Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped charges Tuesday versus a previous Chicago law enforcement officer who was the topic of a viral video that caught his conflict with a lady walking her dog 2 years earlier at North Avenue Beach.
Tuesday had actually been scheduled as a trial date, court records reveal. Instead, district attorneys revealed they would be dropping all charges versus previous Officer Bruce Dyker, who resigned in 2015.
“After consultation with the victim and her attorney, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office will not be proceeding with the criminal charges against former CPD Officer Bruce Dyker,” the workplace said in a composed declaration. “There is a civil matter pending that will be proceeding forward.”
Dyker was charged with worsened battery and main misbehavior a month after his resignation from the department.
Footage from a spectator’s mobile phone and Dyker’s body-worn video camera caught the previous officer’s interaction with Nikkita Brown in August 2021 as she strolled her French bulldog at North Avenue Beach.
Dyker left his team car and approached Brown while requiring she leave the park due to the fact that it was closed. Brown is seen attempting to walk far from Dyker, who followed her.
“You need to move away from me. I feel threatened,” she said.
“Good,” Dyker reacted. “I’m about to put handcuffs on you if you don’t keep walking.”
“Back up,” Brown informed Dyker.
“Do you want to test me on this?” Dyker said.
“Back up,” Brown duplicated prior to Dyker got her, resulting in a physical conflict that lasted more than a minute.
Nikkita Brown and her dog Blanco.
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Brown said later that she thought Dyker’s actions were racially encouraged.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability concluded that available proof might not develop that Brown, “was treated differently from other similarly situated individuals of a nonprotected class,” however still advised that Dyker be fired or suspended for utilizing extreme force.
Dyker, who signed up with the cops department in 1998, generated 25 grievances versus him throughout his profession, consisting of 3 that were sustained.
The most major originated from a November 2008 off-duty domestic occurrence in New Tazewell, Tennessee, the Sun-Times formerly reported. Dyker was suspended for 20 days after he apparently verbally mistreated and pointed his weapon at a victim and stopped working to follow legal cops orders.
Court records reveal Dyker has actually moved to Texas. His lawyer might not be grabbed remark.
