Suit: Chicago, Cook County cops 'kidnapped' woman, extorted mother for guns - Chicago Sun-Times
A federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the Chicago Police Department and Cook County Sheriff’s office by a woman who alleges officers kidnapped her daughter and extorted her into buying illegal guns for them. Hicks alleges that on July 2, officers in the Chicago Police Department and Cook County Sheriff’s office “engaged in a joint operation to recover firearms that included the use of extortion and kidnapping. Early that morning, Hicks’ daughter — identified in the suit only as “Ms. McBride” — was sleeping in the passenger’s seat of a vehicle driven by her boyfriend that was pulled over by Chicago Police and Cook County Sheriff’s officers. The suit stated that officers also arrested McBride, despite her not breaking any laws. McBride was on probation at the time of her arrest and officers threatened her and her boyfriend “with false criminal charges if they did not obtain and surrender firearms to officers,” the suit stated. Officers released McBride’s boyfriend and told him that once he brought them a gun, McBride would also be released, the suit stated. Once she spoke with the officers, they told her they now needed three guns, the suit stated. That afternoon, Hicks was able to scrape together $1,000 — which she had earmarked to pay her mortgage — to buy two illegal guns to give police in exchange for her daughter, the suit stated. Source: chicago.suntimes.com
