The torture machine : racism and police violence in Chicago /
"With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the reader from the...
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Chicago, Illinois :
Haymarket Books,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Murder by darkness : the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
- The Wilson case : and he just kept on cranking and cranking...
- Street files and important trials
- The first Wilson civil rights trial
- The cover-up begins to unravel
- Déjà vu
- The fight for justice broadens
- Out of the court and into the streets
- Fire Burge!
- Burge on trial again
- A parade and an appeal
- The Vigilante, Aaron Peterson, and a judgment against Burge
- The Marcus Wiggins case : "They're supposed to serve and protect, right?"
- Decisions, decisions
- An it seemed like they blew my brains out
- Those idiots from the People's Law Office
- A landmark victory, a plea, and a tragedy
- Special prosecutors, clemencies, and pardons
- Free at last
- Freedom denied
- An open secret
- The Daley show
- Broadening the struggle against police torture
- The tale of two reports
- Beyond all reasonable doubt
- The art of the no deal
- Hearings, hearings, and more hearings
- The feds come marching in
- The worm turns
- Exonerations
- Burge in the dock
- A modicum of justice
- Delay the defendant
- On what planet...
- Reparations now!
- Never before in America
- Coming full circle
- Wilson walks
- Epilogue.
