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Much has been written about the Chicago Police Department, Homan Square and police killings of BLACKS.
Ignorance of what has transpired in Chicago and elsewhere is simply no excuse.
Injustice has created the SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE for which we all pay.
In many communities, members of the Police Force live locally, know their communities and take pride in their jobs, conducting themselves professionally.
In Chicago, we know that Chicago Police operated a BLACK HOLE [Homan Square] where they tortured BLACKS into false confessions, inter alia.
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"Collective Psychopathology" And US Police State Methods
By Jon V Kofas
http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas040315.htm
In February 2015, The Guardian published a couple of new stories about the connection between the Chicago police department “black site” at Homan Square and the Guantanamo prison where terror suspects have been kept as political prisoners without ever been charged. Neither the national media in the US nor the Chicago media organizations, including African-American, have pursued this story. Even after the British paper brought these issues to the attention of the public, the mainstream media in Chicago and across the US are ignoring the revelations, a subject in itself revealing about the role of the US media in a democratic society where human rights and civil rights violations occur
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' --Secret interrogation facility reveals aspects of war on terror in US | 24 Feb 2015 | The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago's west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights. Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include: Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases. Beating by police, resulting in head wounds. Shackling for prolonged periods. Denying attorneys access to the "secure" facility. Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15
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The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans at Abuse-Laden 'Black Site'
Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian
Ackerman writes: "The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site."
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The tapes of a recent shooting were erased.
Witness accounts differ from Police statements and autopsy results contradict Police accounts.
PLEASE NOTICE HOW WHITE THE CHICAGO POLICE FORCE IS.
FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Shoot the Kid 16 Times
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If you're wondering what went through the mind of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as he emptied his service piece into Laquan McDonald a year ago, it was confidence. The confidence that comes with being licensed to carry a gun as a defense against your fellow citizens."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If you're wondering what went through the mind of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as he emptied his service piece into Laquan McDonald a year ago, it was confidence. The confidence that comes with being licensed to carry a gun as a defense against your fellow citizens."
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Most of the time, when you're a white cop, you shoot the kid and nothing happens. Will that finally change?
hoot the kid.
Shoot the kid 16 times, mostly when he's already down.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Make the body bounce.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies have your back.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies will grab the tapes.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies will bully the witnesses.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that the city will settle quietly.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that the city will bury the case.
Shoot the kid 16 times and know that nobody ever will know that you did.
Shoot the kid.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
If you're wondering what went through the mind of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as he emptied his service piece into Laquan McDonald a year ago, it was confidence. The confidence that comes with being licensed to carry a gun as a defense against your fellow citizens. The confidence that comes with the knowledge that almost every powerful institution in your city will come to your aid if every powerless individual in the city is outraged by what you've done. The confidence that comes with knowing that the tapes will always be taken care of, the autopsy buried, and the official story spread far and wide before the truth ever is known, assuming that it ever is. The confidence that comes with being a white police officer in a major city in a terrified country. That was the spirit in which Jason Van Dyke allegedly fired his last rounds into what soon became the dead body of Laquan McDonald.
But the rules changed on Van Dyke. They changed in Ferguson, and on Staten Island, and in Tulsa, and, most recently, in Minneapolis. Dogged local reporting dug out the autopsy report, which showed that Laquan McDonald had taken 16 bullets. Dogged local reporting, and an overwhelming public outcry, forced the release on Tuesday of the dashcam video. The videotape was proof enough. Jason Van Dyke stands charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laquan McDonald, whom he shot 16 times.
It's hard to know whether this story will end well or not. Truth be told, the first-degree murder charge may be very hard to sustain in this case against a Chicago police officer. At least one juror likely will have imbibed the line that Van Dyke's life was endangered by McDonald because that juror has been fed a steady diet of black criminality on the news, on the radio, and by his favorite television pundits. This is not an easy prosecution, but the fact that it is being brought at all is something of a small miracle. That is, of course, very easy for me to say. I am not the threat, walking down the street with my Skittles and my iced tea. I am not the threat, peddling my loosies on the sidewalk. I am not the threat, acting bizarrely outside the Burger King. I am not the threat.
Shoot the kid.
Shoot the kid 16 times.
Shoot the kid 16 times, and see what happens next.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33773-focus-shoot-the-kid-16-times
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33773-focus-shoot-the-kid-16-times
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