I’m on the phone with Jane Higgins, a publicist in St Louis.

Ali was stopped by Hazelwood, MO police at 4:30 in the afternoon last Saturday (October 14) for a traffic violation. Somehow between the time they cuffed him and threw him in the back of the patrol car and took him in to the station, he was tazed 35 times (while in cuffs) for ‘”resisting arrest.” There are burn marks all over his back.

Tased 35 times? So after the first 6 or 7, he was still fully functional and resisting arrest? C’mon now… 35 times.

Hazelwood is the same town where Ali is opening his restaurant (is he nuts?) and a suburb of St Louis (it’s near the airport, actually).

Someone driving by HAD to have seen his. 5-0 did NOT call for backup (since when do they arrest a young Black male without scores of other cops coming by?), and they were on Lindbergh Blvd long enough to wait for a tow truck to come and tow Ali's corvette.

The newspaper reports that Ali was tased until he “soiled himself.”

It’s time to stand up, St Louis.