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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/chicago-cop-jon-burge-torture-dies
Chicago's long history of police brutuality and terrorism against the black community and other POC communities.Burge led a “midnight crew” of rogue detectives accused of torturing more than 100 suspects, mostly black men, from 1972 to 1991, in order to secure confessions. His alleged victims were shocked with cattle prods, smothered with typewriter covers and had guns shoved in their mouths. In 2015, the city of Chicago agreed to pay $5.5m in reparations to 57 Burge victims. G Flint Taylor, a civil rights attorney and lawyer for some of the men, estimates the price tag for all Burge-related cases is about $132m. At his 2012 sentencing, one alleged victim said Burge was so cruel that he laughed while he tortured him. Burge said he was “deeply sorry” for the disrepute his case had brought on the Chicago police department, but he offered no apologies for his actions.