Chicago Police, Mayor Face Torture Claims

Courthouse News reports:

A man who spent 21 years in prison for a quintuple murder that he did not commit claims he is one of at least 30 black suspects who were tortured by former Police Commander Jon Burge and his detectives between 1982 and 1988. In a federal complaint filed days after Burge was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, Ronald Kitchen claims he was handcuffed to a wall and beaten into a false confession by detectives while the city's mayor and former state's attorney, Richard Daley, turned a blind eye.
Kitchen claims his 1988 arrest came after detectives were tipped off by an inmate, Willie Williams, who had read about the murders of the two women and three children in the newspaper. Williams' claim that Kitchen confessed to him about the murders was "completely incredible," and "Williams' motive was to curry favor, obtain reward money, and gain leniency in his own case," Kitchen says.
Kitchen claims the detectives under Burge ignored circumstantial evidence that the women and children may have been murdered by someone close to them.
Kitchen says he was arrested, "purportedly for auto theft," and then driven to Burge's division, where he was handcuffed to a metal loop on the wall and beaten in the face and groin by Burge and others after refusing to confess to the murders.

A Mayor who can be for gun control can look the other way on a lot of things. Even taken campaign contributions from known Chicago Mob associates.