U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly found Chicago Police Officer Keith Kirkland & Sgt. Tommy Walker used brute force on man with mental breakdown... They should have used a feather duster to tickle him in order for the man to comply with the new gentler and kinder police

A federal judge Monday found two Chicago police officers liable for the use of excessive force — a week after they were condemned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for dragging a 38-year-old man from his cell in a South Side police lockup in 2012.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly found Officer Keith Kirkland “chose to use brute force when it was no longer necessary” when he dragged Philip Coleman by his handcuffs out of the cell. He also wrote that Sgt. Tommy Walker was liable for failing to stop Kirkland and “no reasonable jury could find otherwise.”

“Officer Kirkland unquestionably used excessive force in pulling Mr. Coleman’s hands over his head and dragging him from the cell,” Kennelly wrote.

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