Plaintiff:
Derrick Turner
Incident date:
09/14/2012
Location:
2451 S. Ashland Ave.
Allegations:
Turner was driving with his girlfriend and her three children when Officers Burton and Travis, who were conducting a roadside safety check, ordered him out of the car and made him perform several field sobriety tests. Although he was sober and passed the tests, Travis insisted that Turner was intoxicated. He handcuffed him, took him to a mobile police unit and told him he would be released if he could pass a Breathalyzer test. Turner passed, but Sgt. Laufer, Travis' supervisor, told him to arrest Turner for DUI anyway. The vehicle he was driving, which belonged to his girlfriend, was towed and impounded. Turner appeared in court approximately 12 times before the Cook County State's Attorney's Office dismissed the DUI charge.