Mark Roher (Law&Crime Network).
A Florida attorney who allegedly hit a man in the head with a dinner plate initially invoked his right to remain silent when confronted by police, but eventually demanded that charges be brought against another individual too.
“I want to press charges against him because out of the numerous people that beat me up, he’s the only one I could identify as kicking me,” Mark Roher, 52, said in police body camera footage from Jan. 18. “So he kicked me. I saw him. He’s the only one I saw kicking me, so I don’t know why he’s not getting charged.”
Deputies in Palm Beach County, Florida, didn’t see it his way and arrested him for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
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As Law&Crime previously reported, deputies said Roher was at a wedding at the Boca Lago Country Club in the city of Boca Raton. During the reception, he was waiting in line at the prime rib carving station. Two young girls cut in front of him, and he angrily confronted one of the girl’s fathers, investigators claim.
The father ignored the yelling Roher, who, without provocation, struck him on the head with a dinner plate, authorities said. The confrontation then devolved into a “melee” among a large number of guests there. That victim said that Roher had shoved him and grabbed him by the collar. Another person corroborated the account, saying that the plate shattered on the victim’s head, authorities said.
In video, Roher complained as a authorities took him, handcuffed, to the patrol vehicle.
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“I don’t think it’s right that you’re parading me in front of them,” Roher said.
“We not parading you, sir,” the deputy said. “We’re putting you exactly in the car.”
“Oh, no, I didn’t mean it like that,” Roher said.
A hearing is set for Feb. 20, online records show.
