Video of alleged Chicago police misconduct released
theGRIO REPORT - A recent incident involving the Chicago police has a family accusing the department of rushing into their home...
A recent incident involving the Chicago police has a family accusing the department of rushing into their home.
The family of 29-year-old LeRoy Hubbard III says that officers came into the house only because of their neighborhood’s high crime rate.
Hubbard’s 14-year-old niece filmed the altercation on her iPad, which shows police coming into the house and even knocking over the girl’s grandmother, who was on dialysis.
The incident began last Friday when Hubbard was returning to his parents’ home, which is located in Englewood in the South Side of Chicago. The man then says, “[The officers] said ‘Come here,’ so I just kept walking.”
Hubbard then went into his home, but police followed him inside. Family members can be heard shouting and yelling at the officers on the video, but they don’t leave. Instead, Hubbard was charged with aggravated battery. The man had no previous criminal record.
Hubbard said he finally stopped struggling and allowed the officers to handcuff him because, “They were just basically just assaulting my whole family, so I had to give in just to make it stop.
The man’s father LeRoy Hubbard Jr. indicated that such incidents were a common occurrence in Englewood, saying that, “As far as the police, they do this all the time. They will stop anybody on the street. They want to get lucky, think they’re going to get lucky—you know, somebody’s probably got something.”
The older Hubbard said that it was “clearly police misconduct.” While the younger Hubbard is expected to appear in court on Thursday, police department officials declined to comment on the incident, according to NBC Chicago.
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