The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago - Couverture souple

Taylor, Flint

 
9781642594690: The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
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ISBN 10 : 1642594695 ISBN 13 : 9781642594690
Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2020

Synopsis

With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-up within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's political machine, from aldermen to the mayor's office.

Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark--and the historic, thirteen-year trial that followed--through the dogged pursuit of chief detective Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects.

Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD, breaking the department's "code of silence" that had enabled decades of cover-up. The legal precedents they set have since been adopted in human rights legislation around the world.

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À propos de l?auteur

As a law student, Flint Taylor was a founding member of the People's Law Office and has been a partner of the PLO since 1972. As a student and lawyer, he has been dedicated to litigating against police violence and racism for more than fifty-four years. Among the landmark cases that Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case; the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the KKK, Nazis and Greensboro police; and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by Chicago police Commander Jon Burge, former Cook County State's Attorney and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, and numerous other law enforcement officials. He has represented, and continues to represent, many wrongfully convicted persons, including police torture victims who have spent decades in prison and on death row. He has chronicled his work and that of the People's Law Office in an award-winning historical memoir titled The Torture Machine.

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Éditeur
Haymarket Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1642594695
ISBN 13 
9781642594690
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
556
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  160846895X ISBN 13 :  9781608468959
Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2019
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