Details of Harvey Ald. Colby Chapman’s recent assault charge remained murky Tuesday as the city of Harvey failed to show up to the first scheduled court hearing in the case. Chapman, after waiting 40 minutes with a Cook County Circuit Court judge in Markham, was dismissed with plans to return on Nov. 18.

Harvey police arrested Chapman Aug. 22, though the details were not clear.

City officials required a Freedom of Information Act request be filed for the report, and then redacted much of the information, including whether it was a county or city charge.

Neither the city nor the Cook County state’s attorney’s office has filed any official action related to the assault charges that were named in the police record of Chapman’s arrest.

Arrest records state Chapman blocked city administrator Corean Davis as Davis was trying to leave the council chambers Aug. 14 following a meeting to go speak with the city attorney.

As Davis walked past, Chapman allegedly hit her with her purse after yanking it back and spoke to her “in an aggressive manner,” according to arrest records.

Chapman continued to behave aggressively toward Davis as she spoke to the attorney in a hallway, the complaint stated.

“(Davis) was behind a glass door and observed the alderwoman approach from the opposite side, slap the palm of her hand over her other fist in an aggressive gesture and state, ‘come on out,’” the arrest record said.

Chapman said on Tuesday, as she has in the past, that she believes the arrest and subsequent charge were politically motivated, stemming from her outspoken criticism of Mayor Christopher Clark’s office.

“What I’m seeing is a lot of bully like tactics,” Chapman said. “But I’m really hopeful to continue to remain a disruptor of what the status quo is.”“This has been a constant toil of me being transparent and holding folks accountable. And due to that, I am being bullied, harassed, obliterated in so many different ways and it’s really unreal,” Chapman said.

The Cook County state’s attorney directed all questions about the status of the assault charge to the city of Harvey, whose spokesman, Glenn Hartson, also did not respond to requests to comment beyond refuting that the city was not represented at the hearing. Chapman said the detective who arrested her attended the meeting but did not speak on behalf of the city.

Davis also sought a workplace protection restraining order against Chapman Aug. 22, which was dismissed by the court Sept. 25. Davis’ and Harvey’s lawyer, Sean Connolly, attempted to refile the order of protection and said they will appear in Markham court Oct. 16, though an official court date has not been added to the court calendar.

Davis said in an accompanying affidavit in that case, filed Sept. 27, that after Chapman hit her with her purse, she followed her as she walked toward the city attorney and threatened to beat her while punching her fist in her hands and putting her fist to both eyes.

She also alleges Chapman had to be physically restrained from approaching her by at least three people.

Daily Southtown’s Samantha Moilanen contributed.