A federal lawsuit accuses police in a St. Louis suburb of violating the Constitution by enforcing vague ordinances to arrest and threaten to arrest racial injustice protesters.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Thursday against the city of Florissant, a St. Louis County town that was the site of several protests after a detective allegedly used his police vehicle to strike a Black suspect.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit said the city tried to control demonstrators by using or threatening to use ordinances covering obstruction of public places, unlawful assembly and failure to disperse.
