- A Chicago man dragged a policeman a few feet with his pickup truck on the Far South Side this week, breaking the officer’s elbow, prosecutors said in court today.
Booker T. Davis, 29, is charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and criminal trespassing. Cook County Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. ordered him held in lieu of $50,000 bond Saturday, and he will have home electronic monitoring privileges if he is released.
“You can’t fight the police,” Bourgeois said.
Nice to hear someone say that "You can't fight the police."
- The incident started about 8 p.m. Thursday when Davis refused to move his pick-up truck from the entrance to the car wash at a gas station in the 100 block of East 95th Street in the Roseland neighborhood, according to a police report.
When Davis didn’t obey a gas station employee’s orders, a Chicago police officer told him he was under arrest and reached into the truck and tried to pull the keys from the ignition, police said.
Davis threw the truck into reverse and the officer was dragged about 10 feet before the truck was stopped and Davis was arrested, police said.
Gas him, taser him, whatever. But the minute your arm gets caught in the steering wheel or grabbed by someone intent on harm, you're just a mudflap on the side of a ton of automobile.
Best wishes to the officer on a quick recovery.
Best wishes to the officer on a quick recovery.