25-06-2014, 08:42 PM
The family of a World War II vet, who died after Park Forest police fired bean-bag rounds at him, filed a lawsuit against the police department.
Last July, police responded to a call from an assisted living facility where 95-year-old John Wrana lived.
Police said they tried to subdue Wrana who had a knife, a long shoehorn, a cane, and had become belligerent.
Park Forest officer, Craig Taylor, fired five bean-bag rounds at close range. Wrana died the next day.
Taylor is charged with felony reckless conduct.
The lawsuit seeking five-million dollars claims police violated Wrana's civil rights which led to his wrongful death.
Last July, police responded to a call from an assisted living facility where 95-year-old John Wrana lived.
Police said they tried to subdue Wrana who had a knife, a long shoehorn, a cane, and had become belligerent.
Park Forest officer, Craig Taylor, fired five bean-bag rounds at close range. Wrana died the next day.
Taylor is charged with felony reckless conduct.
The lawsuit seeking five-million dollars claims police violated Wrana's civil rights which led to his wrongful death.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass