St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Mike Faulk is suing the city and nearly a dozen St. Louis police officers, alleging he was assaulted and illegally arrested while reporting on police protests.
Faulk, 32, was among more than 100 people whom police trapped in a downtown intersection before moving in for mass arrests. In the suit filed Friday afternoon, he says police tackled him to the ground, one officer mashed his head into pavement with his boot and another pepper sprayed him in the eyes for no reason.
On September 17, Faulk was covering the third night of protests following the acquittal of ex-police Officer Jason Stockley in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.…