Homan Square: Gitmo Comes to Chicago

[2aguy]

this guy is a NATO protestor...of course he is going to lie......

Why would you believe NATO protesters lie more than Chicago cops at press conferences?

experience.....

 

[ClosedCaption]

From the link:

As for the allegation that suspects are held without any record of the detention, "There are always records of anyone who is arrested by CPD, and this is not any different at Homan Square" says CPD's Maloney.

Notice he made sure to say "arrested" while the complaint is that people were detained without being arrested or charged.

 

[georgephillip]

Gitmo experiences Chicago:
"Longtime Chicago police Detective Richard Zuley was on special assignment at Guantanamo Bay in 2003 aiding the interrogation of a key terrorism suspect when he allegedly sent a memo describing a ramped-up plan to disorient the detainee to try to get him to talk..."

"The Guardian also drew similarities between Zuley's interrogation techniques at Guantanamo and those he allegedly employed as a Chicago police detective — methods that are now under fire in at least one pending lawsuit.

"In interviews with the newspaper, three imprisoned suspects claimed that Zuley, who retired from the police department in 2007, shackled them to walls for extended periods, threatened family members and coerced confessions."

Retired Chicago detective focus of British newspaper investigation - Chicago Tribune

 

[theHawk]

If it's true the crimes of Empire eventually afflict the Homeland, Chicago may be the first city where the disappearance of US citizens has seen the light of day.
"The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

"The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.

"Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:

• Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
• Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
• • Shackling for prolonged periods.
  • Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
  • Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.
  
  "At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square 'interview room' and later pronounced dead.
  
  "Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the 'Nato Three', was held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid. Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to be booked and charged.
  
  “'Homan Square is definitely an unusual place,' Church told the Guardian on Friday. 'It brings to mind the interrogation facilities they use in the Middle East. The CIA calls them black sites. It’s a domestic black site. When you...'"

The disappeared Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden black site US news The Guardian

Corruption and illegal activity by city officials in Obamaville?

No way!!!!

 

[georgephillip]

Corruption and illegal activity by city officials in Obamaville?

No way!!!!

Obama fits right in
"Main articles: 1968 Democratic National Convention and 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity

"Both Daley and the Chicago Police Department faced a great deal of criticism for the department's actions during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Chicago from August 26 to 29, 1968.

"The convention was site of a series of protests, mainly over the war in Vietnam.

"Despite the poor behavior of some protesters, there was widespread criticism that the Chicago Police and National Guard used excessive force. Time published an article stating..."

Chicago Police Department - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia