Nadia Sellers found her son curled up in his bed in agony the morning after going out to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
Lonnie Smith, 21, had stepped in to stop an altercation between a friend and some other young men outside an East Lansing restaurant. He was then pepper sprayed by police and later criminally charged for fighting.
The altercation, captured on a security camera, was mild relative to large fights downtown that business owners say have become common. Smith’s friend, Mason Woods, and other young men in line outside the restaurant are seen pushing and shouting before officers rush in and quickly deploy pepper spray within inches of Smith and Woods’ faces…