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By Sarah Mansur & Capitol News Illinois • Mar 3, 2021 Robert Smith, a torture victim at the hands of the Chicago Police Department, is pictured here on the night he was released from prison on Oct. 23, 2020. Smith, who was imprisoned for 33 years, filed a civil lawsuit this week against the city and former CPD officers for more than $66 million in damages. Credit Photos Provided One of the men who was tortured into giving a false confession by officers working under late Ch...

Dec 10, 2020 WorldComments Off on Professors Abducted, Released in Insurgency-Plagued Region of Pakistan QUETTA — Shabbir Shahwani was one of three professors kidnapped on Nov. 29 while traveling from their university in Balochistan. After being pulled from their car and taken to a remote area, Shahwani struggled with one question: Should he remove his blindfold or not? “The decision would either grant me freedom or a bullet in my head,” he said. Ultimately, the three found freedom after ...

Professors Abducted, Released in Insurgency-Plagued Region of Pakistan Professors Abducted, Released in Insurgency-Plagued Region of Pakistan Comments Off on Professors Abducted, Released in Insurgency-Plagued Region of Pakistan QUETTA — Shabbir Shahwani was one of three professors kidnapped on Nov. 29 while traveling from their university in Balochistan. After being pulled from their car and taken to a remote area, Shahwani struggled with one question: Should he remove his blindfold or not? ...

Clear as walter rivera rides his motorcycle down the same street only a few hundred feet away. >> theres a hill, and going over the top of the hill is kind of a blind spot. i didnt see her until the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. >> sparks fly as the helmetless rivera drops his bike to the ground and slides into the back wheel of the car. the motorcycle goes up in flames as the car pulls over. rivera lays unconscious and on fire next to the burning wreckage. >> so i was laying the...

Away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. >> solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out riveras burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. >> john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. i handed hip the fire extinguisher. >> i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled the pin and started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i seen that the fire was out on him, i dont know what made me go over t...

Crowd of people outside. you can understand, people were scared it was going to explode. >> a car approaches the flaming motorcycle and then turns away. but john solecki hears the accident from inside his office and races out to help. he and another man pull rivera away from the burning motorcycle. >> flames were really intense. when we pulled him out and got him to the middle of the street away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. >> solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out riveras burn...

A security camera captures the driver waiting for traffic to clear as walter rivera rides his motorcycle down the same street only a few hundred feet away. >> theres a hill, and going over the top of the hill is kind of a blind spot. i didnt see her until the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. >> sparks fly as the helmetless rivera drops his bike to the ground and slides into the back wheel of the car. the motorcycle goes up in flames as the car pulls over. rivera lays unconscious and...

Away from the burning motorcycle. >> flames were really intense. when we pulled him out and got him to the middle of the street away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. >> solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out riveras burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. >> john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. i handed hip the fire extinguisher. >> i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled th...

When we pulled him out and got him to the middle of the street away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. >> solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out riveras burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. >> john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. i handed hip the fire extinguisher. >> i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled the pin and started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i seen t...

A security camera captures the driver waiting for traffic to clear as walter rivera rides his motorcycle down the same street only a few hundred feet away. >> theres a hill, and going over the top of the hill is kind of a blind spot. i didnt see her until the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. >> sparks fly as the helmetless rivera drops his bike to the ground and slides into the back wheel of the car. the motorcycle goes up in flames as the car pulls over. rivera lays unconscious and...