![“He was 100 percent profiled,” said Jason Kafoury, an attorney representing Christopher Garza, 47. A Salem police spokesperson declined comment on the pending lawsuit.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/nXxaghpNEM-xXEODiprh4KEud4E=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/3VTI7XVZ5NBZPKL5QZ2BRNTDUI.png)
A Salem police officer accused a Native American man of stealing a car he was working on in the lot of a tire shop, grabbed him, shoved him onto the hood of his police car and handcuffed him with no justification for arrest, a lawsuit alleges.
A Salem police officer accused a Native American man of stealing a car he was working on in the lot of a tire shop, grabbed him, shoved him onto the hood of his police car and handcuffed him with no justification for arrest, a lawsuit alleges.