Chicago Cop Watch had an organizational meeting at the time of this event. We did however make our presence known and had agents collecting signatures and recording the event. We will post edited video online as soon as possible.
Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters tonight to protest the department’s plans to equip officers [...]
Protest groups say they haven’t gotten the full story from state
by Liz F. Kay (Common Dreams)
Documents released yesterday show that state police spying of nonviolent protest groups took place in 2007, more than a year after law enforcement officials said much-criticized surveillance of death-penalty activists had ended.
Barry Kissin is a member of the Frederick Progressive [...]
Last night the at the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities fundraiser for the Anarchist Book fair at the food not bombs warehouse on 6th and Santa Fe was raided by the LAPD. They kicked open the door and unlawfully entered in to the private space. Joaquin Cienfuegos a member of RAC and Copwatch LA Guerrilla [...]
A hate crime lawsuit was filed this week against several Chicago police officers, accusing them of pepper-spraying a family group, including children, who were celebrating Barack Obama’s win.
Christine Ballard and Cornelius Voss said they were driving with their children and other relatives on Election Night when an unmarked squad car passed them. The officers allegedly [...]
By Debra Dale CHICAGO (WBBM)
A coalition of more than 250 local and national organization and individuals, including political leaders, lawyers, and community activists call on Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to agree to post-conviction hearings for 25 inmates who were alleged victims of police torture.
That is one recommendation of a report released today (Wednesday) called [...]
10/25/2008 by Gabriel Voiles (FAIR.org)
Reporting on former Chicago detective Jon Burge’s long-delayed arrest for “perjury and obstruction of justice” related to police torture in “the Area Two Violent Crimes unit on Chicago’s South Side,” American Prospect blogger Phoebe Connelly writes (Tapped, 10/21/08) of how “John Conroy (whose exhaustive reporting on the subject is worth a [...]
Jon Burge and his Torture Victims: Video Presented to the Chicago City Council on July 19, 2007
By Phoebe Connelly (The American Prospect)
For those outside Chicago, some explanation is in order. Burge was first a detective and then the commanding officer of the Area Two Violent Crimes unit on Chicago’s south side. While Burge served [...]
by X Thursday, Jun. 19, 2008 at 3:51 PM (INDYMEDIA)
WE OPPOSE THE OLYMPICS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
CHICAGO, USA
On May 19, 2006, the United Nations Committee Against Torture concluded that the United States Government and the City of Chicago were in violation of the Convention Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment (CAT) because of the [...]
Subject: Chicago Police encourage unsafe cycling
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:35:37 -0600
Rob,
A few weeks ago I was pulled over by a Chicago police officer in a marked SUV for taking the left lane of Dearborn between Randolph and Wacker and “blocking traffic”. He insisted I ride closer to the cars parked [...]
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Colorlines)
The accounts of both sides converged only at the end: the death of Dantwan Betts, who was shot and killed by Chicago Police Officer Richard Doroniuk. Before that point, much differed.
The story told in the complaint filed in the Betts family’s lawsuit was a brief one. Early on the morning of [...]
