Posted on 11/20/2020 6:45:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO -- Activists who protested in Chicago over George Floyd's death and the killing by police of other Blacks across the U.S. filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing city police officers of brutally attacking and falsely arresting them during the demonstrations.
In a 205-page lawsuit filed in federal court, more than four dozen people say officers responded to lawful demonstrations "with brutal, violent, and unconstitutional tactics that are clearly intended to injure, silence, and intimidate Plaintiffs and other protesters."
According to the lawsuit, police beat the protesters with batons, often striking them in the head; tackled and beat protesters while on the ground; used chemical agents against protesters; and trapped protesters in enclosed areas. The lawsuit says officers also destroyed or confiscated protesters' belongings including glasses, cameras and backpacks.
It lists the city, Police Superintendent David Brown, and several named and dozens of unnamed officers as defendants.
The police department referred questions to Chicago's law department whose spokeswoman, Kathleen Fieweger, said in a statement that the office has not yet been served with the lawsuit.
Over the summer, Brown defended the actions of his officers who responded to what he called a “concerted effort” by crowds of protesters to provoke a violent confrontation with police. Video footage shows some in the crowd donned gas masks, changed clothes to hide their identities, and people who threw bottles and other projectiles at officers put up umbrellas to shield them from recognition, Brown said.
“From what I saw, they only took appropriate action when confronted with violence,” he said of the police response.
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That’s going to work out great for all involved.
The scum lawyer who filed this should be disbarred.
Obviously they weren’t around in ‘68. 👮💪😭
Probably a training oversight.
No wonder they want to eliminate history, Chicago had "peaceful protests" , whereby, if you went, you were already considered a combatant.
Those protesters wore the badges of attendance by the stitches, black and blue marks, and cranial disfigurement that represented the Chicago "Welcome Wagon".
Countersue and jail them all !
“We should be allowed to burn and destroy at will without those brutal cops stopping us”
The police illegally interfered with the rightful collection of reparations.
This cooked up suit is a theft of property (wealth) from the taxpayers of Chicago.
What the chicago coppers are saying about this:
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2020/11/again-wrong-message.html
You have to go ten paragraphs in to find the eighteen officers sent to the hospital, and the sergeant who lost his eye to these “peaceful” assholes bottling, bricking and shooting fireworks at the police. And they don’t mention any of the other fifty or so officers who were treated on scene and not hospitalized.
Makes you want to rush right out and do the City’s bidding tomorrow, doesn’t it?
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