UI football player charged after fight Friday at Kam's

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said a security video at a campus bar shows a University of Illinois football player hitting a man in a bar fight early Friday morning.

Michael Garrity, 19, a lineman who listed an address in the 500 block of South Third Street, Champaign, was arraigned Friday on two counts of aggravated battery with great bodily harm.

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