Post by Critique on Jan 26, 2007 0:48:47 GMT -5
January 25, 2007
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Two lawsuits are seeking amendment today (January 25, 2007), adding that City of Harvey Police Officers have engaged in such a widespread pattern of abuse that Mayor Kellogg and Police Commanders Gentry and Keel are fully implicated in the corruption.
Ranicka Stone (Stone v. City of Harvey, et al., 06 C 5001) was forced to perform fellatio on Officer Tyrone Johnson (who has since pled guilty to this crime). Many other officers have been similarly charged, the lawsuit alleges. “The fact that Officer Johnson thought that he would be able to get away with torture only demonstrates that the mayor is deliberately putting his head in the sand and not properly disciplining and terminating officers,” according to the Stone’s complaint.
The mayor’s indifference to officer misconduct comes as no surprise as he has hired at least two officers into high positions (Commanders of the Police Department), notwithstanding prior and significant discipline of these officers. Darnell Keel has been disciplined, charged, and/or been the subject of investigations for hiding information of his own physical abuse and oral threats directed toward civilians. After being hired as Commander, the suit alleges, Keel is alleged to have made many racial remarks directed towards white officers.
Commander Gentry, long after he became commander, has been well known for his gang membership in with the Vice Lords. He eventually was terminated for criminal activity.
The other amendment in McKnight v. City of Harvey, 05 C 1970, alleges the same acts of misconduct as does the Stone case, but the time period to submit allegations against the Mayor and Commanders Gentry and Keel has expired.
The Law Offices of Blake Horwitz, a police misconduct law firm, serves clients in the City of Chicago and around the country. Mr. Horwitz has had many successes in the field of Police Misconduct, including a $28,000,000.00 verdict against the City of Chicago, the largest police brutality verdict in the Midwest.
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Two lawsuits are seeking amendment today (January 25, 2007), adding that City of Harvey Police Officers have engaged in such a widespread pattern of abuse that Mayor Kellogg and Police Commanders Gentry and Keel are fully implicated in the corruption.
Ranicka Stone (Stone v. City of Harvey, et al., 06 C 5001) was forced to perform fellatio on Officer Tyrone Johnson (who has since pled guilty to this crime). Many other officers have been similarly charged, the lawsuit alleges. “The fact that Officer Johnson thought that he would be able to get away with torture only demonstrates that the mayor is deliberately putting his head in the sand and not properly disciplining and terminating officers,” according to the Stone’s complaint.
The mayor’s indifference to officer misconduct comes as no surprise as he has hired at least two officers into high positions (Commanders of the Police Department), notwithstanding prior and significant discipline of these officers. Darnell Keel has been disciplined, charged, and/or been the subject of investigations for hiding information of his own physical abuse and oral threats directed toward civilians. After being hired as Commander, the suit alleges, Keel is alleged to have made many racial remarks directed towards white officers.
Commander Gentry, long after he became commander, has been well known for his gang membership in with the Vice Lords. He eventually was terminated for criminal activity.
The other amendment in McKnight v. City of Harvey, 05 C 1970, alleges the same acts of misconduct as does the Stone case, but the time period to submit allegations against the Mayor and Commanders Gentry and Keel has expired.
The Law Offices of Blake Horwitz, a police misconduct law firm, serves clients in the City of Chicago and around the country. Mr. Horwitz has had many successes in the field of Police Misconduct, including a $28,000,000.00 verdict against the City of Chicago, the largest police brutality verdict in the Midwest.
www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-25-2007/0004513478&EDATE=