Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Nardi wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Amadou Diallo, Freddie Gray, the cigarette guy in New York, Fred Hampton, the countless others who suffered at the hands of guys like Jon Burge. North and south.
We're both old enough to know some old school cops. Black, white or otherwise, a bunch of them felt public beatings were a necessity. To make an example and to establish authority. And it wasn't some small percentage of cops four decades ago. So this "just don't run" may have some legitimacy now but it didn't pre video and pre smartphone. It would be good to remember this shit isn't ancient history and stories have been told.
I came of age when Daley's jump out boys would beat and humiliate young people in pursuit of a bag of marijuana, but wouldn't arrest anyone.
I saw that at least a couple dozen times a year and once when I was talking about it, my late grandfather talked about black cops like “Two Gun Pete” who were notorious for the same things back in the forties and fifties.
And I won’t even go into the stories of crooked cops working for the mob who were trying to force out non mafia number runners. I had a great aunt who got spitting mad thinking about it as late as the nineties.
They are still retrying old cases from the Sgt Watts era. The person that they interviewed in this article is a friend of mine. I remember when he did time in the joint but I never knew that he too went down on those Watts indictments back in the day. That dude took down quite a few guys that I know personally. The city is still "paying" for it as a result.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-police- ... /12291913/Quote:
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Eight more convictions involving disgraced Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts were thrown out Monday.
In all, the Cook County State's Attorney's office has moved to vacate 220 cases involving Watts, who has a history of falsely pinning crimes on innocent people.
"This is the worst stain, in my opinion, on the Chicago Police Department and the City of Chicago," said Josh Tepfler, an attorney for the Exoneration Project.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx releasing a statement, saying in part, "...we will never be able to give them that time back. We will continue to review these cases as we seek justice for all his victims."
Derrick Mapp, whose case was vacated last year, said he still has the scars and the pain.
"I almost died," Mapp said. "I almost lost my life."
Mapp said he was beaten by Watts and left with a collapsed lung, then Watts planted drugs on him in 2006. Mapp went to prison leaving his young sons and wife. And when he got out, he had the lasting effects of having a felony on his record.
"I do the odd jobs, cut grass, take trash out for the elderly because they don't want to give anyone with a background no work," Mapp said. "I had plans and I had plans to do a lot of things. I been working all my life since I was a teenager. This never should have happened the way Watts did that."
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pittmike wrote:
Technically I was drunk (big surprise) and asked her if she liked a tongue up her ass.
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Again, your comprehension needs work.