General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Zuley - from racist Chicago detective to Gitmo torturer
In a dark foreshadowing of the United States post-9/11 descent into torture, a Guardian investigation can reveal that Richard Zuley, a detective on Chicagos north side from 1977 to 2007, repeatedly engaged in methods of interrogation resulting in at least one wrongful conviction and subsequent cases more recently thrown into doubt following allegations of abuse.
Zuleys record suggests a continuum between police abuses in urban America and the wartime detention scandals that continue to do persistent damage to the reputation of the United States. Zuleys tactics, which would be supercharged at Guantánamo when he took over the interrogation of a high-profile detainee as a US Navy reserve lieutenant, included:
Shackling suspects to police-precinct walls through eyebolts for hours on end.
Accusations of planting evidence when there was pressure for a high-profile murder conviction.
Threats of harm to family members of those under interrogation used as leverage.
Pressure on suspects to implicate themselves and others.
Threats of being subject to the death penalty if suspects did not confess.
The Cook County states attorney office now has an examination open into a second conviction involving Zuley, filings in an Illinois court showed on Tuesday. (The Guardian is publishing the first part of its investigation on Wednesday.) While representatives of the states attorneys office told the Guardian that the examination concerns only a single case, the office is seeking civilian complaint files regarding Zuley from a local independent police review authority.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/guantanamo-torture-chicago-police-brutality
-------------------------------------------
No wonder the war criminal of a dick and his friends don't think it's torture - they've been torturing minorities for centuries
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)We as citizens have much to atone for.
As citizens of this country, we have to be held to account. In our name, we the people, these atrocities have happened.
malaise
(269,011 posts)Not in my name should be heard by all