Anyone shocked by today's top story, must not have read Wednesday's paper. Unfortunately, the "dark and painful" disclosures of clandestine memos authorizing U.S. officials to torture terrorism suspects seemed uncomfortable reminiscent of the atrocities inflicted on African-Americans by former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge.
The traumatic legacy of the Burge torture spree will resurface again on April 29th when a Cook County Court is expected to rule on a motion lawyers for Cortez Brown have filed seeking to compel Burge to testify about his misconduct. Burge oversaw the police detectives who beat Brown with a flashlight until he falsely confessed to murders he didn't commit. Brown is represented by the MacArthur Justice Center, affiliated with Northwestern University School of Law.
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Seventeen years later, Brown remains in prison, along with more than 20 other men wrongfully convicted due to spurious confessions extracted through torture.
President Obama has already closed the shadowy offshore prisons where the CIA abused terrorism suspects. Now it's up to Cook County Courts to atone for gross abuses of justice that took place in our own backyard.
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