Hugged & Shoved: hugging protester says she was roughed up by city police
At Saturday's Klan Rally Protest, Charlottesville resident Heather Rose Ratesic Dorsey, who was there to protest the Klan, gave one of the state troopers guarding an entrance way for the Klan a hug (see photo left).
"I have always been taught to respect everyone and I am sure that they needed more than a hug at that point," says Dorsey.
About an hour later, however, after the Klan had left, Dorsey was shoved to the ground by a city cop (number 67) while standing on the north sidewalk of High Street.
"I wasn't doing anything when someone behind me stepped on my flip flop," she says. " I turned around, it was a cop. I asked him to get off my shoe and he grabbed my arm and threw me to the ground."
She suffered wounds to her arm (see photo right), had her flip-flop broken, and was treated and released at MedExpress. Dorsey says a city police sergeant came to her house that night to take pictures and file a report.
Dorsey says she'll turn in a required handwritten complaint form on Monday, and …
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