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“I didn’t see color,” Hutchinson said. “I just saw somebody who needed help.”
It was June 13 and Hutchinson was at home, babysitting his grandchildren, when a friend called him. Fearful that a demonstration involving a far-right group and Black Lives Matter protesters could turn violent, the friend, Pierre Noah, asked him for help.
“Pierre twisted my arm,” Hutchinson said. “The idea was to stop any of these young protesters from doing anything that they’re going to regret later on. When you’re Black, especially, and you end up in front of the criminal justice system, you don’t always get a fair shout.”
Noah, Hutchinson and three other friends went to the demonstration not as protesters, Hutchinson said, but as unofficial overseers. The men saw…
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