“Dolton Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard and her boyfriend are being sued by two males who declare they have been attacked for expressing their First Modification rights throughout a brawl that erupted at a city corridor final month.
Henyard, the scrutinized mayor of Dolton, Illinois, and her boyfriend, Kamal Woods, are accused of attacking activist Jedediah Brown and Lavelle Redmond on the Jan. 28 assembly in Thornton Township.
Video of the wild fisticuffs captured the chaotic second tempers flared contained in the assembly corridor after Brown delivered an explicative-filled rant directed at Henyard, who can also be the city supervisor of Thornton.
In his allotted time throughout public feedback, Brown known as Henyard a “half a–ed mayor, claiming she had slept her strategy to the highest earlier than holding a casual vote to have the self-proclaimed “tremendous mayor” eliminated.
“You gone bitch,” Brown stated as different residents cheered.
Woods allegedly attacked the activist as he walked away from the microphone because the violent combat erupted inside the federal government constructing in South Holland, In poor health.
Brown claims Woods, a Thorntown worker, known as him a “bitch” and threatened to hurt him, based on the federal swimsuit obtained by Fox 32.
Brown and Redmond declare Woods and Dolton worker Demarcus Criggley got the “inexperienced mild” to assault them.
The lawsuits allege Woods pushed Redmond who then threw a punch in self-defense earlier than the township worker “dragged” Brown to the bottom because the “melee ensued.”
Henyard allegedly received concerned and hit each Redmond and Brown together with her microphone, placing Brown within the head and again.
Together with the “tremendous mayor” and her beau, the boys are suing a Thornton Township worker, a Dolton worker, the South Holland Police and personal safety agency AllPoints Safety and Detective Inc.
The lads declare the officers and guards on the assembly ought to have prevented the combat from breaking out however failed to take action.
After being faraway from the assembly, Brown claims he was put right into a separate room the place he was attacked once more.
The Prepare dinner County resident accused two personal safety guards of throwing him right into a closed room the place they wrestled with him for a minute and a half, “banging (Brown’s) head and elbows in opposition to the wall and flooring.”
An unidentified Thornton worker allegedly struck Brown exhausting behind the neck after he escaped the personal room.
Brown says he misplaced three veneers and suffered accidents to his face, stomach, elbows and again in the course of the brawl.
Brown and Redmond accused Henyard, Woods, Crigley and the 2 personal safety guards of suppressing their Constitutional proper to freedom of speech by utilizing intimidation and bodily drive.
The defendants are additionally accused of violation of due course of, battery, assault, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Each males requested for a trial by jury within the civil case and are looking for an undisclosed quantity for “compensatory damages” that might pay for Brown’s medical bills and coverings, his emotional misery/ache and struggling and the worth of a brand new telephone for the one Redmond misplaced in the course of the brawl.
Woods, who ran the youth township program for Thornton, was positioned on administrative go away alongside William Moore – one other ally to Henyard – on the Jan. 28 assembly.
The Thornton Township Board voted to fireplace each Woods and Moore for his or her roles within the combat on the Feb. 6 board assembly, CBS Chicago reported.
The brawl occurred as Henyard had lately misplaced the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor however claimed she misplaced due to voter suppression.
The brawl occurred, too, simply days after Henyard was present in contempt of court docket for allegedly stonewalling liquor licenses for months.
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