Plaintiff:
Tyrone Gillett
Incident date:
08/03/2011
Location:
98 S. State St.
Allegations:
Gillett had just gotten off work in the Loop and was walking to his train when he noticed a disturbance near Monroe Avenue and State Street involving police. He gathered with other onlookers and began filming the scene with his cell phone. At that point, Sgt. Thompson approached a white male who was also recording the scene, and politely asked him to stop. Thompson then approached Gillett, who is black, and assaulted him, grabbed his phone, yelled obscenities, kicked him and dragged him to the hood of a police car and handcuffed him. Officers then searched Gillett and took him to a police station, where they charged him with resisting arrest. Gillett spent most of the night in jail. The charges against him were dismissed.