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The Beachwood Radio Hour #46: Explaining Chicago's Black SiteA guide to Homan for our comprehension-challenged local media.
SHOW NOTES 00: Strawberry Rock Show. 1:10: Koffin Kats at Reggies last Friday night. 2:25: Explaining Homan. * "How do you think the local media will react?" "Oh, they'll try to knock it down. That's their mindset." * Spencer Ackerman lives in Brooklyn and works for Guardian US. * The context: Zuley. * Touchless torture. * Tribune: Abuse Citywide, Therefore Homan Not A Story. 18:48: Brooke Fraser at the Bottom Lounge last Friday night. 20:16: What The Guardian Originally Reported. * What is a black site? * The distinction between Homan and district station houses. * No one said Homan was hidden by a cloaking device; Area 2 was a far more public building and Burge tortured people there in secret too. * The nature of Homan is exactly why some detainees are brought there. * Now we have a roster of victims, through follow-ups by the Guardian and other non-Chicago outlets. * Dear Trib: Lawyers familiar with Homan are more useful to talk to than lawyers who aren't, duh. * Being able to retrieve your property isn't the same as being able to see your client or family member, duh. * The CPD itself calls Homan secretive. * Ackerman states that abuses such as those at Homan are happening citywide. Multiple times. But again, there's a reason why Homan is distinctive. * Ackerman states that the abuses at Homan are just the latest example of abuses that have happened historically - and throughout Chicago police facilities. * The CPD itself says most detainees at Homan are involved in drug cases, which in Chicago - and America - means mostly poor and of color. * "Unlike a precinct . . . " * The CPD refused to provide any records or answer any questions to refute the allegations. * A coalition including the ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild and First Legal Defense Aid got fed up and went to CPD to complain about Homan. The result: CPD actually changed its General Orders on arrestee procedures. Were those lawyers lying? * Real-time tweets from lawyers about Homan and not being able to find their clients. * Even the lawyers the Trib talked to called the CPD statement "laughable." * A team of attorneys could not find Church through 12 hours of 'active searching.' No booking records existed. It took contacts in the mayor's office to even learn of Homan Square. * The Tribune's cherry-picked attorney. * Enough sources yet? * Cook County Medical Examiner mysteriously discovers a cause of death after the Guardian publishes. * Former Chicago police chief. * Police used to use the term "shadow sites." 1:04:36: Koffin Kats. * From Esquire to Glenn Beck. * How do you knock down a story like this without ever talking to the cops? 1:09:15: Koffin Kats. * The unlearned lessons of Jon Burge. * Is the Chicago media racist? Yes. * These abuses happen all across the city - almost exclusively to poor people of color. * In the absence of a CPD response, the allegations stand. As they should. - See The Beachwood Radio Network. - Posted on March 1, 2015 |
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