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In reply to the discussion: Protester in St. Louis area charged with arson [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)8. Maybe the police gave Williams the "Jon Burge treatment." For those not up on
their Chicago police scandals:
Jon Graham Burge (born December 20, 1947) is a convicted felon and former Chicago Police Department detective and commander who gained notoriety for torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 in order to force confessions. A decorated United States Army veteran, Burge served tours in South Korea and Vietnam and continued as an enlisted United States Army Reserve soldier where he served in the military police. He then returned to the South Side of Chicago and began his career as a police officer. Allegations were made about the methods of Burge and those under his command. Eventually, hundreds of similar reports resulted in a decision by Illinois Governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on death penalty executions in Illinois in 2000 and to clear the state's death row in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge (Emphasis added)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge (Emphasis added)
Or maybe they handled Williams Rampart Division C.R.A.S.H.-style:
The LAPD Rampart scandal refers to widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or C*R*A*S*H) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the Rampart CRASH unit were implicated in some form of misconduct, making it one of the most widespread cases of documented police misconduct in United States history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, framing of suspects, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal (Emphasis added)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal (Emphasis added)
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I have no use for rogue cops, but I'll shed no tears for an admitted arsonist. n/t
ColesCountyDem
Dec 2014
#1
Maybe the police gave Williams the "Jon Burge treatment." For those not up on
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#8
I see you had to go back about 20 years to come up with something to presumably compare this to?
George II
Dec 2014
#13
Right. Because after Burge and Rampart, all police abuse everywhere magically stopped
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#14
As the saying goes, "just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me"!
George II
Dec 2014
#23
Or maybe he confessed because they showed him the video of him lighting the fire,
GGJohn
Dec 2014
#16
Pretty stupid on his account...when he had been photographed over and over..
Historic NY
Dec 2014
#4
It's sad, but he should have thought of that before attempting to light the store up.
GGJohn
Dec 2014
#31