Plaintiff:
Dominique Moore
Incident date:
09/26/2012
Location:
3800 W. Ohio St.
Allegations:
Moore was wrongly arrested twice in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The first arrest happened in September 2012 as Moore was walking to a corner store and saw several men running ahead of him. Minutes later, two officers grabbed Moore and asked about the men. When Moore said he didn't know anything about them, police took him to a gray van and said they would charge him with anything illegal they found inside. During a search, police found a plastic bag with drugs and said it belonged to Moore. Frightened, Moore pulled away from police, and one of the officers shocked him with his Taser, accidentally shocking the other officer. Angered by the incident, the officers began to beat Moore; one of them fractured his own hand punching him. Moore was charged with possession of a controlled substance and aggravated battery to a police officer. In August 2013, Moore was awaiting trial when he was arrested a second time by two officers, one of whom stated that Moore was the cause of him fracturing his hand. The officers drove Moore to a nearby alley, where they slapped him in the face several times and coerced him to plead guilty in the previous arrest. Meanwhile, a neighbor had recorded a video of the second arrest, which later proved that the officers lied to the Independent Police Review Authority about the circumstances. The charges against Moore were eventually dropped.