Chicago Police Torture Update: Emanuel dances around demand that city compensate Burge victims

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

One year after apologizing for the police torture of black suspects by convicted Area 2 Commander Jon Burge, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday danced around demands for a $20 million city fund to compensate 94 torture victims who couldn’t sue because the statute of limitations has run out.

At one point, Emanuel appeared to crack the door open to the idea, telling reporters that there are “a number of things” that the reparations ordinance demanded that he was prepared to “look at and work through.”

“On the money piece, we have to study it,” the mayor said, without ruling it out.

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