Post by Logan on Mar 23, 2016 0:13:35 GMT -6
Family of man who died in Chicago police custody files lawsuit
The sister of a 24-year-old man who died in police custody last summer has filed a lawsuit in an effort to get the city of Chicago to release a police video that purportedly shows the man's arrest.
The lawsuit says a police video was shot during the arrest of Heriberto Godinez on July 20, 2015, and that it shows "a police officer standing on Heriberto's neck as Heriberto is facedown on the ground."
The city has denied efforts to obtain the video through Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that doing so would interfere with investigations, according to letters from the Chicago Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications that are attached to the lawsuit.
At a news conference Tuesday, Janet Godinez, Heriberto's sister, asked Mayor Rahm Emanuel to "hand over that video."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-godinez-cook-county-jail-0323-20160322-story.html
The sister of a 24-year-old man who died in police custody last summer has filed a lawsuit in an effort to get the city of Chicago to release a police video that purportedly shows the man's arrest.
The lawsuit says a police video was shot during the arrest of Heriberto Godinez on July 20, 2015, and that it shows "a police officer standing on Heriberto's neck as Heriberto is facedown on the ground."
The city has denied efforts to obtain the video through Freedom of Information Act requests on the grounds that doing so would interfere with investigations, according to letters from the Chicago Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications that are attached to the lawsuit.
At a news conference Tuesday, Janet Godinez, Heriberto's sister, asked Mayor Rahm Emanuel to "hand over that video."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-godinez-cook-county-jail-0323-20160322-story.html