A Chicago man dragged a policeman a few feet with his pickup truck on the Far South Side this week, breaking the officer’s elbow, prosecutors said in court today.
Booker T. Davis, 29, is charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and criminal trespassing. Cook County Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. ordered him held in lieu of $50,000 bond Saturday, and he will have home electronic monitoring privileges if he is released.
“You can’t fight the police,” Bourgeois said.
The incident started about 8 p.m. Thursday when Davis refused to move his pick-up truck from the entrance to the car wash at a gas station in the 100 block of East 95th Street in the Roseland neighborhood, according to a police report.
When Davis didn’t obey a gas station employee’s orders, a Chicago police officer told him he was under arrest and reached into the truck and tried to pull the keys from the ignition, police said.
Davis threw the truck into reverse and the officer was dragged about 10 feet before the truck was stopped and Davis was arrested, police said.
Davis’ lawyer, Sandra Walters, said her client has a different version of the events, though she did not offer further details. He is a U.S. Army veteran and a medical student, she said.
No comments:
Post a Comment