DEMAND NEW TRIALS FOR BURGE TORTURE VICTIMS

Friday, July 18, 2008, NOON, Thompson Center
This is the second anniversary of the release of the special prosecutor’s report. Madigan has had two years since yet another confirmation that torture happened,  and it's time for her to do something about it and initiate evidentiary hearings for the victims. A delegation will be delivering alligator clips to Madigan’s office (the kind that were hooked up to people to torture them).

BLACK PEOPLE AGAINST POLICE TORTURE
 

SUPPORT Illinois House Bill 5032 (New Trials for Burge Torture Victims)

Introduced by Representative Arthur L. Turner and co-sponsored by Representative Ken Dunkin would establish a commission to review claims of torture. During the period of 1970 - 1990 approximately 100 African-American men and women were police torture victims. Some 26 prisoners are still incarcerated due to forced confessions obtained by former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and other officers under his supervision.  These “confessions” were obtained as a result of various torture techniques such as: suffocation by placing plastic bags over the head, electric shock of armpits, ears, and testicles, Russian roulette, beatings with fists, flashlights, and guns, repeated racial epithets, and use of cattle prods.
 
HB5032 will come up for vote in the Illinois House of Representatives.
 
What can we do?
Contact State Representatives now!!!
Email
Write letters
Place phone calls
You will be helping to create a Citizens’ Lobby to ensure the passing of this legislation.
Attorney Standish Willis of Black People Against Police Torture (BPAPT) states, “Unless this bill is passed these men will remain behind bars.”
 

For more information contact: Attorney Standish Willis: (312) 554-0005

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