Journalist John Ruch was on a public sidewalk photographing Atlanta police as they arrested protesters last year when officers grabbed him, took his phone and then handcuffed him, according to a new suit filed in federal court in Atlanta.
At the time, Ruch was working for the city’s alternative weekly newspaper, Creative Loafing. He was reporting on a demonstration prompted by a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who had killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Ruch was held for hours in custody, much of the time in handcuffs, before police charged him with disorderly conduct, according to the suit. That charge was dismissed within hours of his release on bond.
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