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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emmanuel Camarillo

Chicago cop charged with illegally tasing man in Dunning

(Sun-Times file)

A Chicago police officer is facing felony charges after allegedly illegally tasing a man who fell to the ground and broke his nose in Dunning on the Northwest Side.

After the incident, Officer Marco Simonetti, 58, said over the radio, “I had to tase him,” but prosecutors said the man was “crouching with his hands down touching the ground” when Simonetti deployed the Taser.

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