Black Chicago Cop Indicted For Excessive Force In 2012 Arrest [no grand jury necessary]
/A Chicago police officer has been indicted on federal charges, accused of using excessive force when he allegedly punched a man during an arrest in 2012, and kicked him while he was handcuffed and lying on the floor face-down.
Aldo Brown, 37, has been charged with one count of violating a victim’s civil rights, and two counts of obstruction of justice. Brown, who has been an officer since 2002, has not yet been scheduled for arraignment.
Federal prosecutors allege Brown and another unnamed officer entered a convenience store on East 76th Street on Sept. 27, 2012, and placed two people in handcuffs. After searching the store, the unnamed officer allegedly removed the handcuffs from one man, and Brown allegedly struck the man several times.
The victim was then handcuffed again, and Brown pulled a gun from the man’s rear pants pocket, according to prosecutors. Brown then allegedly kicked the man while he was lying on his stomach, before Brown and his partner arrested the man.
Brown allegedly falsified a “tactical response report” on the incident, claiming the victim actively resisted, and fled from the officers, and did not indicate Brown punched or kicked the victim.
Prosecutors allege Brown also falsified an arrest report, by claiming he saw a gun in the victim’s poket while interviewing him, then “conducted a [sic] emergency take down.”
The indictment alleges Brown did not see the gun until after he had struck the man several times, and handcuffed him twice.
The second officer was not charged as part of the indictment.
Although the indictment does not identify the second officer, or either of the men who were handcuffed at the convenience store, two brothers sued Brown and Officer George Stacker in October 2012, claiming the officers beat them during that arrest.
“I’m getting a gun pointed at me and punched in my face and kicked in my ribs,” said Jecque Howard.
Howard said the officers never even said why they were there. He said Officer George Stacker was the first to approach him.
“He came to the front and said ‘you work here?’, and I said, ‘yes’. He said ‘well not after today, you’re fired,’” explained Howard.
Howard’s brother, Paul Neal, was working outside the South Shore shop for a government cell phone program at the time.
Surveillance footage obtained by the 2 Investigators was at the center of an Independent Police Review Authority investigation at the time.
