Group to ask for new Burge probe...Reports on cases of torture criticized

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By Maurice Possley
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 23, 2007

More than 200 prominent lawyers, politicians, clergy and academics are preparing to call upon the Cook County Board, the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as Congress, to open new investigations of allegations that scores of suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers under former Lt. Jon Burge.

A petition, to be announced at a news conference Tuesday, will be accompanied by a report prepared by a team of lawyers, researchers and community activists that is critical of a report issued last year by a special prosecutor after a lengthy grand jury investigation into the torture allegations.

The report of the grand jury investigation found instances of torture, but it said no criminal charges would be brought.

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The report alleges that the investigation was "designed to avoid embarrassing Chicago police and city and county officials responsible for the torture scandal and cover-up and the city from civil liability."

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Jon Burge slithered away to Tampa Bay in 1994, fired by the CPD but with his police pension intact. He has never been charged with any crime.

[NNN0LHI]

1. I used to be friends with a cop that was throwing benefits for Jon Burge n/t

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

4. I have a connection too but I won't say anything more

I just want to see him brought to justice.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "I was just following the example of Commander AWOL." - Burge

"If it's okay for a member of an occult darkside cabal, such as our beloved Commander AWOL belongs to, then why is not okay for me? The republicon leader has given us all an example fo follow."

- Burge (rhymes with Surge)

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

5. He did it back in the 70s & 80s. Nothing to do with Bush. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

6. This is known as "republicon darkside-cabal pre-influence syndrome"

by scholars of republicon dementia, who say
repblicons reject any "artificial timetables."

[Rex]

3. The use of torture as a legitimate means of information extraction

IN our country and BY law enforcement officials should make the hair stand up on the back of all our necks. Folks, this is just one step away from the Abyss. I guess it should be expected with the rule of law suspended.

Scary, scary shit.