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A former gang member says the ex-Chicago cop accused of torturing more than 100 black men may have looked in the room while he was being suffocated and beaten by officers.
Gregory Banks, 46, said police handcuffed him and placed a plastic bag over his head in addition to sticking a .45 in his mouth and beating him in the chest with a flashlight.
Banks said Lt. Jon Burge did not participate in the abuse but may have looked in on the beating while it was happening.
Burge is on trial for lying about the abuse in a civil suit. The statute of limitations has expired and Burge cannot be tried for the acts of abuse he is alleged to have committed or overseen.
"I couldn't breathe," Banks said. "I was handcuffed, so there was nothing I could do."
Eventually, the abuse was too much and Banks signed a murder confession. An appeals court later ruled the confession was coerced and the murder conviction overturned. Banks won a civil suit against the police department but none of the officers were ever charged for the incident.
Banks was no angel. He admitted to being a member of the Black Gangster Disciples for 20 years. He also has eight burglary convictions and admitted to being a former heroin addict. He says he's been clean for four years now and is studying to be a drug counselor.
Burge's defense attorneys went on the attack, but Bank's responded, "Remember this, I'm not on trial."
He's right. Despite the past mistakes he made in his life, police do not have the right to beat people and coerce confessions. That's just plain lazy. They get paid to do police work and beating and suffocating confessions out of black men does not count as such.
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By: Michael Lofton on 6/11/2010 8:01PM
....over the years countless incidents like this have taken place.
1. Where are our Black lawyers?
2. Where are our Black elected officials?
3. If our elected Black lawyers, and our elected Black leaders, the NAACP were genuine these individuals and organization would be filing civil claims for damages against the jurisdictions where this activity takes place.
......the nature of far too many leaders in our community, in that these individuals have been selling out the Black community for so long, that few if any step up to the plate to truly serve the law abiding in our community!
.....Money Talks and B.S. Walks.....
4. Million person Marching won't curtail this activity. In contrast mega buck Civil Claims for damages have curtail police abuses by the LAPD, the LA County Sheriffs, closed Killer/Butcher King Hospital, etc., etc.
http://onetime.blogtownhall.com/2010/06/08/thank_you,_fontana_city_councilwoman_acquanetta_warren,_for_having_backbone_to_do_right_by_the_people!.thtml
http://onetime.blogtownhall.com/2010/06/10/elected_black_leaders,_lawyers,_etc,_refuse_to_step_up_to_the_plate_for_blacks_on_the_right_side_of_the_law!_rain_or_shine,_right_or_wrong,_hispanics_step_up_to_the_plate_for_hispanics.thtml
Rain or shine, right or wrong, Hispanics step up to the plate for Hispanics.
Gil Navarro would have had nothing but Amens, or Yah That, had he stated that elected Black leaders betrayal of law abiding Black men, women, and/or their siblings is the cause of the demise of the Black community.
“........applauding the Arizona crackdown“.
You bet. By and large, U.S. Veterans, law abiding citizens and legal immigrants applaud AB 1070. For the many individuals driving who are stopped for a vehicle code violation and subsequently questioned by Arizona police, who can prove his or her U.S citizenship status, or legal status, AB 1070 works in his or her favor, and the general public. Be it Latino, Kenyan, Jamaican, Nigerian, Hispanic, Somalian, Korean, Chinese, Arab, Vietnamese, Russian, Cambodian or otherwise, any driver who is stopped for a vehicle code violation and subsequently questioned by Arizona police to prove his or her U.S. citizenship or legal status, who lack proof of citizenship or legal status and who is fined, jailed, and deported, Arizona Bill 1070 is a plus for the law abiding general public. AB 1070 makes sense and it will be expanded to other jurisdictions.
“I don’t understand what you have with your own Black race, because you’ll never be a white republican, they will never accept you.”
http://deadwiler.blogtownhall.com/2010/05/24/supervisor_thomas_has_contempt_for_his_constituents,_the_rule_of_law,__and_contempt_for_the_truth!.thtml
Bull Crap, in light of the truth the Democratic Party is in the toilet, the problem is in fact with no good elected Black leaders and not Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Republican Party, conservative Caucasians or other conservatives.
......and with over two decades of voting as a registered Democrat, with good reason......
.....I've chosen to condemn the Democratic Party, specifically the Sell Outs.........
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By: David1 on 6/12/2010 12:06AM
Black members of the news media ought to be screaming their heads off about this and other types of coverage of (or lack of) black victims and issues but they are not. They are too spineless and scared of offending their white colleges. As far as black organizations are concern they are a shell of their former self thanks in part to racial integration. Many middle class blacks have crossed over and achieved the American dream and could care less about those left behind.
I had my own brush with racisum a few years ago with a white neighbor hanging a noose on the apartment building door where I live outside of Philadelphia Pa. I called the police who did nothing. I called the NAACP and left messages telling them what happened but they never called back. When I finally got through to someone he gave me a cell phone number of someone and told me to call the local chapter in my community. No one ever called me back.
Not unless there is a lot of media coverage these so call black leaders could care less about black people. Black leaders quest for racial diversity and white acceptance has done more to hurt black people in the long run than white racism has.
I look at this illegal immigration situation. We are on the wrong side of this. ILLEGAL immigration hurts the black poor by squeezing them out of jobs being taken by illegals working for slave wages. We should be doing everything in our power to keep illegals out instead of defending there so call rights for breaking the law. But instead so called black leaders side with racist Latino groups on the issue.
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By: Michael Lofton on 6/12/2010 4:27PM
"Black members of the news media ought to be screaming their heads off about this and other types of coverage of (or lack of) black victims and issues but they are not. They are too spineless and scared of offending their white colleges. As far as black organizations are concern they are a shell of their former self thanks in part to racial integration. Many middle class blacks have crossed over and achieved the American dream and could care less about those left behind....." by David1
In the event our leaders be it in a lawyer, elected official, journalist, etc., etc., continue to betray the Black community....
....all while those who know what's up remain silent, or keep a misfit in an influential position.....
.......our community will become extinct!
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http://onetime.blogtownhall.com/2010/06/12/yvonne_brentwood_burke_on_the_office_of__congressional_ethics_committee__this_would_be_like_allowing_a_sly_fox_take_charge_of_a_chicken_coop!.thtml
http://www.africanamericanconservatives.com/forum/topics/yvonne-brentwood-burke-on-the
Yvonne "Brentwood" Burke on the Office of Congressional Ethics Committee???? This Would be Like Allowing a Sly Fox to Take Charge of a Chicken Coop!
Yvonne "Brentwood" Burke on the Office of Congressional Ethics Committee????
"The most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history" by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- San Francisco)
Sure, sure, sure, and flocks of birds fly backwards against a strong tail wind too. Placing Yvonne B. Burke on this committee is yet further confirmation that the Government and its Institutions, specifically as affiliated with the Democratic Party is in the toilet!
“.....and the Congressional Black Caucus, unhappy over referrals involving several of its members, who have proposed a resolution that would muzzle this ethical watchdog. Pelosi and the rest of the House leadership must resist any attempt to undermine the office, which has forced the Ethics Committee to confront allegations of impropriety that in the past might never have come to light.”
....the fact that this Congressional Ethics Committee has at least one or more unethical members, one being former 2nd District Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne "Brentwood" Burke should be sufficient ammunition for a thorough background check and investigation of the members of this Congressional Ethics Committee....
....to remove any member who is unqualified to conduct an OCE review process or make any recommendations to any Standards Committee that the matter at hand be further reviewed, to expose and weed out any unethical, dishonorable, or even criminal elected official(s).
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