And this was LONG BEFORE Gitmo or Abu Ghraib, readers!
And this was on AMERICAN SOIL in AMERICAN JAILS!
Still think Halliburton didn't build those concentration camps?
"Settlement for Torture of 4 Men by Police"
"CHICAGO, Dec. 7 — The City of Chicago is preparing to pay nearly $20 million to four men who were once sent to death row after interrogations that they say amounted to torture by the Chicago police, the city’s law department said on Friday.
If the legal settlement is approved next week by the city’s aldermen, it will be a crucial first effort to put a painful, notorious chapter in the city’s history behind it, some officials here said.
The four men were among scores of black men who reported being tortured, beaten with telephone books, and even suffocated with plastic typewriter covers during police interrogations in the 1970s and 1980s, special prosecutors found last year. The four men were pardoned by Gov. George Ryan in 2003.
Where are the HATE CRIMES CHARGES, hanh?!
Flint Taylor, a lawyer for one of the men, Leroy Orange, of the proposed settlement:
“It speaks volumes about the seriousness of the systematic torture, abuse and cover-up that went on in the city of Chicago for decades.”
The settlement comes at a time of tense relations between the Chicago Police Department and the city’s residents, following a string of incidents — the beatings of civilians caught on videotape, a report showing a high rate of brutality complaints, a corruption investigation into an elite police unit.
SHIT COPS!
Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for the Police Department, called the settlement:
“A positive step forward as we make fighting crime and building community trust our No. 1 priority.”
Doesn't that just make you wanna puke?
Kurt Feuer, who represents Madison Hobley, one of the four men, criticized the city as taking too long:
“It shouldn’t have taken four and a half years and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money spent on fighting us tooth and nail every step of the way. Whose interests were served by that?”
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!
