Chicago Police Officers Parris George & Paul Heyden Vindicated In Yet Another Frivolous Lawsuit Against The Police
On Thursday, March 29, after deliberating for less than an ho
ur, a twelve member federal jury returned a verdict in favor of Chicago police officers Parris George & Paul Heyden rejecting the claims of Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler claimed George and Heyden randomly stopped him at the corner of Central and Iowa in Chicago and threatened him to either buy drugs for them or be arrested. Butler claimed he was held in a police car for forty-five minutes while officers tried to pressure him to buy drugs. Despite his claim of being with the officers for a such a long time, he could not even identify the race of the officers, let alone identify them. In truth, Butler was caught after he bought drugs from an apartment on Iowa and Parkside. After seeing the police, Butler took off running and George chased him down an alley. Butler was caught by Heyden at Augusta and Parkside. Being out of breath, Butler spit out of his mouth the two bags of heroin he purchased. City of Chicago dispatch records confirmed the chase. After this dispatch report was introduced in Court, Butler was caught again in his lies. This was most revealing when his own lawyer sought ONLY $500 from the jury, telegraphing that he didn't even believe his client's story. Jury had no knowledge that if Butler prevailed, even for $500, his lawyer would have been able to petition the Court for the City of Chicago to pay his attorneys fees, which could have been tens of thousands of dollars. Jury saw through the lies and frivolous case and returned a swift verdict vindicating the officers. Parris George and Paul Heyden were represented by Avi Kamionski and Helena Wright of Andrew M. Hale & Associates. Jimmy Butler was represented by Katie Ehrmin and Jeffrey Granich.
Parris George is an excellent police officer! He and his partner have been victimized too many times by such frivolous law suits. I don't know who deemed this suit worthy of prosecution, but the waste of the Federal Court's time and resources is criminal enough. It should never have reached a Court Room let alone a Jury. When will the City and the Feds finally understand that the thugs and thugettes of Chicago are liars who will say or do anything to discredit any Police Officer who halts their pursuit of criminal activity? These suits accomplish nothing but wasting time and money which would be better spent in hiring and training more competent professionals like Parris and his partner.
Parris George is an excellent police officer! He and his partner have been victimized too many times by such frivolous law suits. I don't know who deemed this suit worthy of prosecution, but the waste of the Federal Court's time and resources is criminal enough. It should never have reached a Court Room let alone a Jury. When will the City and the Feds finally understand that the thugs and thugettes of Chicago are liars who will say or do anything to discredit any Police Officer who halts their pursuit of criminal activity? These suits accomplish nothing but wasting time and money which would be better spent in hiring and training more competent professionals like Parris and his partner.
For all these frivolous lawsuits I feel these dirtbags should be heavely fined if they lose to include court costs , defendants Lawyers cost , wages for lost time of defendants,,, this should curtail most of these lawsuits
As a retired C.P.D. (36 years) and proud father of one of the officers, maybe these scumbags that lie and sue for no reason should be prosecuted ALONG with the dirtbag lawyer who represents them. Maybe THAT will stop some of this crap. The best defense for a lifelong criminal is a good offense. Oh, he beat me, they did this & that, all damned lies. It's pathetic and I'm happy this old cop is retired. God Bless my son and every other policeman out there who is trying to make a difference during impossible times.