The arrests were racial
JEREMY RANCH, Summit County — Eight African-American door-to-door salespeople found themselves in jail this week for soliciting without a license, while they say their white colleague went free. The incident Tuesday involving Summit County sheriff’s deputies has the five men and three women claiming racial discrimination. “I felt like it was kind of biased for us to be arrested and her not to be for doing the same thing,” said Detroit native Ryan Jackson, a 44-year-old salesman for Adavanage Diversified Products. The Illinois-based company dispatches its sales force around the country to sell organic cleaning products. “They gave us the impression they were racist,” said Mike Young, a 10-year veteran of the company who has sold in Jeremy Ranch before. “They treated us like criminals.” “They gave us the impression they were racist,” said Mike Young, a 10-year veteran of the company who has sold in Jeremy Ranch before. “They treated us like criminals.” Each was handcuffed and taken to the Summit County Jail where they spent nine hours being booked, photographed and fingerprinted. Their boss paid $100 bail for each of them, but authorities kept their backpacks containing products and personal items including credit cards and drivers’ licenses. Kristin Riege, a 20-year-old white woman, said she had just finished a sale on Lower Saddleback Road when an officer in a black unmarked police truck pulled alongside her and flashed a badge. “He said, ‘Be careful out there. We have …
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