‘You look like one’: downtown Clevelander sues police, says he was profiled as May 30 rioter while picking up groceries
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Cleveland Police, the Ohio Highway Patrol and the National Guard block the Detroit/Superior bridge into downtown Cleveland, following Saturday s protests over the death of George Floyd.
Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
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CLEVELAND, Ohio A downtown Cleveland resident arrested while trying to pick-up groceries he ordered during the curfew that followed the May 30 riot has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Cleveland and the group of officers who arrested him.
Mehdi Mollahasani showed Cleveland police his ID, a pay stub with his East 9th Street address and his digital grocery receipt on his cellphone as proof that he walked to pick up groceries on May 31. He also told the officers that he was “not a looter,” according to the complaint.