CTA Worker Charged with Battery and Fatally Tossing Man Down Stairs of Blue Line Station

A CTA employee, Emmett Richardson, has been charged with aggravated battery in a public place and aggravated battery to a transit passenger after attacking a 54-year-old man for over an hour at the LaSalle Blue Line Station in Chicago. The victim died shortly after the attack, and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is still determining his cause of death. The attack was caught on video, and Richardson threw the man down the station’s stairs like “garbage” and hit his head and kicked the man’s wheelchair. Richardson has been removed from service without pay pending further investigation and disciplinary action.