Settling for Misconduct
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Case 13-CV-4864

$55,000

EXCESSIVE FORCE/SERIOUS

Traffic stop Racial epithets Excessive force False arrest or report Gun Taser Drug charges Resisting or obstructing arrest charges

Plaintiff: Samuel Cash

Incident date: 04/12/2012

Allegations:

Cash was in his vehicle when Officers Derouin and Plebanski approached him. One of the officers yelled, "Freeze, don't move," and Cash complied. Derouin used a Taser on him three times without justification. The officers then dragged Cash out of the vehicle, which was still in drive, and threw him onto the ground. Cash's now-vacant vehicle rolled into the officers' squad car. While Cash was being restrained, Officers Otten, Stapleton, MacFarlane and Goon arrived. The officers called him racial epithets; one pressed a gun to his head, while another yelled repeatedly, "Pop his ass." At the police station, officers told Cash the only way he could afford the vehicle he was driving was by selling drugs. Cash told officers he wasn't a drug dealer. Cash was charged with false possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. The possession charge was dropped by the State's Attorney's Office, and he was acquitted of the resisting arrest charge following a bench trial.

THOMAS DEROUIN

SERGEANT OF POLICE

761926267
$65,000 total payments

DANIEL GOON

POLICE OFFICER

844327496
$55,000 total payments

TIMOTHY MACFARLANE

POLICE OFFICER

1301528450
$292,500 total payments

MARVIN OTTEN

POLICE OFFICER

277325369
$310,000 total payments

DAVID PLEBANSKI

POLICE OFFICER

1207224354
$224,000 total payments

SCOTT STAPLETON

SERGEANT OF POLICE

894528599
$55,000 total payments