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TV video shows Philly officers
A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation.
The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car Monday, two days after a city officer was shot to death responding to a bank robbery.
The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle. About a half-dozen officers hold two of the men on the ground. Both are kicked repeatedly, while one is seen being punched; one also appears to be struck with a baton.
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Chicago Tribune - United State
24 July 2008
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Man paralyzed since 2002 files
Though Daniel Casares has no use of his legs and only limited motion in his arms, he was convicted of striking an officer and resisting arrest in an October 2006 incident on the Southeast Side of Chicago.
Casares denies striking the officer, and says that police ignored him that night when he said repeatedly that he was paralyzed and could not exit his car, then pulled him forcibly from the car and beat him. On Thursday, Casares filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city and several police officers alleging a violation of his constitutional rights.
Casares, 28, was convicted of battery and resisting a police officer in a December 2007 bench trial. But Casares, who has been paralyzed since a 2002 auto accident, said he was not physically capable of striking the officer and that officers acted inappropriately.
"Just because I was sitting in the car and they didn't see me in the wheelchair gives them the right to drag me out and pull me out like that?" Casares said at the Loop office of his attorney Blake Horwitz. "They should have known off the bat once they pulled me out the car and I fell straight to the [ground] that I was handicapped. . . . It's common sense."
In October 2006, Casares was in the passenger seat of his car in a Southeast Side alley with his brother as they discussed the sale of Casares' previous vehicle, Horwitz said. Officers approached and handcuffed the driver—Casares' brother—on suspicion of using marijuana, and ordered Casares out of the car so that police could impound the vehicle.
Horwitz said that Casares repeatedly told the police officer that he was paralyzed and could not move, but she continued to order him out of the car. Casares' sister, Karina, also said she tried to tell police he could not move when she arrived at the scene and found officers with guns pointed at her brother.
"Daniel was screaming 'No, I can't move! I can't move!' " said Karina Casares, "and they just kept telling him to get out of the car."
But in a court transcript of Casares' criminal trial, three police officers testified that their guns were not drawn during the incident and that Casares struck a female officer on her right cheek as she asked him to get out of the car.
Judge James Brown found the officers' testimony credible and said he believed Casares capable of moving his arm enough to strike the officer.
"As I watched Mr. Casares testify, I watched him lift up his arm with his fist closed . . . so I believe it's possible he did it," Brown said in his ruling, according to the transcript.
Casares was sentenced to court supervision in the case, and his convictions are under appeal, said Nick Albukerk, another attorney for Casares.
Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit, but she said that the department treats all allegations of police misconduct seriously.
But Casares has not entered an official complaint with the Independent Police Review Authority, said the agency's spokesman, Mark Payne. Albukerk said he advised his client not to file a complaint so that any testimony collected in the investigation could not be used against him in his criminal trial.
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