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Cops: Naked passenger puts up L of a battle <br />(The following article by Steve Patterson was posted on the Chicago Sun-Times website on January 16.) <br /> <br />CHICAGO -- A naked 18-year-old man broke out a CTA train window on the North Side on Sunday morning, struck Chicago Police officers and led cops on a brief foot chase before he was arrested, police said. <br /> <br />Victor Thornton became agitated while on the Red Line train around 9 a.m., police said. <br /> <br />The train was stopped in the 4600 block of Broadway when he began causing a disturbance. <br /> <br />Three CTA security guards tried to stop him, but he beat them back and began stripping off his clothes and pounding on the train walls. <br /> <br />Police arrived, and Thornton lunged at them, cursing, before he punched out the train window, authorities said. That's when they used pepper spray, to no avail. <br /> <br />Officers said they tried arresting him, but he kicked them and swung his arms, hitting them, until a sergeant jolted him with a Taser. That also had no effect on the Chicago man, police said. <br /> <br />Thornton then ran out of the rear of the train, and officers gave chase. He fought them but was finally arrested in the 4500 block of North Kenmore, police said. <br /> <br />Two officers suffered minor injuries; no passengers were hurt. <br /> <br />Thornton, of the 1500 block of North Touhy, was hit with seven criminal charges -- three counts of battery, two counts of felony aggravated battery to an officer and one count each of criminal damage to property and resisting arrest. <br /> <br /> <br />From BLET site
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