NATO protesters mysteriously disappearing in Chicago? [View all]

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from the Sun-Times:



Some NATO protesters claimed police broke into a Bridgeport apartment building Wednesday night without a warrant, arrested as many as eight people and held them in an undisclosed location.

Protesters’ legal teams said they tracked the arrested protesters Thursday to the police department’s organized crime division headquarters in an old warehouse near Kedzie and Fillmore, but that for most of the day, police refused to even acknowledge that the raid had taken place.

“Basically they were disappeared for nearly 24 hours,” said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers Guild, which is representing the protesters. “We have been searching all morning and afternoon. . . . We’ve been checking in with police officials at the highest levels; they have consistently refused give us information.”

He added that police showed up four hours after the arrests with a search warrant that didn’t appear to have been signed by a judge and confiscated beer-making equipment and a cellphone. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.suntimes.com/12606860-417/protesters-where-did-cops-take-our-pals.html