The Torture Machine; Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Taylor, Flint

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2019

160846895X / 9781608468959

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[10], 542 pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. G. Flint Taylor (born April 16, 1946) is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on allegations of corrupt police tactics and wrongful convictions in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. Taylor was part of a team of negotiators in the 2015 landmark decision by the City of Chicago to award reparations to the survivors of police torture, becoming the first municipal government to do so. During his second year in law school at Northwestern, Taylor began to work with a group of lawyers who were representing counterculture political groups, including the Black Panther Party (BPP), the Young Lords Organization, Rising Up Angry and the Weathermen. In August 1969, these lawyers, together with two other law students, established the People's Law Office (PLO) on the north side of Chicago. In his book The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago,[71] Taylor recounts much of his struggle for human rights against the systemic racism of a corrupt criminal justice system in Chicago. With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark, and the historic, thirteen-years of litigation that followed, through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States.

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Titel
The Torture Machine; Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Autor
Taylor, Flint
Verlag
Haymarket Books, Chicago
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2019
Zustand
Very good
Schutzumschlag
Very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
160846895X
ISBN-13
9781608468959
Illustrator
Charles Rex Arbogast (author photograph)
Ausgabe
First Printing [Stated].
Verkäuferkataloge
Assassination, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, Racism, Torture

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