A CVS worker wearing a hoodie and waiting for a Lyft was arrested after his shift by an Edgewater police officer for no apparent reason, according to body camera footage of the incident and the man's grandfather.

"My grandson got off work at the CVS a couple of Saturday nights ago, and he was accosted, and he was arrested, and he spent 2-1/2 days in a county jail for absolutely doing nothing," Paul Wert said.

Wert conveyed the same message to the Edgewater City Council Monday night.

Wert's grandson, also named Paul, 22, was arrested May 10 shortly after 10 p.m., minutes after the CVS where he worked closed. He had called his sister, who sent him a Lyft driver, so he sat on a bench to wait, and that's when Officer Daniel Rippeon pulled up.

The grandmother, Helen Wert, also addressed the city council Monday night, telling them, "He just got off work at CVS at 10 o'clock, and at 10:05 your police officer is there and arrested him for not doing anything."

Rippeon's account, footage don't match

In a brief arrest report, Edgewater police said Rippeon was on patrol when he spotted the younger Paul Wert wearing a hoodie in front of the closed CVS. The officer said Paul Wert tried to hide behind a pillar, but a body camera video does not show that.

The recording shows Wert sitting on a bench in front of the closed CVS.

A police report on the incident says that Rippeon asked for Wert's identification, "which he did not provide."

Rippeon said in his arrest report that he told Wert that he was detained, but that Wert got up and tried to leave. He was arrested and charged with obstructing an officer without violence.

Victim's grandparents want 'bogus charge' dropped

The grandfather said he believes the charge is bogus and asked the city council members to hire an outside investigator to look into why his grandson was accosted, arrested, and then thrown in jail.

"My concern is I have no trust in your police department to do an unbiased investigation," the grandfather told the council. "I am asking you folks to get off the dime, go outside, hire someone to do it."

Edgewater police could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.

The elder Wert said his grandson had never been in trouble with the law, and also asked the council to contact the State Attorney's Office to have the charge against his grandson dropped.

"Do the right thing and try to get this charge dropped," the older Paul Wert said. "You people should take the initiative and get that charge dropped because it is bogus. It really is bogus."

"That officer (Rippeon) told my granddaughter that he arrested my grandson because he was wearing a hoodie," the grandfather said to a reporter.

'Our grandson was illegally arrested and thrown in jail'

Helen Wert also asked the city council to view the body camera video because she said it contains information Rippeon did not include in his arrest report.

"We ask that you watch the bodycam because that body cam speaks volumes of what actually occurred and was lied (about) in the arrest record," Helen Wert said. "The body cam speaks volumes on how our grandson was treated, illegally arrested, and thrown in jail because the officer wanted to teach him a lesson."

'He is going to learn unfortunately the hard way'

In the 9-minute, 13-second body cam video, Rippeon is seen pulling up to the CVS at 1806 S. Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater. He starts questioning the young man, asking for identification. Wert tells the officer he had not broken any law, so Rippeon tells him he is detained.

When Wert gets up to walk toward the Lyft transport, Rippeon threatens him with a taser. When Wert stops and tries to explain that he had just gotten off work and that his manager had just left, Rippeon accuses him of behaving suspiciously in front of a closed business.

He handcuffs Wert, and when he tries to explain why he was there, the officer yells at him to stop moving and tells Paul Wert he has a police dog in the car that will bite him. He then walks him to the patrol car.

Rippeon is then heard on the bodycam video telling his sergeant that he believed Paul Wert worked at the CVS, but that he would not let him dictate to him.

"I do believe that he works here, but I mean he then tried to dictate to me that he was going to leave, so I am not playing that game," Rippeon is heard telling his sergeant. "He is going to learn, unfortunately, the hard way."

On Tuesday night, a reporter asked to speak with younger Paul Wert, but the grandfather said his grandson is still shaken up by the experience.

"He's still traumatized over this," the grandfather said. "He knows, we all know, he didn't do anything wrong."