On Monday, the leaders of the Chicago NAACP along with Rep. La Shawn Ford called for the Chicago Police Department to retain their misconduct records, as the police unions seek to destroy the documents. Attempting to gain access to police misconduct records dating back to 1969, Rep. Ford, journalist Jamie Kalven, and University of Chicago Law School Prof. Craig Futterman have been fighting to release the files to the public instead of burning them like a furtive stack of banished books.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chicago-police-fight-destroy-misconduct-records-launch-homan-square-investigation/#jUpFyMY1zQiC3BDh.99
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chicago-police-fight-destroy-misconduct-records-launch-homan-square-investigation/#jUpFyMY1zQiC3BDh.99
Chicago Police are scrambling as the feds have now been sent in to clean up their mess.
Listen to some of the horror stories:
Chicago, IL — Handcuffed to a wall inside a cell with no windows, Deanda Wilson was forced to urinate on himself after a police sergeant allegedly held a knife to his throat during an interrogation at Homan Square. Falsely charged with…
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