Ryan Garton
Role at the time: Eyewitness, in an interview with Evanston Now
Statement summary
Witness Ryan Garton disputed the account that agents mistook the man for a specific target, saying it looked like they randomly selected him.
“It looked like they randomly targeted the guy and said, 'Let's take this one.'”
Evanston Now interviews witness Ryan Garton, who describes an agent's knee on the man's back, blood on the man's shirt and an agent's knuckles, and hospital pharmacy paperwork left on the curb; Garton disputes the agent's account, as relayed by police, saying it looked like the agents randomly targeted the man.
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Garton offers his own impression that the agents picked the man at random, directly disputing the official account that they mistook him for a specific fugitive suspect. This challenges the characterization of why the stop happened rather than condemning or excusing the force used.