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Hugged & Shoved: hugging protester says she was roughed up by city police

David McNair
Jul 10, 2017
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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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