Richard Schmidt, who has served on the Chicago police force for two years, now faces felony aggravated battery charges for allegedly striking two Forest Park officers as well as a paramedic. A $10,000 bond has been set.

Forest Park police responded to a call on Saturday night and were confronted by the sight of Schmidt jumping in the air and landing on tables with his back, purposely breaking them in the process. The officers arrested Schmidt for criminal damage to property. However, when the table-crusher arrived at the station he resisted instructions, elbowed an officer in the face, and attacked a sergeant. He then spat blood at a paramedic, before hitting him. At some stage in all of this activity, police used a taser to subdue the young officer.

Schmidt has been relieved of his police powers, and an investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority is pending,

Whatever happened to the philosophy behind the saying an officer and a gentleman?

Chicago Sun Times