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Mar 20, 2019 · Latinos, and especially immigrants, have faced police conflict, violence and even killings, for decades, and have a long history of fighting back against brutality through community organizing...
Jan 13, 2017 · Here are key moments in the police department’s history that contributed to its reputation for brutality toward minorities: 1969. Dec. 4: Police officers open fire during a dawn raid on a West Side apartment, killing two members of the Illinois Black Panthers who were sleeping there, including the group’s chairman, Fred Hampton.
Oct 3, 2018 · African-Americans made up 3 percent of Chicago’s population and 21 percent of police homicide victims from 1910 to 1920. And yet, during the first half of the period Adler studies, police violence was largely limited to the liberal use of clubs.
Nov 19, 2020 · What it found was a police force poisoned to its core: racist and predatory and brazenly lawless, a corps accountable only to itself. Chicago spends 40 percent of its annual budget to fund the...
- Paul Solotaroff
When the civil case went to trial in 1989, we presented compelling evidence of Wilson’s injuries and also showed that the police investigation of the police killings had been characterized by generalized torture and police brutality against other suspects and witnesses.
Jan 13, 2017 · Here are key moments in the police department’s history that contributed to a reputation for brutality toward minorities: Dec. 4: Police officers open fire during a dawn raid on a West Side...
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Apr 20, 2021 · In 1980, Andrew Laties witnessed white police officers beating up a Black man in a Chicago el station. His testimony helped convict them.
