A man who lectures against inner-city violence for an allegedly fraudulent charity was charged with domestic battery for reportedly punching a woman in the face inside a parked car.
Warren Jackson is a motivational speaker who works for a charitable organization called We Stop the Killings. He was arrested last Friday evening in suburban Chicago after a woman told police she saw him turn around from the driver's seat and punch a woman sitting in the back seat. A toddler was sitting in the front passenger's seat.
Jackson had apparently been shopping with the woman at the Burlington Coat Factory and store surveillance cameras showed Jackson and the woman arguing in the shop, according to TribLocal.
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The child was sitting in the front seat of the car without a child's safety seat, and the woman was in the back seat of the car with cuts on her face, police said.
Jackson told police the two had been arguing, but that he did not physically abuse her, police said.
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After Jackson's arrest, the woman was taken to the hospital where she was treated for a deep bruise on her right knee and other bumps, bruises and abrasions, police said.
This isn't Jackson's first run afoul of the law. In December of last year, Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that her office was taking action against We Stop the Killings, an organization of which Jackson is the dynamic center.
Her office alleged that he and others "illegally reinstated a long-dissolved charity" and "solicited donations from the public, falsely claiming the funds would help prevent youth violence in the Chicago area."
Jackson and Yolanda King, another "member" of We Stop the Killings, also ran a company called W2X that promised mortgage help to the elderly, but instead was "in the business of extracting money out of homeowners already in financial distress, leaving them in a much worse condition than prior to the purported 'help.'"
Jackson will appear in court on Feb. 8 in the misdemeanor battery charge.