The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'
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Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals creeping aspects of war on terror in US city as accounts describe shackling and brutality without basic rights

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437234

Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail.

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I don’t think anything actually came from this, did it?

The authorities getting in trouble for abusing authority? Of course nothing came out of it.

(Disclaimer I don’t actually know.)

Nope. Not according to wikipedia, anyway.

Apparently, the people who criticized labelling Homan Square as a “black site” did so on the basis that what was going on there was actually business as usual for the CPD all over Chicago. Ie, it’s a shitton worse than just Homan Square.

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