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Chicago Police Department Pays $5 Million In Reparations Because of Torture Lawsuits

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Last week, the Chicago City Council announced it will pay over $5 million in reparations to scores of African-American men tortured with electrocutions, beatings, and other brutal acts by the Chicago Police Department in the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of those men were the victims of Jon Burge, a disgraced former Chicago police commander who was spared from being convicted of human rights crimes by statutes of limitations and a friendly prosecutor’s office that rarely found wrongdoing by cops.

Burge and his officers solicited confessions from at least ten men who were sent to death row based on their words of admission. Eventually, Former Illinois Governor George Ryan pardoned some of them, or handed down reduced sentences based on the revelations that their confessions may have come as a result of torture. Similarly harsh methods of eliciting confessions and cooperation may still be in use. As theGuardian reported Thursday, a man named Angel Perez claims two Chicago police officers sexually assaulted him with an unknown object inside Homan Square, a so-called “black site” where off-the-books interrogations allegedly take place. . . .

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Boston Bomber Was Sentenced To Death

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Just after 3:30 PM on Friday, 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death.On April 8, the 12-member federal grand jury found him guilty of all 30 counts he was charged with in relation to the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Of those counts, 17 carried the death penalty. After about 14 and a half hours of deliberation, the jury decided Tsarnaev deserved to die for six of the charges.

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The Clintons Earned $25 Million In Speaking Fees Since Last January

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Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton earned in excess of $25 million for delivering more than 100 speeches since the beginning of 2014, a huge infusion to their net worth as she was readying for a presidential bid.

The Clintons revealed their recent income as paid speakers and other aspects of their personal finances in disclosure forms filed Friday. The details in the documents were confirmed by a senior Clinton campaign official.

Hillary Clinton also earned $5 million in royalties for her book, “Hard Choices,” which was released in June.

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Amtrak Train Was Going 106 mph On A 50 mph Track

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The Amtrak train that derailed here Tuesday night was traveling 106 mph, more than twice the authorized speed, as it approached a sharp bend in the tracks, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

The engineer applied the emergency brakes, but the action was too late. The train was still moving at 102 mph when it hit the curve about three seconds later and the engine and all seven cars derailed.

“It takes a long time to decelerate a train,” NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said. “You’re supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles per hour.”

The derailment of the Washington-to-New York train killed seven people, ­injured more than 200 and disrupted ser­vice in the busiest passenger rail corridor in the country.

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ISIS No. 2 Leader Killed In U.S. Airstrike

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The Iraqi military said Wednesday that ISIS’ No. 2 leader has been killed in a coalition airstrike — a claim that the Pentagon said it does not corroborate.

The airstrike struck a mosque in northern Iraq’s Tal Afar city, killing ISIS deputy Abu Alaa al-Afri and a senior ISIS security figure named Akram Qirbash, also known as the “Judge of Judges,” the Iraqi Defense Ministry said.

The Defense Ministry did not say when the men were killed. A senior Iraqi security official who did not want to be named discussing sensitive intelligence told CNN the strike happened Tuesday.

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George Zimmerman Involved In Another Shooting

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George Zimmerman was involved in a shooting with another man, and Zimmerman’s lawyer tells TMZ … his client and the other guy may not be strangers.

The shooting went down Monday afternoon on a road in Lake Mary, FL … where Zimmerman lives. Police tell us they got a call for a road rage incident. News footage from the scene shows a bullet hole in the front passenger side window of Zimmerman’s truck.

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