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Title: Chicago Police Torture ‘Black Site’ Exposed at Hearing
Source:
Lew Rockwell
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12 ... lice-torture-detention-center/
Published: Dec 17, 2015
Author: Russia Today
Post Date: 2015-12-17 10:39:38 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1200
Comments: 12
A secret detention center run by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) was under the spotlight at a first-of-its-kind hearing Tuesday. While protesters demonstrating against police brutality blocked city streets, elected officials from Chicago’s Cook County held the first public hearing about Homan Square, an ‘off-the-books’ interrogation facility revealed earlier this year by The Guardian. The investigation found that CPD denied constitutional rights to at least 7,000 victims, some of whom were tortured and sexually abused. Detainees, activists, and legal advocates testified, while invited CPD representatives were no-shows. The inquiry by Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin follows the firing of Chicago’s police chief Gerry McCarthy by Mayor Rahm Emanuel earlier this month. Protesters have focused on the cover-up of damning video that shows white police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times, but Homan Square is part of a broader campaign to address police tactics. “The Justice Department’s investigation must take into account those systemic issues in the Chicago police department that go back decades,” Boykin said on Tuesday. “Homan Square is one of those systemic issues.” Homan Square is not part of the US justice department’s initial investigation into the racial bias at the CPD, but Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the allegations “extremely important” and said she could expand the scope of her probe to include the black site “if more information were to come to light”. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, like Emanuel, was hand-picked by President Barack Obama, so it’s not clear if how hard she will probe his former chief of staff. Flint Taylor has been fighting police brutality and murder in Chicago for nearly 50 years as co-founder of the People’s Law Office. He’s now leading the charge against Homan Square. “Some of the activities in Homan Square fit into the definition of torture, internationally, under the UN’s definition,” Taylor told The Guardian. “Homan Square needs to be looked at under that light.” Two men who claimed they were illegally held at the facility and denied basic rights by the arresting officer also testified. “There they interrogated me, asking me things that I had no idea about, for murder and you know, if I know where any guns are and things of that nature. And I sat in that room, and they turned the temperature up and I was zip-tied to a bench,” Kory Wright said at the hearing. Victim Marc Freeman claimed he was denied access to a lawyer. “I repeated my request for a phone call so I could call a lawyer,” Freeman testified. “I also repeated my request to use the bathroom. He once again got up and walked towards the door and with a smile he said, you can ask for a lawyer all you want, you’re not getting one till tomorrow, you’re going to jail.” CPD issued a statement reiterating that the allegations regarding Homan Square were false and the facility housed the department’s evidence and recovered property section, with parts of the facility sensitive. The hearing’s testimonies are now public record, which Boykin said he hoped would keep pressure on Washington to include Homan Square in the Justice Department’s investigation, as he had little faith that the mayor’s office would shut the site by itself. Emanuel continues to face calls for his resignation. Earlier this year, the city approved a $5.5 million reparations fund for victims of a previous torture scandal involving police commander Jon Burge and his band of rogue detectives. In the 1970s and ’80s, they were accused of abusing mostly black suspects, employing tactics such as near-suffocation with plastic bags, cattle prod shocks, flashlight beatings, and mock ‘Russian roulette’. Shawn Whirl spent nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit after Burge’s detectives tortured him into confessing. Judges threw out his conviction earlier this year and he is finally a free man. But so is Burge after finishing in February his four-and-a-half year sentence for lying in a civil lawsuit. The statute of limitations ran out on the torture he committed and a court ruled he gets to keep his $4,000-a-month pension.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Bunch of dead gang bangers? What is the issue here? Shittowns biggest issue has been and always will be its demoncrat lock on leadership or the lack of leadership. Its easy to blame the grunts who have to deal with the most worthless people ever seen upon the face of the earth. You can't treat people and animals the same. It just doesn't work.
Apparently that entire that "innocent until proven guilty" is no longer a legal concept. The investigation found that CPD denied constitutional rights to at least 7,000 victims, some of whom were tortured and sexually abused. Yeah - these 7,000 citizens are all animals and MUST BE guilty of something, right? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much OMG if only that many are guilty! Half the town needs to wiped of the map and then you can start over with decent people. Sorry but you want me to feel sorry for the shittest people on earth and I can't seem to give a damn! I think my give a damn for shitty people is busted!!!
This is at least the tenth time you've posted a breathless article to break the news about this "secret" detention facility. After you've posted about the same place 3 or 4 times, it isn't news any more.
He tends to repost because he can't keep up with all his post. I swear he must get paid to post this crap! He is the reason I don't flinch when claims against police pop out. After spending time digging into the real story its nothing like what is posted by him. If I were the site owner I would ban him just because he post mainly disinformation. I understand errors but his post are way beyond errors and stink of propaganda!
No one is paying him. He's a missionary type.
Just call them a name and then you don't need due process? Proceed directly to execution without a trial, evidence or a jury. /s Lindsey Graham would approve. Yeah,and if it were a city not ran by blacks,both she and the rest of the Obomber administration would be all over this like a homeboy on a cripple. It's not a "white city" ran by crackas though,so they are going to do their damnedest to ignore it and hope it just goes away. HEY! Ain't JJ a Chicago homeboy? Where are he and his thugs? Normally,by this time they are extorting the HELL out of everybody involved in running a city,including the businesses that operate there. Odd how he isn't all over tv ranting and raving about this,ain't it? Attorney General Loretta Lynch, like Emanuel, was hand-picked by President Barack Obama, so it’s not clear if how hard she will probe his former chief of staff. Not clear to who? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
It's news every day a black city and black city leadership get away with actions that cause race riots and calls to murder people if the ones doing it were white. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
3 at the most, but hey - don't let that hinder your idiotic exaggeration. After you've posted about the same place 3 or 4 times, it isn't news any more. Oh, you just said it was at least the tenth time. Make up your frigging mind. This is news simply due to the fact that the allegations are finally being taken seriously. Apparently to police state enablers like you and Justified, there's nothing wrong with denying constitutional rights of some 7,000 arrestees. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Its shitcago who gives a crap????????????????????? A shitty town run by shitty people doing shitty things to themselves for as long as its been a town. Police try to clean it up and the shitty people from the shitty town call them criminals for trying to make a shitty place a little better! I just can't really give a damn when criminals cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, that isn't true. But they just keep voting in these criminal Dem pols to run their town. So how many tears am I supposed to shed for such ignorance? And you have posted about this center many times, just as I said. It stopped being newsworthy six months ago.
#2. To: Justified (#1)
What is the issue here?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
Yeah - these 7,000 citizens are all animals and MUST BE guilty of something, right?
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
#6. To: Justified (#5)
He tends to repost because he can't keep up with all his post. I swear he must get paid to post this crap!
#7. To: Justified, Deckard, *Bill of Rights-Constitution* (#1)
You can't treat people and animals the same. It just doesn't work.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: Deckard, *Hypocrisy and Hypocrites* (#0)
(Edited)
Homan Square is not part of the US justice department’s initial investigation into the racial bias at the CPD, but Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the allegations “extremely important” and said she could expand the scope of her probe to include the black site “if more information were to come to light”.
#9. To: TooConservative (#4)
After you've posted about the same place 3 or 4 times, it isn't news any more.
#10. To: TooConservative (#4)
This is at least the tenth time you've posted
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#11. To: Deckard, TooConservative (#10)
Apparently to police state enablers like you and Justified, there's nothing wrong with denying constitutional rights of some 7,000 arrestees.
#12. To: Deckard (#10)
Apparently to police state enablers like you and Justified, there's nothing wrong with denying constitutional rights of some 7,000 arrestees.
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