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A decorated former Chicago police lieutenant accused of suffocating, shocking and beating confessions out of scores of suspects was convicted Monday of federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying about torture....
...Burge's name has become synonymous with police brutality and abuse of power in the country's third-largest city. For decades, dozens of suspects almost all of them black men claimed Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder...
...Burge was charged with lying about the alleged torture in a lawsuit filed by former death row inmate Madison Hobley, who was sentenced to death for a 1987 fire that killed seven people, including his wife and son, and pardoned by Ryan.
Hobley claimed detectives put a plastic typewriter cover over his head to make it impossible for him to breathe. Burge denied knowing anything about the "bagging," or taking part in it. The indictment against Burge never said Hobley was tortured, but that Burge lied with respect to participating in or knowing of any torture under his watch.
Burge testified in his own defense at the four-week trial, denying he ever physically abused suspects or witnessed any other officers doing so. Prosecutors presented testimony from five men who said Burge and officers under his command held plastic bags over their heads, shocked them with electric current and put loaded guns in their mouths during the 1970s and 1980s to elicit confessions.
Torture him.More evidence that the bad cops are giving the other 1% a bad name
The Associated Press: Ex-Chicago cop convicted of lying about torture
A decorated former Chicago police lieutenant accused of suffocating, shocking and beating confessions out of scores of suspects was convicted Monday of federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying about torture....
...Burge's name has become synonymous with police brutality and abuse of power in the country's third-largest city. For decades, dozens of suspects almost all of them black men claimed Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder...
...Burge was charged with lying about the alleged torture in a lawsuit filed by former death row inmate Madison Hobley, who was sentenced to death for a 1987 fire that killed seven people, including his wife and son, and pardoned by Ryan.
Hobley claimed detectives put a plastic typewriter cover over his head to make it impossible for him to breathe. Burge denied knowing anything about the "bagging," or taking part in it. The indictment against Burge never said Hobley was tortured, but that Burge lied with respect to participating in or knowing of any torture under his watch.
Burge testified in his own defense at the four-week trial, denying he ever physically abused suspects or witnessed any other officers doing so. Prosecutors presented testimony from five men who said Burge and officers under his command held plastic bags over their heads, shocked them with electric current and put loaded guns in their mouths during the 1970s and 1980s to elicit confessions.
Not on this Board.but its only 1% that give the other 99% a bad name! cops can do no wrong and we should all kiss their feet everytime we pass one!
but its only 1% that give the other 99% a bad name! cops can do no wrong and we should all kiss their feet everytime we pass one!
I thought for sure he'd walk. Maybe there's hope for that city after all.
I thought for sure he'd walk. Maybe there's hope for that city after all.
