{"id":16781,"date":"2015-04-15T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16781"},"modified":"2015-04-15T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:21:03","slug":"wapo-cop-accused-of-brutally-torturing-black-suspects-costs-chicago-5-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16781","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Cop accused of brutally torturing black suspects costs Chicago $5.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/04\/15\/closing-the-book-on-jon-burge-chicago-cop-accused-of-brutally-torturing-african-american-suspects\/?tid=hpModule_9d3add6c-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&#038;hpid=z16\">Cop accused of brutally torturing black suspects costs Chicago $5.5 million<\/a> by Michael E. Miller:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever Chicago Police commander Jon Burge needed a confession, he would walk into the interrogation room and set down a little black box, his alleged victims would later tell prosecutors. The box had two wires and a crank. Burge, they alleged, would attach one wire to the suspect&#8217;s handcuffed ankles and the other to his manacled hands. Then, they said, Burge would place a plastic bag over the suspect&#8217;s head. Finally, he would crank his little black box and listen to the screams of pain as electricity coursed through the suspect&#8217;s body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Cop accused of brutally torturing black suspects costs Chicago $5.5 million by Michael E. Miller: Whenever Chicago Police commander Jon Burge needed a confession, he would walk into the interrogation room and set down a little black box, his &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16782,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}