Mayor: 'Sorry' for Burge torture era

[damnedifIknow]

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday apologized for an era in the Chicago Police Department during which many African-American men were tortured into false confessions for murders and rapes on the South Side under the direction of disgraced ex-Cmdr. Jon Burge."

*On Wednesday the council agreed to pay $6.15 million each to Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves. The onetime co-defendants spent 21 years behind bars for a quintuple murder before being released and exonerated.

Burge is serving a 41/2-year sentence in federal prison for lying about torturing suspects by employing brutal techniques that included the use of cattle prods on genitals, plastic to suffocate suspects and phone books to beat them. He's still drawing his city pension, but state Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to stop those payments."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-city-council-settles-burge-torture-cases-for-123-million-20130911,0,421642.story

[mucifer]

1. burge is probably the single reason there is no death penalty in Illinois

It's hard to believe there is a statute of limitations on torturing people into murder confessions.

This is something that happened long ago. Rahm wasn't mayor.

In fact the former mayor daley was the states attourney Many say he covered up for burge. Then he became mayor. It's all disgusting.

[Blue_Tires]

2. The apology, payout and federal prison term

are all a day late and a dollar short...