Settling for Misconduct
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Case 13-CV-4446

$100,000

EXCESSIVE FORCE/SERIOUS

Minor Destroy/conceal/fabricate evidence Excessive force Shooting Gun Assault or battery to an officer charges Hospitalized

Plaintiff: D.S.

Incident date: 06/18/2012

Location: 6332 S. Rhodes Ave.

Allegations:

D.S., who was 17, was with a group of people in a vacant lot when Officers Bubacz and another officer arrived in a police vehicle. Bubacz exited the vehicle and began chasing D.S. and others. Bubacz caught up to D.S., raised his gun and ordered him to stop and turn around. D.S., who was holding a cellphone, began to do so. Bubacz thought the cellphone was a gun and fired at him seven times, hitting him in the leg. Police did not find a gun at the scene; instead they recovered and later destroyed the cellphone. D.S. was charged with aggravated assault of an officer.

MICHAEL BUBACZ

POLICE OFFICER

551526754
$100,000 total payments