Crime & Safety

Woman Shot with Stun Gun 12 Times at McDonald's Says She Wasn't 'Lovin' It'

And now she's suing Des Plaines police over the 2012 drive-thru episode.

A woman accused of throwing McDonald’s food at employees in the drive-thru window two years ago is suing Des Plaines police officer who responded to the scene — and hit her with a stun gun a dozen times, causing various injuries.

Dayna A. Allen said in a lawsuit filed in Cook County Friday that she was getting food at the Des Plaines McDonald’s at 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, 2012, when officers approached her, ordered her out of her car and then got into the car and Tasered her when she refused. Allen claims in the lawsuit that the officers also mocked her as they jolted her with electric shocks. The lawsuit claims injuries and scarring to her back, neck and head.

Eventually, she got out of the car and was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, but charges later were dropped.

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