A young man alleges he was shackled for 17 hours in Homan Square police station without being charged, and without being given access to an attorney. [4 min/ Abuse of Power, Corrupt Government]
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“A Chicago man says he was confined for three days – shackled, interrogated and fed only twice, his whereabouts unknown – inside the police ‘black site’ at the epicentre of public outcry over allegations of abuse said to focus on minority citizens.”
–The Guardian: Chicagoans detail abusive confinement inside police ‘black site’
“Isolation, deprivation of food, other outside contact. It’s meant to be a lot of touchless torture. So they’re not touching you, which in the human-rights field is more powerful and scary because it doesn’t leave marks but leaves huge internal wounds. Most of the time, people aren’t physically abused. They’re cut off from society, not allowed phone calls, not fed as much.”
–The Atlantic: Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago’s Homan Square
“One man who walked inside said he was cuffed to a bench for 17 hours. Another was only found after he was transferred to the hospital with a head injury. A third ended up dead. What did all three men have in common? They had been taken to Homan Square.”
–Daily Mail: Chicago police are operating a CIA-style black site where suspects are ‘disappeared’
“Harris estimated he was in a West Side station for four hours and wasn’t read his Miranda rights. He was handcuffed to his seat during interrogation…”
–WBEZ: Concerns raised over interrogation tactics aren’t unique to Homan Square
“Ackerman names Zuley as a major player in the development of extremely brutal interrogation methods used on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. But these methods apparently got plenty of practice prior to the war on terror during his years spent as a police detective in Chicago.”
–Reason: When Gitmo Needed a Brutal Interrogator, They Turned to the Best: Chicago PD
“Two Chicago police officers have launched a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department. The allegations made against the department make the Gestapo look like the boy scouts.”
–Prison Planet: Chicago Cops Who Exposed Department Corruption, Threatened with “Going Home in a Casket”
“At least 79 elected officials have been convicted of wrongdoing since 1972.”
–NBC: Illinois has long legacy of public corruption
–Book: Brotherhood of Corruption: A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling
–Book: Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality
–Book: Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
