A Chicago police sergeant was charged with two felony counts of battery earlier this month for allegedly hitting a teen girl in the head, leaving her with a concussion, during a heated confrontation in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood last month.
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Sgt. Jeremy Sikorski, 45, turned himself in on Sept. 22 at CPD’s Central (1st) District station in the South Loop, police records show. He was later charged with two counts of aggravated battery, according to Cook County court records.
Sikorski’s arrest report states that he was identified in a photo lineup as “the person who struck (a 17-year-old girl) in the rear right back of her head … resulting in a diagnosis of a concussion.”
A Cook County judge ordered his release pretrial, but barred Sikorski from possessing any firearms “outside of employment,” court records show. His next court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. Sikorski’s attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In mid-August, Sikorski was allegedly captured on cellphone video in a profane and aggressive confrontation with a group of teens on the Southwest Side.
The video shows a man demanding to know if the teens were picking on two other, younger kids. The teens denied picking on anyone and said they were trying to evade the younger kids because they had made crude remarks to the teen girls.
“I’ll knock your (expletive) ass out,” Sikorski told one of the teen boys. “Get your (expletive) parents over here. I’ll beat the (expletive) out of them and I’ll beat the (expletive) out of you.”
“I’ll knock your (expletive) dad out and I’ll knock your ass out after,” Sikorski continued as a woman standing nearby pleaded with him to leave.
The video does not capture any punches being thrown, but moments later, Sikorski walked past the teen girl who was recording the incident and her phone was knocked to the ground. The girl immediately started crying and said, “It (expletive) hurts.”
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Sikorski was stripped of his police powers and assigned to the department’s alternate response section. Meanwhile, CPD’s bureau of internal affairs and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability both opened their own inquiries.