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Chicago Just Became the First U.S. City to Pay Reparations to Victims of Police Torture
By Araz Hachadourian In 2005 Standish Willis, a lawyer from Chicago, was home with a broken ankle. He was working on the case of a man who claimed that, years ago, he had been tortured by police. On the radio … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Illinois, law, police abuse, race, reparations, torture
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Are We Witnessing the Emergence of A Black Spring?
By Priscilla Ocen & Khaled A. Beydoun View image | gettyimages.com In the spring of 2010, we witnessed massive protests in the Arab World. The people of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya had enough; they had enough of the violence propagated … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Black America, Black Lives Matter, Chicago, civil rights, Cleveland, Ferguson, inequality, life, New York, politics, protests, race, United States
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Chicago Is About to Offer the Nation’s First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence
By Zach Stafford On November 2, 1983, Darrell Cannon found himself in the Chicago Police Department’s Area 2 headquarters with a shotgun barrel stuck in his mouth as a white officer yelled, “Blow that nigger’s head off!” The officer pulled … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Chicago Police Department, justice, law, police abuse, race, reparations, torture
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A Judge Just Let A Cop Walk After A Deadly Shooting. Legal Experts Say The Reasoning Is ‘Incredible.’
By Nicole Flatow Late Monday, a Cook County judge acquitted Chicago police officer Dante Servin of several homicide-related charges for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman standing outside with some friends near his home. It was the first … Continue reading
Chicago To Pay $5 Million To Family Teen Shot 16 Times By Cop While Allegeldly Wielding Knife
Associated Press Federal and county prosecutors are investigating the October fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer of a teenager who authorities say was wielding a knife, and the city says it will pay his family $5 million to preclude … Continue reading
Feds Launch Investigation Into Death of a Chicago Teen Shot 16 Times and Killed by Police
By Leon Neyfakh A Chicago police officer who fatally shot a black teenager 16 times in October is the focus of a criminal investigation being conducted by federal prosecutors and the FBI, according to the Chicago Tribune. Laquan McDonald was … Continue reading
Are Prisons Bleeding Us Dry?
By Sheila A. Bedi Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to introduce a mandatory prison sentence for anyone caught with an illegal firearm. But reams of data shows that incarceration creates more crime. The NAACP has been saying it for decades. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, illegal firearms, incarceration, prisons, Rahm Emanuel, United States
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How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man
By Maurice Possley During nearly 25 years as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, I received hundreds of requests for help from convicted defendants. None was more compelling than the hand-printed letter from Daniel Taylor, a 25-year-old inmate at Stateville … Continue reading
New school year brings anxiety for Chicago parents
By Micah Uetricht Walking along bustling 47th Street in Bronzeville, a poor, almost entirely African-American neighborhood on the city’s South Side, Irene Robinson pointed out two men exchanging money in what looked like a drug deal, and sites where young … Continue reading
Fronczak missing Chicago boy case: FBI reopens probe
It comes after DNA tests showed that the child returned to the missing baby’s parents is not their son. Paul Fronczak, 49, was raised by Chester and Dora Fronczak after detectives found him abandoned in New Jersey in 1965. But he … Continue reading
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