{"id":119,"date":"2017-10-26T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2017-10-28T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T04:22:06","slug":"rally-for-reparations-for-police-torture-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/rally-for-reparations-for-police-torture-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally for Reparations for Police Torture Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published 2\/21\/15<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/a046951e-c46a-46ce-a150-f1a7a20f2d53.jpg\" alt=\"Darryl Canon, Chicago Police torture survivor\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"247\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Darryl Canon<\/strong>, survivor of torture by Chicago Police, leads the call for passage of the&nbsp;<strong>Chicago Reparations Ordinance<\/strong>, which would provide counseling,&nbsp;educational support and other aid for victims of torture by Chicago police such as former Cmdr. Jon Burge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/5c653d82-2d7f-4842-b384-0ba1a0e1fe86.jpg\" alt=\"Singing for reparations\" width=\"242\" align=\"none\" height=\"180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/90c7ef78-bf35-4e7d-9494-fea2916ccf09.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Mogul, Peoples Law Office\" width=\"190\" align=\"none\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Joey Mogul<\/strong>&nbsp;(right), a partner the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/peopleslawoffice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peoples Law Office<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;(PLO), speaks in favor of the ordinance. PLO has led the fight to expose the tortures by Jon Burge and his colleagues, and has successfully represented many torture victims.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/543bc35a-7ba5-4f54-a399-93af391c1246.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd votes for reparations\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"157\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Crowd of several hundred rises to its feet in support of the&nbsp;<strong>Chicago Reparations Ordinance<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/85544bf5-ed40-49ff-bbb6-002b2b9ab6bb.jpg\" alt=\"Names of the 110+ CPD torture survivors\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"247\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Naming names: at the end of the rally, many participants lined up to hold banners representing the 110+ African American men who were tortured by ex-Cmdr Jon Burge and his colleagues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You can help by signing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/pass-the-ordinance-seeking-reparations-for-the-chicago-police-torture-survivors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a petition<\/a>&nbsp;in favor of the Ordinance. You can also learn more about the ordinance&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotorture.org\/articles\/ordinance-seeks-reparations-chicago-police-torture-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published 2\/21\/15 Darryl Canon, survivor of torture by Chicago Police, leads the call for passage of the&nbsp;Chicago Reparations Ordinance, which would provide counseling,&nbsp;educational support and other aid for victims <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/rally-for-reparations-for-police-torture-survivors\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,27],"tags":[44,22,29,14,31],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police","category-racism","category-rahm-emanuel","tag-chicago-police-department","tag-mayor-rahm-emanuel","tag-police-brutality","tag-racism","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}