"I realized that the city was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money rather than face the issue in the first place," Moore said last week as she sat with her arms folded in a crowded restaurant near the Kellogg Elementary School playground, where the incident took place.
According to the family's federal lawsuit, Moore's son, then in the fifth grade and weighing 100 pounds, argued with another boy at the playground in May 2007. Shortly after the boy left, Smith, the boy's father, showed up and chased Moore's son before attacking him and announcing he was under arrest, the suit alleged.
Smith also attacked Moore's daughter when she tried to pull the officer off her brother, according to the suit.
Other officers arrived and arrested both children. They were handcuffed behind their backs, placed in the back of a police car, transported to the Morgan Park District station and detained for eight hours, the suit alleged.
Chicago Tribune
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