Chicago Cops Have Three Torture Sites. We Have One Month To Stop Them

‘In one month Chicago elects a mayor. Neither the mayor nor his opponent in the April 7th runoff election have yet bothered to take a position on the existence of the Chicago Police Department’s 3 torture facilities. These are ‘Black Sites’ where the cops are allowed to take people they kidnapped, to hold them without charges and to torture them until they confess to felonies that involve serious jail time.

The Corporate Media has ignored this story. The local news outlets in Chicago have sent reporters to the Police Department who asked the cops if they were kidnapping people off the street and torturing them. The Police said No. So that was the end of their investigations.

The ‘Torture Site’ at Homan Square on Chicago’s West Side used to a Sears Warehouse. They have been using it to abuse prisoners since the 1990s. It now belongs to the Organized Crime Bureau. The first floor has had visitors. But the witnesses describe what happens to them on the upper floors. There is blood on the floors. Police kidnap victims are shackled for 17 hours or more. They are beaten. Some have reported crushed genitals and water boarding.’

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