A lawsuit accusing Chicago police of false arrest has been filed a day after murder charges were dropped against a mother and her 14-year-old son in the shooting of a man who attacked her at a South Side hot dog stand.
“Everything I worked hard for has been tarnished,” Carlishia Hood said of her arrest at a news conference Tuesday at her attorney’s law office in Bronzeville.
The lawsuit claims Hood was falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted, causing her to suffer emotional distress. It seeks more than $50,000 in damages.
The suit claims police sought charges against Hood “for which they knew there was no probable cause,” saying video footage of the shooting “completely exculpated Carlishia Hood.”
While the suit contends the arrest was “without legal justification,” it doesn’t address the fact that police sought and received approval for the charges from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
The lawsuit repeatedly misspells the name of the man who was killed, Jeremy Brown, 32, referring to him throughout as “Jerome Brown.”
Hood sobbed after giving a statement, and her attorneys said she would take no questions during the news conference.
Hood, 35, had been standing in line for food at a Maxwell Street Express at 11656 S. Halsted St. on June 18 when she became involved in an argument with Brown, 32, prosecutors said when she was charged.
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