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Jamal Jones, of Hammond, will appear at trial Aug. 20 on charges of resisting law enforcement and refusal to aid an officer, both misdemeanors, on allegations he refused to exit a vehicle Sept. 24, 2014, after a traffic stop for a seat belt violation near Cline Avenue and 169th Street in Hammond, according to court records.A video of the arrest showed a police officer smashing the passenger's side window of the car and shocking the passenger, Jones, with a stun gun before pulling him from the vehicle. A 14-year-old boy, who was seated in the back of the vehicle with his 7-year-old sister, recorded the video of the arrest.[embedded content]Jones and Lisa Mahone, the vehicle's driver, filed a federal lawsuit in October 2014 against the city and Hammond police officers Patrick Vicari and Charles Turner alleging the officers used excessive force.Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has said the traffic stop lasted 13 minutes, which included dozens of attempts by three different officers to get Jones to show identification and step out of the car.The federal lawsuit has been stayed while the criminal charges are pending.A criminal trial for Jones in November 2016 ended in a mistrial, records state.Jones is represented in the criminal case by defense attorney Scott King.Read stories from The Times' True Crime seriesTRUE CRIME: The East Chicago steelworker who hacked his wife and six children to death in a jealous rage +1  Celestino P. Gonzalez and his wife, Maria Gonzalez.In the sweltering summer heat of 1936, a steelworker butchered his wife and six children after finding his wife's love letters to a former room boarder in their Indiana Harbor home.Celestino P. Gonzalez, 37, visited the beach with his family July 9, 1936, to escape 107-degree temperatures, the fourth consecutive day the mercury rose past 100 in Northwest Indiana.The heat cracked pavement that week and killed an East Chicago worker landscaping in Tod Park. Hammond city officials performed administ... (nwitimes.com)