Plaintiff:
Richard Adamik
Incident date:
05/22/2010
Location:
5600 W Grand Ave.
Allegations:
Adamik was driving with two friends when Officers Motyka and Tunzi pulled him over. After running Adamik's license, the officers told him it was suspended; the officers also claimed they found cannabis in Adamik's car. Before the officers arrested Adamik and took him to the police station, they told his friends they could take the car, but then changed their minds and had the vehicle impounded. At the station, the officers took Adamik into an interview room and handcuffed one of his wrists tightly to a pipe. The officers left Adamik and didn't return until he began yelling and asking for the handcuffs to be loosened, which the officers ignored. Adamik managed to slide the chair into the door, which made enough noise to attract the officers' attention. One officer began punching Adamik, and another officer hit him again and again with a collapsible baton. The officers left Adamik, who was bleeding and disoriented, in the room for one or two more hours before he was taken to the hospital. Adamik denied medical treatment because the officers who had driven him to the hospital had said he would be released if he refused treatment. The officers charged Adamik with aggravated battery to a police officer, falsely claiming that he attacked Rubio with the metal chair. The next morning, when Adamik was brought to the Cook County courthouse for a bond hearing, he was unable to stand on his own, so officers brought him to the jail's emergency room. The next day, after he had bonded out, his father took him to a hospital, where doctors performed surgery on Adamik to fix a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding. Two days after he was discharged from that hospital, he was admitted to another hospital, where he was treated for fractured ribs.