Jury awards $3 million in suit that alleged Chicago cops should have done more for slain woman. ‘They didn’t do their job and she died,’ attorney says
In what appears to be a record civil judgment under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, a jury Thursday awarded the family of a woman strangled on the West Side in 2015 $3 million, according to the attorney for the woman’s estate.
“Had the officers just done their duties under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, she’d be alive today,” Dvorak said. Officers who responded to Taylor’s apartment in the 4300 block of West Flournoy Street in the Lawndale neighborhood observed Thomas making Molotov cocktails. Thomas later severed the gas lines in the kitchen, forcing police to evacuate the building, Cook County prosecutors said at the time.
The bruise happened two days earlier when Thomas was engaged in the same actions: making Molotov cocktails and when she tried to stop him, he punched her in the eye, Dvorak said. The doctor said he had incomplete information because the cops didn’t stick around to tell them what happened, Dvorak said.
“Basically, Thomas went on the victim’s Facebook page, and put in messages like: ‘I had to kill her’ and that she was “part of the Chicago mob,'’’ Dvorak said.
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