Settling for Misconduct
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Case 13-CV-3997

$2,000

FALSE ARREST

Stop and frisk Excessive force False arrest or report Physical force

Plaintiff: Dante Gaines

Incident date: 05/23/2013

Location: 11600 S. Lafayette Ave.

Allegations:

Gaines was walking near 116th and South Lafayette streets when he was stopped by Officers Matlock and Sykes, who searched him and held him in the back of a police cruiser while they ran his name through a police database. Police found no drugs, weapons or contraband on Gaines, and his name was not in the arrest database.

ZEYAD MATLOCK

PO/FIELD TRNING OFF

389129561
$177,000 total payments

CHARLES SYKES

POLICE OFFICER

1465828755
$2,000 total payments