Settling for Misconduct
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Case 06-CV-6111

$1,041,425

EXCESSIVE FORCE/SERIOUS

On duty Excessive force Sexual harassment/abuse False arrest or report Physical force Assault or battery to an officer charges Hospitalized

Plaintiff: Robin Petrovic

Incident date: 07/24/2005

Location: 728 W. Grand Ave.

Allegations:

Petrovic, a lecturer at a university, requested someone call the police after she was assaulted. When the officers arrived, they asked Petrovic to sign a blank criminal complaint against her assailant. Not wanting to sign a blank complaint, Petrovic asked the officers if either she or they could fill out the narrative portion of the complaint. The officers refused, and Petrovic asked for their names and badge numbers. Some of the officers provided the information; others did not. Because Petrovic didn't have a pen and paper, she borrowed a passerby's cell phone to call her own phone and leave a message with the information. As she was leaving the message, the officers struck her on the head, threw her against a car and on the ground, hit her and choked her. She was handcuffed and put in a police vehicle, where Officer Chevas threw her onto the ground of the vehicle face first. He began kicking and hitting Petrovic in the head and between her legs, calling her a “cunt.” The officers took Petrovic to a police station, refusing Petrovic's request to go to a hospital for 10 hours. Petrovic was charged with battery, but the charge was later dismissed. As a result of the incident, Petrovic's eyes were swollen and black, and her body was covered in bruises.

PHILIP CLINE

SUPT OF POLICE

9072
$13,070,383 total payments

JAMES CHEVAS II

POLICE OFFICER

20334
$1,041,425 total payments

Margaret Berkenmayer

Axel Velaquez

JOHN CRUZ

PO AS DETECTIVE

10477
$1,041,425 total payments

THEODORE MAGNO

POLICE OFFICER

25482
$1,041,425 total payments

LAWRENCE SPRANDEL JR

SERGEANT OF POLICE

22518
$1,081,425 total payments