Jacob was in his garage when the cop approached & said to Jacob I want to talk to you, Jacob replied I have nothing to say. Then he turned and proceeded to enter his house & the cop ran into the garage grabbing him and slammed him into the refridgerator in the garage.
Pulling away from the cop Jacob entered the house to be knock down by the same cop. By this time the cops partner arrived.
Jacob is 130LBS. Each cop was decked out with their vest, gun , taser and all the other misc. accessories
I would think weigh over 180+. After being tackled comming in the house, Jacob was shot with a taser not once, but two times ( I have the fired cartridge ) My 16 yr. old daughter was sitting in the family room watching TV when this happened. My daughter stood up and said what is going on, one cop told her to back up and she was when he pushed her. One of the taser probes hit Jacob in the back and the other hit him in the fingertip. This probe could have hit my daughter. When my wife ran from upstairs to the family room she saw both cops kneeling on Jacobs back (by the way he was already cuffed) the one cop immediately got off of him. I came up from the basement as my wife was screaming and said what are you doing, they said to backup, I said you were in my house and let my son up.

I asked for a warrant, they had none. Never announced they were in the house. One cop unholstered his gun in my house. Excessive force used by Shorewoods finest AGAIN! (see Jan 1988 stun gun incident)

Guess what. When the police say stop you stop, not run for the house. Fights, drug dealing and use (twice), fake drug compartment in the car...sounds like all the makings of a model citizen. Yup, it's the cop's fault. Way to go, Pops.

Built into the new dodge ram pick up trucks there is a safe between the seats. The mfg. Installs this, is this considered an hidden compartment?
The arrest on March 23 for a controlled subtance ( that was purchased at a local tabaco shop) think the kids call it K2. If it's sold in stores than I guess it not illegal.
I would have let the cops in the house, but no they came in like gang busters almost missing my son with the taser and hitting my 16 yr. Old daughter sitting on the couch.
Unnecessary force was used here.
Two sides to every story ,before you open your mouth know what your talking about Jack LaLane

Great work Shorewood PD!!! I'm very thankful for you keeping our city as crime free as possible.

@Jack LaLane if a cop comes to your house without a warrant you dont have to do what he says the constitution proctects you from that. It doesnt matter what type of person you are you do still have rights. and without a warrant the cop cannot force jake to do anything. Jake has the option of either talking to the cops or he can choose not to without a warrant jake has that choice. and in this case he choose not to talk. that does not give the cop permission to go and taze him. Now if he had a warrant and jake refused then i agree he should have do what was nessasary to get jake.But Cops have rules that they must follow also and obtaining a warrant is one of them. Without a warrant they cannot force anyone to talk to them

Question?

Can someone tell me, At what time during an arrest are the cops suppost to read you your rights?
1. When they put the chuffs. on you?
2. After they get you in the squad car?
3. or after they get you to their station?

If you want the kid to get in trouble to the fullest extent, then you would actually be on Jim's side. In the past, there have been a heck of a lot of situations where the person (who is morally wrong and should most definitely be punished) gets off the hook due to cops not doing things correctly. So even if not getting a warrant doesn't seem very bad, it can lead to bad things.... My mom has her Juris Doctor degree and from my understanding, when cops don't follow the book, it causes a lot of head aches in court. So yeah the kid is bad news, but some of you, in my opinion, seem to not be getting the point.

I do believe the Police can sometimes act unprofessionally but in this case after reading about this troubled youth, I think they acted appropriately. If the police encountered him outside, wanting to talk with him or take in in for questioning, and he started to run into the house, the police have every right to follow him at that point.

This youth is a menace and danger to the community and now he is endangering his sister and the rest of his family by running into the house crying for his dad to protect him from the police. He is even affecting his father's Will County business. After reading this and his father's responses, I would never do business with Mr Gajcak's business and will advise others to withdraw and/or not do business with this business as well.

This child needs to not have access to a vehicle and to be kept on a short leash. If Mr & Mrs Gajcak cannot control their children because a lack of parenting, they should let the police and the correctional system do it for them, that's why it is called the correctional, it means someone needs correcting, and it's not the police! If the Gajcak don't like the Shorewood police, perhaps they should consider relocating. I might suggest some of the areas of Chicago where there is constant trouble, sounds like they would fit right in.

since i have my first amendment right here, This youth has been nothing but trouble, even at one of his former empolyers he is banned from entering the store without an adult, simply put when he was told he was in trouble over reacted left, came back burned his shirt in the parking lot, Shorewood Police can be asses i agree but they do there job, and to me it sounds like he ran from them he was outside and he clearly knew he was going to be arrested so he felt the need to go inside to try to get a head start for a back door or to flush stuff from his room or whatever, he ran from the police, thus giving them every right to follow him, and for when they read him his rights before any questioning, your kid is fucked up he is an adult and you can't do nothing about it, if you also believe the shorewood police is harresing you simply put MOVE, move tojoliet move to minooka move to anywhere you want even move to morris or somewhere in a different state your lifes are fine and dont have all these charges on them your son is screwed leave him and move on

oh yea public record right here this is what he currently stand trial for
GAJACK JACOB R 8 9 11 121 100 LITTERING 1 Arraignment
GAJCAK JACOB R 8 25 11 303 900 BATTERY/MAKES PHYSICAL 2 Pretrial
GAJCAK JACOB R 8 25 11 303 900 THEFT CONTROL INTENT 1 Pretrial

I do not believe that this article has anything to do with MOVING OUT of shorewood. The fact of the matter is that Jacob, the girl, and the boy involved in this incident are all wrong. The boy and the girl were trying to buy weed, since when is that legal? That is wrong. Jacob is wrong for the actions he made as well. BUT the shorewood police are JUST as wrong for not following their rules. Our family does not need to leave or relocate anywhere, this is our home and we pay to live in this city just as you do. We have just as many right as every other person. And whether Jacob is right or wrong, the police should be the FIRST people to follow the rules of the law since they should be the ones representing it anyway.

Also, as many of you have stated, Jacob is an adult. He is 18 years old. His actions have nothing to do with the parenting skills of my mother and father. He is in charge of his own actions. I would like to see any other parent deal with the things Jacob has put our family through. And for E Tacker and the remark "If Mr & Mrs Gajcak cannot control their children," you should probably check your facts before you open your mouth and say things about people and their families. They have one child who is trouble with the law which they can not prevent. They can not stop him from leaving, the law prevents that. They cant lock him up, the law prevents that.

They do however, have two other children that are NOT involved with the law, who are citizens of this town and we deserve the respect from others to not be judged for our brothers problems or have our parents values and parenting skills questions for outsiders who know NOTHING about our lives. Ask the shorewood police themselves, my parents have been nothing but cooperative with them from day one. So there is no reason for our family to move, if anything, Jacob needs to get his act together or move out himself. It's out of my parents hands now, so leave them alone.

what the hell is wrong if the boy was not selling dope and beating ppl up ummmm why did the cops get in to it there is only one side to this story the kid is a screw up get a clue we should just kill the kid end of problem no more problem with that kid start killing them and maybe they will start acting right

Okay, first off let's start with blaming Jacob for his own actions. My parents have done all they could. For all of you that haven't stepped in either of my parents shoes clearly don't know a damn thing they have been through. So therefore, I suggest you shut your mouth considering you have absolutely no idea what your talking about. We can all agree that yes, he deserves to be punished for the crimes he committed. But does it make it right how they arrested him and the accessive force they used against him? Almost about an inch from tazing me or the animals in my house? Absolutely not. Relocating from shorewood? How about you relocate your lips somewhere else. My father has owned his own business Will County Phone Service for 29 years. He is a hard working, magnificent person. It's not a "fail" on their part. It's a fail on jakes. He made his own decisions.. Maybe they weren't good decisions at all.. But what else can my parents do? Hold him down and taze him? No. They've tried their absolute hardest. Try stepping in their shoes.. I can guarantee you wouldn't do half as good as they have done over the years. Thank you

One more time we have to congratulate Shorewood police for doing their job and at the same time ask WHY do the courts let people with records of multiple offenses off with a slap on the wrist on a continuing basis?

It seems that there are MULTIPLE persons/entities involved in this situation that have done other than what they should have.

Welcome to the real world Jim