A man is suing two deputies involved in his January 2021 arrest while collecting signatures to start a tenant's association in his former apartment complex
A man is suing two deputies involved in his January 2021 arrest while collecting signatures to start a tenant's association in his former apartment complex
A sheriff’s deputy who arrested a Black Michigan man for “soliciting” though he was only collecting signatures to help his community has been fired.
The announcement about the unidentified deputy’s termination was made by Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley and Undersheriff Timothy Hurtt on Friday, Jan. 22 after an internal investigation, MLive reported.
“We hold ourselves to high standards of professionalism to the communities we protect. When we are right, we are right. When we are wrong, we admit we are wrong. On January 2, we were wrong,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
La’Ron Marshall, 44, was going door to door on Jan. 2 collecting signatures to form a tenant association where he lives at the Wyndtree Apartments where he lives in the southern Michigan town of Springfield. He was approached by while he was at his neighbor Kimberly Totzke’s apartment by two deputies who said they’d received a call about someone soliciting.
A YouTube video of a Calhoun County Sheriff s Deputy arresting a black man for no reason leads to his firing.
Friday the Calhoun County Sheriff s Department released a statement regarding the incident that took place in Springfield, Michigan between La Ron Marshall as he was collecting signatures for a petition and one of their deputies,
We hold ourselves to high standards of professionalism to the communities we protect. When we are right, we are right. When we are wrong, we admit we are wrong. On January 2, we were wrong.
A couple of unmasked officers demanded La Ron Marshall s ID. Then threatened to arrest him for solicitation without a permit and hindering an investigation. This is all happening on the porch of a woman who is video recording the incident. She is telling the police that Marshall is not bothering her, nor is he committing a crime. Furthermore, she asks for the officers names and badge numbers. They refuse to give it to her. In fact, they rarely a
Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley has fired a department deputy. The deputy was one of two responding to a call recently to a rental housing complex in Springfield. The caller thought a man might have been illegally soliciting residents at Wyndtree Apartments in Springfield. During the initial contact between deputies, the man refused to provide his identity. He was arrested for resisting and obstructing police. It later turned out he was trying to gather petition signatures to possibly form a tenant association. Springfield has no ordinance against soliciting. The man, 44-year-old La’Ron Marshall, who lives at that rental complex, has already received an apology from the department for the incident. Sheriff Steve Hinkley came on the 95.3 WBCK Morning Show ten days after the incident and acknowledged the department s mistake.