Brutal Beating by Police Partially Caught on Tape

21 year old Sayyid Qadri Beat Down by Evanston Cops

A video shows Evanston police officers leading a handcuffed man -- arrested on a traffic violation -- into a police bathroom stall unharmed. But when he's brought back out, the silent color footage shows blood dripping from above his eye and collecting on his shirt. The man, Sayyid Qadri, 21, of Rogers Park claims in a federal civil lawsuit filed Thursday that officers shoved his head into a wall and beat him up behind that stall -- a spot out of video surveillance reach. The video later shows officers shoving Qadri into the wall, and one puts his hands around Qadri's neck. Qadri was pulled over by police on March 10 allegedly for making an illegal right turn on a red light. After discovering Qadri's driver's license had expired a few weeks earlier police handcuffed him and drove him to police headquarters. "At no time did Qadri resist arrest for these alleged minor infractions," Loevy said in his written statement. Qadri's attorney says that officers made up a story that Qadri attacked a police officer and damaged a pipe in the bathroom. Qadri's attorney says the criminal charges filed against him in the alleged incident were dropped after this tape was released as evidence in the case. [more