Mayor Daley added as defendant in suit alleging police torture

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Mayor Richard M. Daley was added Wednesday as a defendant in a civil suit alleging that city officials have conspired for 25 years to cover up the torture of suspects by Chicago police. snip

"The mayor has done nothing about a pattern of torture - a shameful episode in the history of this city," Cannon attorney G. Flint Taylor said during a news conference at which he announced the fresh complaint naming Daley.

Attorneys said the timing of the complaint had nothing to do with the Feb. 27 election in which Daley is seeking re-election.

The suit is one of five pending in U.S. District Court accusing police of covering up systematic torture of murder suspects at the South Side's Area 2 violent crimes unit decades ago. snip

Two special prosecutors spent four years investigating the allegations and reported last July that police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s, under Burge's watch, to try to extract confessions from them. But they said the cases were too old to prosecute.

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1. Chicago finest were never the finest...

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2. This is very interesting

I wonder if this is how Burge will finally be stripped of that police pension he's living on down in Florida. Burge was fired from the CPD. Why does he draw a pension? It infuriates me. It's disgraceful.