Prosecutors showed video of the alleged beating in which the suspect dragging, kicking and pushing the victim.
– Prosecutors revealed disturbing new details in court on Tuesday about what CTA cameras caught early Saturday morning when a CTA employee, on the job, allegedly beat a passenger., but not murder. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza was in court to get the details.
The beating lasted over an hour, prosecutors said. It was an unprovoked, prolonged attack on a man walking around the Blue Line's La Salle Street stop with a wheelchair full of his belongings.Police took the employee, Emmett Richardson, into custody a few hours later. Richardson has been a CTA employee for two years. The agency's records revealed he was a customer service representative.
The video does not show the victim fighting back as prosecutors said Richardson dragged the man up an escalator and threw him over the railing. Prosecutors said cameras show him drag the victim up 11 stairs and tossed him back down a second time.
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