Man who sued city less than 40 hours after being arrested for gun possession pleads guilty

CHICAGO — A person who sued town of Chicago inside 40 hours of being arrested by CPD officers who allegedly seized a handgun from his waistband has now pleaded responsible to possessing that firearm. The arrest was caught on video, gaining native publicity on social media.

Lorenzo Williams, 33, pleaded responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm with a earlier conviction and acquired a three-year sentence from Choose Shelley Sutker-Dermer, in response to court docket data. He’s anticipated to be paroled in January, after serving half of his sentence.

On July 30 final yr, Williams was “seen on [police surveillance] video with a handgun in his entrance waistband. When officers tried to detain him, he ran, resisted, and tried to seize his handgun, which put the officers’ and Defendant’s lives at risk,” prosecutors stated in a detention petition.

The police digital camera operators noticed “the butt finish of a handgun in [Williams’] entrance center waistband as he lifted his shirt up” within the 800 block of North Cambridge, a CPD report stated.

Patrol officers moved in, and a part of his arrest was caught on this video (robust language):

Two officers reportedly suffered minor accidents in the course of the arrest effort. CPD’s arrest report stated Williams was additionally handled at St. Mary’s Hospital “for minor accidents.”

“It’s not an entire video. It doesn’t present all the pieces,” CPD Supt. Larry Snelling stated throughout an unrelated press convention days after the video started circulating.

In the end, the police recovered a loaded .40-caliber Ruger handgun that had been reported stolen from Mason Metropolis, Iowa, officers stated. The cops additionally famous in a report that the background on Williams’ cellphone is an image of him holding the recovered firearm.

Lower than 40 hours later, legal professionals representing Williams sued town and the Chicago Police Division, claiming police assaulted and battered him and displayed “wilful and wanton” conduct.

The lawsuit claimed Williams was “peacefully strolling on public property” when the police “absent affordable suspicion, possible trigger, proper, or different authorized proper” stopped and detained him and “then commenced hitting and beating him.”

It additional alleged that the officers beat and punched Williams within the face and head with a tough object and put a gun on to his head whereas yelling, “Hey, I’mma f***’n shoot you.”

The criticism, which remains to be pending, didn’t point out that officers claimed he was carrying a stolen firearm. It stated Wiliams suffered “vital and extreme ache and accidents, a few of which can be permeant [sic] in nature.”