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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGestapo' tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
The US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called CIA or Gestapo tactics at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian.
Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books interrogation at Homan Square, the Chicago warehouse that multiple lawyers and one shackled-up protester likened to a US counter-terrorist black site in a Guardian investigation published this week."
Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books interrogation at Homan Square, the Chicago warehouse that multiple lawyers and one shackled-up protester likened to a US counter-terrorist black site in a Guardian investigation published this week.
As two more people came forward detailing their stories of being held hostage and strapped inside Homan Square without access to an attorney or an official public record of their detention by Chicago police, officials and activists said the allegations merited further inquiry and risked aggravating wounds over community policing and race that have reached as high as the White House. "
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/26/police-black-site-chicago-washington-politicians-human-rights
villager
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damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)This man circled around a reporter and photographer for the Guardian twice while waiting for a local politician.
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RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)People act like the police are some intrinsically good force. We shouldn't fear them because they're all good people who wake up in the morning with good intentions. They're heroes, above reproach, and don't need oversight because they will by their very nature police themselves. We only expect stories like these to surface from 'other' places.
The fact is this shit can all too easily pervade the states. These scenarios are a harbinger of the true end game for police authoritarians.