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Home » ACLU Insider » Archives » From Chicago Sun Times: New campaign vs. torture, Coalition seeks protections against police brutality
From Chicago Sun Times: New campaign vs. torture, Coalition seeks protections against police brutality July 9, 2007 10:09 AM BY DICK SIMPSON On Tuesday at the Cook County Board, Commissioner Earlean Collins will bring to the floor four resolutions, including recommendations that the U.S. attorney prosecute Jon Burge and other police torturers and that the state Legislature pass laws that criminalize torture with no statute of limitations. Committee hearings last month have created enough public support for commissioners to pass these resolutions. Commissioners are outraged that after a four-year investigation by Edward Egan and Robert Boyle at a cost of $7 million, the special prosecutors sought no indictments against Burge or other detectives, provided no new ways to prevent police abuse, and offered no relief for the 26 African-American torture victims who remain convicted and incarcerated. The County Board vote sets the stage for more powerful actions. The Burge atrocities, officer Anthony Abbate’s videotaped beating of a female bartender, and the videotaped beating of four businessmen by cops already have caused the resignation of the Police Supt. Phil Cline. Read the full article online at http://www.suntimes.com/news/simpson/457718,CST-EDT-SIMP06.article. |
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