I think it is a shame what these people are doing!!!
https://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/ferguson-missouri.htm
Ferguson protesters charged in attack of man at strategy me
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Four Ferguson protesters have been charged in connection with an attack of a man they accused of sending out unauthorized video at a protest strategy session.
The four, all members of the Lost Voices protest group, are each charged with one count of second-degree robbery. They are: Allen Anthony Frazier Jr., 27; Melissa C. McKinnies-Sanders, 39; Brandi Shields, 17; and Lynard A. Smith, 33.
Police on Thursday said they are trying to identify a fifth suspect.
The victim told police he was dragged outside of a church by five or six men and beaten on Nov. 6. Ferguson protesters were having a strategy meeting at the church. The four are accused of taking the man's iPhone and iPhone charger.
The victim, Chris Schaefer, even did a live stream video from the hospital, showing a bloodied hand.
One of the people charged, McKinnies-Sanders, told the Post-Dispatch on Thursday that she didn't attack Schaefer or take his phone. She says she actually intervened when others were attacking him, and returned his phone later after finding it on the ground.
"Wow," McKinnies-Sanders said when she heard the charges in a phone interview. "That wasn't me. Nine or 10 people ran out of the church after him and I wasn't one of them. This fighting and all of that, it's not what I came for."
The other suspects could not immediately be reached for comment. Warrants were issued Nov. 21.
St. Louis County Police Officer Shawn McGuire said the crime of second-degree robbery includes the element of an assault on the victim. It is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Investigators believe the robbers' purpose was to take the phone away and that the assault ended once they got the phone, McGuire said.
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