“City officials said Coleman died at the hospital of an allergic reaction to a sedative.
CBS Chicago obtained data showing the TASER was used on Coleman between seven and 16 times.
Coleman’s family has filed a civil lawsuit against the city, alleging that the mentally unstable man, a University of Chicago graduate, was mistreated while in police custody.
They called police in 2012 after Coleman began acting erratically at their home. Family members say he should have been transported to a hospital, not a police precinct.
The man’s father, Percy Coleman, told the Chicago Tribune that he an officer brushed off pleas from the family to take his son to a hospital.
“We don’t do hospitals, we do jail,” Percy Coleman recalled the officer saying. Coleman is the former chief of the nearby Ford Heights police department, and a former co-chair of Chicago’s Republican party.“
(http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2012-death-of-chicago-police-detainee-philip-coleman-under-investigation)
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