DOORNBOS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 16-1770.

868 F.3d 572 (2017)

Joseph DOORNBOS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Torreya L. Hamilton , Attorney, Hamilton Law Office, LLC, Thomas P. Needham , Attorney, Law Office of Thomas P. Needham, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Justin A. Houppert , Attorney, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Bauer, Posner, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff Joseph Doornbos was leaving a Chicago train station when a plainclothes police officer confronted him, grabbed him, and with the help of two other plainclothes officers, forced him to the ground. Doornbos was acquitted in a criminal trial for resisting arrest. He then filed this suit against the three officers...

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