The backlash comes after police officers beat and injured a teenager during an arrest on July 27th.
An Oak Lawn police officer instructs a protester calling for charges against the officers who arrested a 17-year-old boy to back away from counter-protesters on Aug. 5, 2022.
A passenger fled the vehicle and was stopped at 95th and McVicker Avenue. At least three videos have become public, including one from a police car’s dashboard camera, that show the officers punching the 17-year-old Arab American while he was on the ground.Oak Lawn police have said the juvenile from Bridgeview was not complying with police instructions and the officers feared he was reaching for a gun in the shoulder bag he was wearing. The officers did find a loaded handgun in the bag.
The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and an attorney for the juvenile and his family have filed a federal lawsuit against Oak Lawn, its Police Department and three unidentified officers, alleging they engaged in a “racially motivated conspiracy” to deprive the teen of his constitutional rights because he is Arab American.
“There is no reason for the beating. There was nothing in them that justified what the supposedly trained police did, police who are trained to de-escalate conflict and they held him down and beat him,” Beaulieu said.
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