Chicago Police Torture Trial: " “We have something special for niggers”

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

He said he first had a nickel-plated gun shoved in his mouth.

Gregory Banks then said he was hit with a flashlight and repeatedly kicked.


And when Banks continued to deny he knew anything about the 1983 murder of Leon Barkan, one of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge's underlings introduced Banks to a brutal interrogation technique he said was solely reserved for African-American suspects, Banks testified Thursday.

"We have something special for n------," Banks said, recalling what Detective Peter Dignan told him while holding a beige plastic bag at Area 2 nearly 30 years ago.

Here's more on the trial.