twice… At no time did I strike or choke Reggie Barlow as he and his attorney have claimed,” said Young. Both sides are pressing assault charges.
