Apparently we’re on the topic of Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of the new biography Amerigo: the Man that Gave his Name to America, and himself known as Felipe: the Man that Didn’t Give his ID to the Crossing Guard, Despite Repeated Requests, and thus Ended up Getting Detained for Jaywalking.

In that case, why not seize this opportunity to take a look at (are you ready for this?) the twenty-four-minute-long YouTube interview he gave the day after being violently accosted and arrested in Atlanta—yes, the entire interview is just him bitching about the APD.

Fernandez-Armesto brews his cloying blend of effete pompousness and self-righteousness in this interview. With his professorial, British tone, the scholar recounts his jaywalking (“I committed the worst imaginable offense”), his state of mind throughout the ordeal (“traumatized, disoriented, … fraught”), and whether he liked the police officer’s bomber jacket (“where I come from … it’s considered rather louche”).

Only the first nine minutes of the interview are available here, but even in its abbreviated form this exchange with one of Tufts’ kookiest is worth it. For crying out loud, he actually gave a twenty-four-minute interview just to exonerate himself and lay blame on the Atlanta police. (Although from what it sounds like, the cops whupped his British ass pretty good—you'd probably be bitter too.)