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Concertgoer says man urinated on his family at Morgan Wallen show

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MD: CONCERTGOER SAYS MAN URINATED ON FAMILY

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    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A family is in shock after a man allegedly urinated on multiple people, including an 8-year-old girl, during the Morgan Wallen concert on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

A series of videos about the incident on Facebook has gone viral, racking up more than 1 million views.

Wallen brought his “Still the Problem” tour to Baltimore last Friday and Saturday nights, which drew tens of thousands of fans.

Troy Grevelding, who traveled to Baltimore from Syracuse, New York, said he never thought something like this would happen at the concert.

After Wallen took the stage, Grevelding said he and his wife felt something dripping on their legs. When they looked behind them, they said another man, whom they do not know, was urinating in the stands.

“I just look, and at that point his pants are completely down. He’s urinating all over myself … all over my wife,” Grevelding told WJZ.

His two nieces were with him at the time, including an 8-year-old girl who was urinated on, as well. Grevelding said he tried to push the man away from his family and told him to stop.

“I’m freaking out, and the guy’s just telling me, ‘It’s OK, man. It’s OK, brother,'” Grevelding said.

Taking to Facebook Live, Grevelding tried to get security and the Maryland Transportation Authority Police (MDTA) to act. Grevelding said police didn’t do enough to protect his family.

In the video, an MDTA officer said they cannot take the man into custody.

In Maryland, indecent exposure is a misdemeanor offense, as is public urination in Baltimore City. The officer also explained that Grevelding can get the man’s information and go to a court commissioner if he would like to press charges.

“I’m supposed to do your job? Am I supposed to go and get witnesses? I’m supposed to go get all these people to go back to a court Monday when we are all from out of town?” Grevelding questioned.

MDTA Police said in a statement to WJZ that they are aware of the video and that there is an open, active criminal investigation into the incident.

MDTA Police have not confirmed whether any potential suspects have been identified or if any charges have been filed in this case.

The Baltimore Ravens also confirmed to WJZ that a team executive reached out to the family. Grevelding says he wants more done because his niece is traumatized.

The family said that it was likely their last concert at M&T Bank Stadium and that they won’t be back to Baltimore anytime soon.

“After knowing what little the laws will do for you, why do I want to put myself into a situation again that I’m not protected?” Grevelding said. “Why do I want to go to a place that don’t care about me?”

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Sen. Paul: ‘Very real chance’ Fauci could be prosecuted after Senate hearing

▶ Watch Video: Sen. Rand Paul says there's a "very real chance" Fauci could be prosecuted after contentious hearing Hours after Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment in response to all questions during a Senate hearing, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told CBS News he believes the former infectious disease official could be prosecuted for not answering questions.The testimony followed years of fiery disputes between Paul and Fauci — both medical doctors — over the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the origins of the virus that caused it. Fauci has long defended his handling of both issues, and Paul has repeatedly accused him of lying. Last weekend, Paul's office released a trove of journal entries penned by Fauci.In a brief opening statement in Wednesday's hearing, Fauci said he planned to assert the Fifth Amendment, arguing that Paul has an "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution" and has made "slanderous comments" about him. He then invoked the Fifth Amendment for several hours as Paul and other Republicans criticized him and Democrats defended him.In an interview later Wednesday on CBS News' "The Takeout with Major Garrett," Paul argued Fauci's lack of answers could lead to federal criminal charges for contempt of Congress or obstructing a congressional proceeding."I think there is a very real chance that he could be prosecuted for that," Paul said.The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants people the right not to incriminate themselves, which generally allows them to decline to answer questions. But in this case, Paul argues, a preemptive pardon that former President Joe Biden issued to Fauci just hours before leaving office could prevent Fauci from invoking the Fifth Amendment since he cannot be prosecuted for any of the issues that lawmakers asked about.Fauci's attorney, David Schertler, pushed back in an email to CBS News."We are completely confident that Dr. Fauci has a valid Fifth Amendment privilege here and is on solid legal ground in asserting it," he said. "Rand Paul may be a doctor, but he is not a lawyer."Paul called it an unsettled legal question."I don't think this has ever been truly and fully adjudicated. There aren't that many people with pardons who have come before a congressional committee and refuse to testify," Paul told CBS News. "A court ultimately would have to determine: Does the Fifth Amendment apply to someone who already has a pardon?"A federal law often cited in contempt-of-Congress proceedings makes it a crime for witnesses to "willfully" refuse to answer questions when called to testify before Congress. Another law bars obstructing an investigation by a congressional committee.Paul has said the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which he chairs, will hold a vote next week on whether to recommend holding Fauci in contempt of Congress. If the majority-GOP committee votes in favor, the matter would head to the full Senate for a vote. Final adoption of that measure would require a simple majority, but ending debate might need 60 votes, which would require some Democrats to vote in favor.After that, whether to pursue criminal charges against Fauci would be up to the Justice Department. The department has chosen to charge people referred by Congress for contempt in a handful of cases — most recently, under the Biden administration, Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro — but it has declined to bring charges in other cases.Senators spent Wednesday's hearing raising some of the most controversial elements of the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including recommendations around mask-wearing, social distancing and closures of schools and businesses. But some of the most contentious moments involved the debate over the origins of the coronavirus. Paul backs the theory that the virus emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than naturally jumping from animals to humans in a wet market in that city, and he has long accused Fauci and other top health officials of downplaying the possibility of a lab leak. The senator has also focused on whether the virus was manipulated in the lab through "gain-of-function" research, typically defined as modifying or enhancing viruses to study how they evolve. He has accused Fauci of lying to Congress about whether such research took place in Wuhan with U.S. government-funded grants. Paul argued on CBS News that the coronavirus may have been "adapted in the lab to be very transmissible."Fauci has denied that he rejected or downplayed the lab leak theory, insisting that he always kept an open mind about the origins of the coronavirus, though he has asserted at times that the evidence suggests a natural spillover was more likely. He has also denied lying about the research in Wuhan, arguing the studies Paul cited did not constitute gain-of-function research under federal definitions.Fauci has also said it would be "molecularly impossible" for the bat viruses at the center of that research to be linked to the virus that causes COVID-19.Some entries in Fauci's diaries that were released by Paul last weekend reflect scientists' early efforts to understand how the virus emerged. In January 2020, he wrote that "we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier," though he added that "somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans." About a week later, he described a conference call with a dozen infectious disease experts, most of whom felt it was "possible" that mutations to the virus were inserted by humans.
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