We have an ongoing discussion - for lack of a better word - about how to (A) rein in the out-of-control cop behavior we see every day now and (B) providing some sort of support of benefit to their victims.
We all have heard about people suing the police for millions and winning, but it doesn't EVERY actually impact the police.
Chicago has something brewing.
I am bringing the article to your attention and will only excerpt a tiny bit: you must go read it as that is the purpose of this diary.
Victims of Chicago Police Savagery Hope Reparations Fund Is 'Beacon' for World
For the black men who lived through torture orchestrated by Chicago police commander Jon Burge, and for the lawyer and journalist who pursued him, the city’s establishment of a reparations fund has transformed an impossible dream into a model for a country currently reckoning with racialized police brutality.
“This is something that sets a precedent that has never been done in the history of America,” said Darrell Cannon. “Reparations given to black men tortured by some white detectives. It’s historic.”
Mr. Cannon is described as having been tortured by Chicago cops back in the early 1980's reporting they stuck a cattle prod (shock stick) onto his testicles.
The article goes into detail about his torture but teh focus, in the end, is on the act of HAVING to set up a reparations fund because Chicago police have been utter savages with regards to the black community there.
Nazis. What else can be said about people who systematically engage in torture and who do this with racism being no small component of it?
Like Cannon and Banks, [Flint] Taylor was less interested in reflecting on a milestone achievement than he was in looking forward to the implications the reparations fund has for addressing the racialized police crisis that a new generation of activists nationwide has brought out of the shadows.
“Hopefully it’ll be a beacon for other cities here and across the world for dealing with racist police brutality so prevalent in the past in this country and, we’re unfortunately seeing, continues to this day,” Taylor said.
"Hi. We're Chicago, a big bustling major city, spilling over with diversity but our cops will beat the shit out of you if your're black": That's what the NEED for a reparations fund says to me.
I imagine it will say it to others.
I am looking forward to cops and their unions whining and complaining about this.
Being held accountable seems to make them look bad, or something