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October 24th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
A lawsuit filed on behalf of the Guardian revealed a mind-blowingly
high number of people who were effectively ‘disappeared’ at the secret
warehouse prison used by Chicago cops. ~ Mae Ryan – Video
As Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel blames the “YouTube Effect” for the
animosity towards police, more than 7,000 people were secretly detained
and held without due process in his town.
Apparently, none of the
victims, their friends, or their family members resent police for
holding their loved ones without due process.
The Guardian reports:
According to an analysis of data disclosed to the
Guardian in late September, police allowed lawyers access to Homan
Square for only 0.94% of the 7,185 arrests logged over nearly 11 years.That percentage aligns with Chicago
police’s broader practice of providing minimal access to attorneys
during the crucial early interrogation stage, when an arrestee’s
constitutional rights against self-incrimination are most vulnerable.But Homan Square is unlike Chicago police precinct houses, according
to lawyers who described a “find-your-client game” and experts who
reviewed data from the latest tranche of arrestee records obtained by
the Guardian.“Not much shakes me in this business – baby murder, sex assault, I’ve
done it all,” said David Gaeger, an attorney whose client was taken to
Homan Square in 2011 after being arrested for marijuana.“That place was
and is scary. It’s a scary place. There’s nothing about it that
resembles a police station. It comes from a Bond movie or something.”
Internal police records obtained by the Guardian show that from
August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held in Homan Square
were black. This number represents more the two times the proportion of
the city’s population.
Of those 6,000 held, only 68 people were allowed access to attorneys or had their whereabouts released publicly.
The vast majority of those held in Homan Square were done so
under entirely illegal circumstances — and no one is being held
accountable for it.
The damning information released by the Guardian on Monday paints an
ominous picture of the lengths cops will go to enforce the war on drugs.
Most of those illegally held in this paramilitary prison were done so
under the guise of the drug war. According to their report:
The narcotics, vice and anti-gang units operating out of
Homan Square, on Chicago’s west side, take arrestees to the nondescript
warehouse from all over the city.Police data obtained by the Guardian
and mapped against the city grid show that 53% of disclosed arrestees
come from more than 2.5 miles away from the warehouse.No
contemporaneous public record of someone’s presence at Homan Square is
known to exist.Nor are any booking records generated at Homan Square, as confirmed
by a sworn deposition of a police researcher in late September, further
preventing relatives or attorneys from finding someone taken there.“The reality is, no one knows where that person is at Homan Square,”
said Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law
School who studies policing. “They’re disappeared at that point.”
After being held against their will, without due process, and not
knowing if they were going to make it out alive, more the 5,000 of those
held at Homan Square were charged with drug possession only; heroin accounted for 35.4% of those, with marijuana next at 22.3%.
The Free Thought Project has interviewed some of those held in this frightening place. Their experiences are shocking.
The fact that police can operate a secret prison, which has now admitted that it detains people without due process and is known for torturing many of its victims, should be a wake-up call to those unaware of the nightmarish police state being constructed around them.
How many other Homan Squares currently exist in America? If
one can exist, it is certainly feasible to suspect more than one. Please
share this article with your friends and family to expose these rights
violating tyrants.
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October 21, 2015 – KnowTheLies
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