Curtis O’Donnell taught second grade at Park Forest Elementary School and had respect within the community. A State College newspaper survey declared him teacher of the year. On December 7th, 2013, Curtis O’Donnell drove to Little Rock, Arkansas’ Verizon Arena to attend a Jimmy Buffett concert. At 6:30 P.M., the police found O’Donnell “rolling a joint” in his car while they walked by his car. They arrested him outside of the Verizon Arena for possession of marijuana. Fifteen minutes after his arrest, the police began a large arrest raid of cocaine dealers outside of the stadium.
Sarah Lyubov, a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, investigated the arrests to create a newspaper article for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She requested
