Chicago Sun-Times
Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, whose name became synonymous with torture, a web of tainted court convictions and more than $100 million in settlements with wrongfully convicted defendants who lost decades of their lives in jail, has died in Florida at 70, according to Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police.
Burge, who had battled cancer, was a commander at Area 2 on the South Side. He headed a “midnight crew” of officers accused of systemic abuse of more than 100 African-American suspects. The cases stretched from the 1970s to 1991 and drew the attention of the London-based human rights organization Amnesty International, which called for an inquiry.
In the words of victim Darrell Cannon – whose murder conviction would be thrown out – he was tortured by “a New Wave Klan” that “wore badges, instead of sheets.”
In 2011, Burge was sentenced to 4 1/2 years for lying under oath in civil lawsuits connected to the torture. After being released early for good behavior, he went to a halfway house near his Florida home, followed by home confinement.
He’s dead.
Good.
May Jon Burge burn in the hottest hellpits imaginable
About how I would expect Chicago’s FOP to respond.
Ding dong…
And before anyone goes on and on about the United States torturing suspected terrorists, remember that state torture has been going on in our own country with our own citizens for quite sometime...