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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNATO protesters mysteriously disappearing in Chicago?
from the Sun-Times:
Some NATO protesters claimed police broke into a Bridgeport apartment building Wednesday night without a warrant, arrested as many as eight people and held them in an undisclosed location.
Protesters legal teams said they tracked the arrested protesters Thursday to the police departments organized crime division headquarters in an old warehouse near Kedzie and Fillmore, but that for most of the day, police refused to even acknowledge that the raid had taken place.
Basically they were disappeared for nearly 24 hours, said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers Guild, which is representing the protesters. We have been searching all morning and afternoon. . . . Weve been checking in with police officials at the highest levels; they have consistently refused give us information.
He added that police showed up four hours after the arrests with a search warrant that didnt appear to have been signed by a judge and confiscated beer-making equipment and a cellphone. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.suntimes.com/12606860-417/protesters-where-did-cops-take-our-pals.html
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NATO protesters mysteriously disappearing in Chicago? (Original Post)
marmar
May 2012
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)2. Renditioned. If it works in Baghdad and Kandahar, why not Chicago?
What are they going to be charged with - Beer-making while talking on a cellphone? Who needs stinkin' warrants or charges, anyway?
marmar
(77,067 posts)3. Or jaywalking while carrying signs with cuss words on them.