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A above Metra badge administrator faces accuse of aggravated array afterwards a video he gave to prosecutors showed him assault and punching a man at a Chicago alternation station.
["1241.6"]David Robertson, 50, of Matteson, told Metra admiral the 45-year-old man he arrested on accuse of arrest started the action in 2015 at Millennium Station, authorities said.
But a surveillance video shows Robertson arresting the man in the face unprovoked, spraying pepper aerosol at him and smacking him with a billy as two added admiral abutting in, Cook County prosecutors said.
Robertson's advocate Shay T. Allen said Robertson is innocent.
An analysis into the arrest was sparked by a video that Robertson filmed with his buzz while watching a playback of surveillance footage in the aggregation of added Metra badge admiral who laughed and offered a active annotation of the beating.
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Robertson, who could not be accomplished for comment, angry over his video to Cook County abettor state's attorneys who abreast Metra on Nov. 9, 2016, that Robertson ability accept provided apocryphal affidavit because the images contradicted his adaptation of events.
Robertson was appear afterwards an actualization in Cook County band cloister Monday. He additionally was answerable with canard and official misconduct.
Allen said the state's attorney's appointment was actuality "overzealous."
["1552"]"Mr. Robertson was alive in his accommodation as a badge officer. I am assured he will be absolutely absolved of all charges," Allen said, abacus that Robertson had served for 25 years with no antecedent complaints.
But "as an bureau that now prides itself on accepting a well-run and able badge force, and afterwards our own analysis into the matter, we are abashed and acutely afflicted by this conduct," said Metra Executive Director Don Orseno.
After actuality contacted by the state's attorney's office, Metra began an centralized investigation. On Nov. 10, Robertson and a additional administrator who alternate in the arrest were abeyant afterwards pay. Both were accursed on Dec. 28.
A third administrator who took allotment in assault the man was absolved afore the centralized investigation.
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Robertson testified the added man started the action and "rushed" him, again accomplished into his appropriate pants pocket, which led the badge administrator to cull out the pepper spray. The battle began about 9 p.m. Jan. 15, 2015, as the man sat on a bench. Robertson initially told the man he bare to leave if he didn't accept a admission and the man refused. Both exchanged words.
Prosecutors accompaniment Robertson punched the man in the face and aimed pepper aerosol at him afterwards any concrete assailment on the 45-year-old's allotment and the video backs up that version. The video additionally shows advancement admiral accession and the man actuality pummeled with batons. Robertson afterwards punches him in the face, the video shows.
The man was again befuddled to the floor, hit with batons and handcuffed, admiral said.
["1147.51"]Metra began reforms to its badge force in 2014, afterwards a belittling address from alfresco consultants. The officer's accomplishments during the argument "is unacceptable to us and will not be tolerated," Orseno said.
Robertson's band was set at $25,000 with altitude that he accept no acquaintance with the victim and abandonment his accoutrements and accoutrements identification card.
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