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ASKEW v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 05-2194.

440 F.3d 894 (2006)

Leonard ASKEW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Illinois; Frank E. Quinn III; and Walter W. Puchalski, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 15, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Reyes (argued), Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mara S. Georges, Julian Henriques (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

According to a dispatch based on a 911 call, a black man driving a maroon car had pulled a gun near 103rd Street and Pulaski Avenue in Chicago. Police arrived swiftly and found Leonard Askew's maroon car on the median that divides Pulaski's lanes. They asked Askew, who is black, whether he had a gun; he said no, though a frisk turned up a knife. Craig Padgett and Carrie Lis, who had been standing at the side of the road, told the officers...

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