Plaintiff:
Christopher Rothwell
Incident date:
05/08/2009
Location:
2006 N. Halsted St.
Allegations:
Rothwell was in the Lincoln Park neighborhhod when Officers Bongartz and Uczen came from a nearby bar called “The Stop” at about 4 a.m. The officers flashed their badges, announced that they were police, ordered other people in the area to “stay back” and then beat and arrested Rothwell. As a result of the beating, Rothwell underwent surgery for facial fractures at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.