Lake County declines charges in North Chicago police beating death
By Robert McCoppin
Tribune reporter
1:08 PM CDT, March 20, 2012
Lake County prosecutors have decided not to seek criminal charges against North Chicago police officers stemming from the death of a man one week after he was beaten during his arrest.
Prosecutors announced today that police acted "reasonably and appropriately," noting that police were responding to a report that the now-deceased man, Darrin Hanna, was beating a woman who was six months pregnant.
Seven officers had been on desk duty since after Hanna's arrest on Nov. 6. Illinois State Police had launched an investigation into the matter and had submitted their results to the state's attorney's office without releasing them to the public.
According to a description of the incident by Lake County prosecutors, when officers arrived at his home, Hanna came out of an apartment bedroom with fists clenched, screamed "shoot me" several times and rushed at an officer in an attempt to strike him.
Hanna was "taken to the floor," refused all requests to comply with police and tried to bite and head-butt an officer, the prosecutors' statement said. One officer punched Hanna twice in the face, officers struck him in the legs with a baton, and used low-voltage stuns to control him, according to the statement.
"The officers then used reasonable, non-lethal force that they believed was necessary to affect the arrest," according to the statement.
Hanna was charged with aggravated battery.
The Lake County Coroner's office previously concluded that contributing factors in Hanna's death were "physical trauma and restraint" and Taser shocks by police, along with complications of chronic and acute cocaine abuse, high blood pressure and poor kidney function. The official cause of death was listed as multiple organ failure connected to sickle cell trait.
Hanna's death triggered an outpouring of other abuse allegations against North Chicago police, leading to the replacement of the police chief and a pending internal investigation of five other cases. Members of Hanna's family had called for the officers to be criminally prosecuted.
rmccoppin@tribune.com
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-north-chicago-lake-county-police-beating-death,0,2949210.story
Editor's note: The Lake County IL Coroner's Office, famous for the cover up of the murder of a Navy Seal, Now the beating and murder of Darrin Hanna by North Chicago Police officers is being swept under the rug. Can six police officers enter a home and literally lynch a man. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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