“He is clearly a young man who had a bit too much to drink and entered the wrong building. However, he posed no threat. He had no weapons. He has no criminal history.”
, Mendoza, 33, says he had been out drinking after work with a group of colleagues and mistakenly thought he was in fact at the front door of a buddy’s place, where he planned to spend the night.
The doomed interaction began shortly after 1 a.m. on March 31, 2021, when Mendoza entered the lobby of 3151 W. Belle Plaine Ave., in Chicago’s Albany Park section.released in November by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability “[B]elieving he had arrived at the apartment building where his friend resided… [Mendoza]... waited in the vestibule for approximately ten minutes,” Mendoza’s lawsuit states.
That’s when Smith “walked over to the safe in his closet, retrieved his service weapon, opened the front door to his apartment and confronted” Mendoza, according to the lawsuit, arguing that Smith should have called 911 and requested assistance before taking matters into his own hands. Mendoza was still squatting on the floor, with his back to the wall.
“Upon being shot in the face, [Mendoza] fell to the floor and began to bleed out,” the filing goes on. “Officer Smith never patted [Mendoza] down to determine if he possessed a weapon. At no time did Officer Smith attempt to render [Mendoza] first aid. Instead, as [Mendoza] writhed about in a growing pool of his own blood, Officer Smith kicked him away from his door.”, which first reported on the lawsuit. “It tears my heart, and I try to be strong. It’s very hard.
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