Cop Fractures Woman’s Face, Says “I’m Going to Push Your Nose Through Your Brain”

[limpyhobbler]

March 18, 2013

On Wednesday, a victim of police brutality filed a lawsuit against a Chicago police officer as well as the city of Chicago. According to Courthouse News Service, in Apr. 2011, Chicago police appeared at Rita King’s door after a domestic disturbance complaint. King was approached by a police officer with a taser, arrested and then taken to the police station. She remained handcuffed to a table while she was questioned. Then, allegedly, she refused to be fingerprinted until someone explained why she was under arrest. A police officer responded: “We know somebody who can get your fingerprints.”

In entered police commander Glenn Evans who pressed his fist into King’s nose for three to five minutes, repeatedly saying, “I’m going to push your nose through your brain.” King bled profusely, was fingerprinted and was finally released from the station. She attempted to walk home, but lost consciousness after one block. When she woke up 30 minutes later, she managed to call a friend who brought her to the hospital where it was determined she suffered a facial fracture.

Evans has faced at least five other lawsuits as a Chicago police officer in the past. According to SJ&A attorneys, in 2006, an employee of Chicago’s Water Department named Rennie Simmons knocked on Evans door to deliver a notice for an overdue bill. Evans beat up Simmons, and preceded to choke him. Evans relented only after Simmons screamed that he was a stroke patient. Simmons went back to his car, called 911 and was shocked when he was arrested, not Evans.

In 2008, a college student named Cordell Simmons was brought into the station for a drug-related arrest. When Evans felt he wasn’t cooperating with police, he had Cordell stripped and held down while he tasered his groin.
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from http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cop-fractures-womans-face-says-im-going-push-your-nose-through-your-brain

[DollarBillHines]

1. read on...

from link:

"Both of these lawsuits settled before reaching trial.

Despite all this, Evans was promoted to from lieutenant to commander in August 2012.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, King states in the lawsuit that the Chicago police carry on a “code of silence” in which the officers’ loyalty to each other hinders them from revealing misconduct.

In the suit King states, “This de facto policy encourages Chicago Police officers to engage in misconduct with impunity and without fear of official consequences.” "

[liberal_at_heart]

5. I know it's hard for victims to go through a trial, but I hope someone has the courage

to go all the way to trial against this guy and against the police department and not just settle out of court.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

8. It's rare for such cases to go to trial because (1) the judges don't want such cases to go to trial,

and (2) finding an attorney who will overcome all obstacles and take a case to trial is rare and difficult.

Trials take up court resources. Judges are marked by their peers according to how many cases they can process in comparison to the other judges. They want the cases to move along. They have a lot of discretion as to how they handle their courtrooms. Attorneys who want to come back in their courtrooms again in the future know this. When a judge starts putting pressure on the attorneys in a particular case to settle, there are a lot of things that a judge can do.

Even experienced trial attorneys prefer to settle. Some may remember Melvin Belli, a top-notch trial attorney. Even he had a reputation for taking cases to verdicts only about twice a year.

When victims find attorneys and start the litigation process, they've already shown their courage. They don't have exclusive control over whether a case will go to a jury. Even if they manage to find an attorney who will sue the police, there are lots of tricks that attorneys use to ensure that they will be the ones controlling whether a proposed offer will be agreed to by a client.

Whether any victims are placed in situations where they may be able to get some justice through settlements, their acts of settling their cases should not be viewed as a mere lack of courage on their part.

[hughee99]

6. I don't see how he's faced any official consequences so far. I think King is onto something. n/t

[TheMadMonk]

2. Anyone care to explain the "Few bad apples." theory again? A fucking COMMANDER?

Who promoted him, knowing what they must have known (or been able to find out with the most cursory of enquiries) of his prior conduct?

Policing as a whole in America is corrupt and compromised. It is ridiculous to argue otherwise. It's not measured by the number of "bad apples" in any given precinct, but the rapidity with which idealistic shining lights are extinguished.

[RedCappedBandit]

7. +1

[WillyT]

3. Oh Goody... He's Part Of The "Community" Policing Effort...

Go to the link, scroll through the pix, and you'll find this:

3rd District Commander Glenn Evans listens as Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces that the CAPS program will be moving resources and staffing back into the districts, so Commanders in each district can design their community policing efforts to fight crime and gangs in their respective neighborhoods. At the 3rd district 7040 S. Cottage Grove. Tuesday, January 8, 2013. I Brian Jackson~Sun-Times

And This:



Link: http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/index.html?story=17456207

[Logical]

4. Police are cowardly bullies! And their unions make it worse! n-t

[lonestarnot]

11. Don't blame unions for their c student idiocy.

[Logical]

12. The police unions protect crooked cops! Disagree? N-t?

[bvar22]

14. That is the conservative argument against ALL Unions.

Unions protect the working environment, wages, and benefits of ALL cops,
and some cops are crooked.
That is NOT the fault of the Unions.

Unions protect ALL teachers.
Some teachers are not very good.
That is not the fault of the Unions.

--bvar22
a Pro-LABOR Democrat.
I OWE my comfortable middle class life to the battles fought by my UNION father, and UNION Grandfather.
You do too.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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[Logical]

16. LOL, Bullshit, I am not talking about a disagreement over overtime pay or wages....

I am talking about BAD corrupt cops who are protected by a union who should want them removed also.

My dad was a union plumber his whole life. Lets see what happened to him if he beat the shit out of one of his customers? No union should protect criminal cops.

Do some reading about the Philly police union.

[lonestarnot]

17. I would like to disagree, but I'm sure that it happens.

[Bonobo]

9. What do you expect when the Fed Gov sends the message that a little torture is okay? nt

[lonestarnot]

10. Tell me again why in the fuck is a fucker like that on our payroll?

[WillyT]

13. Morning Kick !!!

[Bake]

15. Just a "bad apple" I'm sure!

in case you were wondering.

Bake