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Action Injury Law Group is a results-driven, full-service personal injury and civil rights law firm dedicated to serving our community throughout Chicagoland and the State of Illinois. The Managing Partner of the Action Injury Law Group is attorney Andrew M. Stroth is well-regarded for his extensive work as an attorney, businessman and active member of the Chicago religious and charitable communit

ies. Stroth has worked with the Bluhm Legal Clinic, The Center on Wrongful Convictions and as an Adjunct Professor in the Negotiations Program at the Northwestern University School of Law. Stroth is a magna cm laude graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. Stroth is also a member of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South side.

09/07/2021

Attorney Andrew Stroth stands next to Arewa Karen Winters, great-aunt of Pierre Loury, who was killed by Chicago police when he was 16 years old. Arewa Karen Winters is someone who seeks Justice for Impacted Families and is a leader of The 411 Movement for Pierre Loury. This image was taken in May at our event in Chicago to honor mothers and loved ones.

08/21/2021

A Chicago police officer has been charged with two felonies, for shooting an unarmed man during a clash at a CTA Red Line subway station last year.

Officer Melvina Bogard, 32, is charged with aggravated assault and battery and official misconduct on one count each in the shooting of Ariel Roman on February 28, 2020, at the Grand Red Line stop, according to the prosecutor’s office of Cook County State.

Lawyer Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez said Roman was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and suffered from a panic attack while riding a Red Line train that day.

Roman’s lawyers said that although he admitted to moving between the cars of a CTA train – in violation of the city’s ordinance – he did not commit any crime that would have warranted his arrest. He was not armed or a threat to the police or anyone else.

Chicago Police Superintendent, David Brown fired Bogard and her partner, Officer Bernard Butler, for violating the policies of several departments, calling the Roman shooting unnecessary, arguing that Bogard had violated department rules for deploying her Taser gun and then shooting Roman. Brown said this was unnecessary because Roman posed no deadly threat to her or anyone. Brown also accused Butler of violating departmental rules for the use of his Taser gun and failing to use approved de-escalation techniques to stop Roman. Butler has also been cited for putting Roman in danger for catching him at the edge of the subway platform.

“The officers – who are trained – should have relaxed, relaxed, and taken the time to call in reinforcements. The idea that an officer shoots his duty revolver twice is amazing,” Roman’s lawyer Andrew Stroth said last year.

Read more: tinyurl.com/CPDMelvinaBogardCharged

08/17/2021

A Chicago police officer is facing felony charges for shooting and wounding a man while on-duty at the CTA Red Line’s Grand station

“Based on his injuries, his [Roman’s] life will never be the same,” Stroth and Kulis, Roman's attorneys, said in a statement Thursday

“He has a bullet lodged in his lower back next to his cystic nerve, and he had another bullet go through his abdomen,” Stroth said. “He had additional surgeries to his intestines.”

read more: tinyurl.com/CPDChargedCTAShooting

08/13/2021

The lawyer of a Chicago police officer facing felony charges for shooting and wounding Ariel Roman while on-duty at the CTA Red Line’s Grand station claims she fired in self-defense when the man resisted arrest.

However, Ariel Roman’s attorneys said claims that Officer Melvina Bogard was trying to protect herself when she shot Roman on Feb. 28, 2020 “completely contradicts the clear video evidence.”

“Based on his injuries, his [Roman’s] life will never be the same,” Stroth and Kulis said in a statement Thursday

Roman was unarmed when he was shot in the hip and buttocks. His attorneys Andrew M. Stroth and Greg Kulis filed a federal lawsuit against the city, Melvina Bogard, and her partner, Officer Bernard Butler.

read more: tinyurl.com/CPDClaimsSelfDefense

07/09/2021

After twenty-five months, the investigation by The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) into the fatal crash that took Verona Gunn's life has been completed. Please pray for her family as they continue to seek accountability and reform policing in our community. Her family must now wait 60 - 90 more days to get a response from the Superintendent of Police on the findings from COPA investigation. It is her family's prayer that Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown will not make them wait for a response but rather offer it in a timely and thoughtful manner.

06/22/2021

Newsweek interviewed James Gibson who was 23 in 1989 when he was falsely arrested for a double homicide at a parking garage.

Gibson described how he was tortured by detectives under Jon Burge, "Once I start telling them that I didn't commit a crime, they begin to smack on me, punch on me and kick on me and eventually fracture my ribs and burn a tattoo off my arm," Gibson said.

The infamous former police commander Burge led a "midnight crew" of officers accused of torturing more than 100 suspects—most of them Black men—into giving false confessions between 1972 and 1991.

James provided a false confession to stop the harrowing torture and it was used to convict him of murder in 1991 and sentence him to life imprisonment without parole. However, Gibson said he became a "jailhouse lawyer" and began on a mission to get his conviction thrown out.

"For 30 years, they took from me," he said. "I've never been married. My son was murdered, my mother died, my brother was killed. I can count 100 people that I lost… I never had a chance to have a bond or relationship. I can't get that back.

Read more: tinyurl.com/JamesGibsonNewsweek

06/17/2021

Newsweek interviewed James Gibson who was 23 and home for Christmas in 1989 when he was falsely arrested for a double homicide at a parking garage.

He is not just fighting for $65 million as compensation for the years he spent wrongfully incarcerated, he wants the Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration to admit the truth about what he endured, in a court of law.

Lightfoot is the first African American woman mayor of Chicago and she had previously vowed to make it right, Gibson said. "Then all of a sudden, she shifted," he added. "She's playing games with these lawyers."

According to Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman: "Why the city most likely doesn't simply admit in court that there is such a pattern is they are attempting to protect the taxpayer from paying unduly highly settlements”

"If Mayor Lightfoot and the city officials really took ownership and acknowledged all this happened, paid the victims and put systems in place to prevent it from happening to other people, it would be historic in Chicago," Andrew Stroth, managing partner at Action Injury Law Group, told Newsweek. “Instead the city of Chicago is paying millions of dollars to outside lawyers to defend cases that are indefensible. James Gibson has a certificate of innocence. He's factually innocent. And he spent 30 years in four different maximum-security prisons."

He added: "Part of it is James wants to have an impact on other people's cases, on other people's lives, as he did when he was in prison helping hundreds of people with their legal cases."
Stroth added: "It's much bigger than just getting millions of dollars, James Gibson wants to change the game."

Read more: tinyurl.com/JamesGibsonNewsweek

06/16/2021

Former Chicago Alderman Dick Simpson said the Lightfoot administration is refusing to admit the torture pattern in court in order to keep a lid on judgment and settlement amounts.

“It’s an attempt by the attorneys to carry out their fiduciary responsibility — their responsibility to protect the money of the taxpayers,” Simpson said. “The victims of that torture — who served 20 or 30 years in prison, often — the people do deserve compensation.” The dispute boils down to how much compensation.

If Lightfoot’s administration started admitting the pattern, James Gibson would have a stronger case for the compensation he has demanded and deserves.

Read more: www.tinyurl.com/Tortured100LightfootLawDept

06/10/2021

Read more: tinyurl.com/IsItLegalToShootSomeoneInBack

06/04/2021

Chicago police officer Saharat Sampim fatally shot Roshad McIntosh on August 24th, 2014. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended that Sampim is fired after they determined he would not have been able to see what he claimed he saw. Sampim’s attorney said retirement was the best choice for his client and his family.

The attorney for the McIntosh family, Andrew Stroth, expressed disappointment over Sampim’s resignation, noting that Sampim will not be held accountable for his role in the shooting investigation.

“Officer Sampim was part of the blue code of silence and he made false statements, and it’s devastating to the family and disappointing that the officer responsible in part is not facing any consequences.”

Read more www.tinyurl.com/LyingChicagoOfficerRetired

05/29/2021

On Feb. 28, 2020, a Chicago Police Officer shot 34-year-old Ariel Roman on a platform at the Grand train station.

The 2020 Chicago police shooting at a Red Line station was caught on cellphone video and posted on the internet, which prompted added attention and interest in Ariel Roman’s case.

Civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth, who represents Roman, said at the time that his client’s life had “changed forever” as a result of the incident.

“He has a bullet lodged in his lower back next to his cystic nerve, and he had another bullet go through his abdomen,” Stroth said. “He had additional surgeries to his intestines.”

Stroth said the case will be a "test" for Supt. David Brown "on what he will do in Chicago as it is related to excessive use of force, and is he going to follow through as related to consent-decree (matters) and substantive police reform.”

Read more tinyurl.com/FedsProbeChicagoPolice

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Action Injury Law Group is a results-driven, full-service personal injury and civil rights law firm dedicated to serving our community throughout the United States.

The Managing Partner of the Action Injury Law Group is attorney Andrew M. Stroth. Stroth is well-regarded for his extensive work as an attorney, businessman and active member of the Chicago religious and charitable communities. Stroth has worked with the Bluhm Legal Clinic, The Center on Wrongful Convictions and as an Adjunct Professor in the Negotiations Program at the Northwestern University School of Law.

Stroth is a magna cm laude graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. Stroth is also a member of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South side.