21 year old Sayyid Qadri Beat Down by Evanston Cops
A video shows Evanston police officers leading a handcuffed man --
arrested on a traffic violation -- into a police bathroom stall
unharmed. But when he's brought back out, the silent color footage
shows blood dripping from above his eye and collecting on his shirt.
The man, Sayyid Qadri, 21, of Rogers Park claims in a federal civil
lawsuit filed Thursday that officers shoved his head into a wall and
beat him up behind that stall -- a spot out of video surveillance
reach. The video later shows officers shoving Qadri into the wall, and
one puts his hands around Qadri's neck.
Qadri was pulled over by police on March 10 allegedly for making
an illegal right turn on a red light. After discovering Qadri's driver's license
had expired a few weeks earlier police handcuffed him and drove him to
police headquarters. "At no time did Qadri resist arrest for these alleged minor
infractions," Loevy said in his written statement. Qadri's attorney says that officers made up a story
that Qadri attacked a police officer and damaged a pipe in the
bathroom. Qadri's attorney says the criminal charges filed against him in the
alleged incident were dropped after this tape was released as evidence
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