You can tell it's police contract negotiation time... Rahm Emanuel pushes for as much bad press for the police as he can mustard...
Three decades after Jackie Wilson was first convicted with his brother of gunning down two Chicago police officers during a traffic stop, a state commission has found credible evidence that Wilson was tortured into confessing by then-Lt. Jon Burge and detectives under his command.
The Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission plans to recommend next week that hearings be ordered into torture claims by Wilson and six other convicted murderers prosecuted in Cook County.
David Thomas, the commission's executive director, said Burge and his "midnight crew" of detectives are alleged to have coerced confessions in five of the cases — those of Tony Anderson, Clayborn Smith, Harvey Allen and Vincent Wade, in addition to Wilson.
The other two cases — Jaime Hauad and Darrell Fair — involve homicide investigations on the West and Northwest sides.
The torture commission was forced to suspend operations in 2012 when its bare-bones funding was abruptly pulled by the General Assembly. In March the commission received a $160,000 state grant that will allow it to operate until at least next February, Thomas said.
The commission has now found 12 credible claims of torture, but more than 100 additional claims are pending, Thomas said. Investigations in about a dozen of those cases are underway, he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment