There are at least a couple of different versions of what happened in the stands that led to the decommitment.
On Twitter, Johnson said “police harassment” was the reason.
Jordan said all was fine when the University's escort took them to their seats prior to the opening kickoff. But he said that after the first half of the game, a Georgia Tech police officer in the stands suddenly started questioning the authenticity of the Georgia Tech guest tickets that Jordan and his mother and brother were wearing on lanyards around their necks.
In an interview Monday with 11Alive's sister station in Jacksonville, First Coast News, Jordan said he had gone to the concession stand, and when he returned, "Two police officers were standing over my mom...They were asking us for our tickets. And they made us feel like we made up the tickets that we had on, like anybody could have made them is basically what they were saying."
He said the officers stepped away, one of them talking on his radio. Then, the one on the radio, Jordan said, returned, "And he was like, 'I'm sorry, I apologize, my bad, sorry for the inconvenience,' he was trying to shake Mom's hand."
What happened next, according to Jordan's account, was a combination of he and his family wanting the officer to go away and leave them alone, and the officer taking offense at that.
"We were like, no, we're good, you don't have to shake our hand, no apologies, just walk away," Jordan said. "He was like, no, let me shake your mom's hand. That's when my brother stood up -- my brother's in the Navy. He stood up like, No, thank you, we don't need your services, you're good, walk away. My mom don't want to shake your hand. That's when the cop got mad and he was like, as a matter of fact, Sir, let me see your identification. So my brother pulled out his military ID, and he had it in his face like this. And then he [the officer] snatched it out of my brother's hand. And my brother's first instinct was to snatch it back. He [the officer] grabbed my brother by the wrist like he was gonna arrest him, or like he was gonna throw him out of the game. That was a white cop. That's when a black cop came up, and he was like, 'What's going on? Everybody calm down. What's going on?'"
Jordan said a few minutes after that, someone came on the police radio authorizing the officers to eject Jordan and his family.
"And they [the person on the radio] was like, they need to leave, if they're misbehaving and they can't control themselves, they need to leave. And we were like, misbehaving? They came to us. They started harassing us.... And I told the police officer, I was like, 'I'm going to de-commit, and you're going to be the reason why.' And he was like, 'I wouldn't give a "fcuk" if you committed or not, because I'm still going to have my job.'"
Some on social media have accused Jordan and his family of being in the wrong seats and refusing to move -- instigating the confrontation -- which Jordan calls lies.
"They told us to sit there, so that's where we sat. They were on the blog saying stuff, like, making up lies, they were like, 'Oh yeah, I seen the whole thing happen, he was yelling and he was being belligerent' and all these words, and I was like, none of that happened, why would you sit there and make up a lie like that?"
The University has said only that there was a misunderstanding about seating, and campus police are investigating what led to the confrontation.
CACs gon' CAC.....