On Apr 20, 5:53 pm, pdejesus <PaulDeje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/311830.html
>
> EAST ST. LOUIS --A 19-year-old East St. Louis man says he was wrongfully
> beaten by police, but the police chief denies any wrongdoing.
>
> Nathan Jackson was charged with battery and resisting a police officer
> April 5 at Club Onyx.
>
> "They beat my son up. He was all bloody. We had to go to the emergency
> room," said his mother, Connie Jackson.
>
> Nathan Jackson said he was approached by a bouncer who works at the
club.
> The man alleged that Jackson owed him some money.
>
> When Jackson told the bouncer he didn't owe him any money, "He put his
> hands in my pockets to search me," Jackson said.
>
> Jackson said he pushed the unnamed bouncer off him and he and the man
got
> into a fight. Then two East St. Louis police officers who were inside
the
> club responded. One of them grabbed Jackson and took him to the back of
> the club while they let the bouncer leave the building, Jackson said.
>
> But when Jackson saw the bouncer outside the club, the two started
> fighting again, pu****ng the bodyguard into one of the officer's car.
>
> "He (the first officer) started stomping and kicking me to the ground.
The
> other officer held me to the ground. I managed to get up, and I ran. One
> of the officers started chasing me. He grabbed me in the back of the
head
> and contrinued to kick me.
>
> Connie Jackson said the officers went too far.
>
> "They could have arrested him if he did something wrong. But they didn't
> have to beat him," she said.
>
> The family filed a complaint with Police Chief Michael Baxton, who said
he
> is investigating the matter, but so far he doesn't see anything his
> officers did wrong.
>
> "The young man appears to have been resisting arrest. He and his family
> filed a complaint. Like in any other case with any other citizen, we're
> investigating."
>
> Connie Jackson said: "We don't want this kind of thing to happen to any
> other citizen. My son should be able to go to any club he wants to
without
> being harassed by anyone."
>
>
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"two police officers were in the club" during the time time before/
during the incident? And they had a marked cop car outside? Very odd
story to say the lest. Something about the re****ting of the incident
does not jell. If it is true what the guy said, the cops are going to
have to do some fast talking about why they were there in a cop
car...unrelated to the beating.
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