White Cops Beat BM, IR couple, still feeling effects after two years

two years ago in chicago, a BM was beaten by white cops....the reason was he had a white fiancee'....

the man is still feeling effects from the injury...

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Injured Man Gets Jury Award, But Wants Cops Fired

Reporting
Suzanne Le Mignot
CHICAGO (CBS) ?

We first told you about this story in 2007: A Chicago man alleges Chicago police beat him so severely he needed surgery to repair a fracture in his skull.

But even though a jury recently awarded Curtis Mason Jr. hundreds of thousands of dollars, he says it means nothing to him, because of one thing: "I really feel that the policemen should have been fired."

CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports that Mason Jr. says the jury award has only given him partial closure, because the officers are still working.

"This is something that needs to be addressed, and the police should be fired," he said. "It's an epidemic, and they're getting away with it and it needs to stop."

Curtis Mason Jr. filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago in 2007. He alleged his injuries were caused by Chicago police.

"The police officers had to justify why they would be allowed to use the type of force it would take to fracture a man's skull," said Mike Kanovitz, the plaintiff's attorney. "And they invented a story of Curtis behaving irrationally, threatening them, trying to assault them, and the jury saw right through it."

Mason Jr. was awarded $625,000 in compensatory damages. He says he'd give all that money back if the officers he says did this to him were taken off the streets right now.

"It was a very devastating feeling," he said. "I think the message that the city is portraying to us is that policemen can do whatever they want, to an individual, and still have their job."

On Jan. 13, 2007, Mason and his then-fiancée, Kyley Johnson, were pulled over by police on the South Side. Police said Johnson's rear license plate light was out. When Le Mignot talked to her in 2007, she said it was clear why she and her boyfriend were stopped.

"The reason why he was pulled over is because he's African American and I'm white, and there's some people in this country who don't like that," Johnson said in September 2007.

"The officer told him, put your (expletive) hands behind your back," she said. "Curtis went to put his hands behind his back when the male officer … struck him."

During the beating, Mason Jr. says he was kicked in the eye, creating an orbital fracture. He needed a two-hour operation to fix a quarter-size hole under his left eye.

The Chicago Police Department did not discipline the officers. In response to this story, the spokesperson for the city's law department says: "The plaintiff wouldn't cooperate with the Independent Police Review Authority. IPRA will now re-examine the incident and determine if any discipline should happen."

Mason Jr. says: "If there were harsher measures taken towards (the officers), it could possibly save somebody's life in the future or prevent something like this from happening again."

One of Mason Jr.'s attorneys says the only way to get justice in this case was with a jury. The attorney added that the city had access to the same information during the trial, as they do now, so he and his client welcome any investigation involving the officers.

 

Unfortunately these things happen in this country. SMH

 

Who are the women in that picture?

 

That's awful, they could have killed him, it's bad it was a race issue but I also think that if these Police officers are dealing out beatings like that and keeping there job no matter who there victim, it's wrong!

I bet that if they have issues about IR couples they will also have issues with other people also.

They should be sacked for the force used, surely they are trained to restrain someone without having to kick there face in. :smt011

 

That sucks. Maybe if we have more BM WW relationships in the media then hopefully it will be more accepted.