Suit: Cop Threatened To Taser Man As He Held His Baby

(CBS) -- What would you do?

A father holding his little baby is approached by Chicago police officers in an alley. When they instructed him to put the toddler on the ground, he refused.

Then, the dad claims, officers threatened to Taser him and his son.

CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.

Cesar Carrizales understands why police came to his home last October. He says he doesn't understand why the officers threatened him as he held his one-year-old son, Maximillian.

"How can you threaten me and threaten the life of my son?" he says.

Video from a camera at Carrizales' home shows a scuffle with officers who were responding to a call from Carrizales' neighbor. There was a dispute about a fence.

Carrizales told us the officers demanded he put down his son.

"He's barefooted, this is an alley, I'm not going to put him down," he says. "As soon as I say that, he grabs onto my hand and he starts yanking at my hand, like trying to force me literally to drop my son."

Then, Carrizales says, they made the threat – that they would use a stun gun and his child would feel the shock.

Carrizales' attorney has filed a lawsuit against the city.

"Instead of letting Cesar take the child to his mom who was 20 feet away, they immediately began insulting Cesar and assaulting the child," Dan Nixa says.

Carrizales, who lives with his family not far from Midway Airport, was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer. His attorney calls that charge baseless, though Carrizales did plead guilty to resisting arrest.

Police declined comment.