Emanuel speaks out about city attorney who quit after judge’s rebuke

Decades after they were tortured by Chicago police, 57 people have now received reparations totaling $5.5 million from the city of Chicago.

The money was paid Monday to victims of a police unit commanded by disgraced former police commander Jon Burge from the 1970s through the early 1990s, the Chicago Sun-Times reported (http://bit.ly/1INETKY ). Over the decades, Burge tortured more than 100 Black men, even coercing murder confessions out of them and sending them to prison and to IL death row, which has since been shut down amid the scandal and a death penalty moratorium that followed.

A top attorney for the City of Chicago has resigned after a federal judge said he hid evidence in a deadly police shooting case. But U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang ruled on Monday that the trial was “unfair” because attorney Jordan Marsh covered up evidence that contradicted the cops’ accounts of the shooting.

“Me and my family wants to move on”, Darius Pinex’s mother, Gloria Pinex, told affiliate WLS.

“Attorneys who might be tempted to bury late-surfacing information need to know that, if discovered, any verdict they win will be forfeit and their clients will pay the price”, the judge wrote.

The city law department announced Marsh’s resignation later Monday, saying it “does not tolerate any action that would call into question the integrity of the lawyers who serve” Chicago.

But Chang also had criticism for the department as a whole in his ruling, including about its record keeping. It also said it was reviewing its training and evidence-gathering procedures.

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Now, new evidence brought to light during a trial relating to the death of another black man killed by police implicates not just a single officer, but the city’s entire justice department. During the funeral at a West Side church, Jones’ family and friends said she died carrying out the commandments to be a good neighbor. The lawsuit asserts LeGrier never had a weapon and did nothing to suggest he was a threat before police opened fire.

Under Tracy’s leadership, the department also analyzed three years of violent crime statistics to create 20 “impact zones” – deemed the statistically most unsafe areas of the city – where hundreds of officers were deployed each day to prevent violence.

Lawyers for the torture victims, Flint Taylor and Joey Mogul, said Chicago’s “holistic model” approach should be a model for other cities, but that the significant dollar amounts for settlements have not ended the “long reign of police abuse”.

The probe came after a 2014 police video was released in November showing a Chicago police officer shooting a teenager armed with a knife 16 times, including nine times in the back, and following a drove of complaints lodged by city residents, particularly those in the black community. The head of a city watchdog that investigates Chicago police shootings pledged greater tr…