Former Chicago Police Supt. David Brown will be questioned under oath by lawyers for Bernard Kersh, a schizophrenic man who suffered brain injuries when he was body-slammed by Officer Jerald Williams.
Bernard Kersh, the man who was seen on video being body-slammed during an arrest by Chicago police officers, remains behind bars.Former Chicago Police Supt. David Brown will be questioned under oath by lawyers for a schizophrenic man who suffered brain injuries when he was body-slammed by a police officer.
Brown in 2020 signed off on a letter that confirmed the finding of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability that Williams had used "massively excessive" force against Kersh, with the superintendent calling for a longer suspension than the one recommended by COPA. But Kersh's lawyers said they only learned of the letter and damning COPA report in February after seeing a news report about Williams allegedly abusing a detainee.
"The court is confounded about how the city operates with regard to discovery in these types of cases. Confounded of the fact that inside city attorneys don't keep track of COPA and the COPA records, and things that are developed ... letters like the superintendent's. They don't keep track of it .... They don't - it's all to the detriment of the plaintiffs," Cleary said according to a hearing transcript.
"The court had to spend numerous amounts of hours reviewing that motion to decide that summary judgment, wherein the city said, there's no evidence whatsoever of willful, wanton conduct or excessive force," Cleary said. "Yet they were sitting on this letter from Superintendent Brown."
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