Legal Observer, Who Was Arrested in Ferguson, Says He Observed Police Targeting Black Men for Arrest | The Dissenter

22.8.14

Legal Observer, Who Was Arrested in Ferguson, Says He Observed Police Targeting Black Men for Arrest | The Dissenter: Max Suchan told Firedoglake in an interview that the police had “massed up.” He observed police “charging into the crowd.” It was his sense that they were “targeting” young black men from the neighborhood.

He recalled being pushed to the ground as he tried to get contact information from a black man, who had been roughly brought to the ground by riot police who had their rifles pointed at him. Riot police that had made a ring around the black man while he was being arrested were the ones who placed Suchan under arrest.

“I wasn’t trying to interfere with the arrest, but I was trying to get the person’s contact information, which we’ve been successful in doing throughout the weeks and days leading up to that,” Suchan explained. “I wasn’t really given an order to disperse, but they grabbed me and placed me under arrest as well.”

Suchan said the officers had him sit on Florissant Avenue, the blocked off area where protests have been happening, and then they were put in a police van.