Plaintiff:
Bradford Lyttle
Incident date:
03/19/2005
Location:
980 N. Michigan Ave.
Allegations:
Lyttle, 79, took part in an anti-war news conference near East Oak Street and North Michigan Avenue. On the day of the event, several speakers and participants arrived to find 200 uniformed officers standing watch, some clad in riot gear. Killackey, the deputy chief of the Police Department, read a statement on a megaphone on three different occasions that afternoon. Although these statements were not orders to disperse, Officers Jones and Shields arrested Lyttle for failing to obey an order to disperse. They kept him in a lockup for eight hours. He was tried on the disorderly conduct charge and found not guilty.