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mucifer

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3. I hate to say it, but Chicago isn't so great on these issues either.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2015, 05:23 AM

Aug 2015

Police commander jon burge for decades tortured blacks into false confessions. Many ended up on death row. He spent less than 5 years in jail. Segregation is pretty bad in Chicago. People still fear the police. More recently after a police shooting the police got the video from a burger king security camera and doctored the tape
http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/laquan-mcdonald-investigation-305105631.html

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Emmett Till/Sandra Bland or Why I Still Hate the South [View all] McCamy Taylor Aug 2015 OP

I can't say I hate them but I don't want to live there again. Warpy Aug 2015 #1

K&R Jamastiene Aug 2015 #2

I hate to say it, but Chicago isn't so great on these issues either. mucifer Aug 2015 #3

I live in New Orleans, the city is great. The rest of the state is a 3rd world hellhole. Katashi_itto Aug 2015 #4

Ditto Atlanta vs. the rest of GA. CurtEastPoint Aug 2015 #5

It's a pattern Katashi_itto Aug 2015 #9

Stuff like that goes on in Northern California XemaSab Aug 2015 #6

I could never live there, I'm afraid to go there tblue Aug 2015 #7

I moved back to the South from the Bay Area. BigDemVoter Aug 2015 #8