17 Year Old Brother Was Struck By A Police Baton And Has A Brain Bleed - Need Advice Based On Situation

Location: Illinois

Hi! This situation happened yesterday (March 14th) in the downtown Chicago area for the St. Paddy’s celebration (around 1:30pm)

My 17 year old brother ended up getting intoxicated, and further got into a fight with another 17 year old who allegedly provoked my brother and shoved my brother first (according to my delirious brother, so we aren’t really taking things by the fist here). The fight was just between these two boys, when an officer broke up the fight by hitting my brother in the head with a baton - causing a brain bleed, a severe concussion, and a fractured skull. And he will have permanent damage to his brain.

And the kicker —> the cop didn’t make a statement or report after using that force on my brother. He was found unconscious 5 minutes later by a bystander after he passed out from his brain bleed, and had an ambulance called for him.

My brother was unarmed and was not provoking the cop, the cop intervened on his own.

Please tell me - is lethal force and/or against any CPD/State/National laws?

My parents want this cop to pay for everything, we are crushed. My brother made a stupid decision to drink underage and continue a fight, but did not deserve a TBI for a fight between two unarmed boys.

My mom says she’s currently working on finding a lawyer, thought i’d come on here and get some advice for my own sanity.

Why don’t we have more answers? —> my brother’s friends are going silent so they don’t get in trouble, and my brother doesn’t remember anything due to his memory loss. AND, the cop didn’t make a report so we don’t know who it was. We’re lost, and destroyed by this event, because my brother will never mentally be the same.

EDIT: I don’t need any more advice - ive been downvoted to oblivion for answering questions and reporting updates from the doctor. I understand many of you refuse to believe it was a cop who did this, we’re getting footage so we don’t have to go off of just witness reports, i’ve said that many times. I’m sorry for my vagueness, im not a lawyer and didn’t know how to explain this situation with my lack of current evidence. I shouldn’t have posted this situation. It was wrong. But thank you so much to everyone who told me things that could help my family and I investigate this more clearly. I don’t know how to turn the comments off for a post without deleting it.

This is an insensitive ass sub. People downvoting others saying they hope my brother has a quick recovery and my dms are disgusting telling me my brother deserves it. You all are jokes of lawyers and need to go back to school for ethics classes. I hope you all go fuck yourselves for being so ignorant and non sympathetic for a minor who may die from his injuries. Fuck you ALL