“Officer Gromek handcuffed Henderson and an associate, freelance photographer Rossano Stewart, and forced them to sit on the ground. By that time, others attending the Community Empowerment Association meeting had come outside to witness the confrontation. Gromek then decided that the growing number of people posed a danger to his safety and called for backup. ‘It was threatening to us, 15 police cars, four dogs, hands on the mace, hands on the guns,’ Community Empowerment Association CEO Rashad Byrdsong told KDKA. ‘We were the ones in fear of our life, not them.'”
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