Chicago police torture

July 30, 2015

Former Chicago PD Commander Jon Burge and crew of detectives tortured people to extract confessions

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Chicago police torture

The officers beat the victims — mostly African-American men from the city’s South Side — burned them with lit cigarettes, used cattle prods on their genitals, performed mock executions, electrocuted them and nearly suffocated some with plastic bags. After mounting pressure from activists, Chicago recently became the first city in the nation to approve a reparations bill for victims of police abuse and torture. America Tonight’s Lisa Fletcher sits down with Ronald Kitchen, an alleged victim of police torture.


 

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