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ACTIONS TAKEN TODAY. JENNIFER: THE TROOPER CAME HERE TO HEADQUARTERS FOR A HEARING TODAY. IT IS DECIDED HE WILL BE SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY BECAUSE HE IS FACING A CRIMINAL CHARGE. >> THE SUGGESTION IS OUTRAGEOUS. A.J.: HIS LAWYER SAYS HE ADMITS HE GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH ANOTHER FAN. BUT HE DENIES THAT HE TOUCHED HIMSELF. PATTERSON WAS FIRST SUSPENDED WITH PAY AT A LUKE BRYAN CONCERT IN JUNE. STATE POLICE DECIDED TO TAKE HIS PAY AWAY. >> WHY WOULDN’T ANYONE JUST WANT TO KEEP THEIR SOURCE OF EMPLOYMENT? JENNIFER: HE WAS EXTREMELY INTOXICATED AND BEGAN GRINDING ON THE FEMALE WITNESS. HER BOYFRIEND HIT HIS PHONE. THEN HE PUNCHED THE MAN IN THE FACE. A MAN WITH PATTERSON FLASHED A BADGE AND SAID THEY WERE IN BIG TROUBLE. >> HE WAS ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF GILLETTE STADIUM WITH ABOUT 10,000 OTHER PEOPLE. A VERY CHAOTIC SCENE. ANY THINGS CAN BE MISCONSTRUED. JENNIFER: PATTERSON’S LAWYER SAYS HE IS A VETERAN AND HE SHOT AND KILLED A MAN WAVING A KNIFE IN 2015. >> HE HAS BEEN THROUGH A LOT. JENNIFER: WE DID REACH OUT TO

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Massachusetts State Police officials held an internal hearing Friday for the trooper accused of performing a lewd act on himself during a summer concert at Gillette Stadium, for which they decided to suspend the trooper without pay. The suspension comes one day after a clerk decided Trooper Andrew Patterson could be charged with lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct for his behavior at a Luke Bryan concert in June.Patterson had been suspended with pay prior to Friday's hearing. The clerk's issuance of the charge triggered Friday's internal hearing to reassess his duty status."The off-duty conduct as alleged utterly contradicts the manner in which the Department demands its members conduct themselves in their personal lives," Massachusetts State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement.Officials said Patterson's status will be reevaluated after the criminal case and internal investigations are completed. "He's very upset about it. These are very serious charges. It is a misdemeanor by law, but he unequivocally denies the facts that are alleged here," said Daniel Moynihan, Patterson's attorney.Foxborough police wrote in their report about the incident at the concert that Patterson "was extremely intoxicated and his speech was thick and slurred" when they tried to talk to him.The witnesses were a couple sitting next to Patterson, who was with a group of friends that included other state troopers. Police said they were called to the floor of Gillette Stadium for the report of a fight, where they found a couple who said that Patterson and a friend had been acting inappropriately throughout the concert. Patterson had sat in the chair of one of the victims, and when asked to move Patterson had "motioned for him to sit on his lap." Patterson also ate some of the victim's popcorn, the report said. At another point, according to the police report, Patterson "removed his penis from his shorts" and began masturbating. Patterson's friend apologized and the group left.One of the witnesses used the eggplant emoji to write about the incident on Facebook, apparently as it was unfolding, and police later reviewed the post as part of their investigation."Sick (expletive) even pulled out his (eggplant emoji,)" the witness wrote.When Patterson and his friends returned, one member of the group "pretended to 'grind'" on the female witness, according to the report, while another one recorded the dancing on his cellphone.The male witness knocked the phone out of the recording trooper's hand, and then one of the troopers punched him in the nose. According to the report, the male witness said he then threw a chair at the two men.The troopers told police that the male witness started the fight by throwing the chair, and that one of them threw the punch in self-defense.The couple told police that Patterson's friend, later identified as Trooper Stephen Thomson, "displayed a badge to him" and told him that, "He is in big trouble now." Thomson has not been charged.The couple told police at the time they didn't want to press charges over the fight but, after hearing their story and reviewing the Facebook post and a string of text messages, police indicated in the report that they were going to pursue a lewdness charge against Patterson."There was a scuffle, that was admitted. There was a crowd and it was a chaotic scene, but the specific acts which are being alleged here are outrageous. He adamantly denies them and we look forward to having this resolved in court," Moynihan said. When asked about the charge, the male witness in the case told 5 Investigates' Mike Beaudet that no one should be above the law.In an unrelated incident, Patterson was cleared in 2017 by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office after he fatally shot a man, who was carrying a knife, in Boston two years earlier.