Chicago To Pay Millions in Reparations to Blacks

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Chicago To Pay $5.5 Million In Reparations To Police Torture Victims & We’re Like, That’s A Start

In an effort to address the pain of dozens of torture victims who experienced brutal treatment at the hands of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his “midnight crew” of rogue detectives, city leaders have proposed a $5.5 million sweeping reparations package, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The proposal, expected to be passed by the city council, was negotiated by an attorney for a key plaintiff and stems from complaints by dozens of mostly African-American men who were tortured by Burge and his detectives between early 1972 to late 1991.

Burge had gained a reputation for solving brutal murders, rapes and deadly arsons in some of the South Side’s most violent neighborhoods by obtaining confessions, notes the report.

But by all accounts most of them were coerced confessions that came under brutal circumstances, including suffocation, electric shock and even Russian roulette. Claims were routinely ignored by Cook County prosecutors and rebuffed by criminal court judges, according to the Tribune....


http://hellobeautiful.com/2015/04/16/chicago-to-pay-5-5-million-in-reparations-to-police-torture-victims-were-like-thats-a-start/

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That's nothing, NY has paid out 400 million in the past 10 years to settle out of court, and in court, police torture and police assassination cases.

I once read in Metro that police brutality legal costs in the US are estimated to be between ONE and THREE billion dollars a year. That includes lawyers, settlement awards, inactivity of the parties involved, et cetera.

Do you know who ends up paying for this? That's right, you and I. Sure as hell it isn't coming out of their pensions!