Jungle bunny SUV driver charged with dragging Chicago cop

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Throw that bitch in jail.

A South Side woman who had parked her car in an alley refused to
yield to a marked police squad car, then grabbed a Chicago
police officer and dragged her as the SUV with two children
inside sped backwards down an alley, prosecutors said.

The officer and her partner were blocked from turning into an
alley by the parked 2009 Lexus SUV near 83rd Street and Kerfoot
Avenue around 9 p.m. Monday when the driver, Catherine Brown,
38, refused to let them pass, authorities said. Brown, who faces
charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery of a police
officer, was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail by Cook
Countyu Criminal Court Judge James Brown in a hearing midday
today.

The Gresham District officer, 30, was taken to Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, where a sergeant told reporters, "She's
banged up but she's going to be OK." The officer was released
later in the day.

The officer's partner was driving when they came upon the parked
SUV, which was blocking the alley, prosecutors said today. The
officers tried waving to Brown to get her to move, but instead
she turned on her bright headlights and honked her car.

The officers got out of the squad car and went up to the SUV,
with the female officer going up to the driver's side. They saw
that two girls, later found to be Brown's daughters, ages 8 and
and 1, were in the back seat of the SUV.

Brown rolled up her car window, locked the door and started
talking on her cell phone, then refused to take out her driver's
license and insurance, prosecutors said. The 8-year-old, who had
been screaming in the back seat, got into the front seat, onto
Brown's lap, and unlocked the driver's door, pushing the female
officer into a fence.

When the officer told Brown to get out of the SUV, both Brown
and the older girl hit the officer in the head.

Brown then grabbed one the officer by her bulletproof vest and
threw the SUV in reverse, driving backward at high speed,
prosecutors said. The officer was dragged face first, and rolled
over several times after being dragged for about 50 feet through
the alley, almost running over the officer, prosecutors said.

Brown drove backwards into a nearby street and kept driving
backwards until the SUV hit a parked car and she was arrested.

Brown was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen
Park, authorities said. Police said the two children were not
injured. Police originally said the older girl might have been
12 years old, but prosecutors said she was 8.

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