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  • Chicago votes to pay millions over police torture

    05/07/2015 9:54:33 AM PDT · by redreno · 17 replies
    http://www.cbsnews.com ^ | /May 6, 2015, 7:14 PM | Dean Reynolds
    CHICAGO -- Jon Burge is an old man now, but he was once one of the most feared cops in Chicago, the master of a detective unit that allegedly tortured criminal suspects for decades. Operating out of the notorious Area 2 headquarters, Burge and his men were accused of choking, shocking, burning and beating people -- most of them African-Americans -- until they confessed. Chicago's city council voted Wednesday to pay $5.5 million to victims of police torture that date back from the 1970s into the '90s. The city has already spent more than $100 million after losing some lawsuits...
  • Another Incident of Police torture Prisoner killed in central jail Peshawar

    06/19/2011 3:33:02 AM PDT · by musarratullah · 1 replies
    www.allvoices.com ^ | 19 June2011 | MusarratUllahJan
    Peshawar, June 19, 2011, Relative of 24 year old Zafar khan blamed to police that they killed a prisoner with tortured in Central Prison Peshawar. They blocked the road near central jail Peshawar and protest against police. Zafar Khan Mother and Brother with the other people blocked the road near central jail. They shout against the Peshawar police and said that police killed with out any reason Zafar Khan. The brother of Zafar Khan admitted that his brother was drug user but we saw the tortured on his dead body. He also blamed the police that they urged me to...