IL-Chicago cop that tortured confessions out of people for 25 years, moved on to 'Gitmo

**Anti Federalist** · 02-19-2015, 01:07 PM

Way too much to copypasta.

Money quote: "No ****** is supposed to live like this".

Of course, many years have elapsed, and what is happening now is that everything that was being beta tested in the black and poor community, is now being rolled out for use on everybody.

But as JMDrake rightly points out, weak, middle class, white folks aren't going to say or do $#@! about it.

They are too vested in the system and too limp to do anything effective.

So we bubble in increasingly "hot" tyranny, as each one of us become "******s" in the eyes of the system and its enforcers.

Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ago-guantanamo

Exclusive: At the notorious wartime prison, Richard Zuley oversaw a shocking military interrogation that has become a permanent stain on his country.

Part one of a Guardian investigation reveals he used disturbingly similar tactics to extract confessions from minorities for years – as a police officer in urban America.

When the Chicago detective Richard Zuley arrived at Guantánamo Bay late in 2002, US military commanders touted him as the hero they had been looking for.

Here was a Navy reserve lieutenant who had spent the last 25 years as a distinguished detective on the mean streets of Chicago, closing case after case – often due to his knack for getting confessions.

But while Zuley’s brutal interrogation techniques – prolonged shackling, family threats, demands on suspects to implicate themselves and others – would get supercharged at Guantánamo for the war on terrorism, a Guardian investigation has uncovered that Zuley used similar tactics for years, behind closed police-station doors, on Chicago’s poor and non-white citizens. Multiple people in prison in Illinois insist they have been wrongly convicted on the basis of coerced confessions extracted by Zuley and his colleagues.

The Guardian examined thousands of court documents from Chicago and interviewed two dozen people with experience at Guantánamo and in the Chicago criminal-justice system. The results of its investigation suggests a continuum between Guantánamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts. Zuley’s detective work, particularly when visited on Chicago’s minority communities, contains a dark foreshadowing of the United States’ post-9/11 descent into torture.

Much more at link...

**jmdrake** · 02-19-2015, 01:21 PM

So that's what happens when you list your skills in police brutality on your resume'. The feds offer you a promotion. Glad to see the American dream still alive in at least one sector of the economy.