Video: Judge Rules That Cops Used ‘Brute Force’ On Philip Coleman

Video: 2012 Footage Of Black Chicago Man Being Murdered By Cops Goes Public

In addition to Walker and Kirkland, Fox has sued five supervisors and seven officers for their conduct involving Coleman. Fox said a jury will have to decide the liability of the others.

Coleman, a University of Chicago political science graduate, was taken into custody Dec. 12, 2012. He had gone to his parents’ Far South Side home to speak with his mother, Lena, when he suffered a mental breakdown, shouting at her, throwing furniture and punching her in the face, Coleman’s family has said. Lena Coleman called police and told officers on the scene that she did not want to press charges. A police report said Philip Coleman spit bloody saliva on two officers and, as a result, he was charged with aggravated battery.

The police video of the next morning shows six officers at the Calumet Police District lockup entering Coleman’s cell to take him to bond court. Coleman, who had been asleep, stood, then was tased before officers wrestled him to the floor and handcuffed him. He was shocked three times. Police have said they shocked Coleman because he was uncooperative. The video shows Kirkland dragging Coleman out of his cell and down the hall by his handcuffs, according to Kennelly’s opinion.

“Mr. Coleman is motionless while being dragged,” Kennelly wrote. “His legs are shackled together at the ankles and are not moving.”

Kennelly dismissed the city’s contention that Kirkland reacted to an evolving situation and made a “decision on the fly.”

“Whatever the propriety of the use of a Taser and the ensuing efforts to subdue Mr. Coleman, once the officers had his hands and legs shackled, he was under control and on the floor,” Kennelly wrote. “Given those circumstances, there is no viable claim, and no reasonable jury could find, that Officer Kirkland had to make a split-second decision on what to do next.”

Coleman was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where police reports state he again became combative. Coleman was stunned 13 times with a Taser and struck with a baton.

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