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UA student may file lawsuit for wrongful riot arrest

Charges dropped after news footage shows him walking by perpetrator

Charges against a UA student - who was arrested during the April 2 riot along North Fourth Avenue - were dropped last week, and the sophomore is now considering a lawsuit against the city.

Yann Gavillot, a geosciences major, pleaded not guilty to one count of misdemeanor criminal damage and one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest after officers allegedly saw him tearing down a street sign.

However, Gavillot said he "got lucky" when he later heard that a camera crew from Tucson's KVOA-TV4 news had footage of him walking by another man who was damaging the sign. It is unkown if that man has been arrested for the crime.

"In the tape, you see someone with the same hairdo I have doing the damage," he said.

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