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Reparations and Anti-Police Torture Demands Produced Results in Chicago

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

21 Sep 2020

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Margaret Kimberley · Reparations and Anti-Police Torture Demands Produced Results in Chicago

The young Black people that charged the US government with genocide at a UN conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 2014 helped set the stage for local legislation “for some form of apology and reparations for the long legacy of police torture in Chicago,” said Toussaint Losier, professor of African American Studies at the University of Virginia. Losier is author of an article titled “A Human Right to Reparations: Black People and Police Torture and the Roots of the 2015 Chicago Reparations Ordinance,” a bill that granted some monetary compensation for victims of police torture and required public schools to include police torture in the curriculum.

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