How Chicago police used a minor traffic stop in western Illinois to hold a man who nearly died in jail
CHICAGO - Outside a West Side medical clinic late last summer, a fed-up Tyler Lumar told Chicago police he'd had enough.
Officers were called to the East Garfield Park clinic after Lumar, a 22-year-old with asthma there for a first visit after his longtime doctor died, yelled and allegedly threatened a physician who refused to refill his cough medicine prescription, then tossed papers on the floor and said he would come back and shoot the place up, according to a police report.
"I'm so tired of racism, bro," Lumar said outside the clinic, according to a Chicago police squad car dashcam recording of the encounter, alleging the incident began when the doctor accused Lumar, who has no criminal record, of reselling his prescription drugs. "That's racial profiling. I don't gangbang, I went to Oak Park and River Forest (High School). I played baseball."
Police let Lumar go without charges,
