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azurnoir

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5. Rahm's Chicago

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 04:07 PM

Oct 2015

The facility’s use by police has intensified in recent years. Nearly 65% of documented Homan Square arrests since August 2004 took place in the five years since Rahm Emanuel, formerly Barack Obama’s top aide, became mayor. (The Guardian has filed a Foia request with Emanuel’s office to disclose the extent of its involvement in Homan Square.)

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people [View all] bananas Oct 2015 OP

My gawd... SoapBox Oct 2015 #1

I saw something like this PatSeg Oct 2015 #2

And the disappeared have never reappeared? lonestarnot Oct 2015 #3

Chicago sued for 'unconstitutional and torturous' Homan Square police abuse Eugene Oct 2015 #4

Rahm's Chicago azurnoir Oct 2015 #5

Being a Democrat is a lot like being a Republican these days, isn't it? We're all one big happy whereisjustice Oct 2015 #6

And we read about this in The London Guardian and not the American press, why? Midnight Writer Oct 2015 #7