On dutyExcessive forceFalse arrest or reportPhysical forceDrug charges
Plaintiff:
Tydus Randolph
Incident date:
09/11/2014
Allegations:
Randolph was walking with friends to a grocery store when Officers Rau and Thornton pulled up in an unmarked police vehicle. The officers grabbed Randolph and placed him in the back seat of the car before taking him to the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility. At the station, one of the officers searched him and another told him that if he didn't provide information that led to guns or drugs, he would go to prison for life. While Randolph was in custody, an officer violently dragged him across the table. When Randolph did not give officers information about weapons or drugs, the officers falsely charged Randolph with delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school. The officers drafted false reports that claimed Randolph had sold Officer Mason roughly $30 worth of heroin a month earlier. During that alleged undercover drug mission, Mason purchased heroin from an unknown individual, yet did not arrest him and knew Randolph was not the same individual when the officers arrested him.