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Chicago Police Torture Victims Speak Truth to Pain and Power
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
17 Jun 2019
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Stanley Howardis still in prison, 35 years after he was forced to confess to crimes he did not commit, landing him on death row. Howard, co-author of “Tortured By Blue: The Chicago Police Torture Story,” is among the more than 100 Black Chicago men forced to incriminate themselves by cops wielding lethal threats and excruciating pain. “We wanted to tell the story from a victims’ standpoint,” he said.

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