The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
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Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals aspects of war on terror in US
‘They disappeared us’: protester details 17-hour shackling without basic rights
Accounts describe police brutality, missing 15-year-old and one man’s death

The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.

Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:

Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
Shackling for prolonged periods.
Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.

At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.

Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the “Nato Three”, was held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid. Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to be booked and charged.
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This is terrifying

[KamaAina]

1. Got police state?

[octoberlib]

2. What in the everloving fuck? So, we have little

Guantanamos in the US now? This sickens me.

[Daemonaquila]

4. The question isn't whether there are more, but how many more.

If Chicago PD arranged it, you can better believe that NYPD has one. The question is how many major PDs have set up sites like these.

[Bradical79]

3. Brutality exported from Chicago to Guantanamo related article

Someone posted a related article on another forum

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/american-police-brutality-chicago-guantanamo

[G_j]

5. wow!

these articles are both very disturbing

[malaise]

8. Yep I read that last week

Shocking

[Luminous Animal]

6. Bookmarked for the next person who says we don't live in a police state.

[malaise]

9. When did they kill all our democracies?

This is madness

[Luminous Animal]

7. Kick.

[Jefferson23]

10. Surreal. K&R