CHICAGO (AP) – Charges are expected against four people who police say beat a man in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook, Chicago police said.
The victim is a suburban Chicago resident who Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said has “mental health challenges.”
In a news conference Wednesday, Johnson described the video as “sickening.”
“It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that,” he said.
The investigation began Monday after Capt. Steven Sasso said officers found a man who “was in distress and was in crisis” walking on a street on the city’s West Side. The man was taken to a hospital and it was later discovered that he had been reported missing from an unidentified suburb.