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Man claiming he was tortured into confessing to the murder of 2 Chicago cops files lawsuit
A man who spent decades in prison for a murder he didn t commit is suing.
CHICAGO - Jackie Wilson was behind bars for 26 years. He says he was tortured into confessing to a crime he did not commit.
On Wednesday, his attorneys used a generator and wires to somewhat demonstrate the alleged torture.
Wilson and his brother were twice convicted of murdering two Chicago police officers in 1982.
Jackie was exonerated last year after prosecutors dismissed the case. His brother Andrew died in Jail in 2007.
Former Mayor Richard M. Daley, former Police Superintendent Jon Burge and several cook county prosecutors, past and present, are now named in Wilson’s federal lawsuit.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Chicago Police Department relied on “extensive” undercover and covert surveillance operations during the multiyear probe targeting those distributing or attempting to distribute heroin and cocaine across Chicago, authorities said Thursday.
Chicago A joint federal and local drug trafficking investigation has resulted in federal charges against 17 individuals for distributing or attempting to distribute heroin and cocaine in Chicago.
During the multi-year probe, dubbed Operation Tragic Blow, law enforcement seized multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine, including a 14-kilogram cocaine seizure in Chicago s Belmont Cragin neighborhood and a two-kilogram heroin seizure in a high-rise apartment building in Chicago s Buena Park neighborhood. The joint federal and local investigation, led by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and the Chicago Police Department, utilized extensive undercover and covert surveillance operations to shut down the defendants drug trafficking activities.
Chicago Priest to Be Reinstated After Inquiry Finds Proof of Sex Abuse Lacking
There is “insufficient reason to suspect” that the Rev. Michael Pfleger is guilty, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger delivering a sermon in 2016 at St. Sabina in Chicago. He is being reinstated to the parish next month.Credit.Whitney Curtis for The New York Times
May 24, 2021
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, an influential Roman Catholic priest who temporarily stepped aside from his parish on the South Side of Chicago in January after he was accused of sexually abusing a minor more than 40 years ago, will be reinstated after an internal investigation found “insufficient reason to suspect” he was guilty, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Monday.