A 46-year-old Illinois man and a 16-year-old have been charged after allegedly attacking law enforcement officials in Chicago with wood flagpoles over the weekend, in response to police and native studies.
Arturo Rodriguez, of Cicero, and the juvenile allegedly attacked the officers within the Little Village neighborhood early Saturday throughout a celebration for Mexican Independence Day.
Rodriguez is accused of placing an officer who was on the bottom at the back of the pinnacle with a wood flagpole as officers tried to chase and arrest two teenagers, the Chicago Tribune reported citing courtroom information.
The teenagers had fired gel pellets from toy weapons at officers, the report mentioned.
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Arturo Rodriguez had pleaded responsible to an tried homicide in 1994 and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, in response to native studies. (Chicago Police Division)
A police report obtained by the newspaper says the officer was “defenseless” when Rodriguez allegedly attacked him, and that the officer sustained bruising and swelling.
One other officer suffered a extreme reduce to an ear when an unknown attacker hit the officer within the head with a wood pole, the report mentioned.
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The 16-year-old was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery on a peace officer and two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing a peace officer, Chicago police mentioned.
Chicago law enforcement officials have been attacked early Saturday with wood flagpoles within the Little Village neighborhood, police mentioned. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)
Rodriguez was arrested on the scene. He, too, was charged with a felony depend of aggravated battery on a peace officer, in response to police.
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Rodriguez had pleaded responsible to tried homicide in 1994 and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, in response to native studies.
