University of Wisconsin graduate Carey Kingman Chesney is in court today facing charges stemming from an incident at Dane County Airport in which Chesney claims he was beaten by police.

Sgt. Gordy Disch said police arrested Chesney at the airport Jan. 12 because he refused to listen to the demands of four police officers to bring his drink back into the airport bar. Police reports say Chesney instead rode the escalator, created a disturbance and resisted arrest.

Chesney tells a different story. He said he had returned to Madison from Mexico and accidentally left the bar with his drink. When police told him to return to the bar, he tried walking up the down escalator, because it was the most direct route when police started following him.

“They started chasing me, so I started running,” Chesney said.

“They threw me into the wall and beat the crap out of me.”

Chesney said he has bruises on his body to prove the police hurt him and said he wants to sue the police department.

“I want someone to lose their f-cking job,” Chesney said.

Disch said police physically restrained Chesney while he antagonized officers and created a disturbance. He is charged with two counts of resisting or obstructing an officer and one count of disorderly conduct.

Disch doubted the truth of Chesney’s charges of police violence.

“My guess is that didn’t happen,” Disch said.

Chesney said the police never read him his Miranda rights and ignored him when he asked them to loosen his handcuffs. He said his belief in Buddhism helped him to keep his cool as he reminded himself to stay passive.

“I said to the lady cop, ‘Hey señorita, easy honey, do you wanna dance?'” Chesney said.

“Then she elbowed me in the chest.”

Chesney said he recently graduated from UW with an English major, and said he plans to move to Michigan to pursue a writing career.

“But now I have to deal with all this legal shit,” he said.

Nevertheless, Chesney said he was proud of his plans to sue the police department.

“I’m a modern-day legal Batman,” he said.

The police department has not been notified of any legal action taken by Chesney.

At Chesney’s initial appearance today, he will be notified of his right to a lawyer, and court commissioner Tom Meurer will hear his plea. Meurer said a district attorney would not be assigned to the case until after the appearance.

Chesney also went to court Wednesday on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Public records say he is suspect to inflicting $2500 in damage to a Madison resident’s car. If found guilty, Chesney could be fined a maximum of $10,000 or spend nine months in prison.