Chicago Torture Update: Emanuel apologizes for torture under former Chicago Police commander, cohorts

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized Wednesday for the torture of black suspects by former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge and his cohorts after the City Council approved $12.3 million in additional settlements to alleged torture victims.

Emanuel issued the apology that victims’ attorneys have long demanded after authorizing a third round of settlements that spared former Mayor Richard Daley from answering questions under oath.

Identical, $6.15 million settlements will go to Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves, who spent 21 years in prison for a 1988 murder of five they did not commit, only to be released and exonerated in 2009.

Kitchen’s lawsuit alleged that he was arrested after an erroneous tip from a convicted burglar-turned-jailhouse informant and was beaten with a phone book and a telephone receiver and had his genitals bashed with a nightstick during 16 hours of questioning.

“I am sorry this happened. Let us all now move on,” the mayor said.

Check out the video down below. Just a reminder: Rahm Emanuel really believes only Chicago Police officers should walk around with handguns.