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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'They Looked Like ISIS': Masked Raid Led to Kidnapping at Chicago Black Site
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28894-they-looked-like-isis-masked-raid-led-to-kidnapping-at-chicago-black-siteWere in an abandoned building, were freaking out, were seeing these guys with masks coming in and out, and John is telling them theyre bogus, You guys are doing this illegally, and this and this and this, Garcia said. Then they came back and all of a sudden they seemed scared.
I pretty much was kidnapped, said Vergara who, until a Guardian investigation exposed allegations of police misconduct at Homan Square, kept his word not to talk publicly about what happened to him. I did not have any idea where I was. I didnt even know about that building until that day.
One week after the Homan Square revelations began, the Chicago police department continues to deny in unspecific statements that there is anything untoward about the facility, emphasizing its role hosting an evidence locker and special unit headquarters, while insisting the Guardians reporting is inaccurate and that Homan Square is not a secret facility. The department did not respond to detailed questions for this story, consistent with its approach to the Guardians investigations into Chicago police abuse published over the last two weeks.
But now the Guardian has interviewed nine people, seven of them Chicagoans, who have told notably consistent stories about police holding them in Homan Square for hours and, in one case, days without providing any way to notify their families or their lawyers as to where they are. Like Deandre Hutcherson in 2005, Vergara and Garcia went through hours locked incommunicado in the building, only to be set free without any charge.
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'They Looked Like ISIS': Masked Raid Led to Kidnapping at Chicago Black Site (Original Post)
eridani
Mar 2015
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. He WAS kidnapped.
Doesn't matter if it was the police..to be grabbed and held against your will with no charges, no arrest, is kidnapping.
Problem is that the police have been sued under civil charges when they do criminal things.
Criminal charges would go a long way to stop police brutality, IMHO.
KG
(28,751 posts)2. isn't wonderful how america relies on foreign press to expose our own facets of fascism