Legal Opinion
Medina v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 16, 2000No. 00C1PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
KENNELLY, District Judge.
Plaintiff Marcos Medina alleges that on the night of September 21, 1999, he was accosted, physically attacked, and choked by two plain-clothes Chicago police officers while running from his car to return a videotape to a Blockbuster video store. He was searched and eventually released without being charged with a crime. Medina says he was later treated at a hospital for blurred vision and facial contusions. He did not learn the officers’ names but did get the license number from their car. Medina then filed an action against the City of…
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