Counter protester charged with assault for pepper spraying man at BLM demonstration

A counterprotester has been charged with assault for allegedly pepper-spraying a citizen reporter in the face at a Black Lives Matter protest in Cottonwood Heights in August.Landon Daniel Buttars, 21, of South Weber, was charged in 3rd District Court with assault, a class-A misdemeanor.The alleged assault happened as members of Black Lives Matter protested the death of Zane James, a 19-year-old suspected of armed robbery who was killed by police in 2018. The BLM protesters who gathered outside C