A 17-year-old boy who was badly beaten during an arrest by Oak Lawn Police officers was taken into police custody Monday to face drug and weapon charges, prompting outrage from members of the large Arab-American community in the south suburbs.
Hadi Abuatelah, a Palestinian American teenager, was taken to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago after a brief stay at the Oak Lawn Police station. Activists staged a rally Monday outside the station that drew about 100 protesters, said organizer Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network.
