Plaintiff:
Chas Byars, Sr.
Incident date:
10/11/2011
Location:
8637 S. Ashland Ave.
Allegations:
Byars was eating a meal with his infant son at a restaurant and talking to his friend Tommie Johnson. Johnson was holding Byars' son when, around noon, Byars saw a person he did not know enter the restaurant and roughly manhandle another restaurant patron. Byars told the person, later identified as plainclothes Officer Evans, that there wasn't a need to treat the other patron like that. Officer Evans responded, "Shut up, bitch, or else you could go with him. Byars said he'd done nothing wrong and Officer Evans replied