Emmett Richardson, who works for the CTA, allegedly beat and dragged a man around a downtown station before calling police for an 'unresponsive person.' When emergency personnel arrived, Richardson said he had seen the man surrounded by drug paraphernalia and believed the man had overdosed.
employee allegedly beat and dragged a man around a downtown station, including shoving the man down sets of stairs twice.at the LaSalle Street station at 150 W. Congress Parkway, repositioning him several times before making the call, prosecutors said in court Tuesday.
Richardson was charged with felony counts of aggravated battery, but prosecutors didn’t say if they were considering additional charge, pending a ruling on the cause and manner of the man’s death by the medical examiner’s office. Surveillance footage shows the man getting off a train at the station shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday while pushing a wheelchair with his belongings. At times, he appears to be unstable and is seen falling over.
The man, who never tried to defend himself, took an elevator at the station to a higher level, where Richardson was allegedly seen struggling with him again and shoving him onto an escalator.
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