Chicago police Superintendent David Brown has filed disciplinary charges with the Chicago Police Board against an officer who is accused of dragging a woman by her hair out of a car and kneeling on her neck in 2020.
Brown this month recommended that Officer David Laskus be fired from the Police Department and charged him with violating various rules, including disobedience of an order, maltreatment of any person, engaging in any unjustified verbal or physical altercation with any person, making a false report and unnecessary use or display of a weapon, according to police board records.The case will now go to the board, which will decide whether Laskus should be fired.
In March, the Chicago City Council authorized a $1,675,000 taxpayer-funded settlement to be shared by Wright and four others who were with her that day after they sued the city in 2020, alleging excessive force by police.