{"id":146398,"date":"2021-05-02T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=185263"},"modified":"2021-05-02T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:53:20","slug":"on-contact-police-abuse-and-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/02\/on-contact-police-abuse-and-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"On Contact: Police Abuse And Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges discusses police abuse and torture with civil rights attorney Flint Taylor. Taylor\u2019s new book is\u00a0\u2018The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago\u2019.\u00a0With his colleagues at the\u00a0People's Law Office, Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases exposing the corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department and throughout the city\u2019s political machine, from the alderman to the mayor's office. The book takes the reader from the 1969 murder of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark \u2013 and the historic 13-year trial that followed \u2013 to the pursuit of chief detective Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the Chicago Police Department that used barbaric methods including electric shock and suffocation to elicit false confessions...<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/on-contact-police-abuse-and-torture\/\">On Contact: Police Abuse And Torture<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/on-contact-police-abuse-and-torture\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges discusses police abuse and torture with civil rights attorney Flint Taylor. Taylor\u2019s new book is\u00a0\u2018The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago\u2019.\u00a0With his colleagues at the\u00a0People&#8217;s Law Office, Taylor has argued landmark civil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4498,4152,10480,5723,438],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146399,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146398\/revisions\/146399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}