canon eventually served 24 years in prison after a murder confession he said was the result of torture by the chicago police. canon wasn t alone. between 1982 and 1993 commander john burj allegedly tortured more than 100 suspects nearly all african-american. on valentine s day 1982 another suspect, a black man named andrew wilson confessed to killing two police officers after he was allegedly beaten suffocated with a plastic bag, burned with a cigarette and a radiator and received electric shocks. yesterday, these victims received some form of justice. in a rare public acknowledgment of police abuse, the chicago city council passed a $5.5 million reparations package for dozens of torture victims under commander burj s watch. the reparations including free tuition, kouns ling and job training for those abused and their families.
journalism and fierce activism in order to expose the truth. and to get to the bottom of what happened at area 2 and 3 police headquarters under john burj s command. and now that we know the truth, what we ve seen and what we understand is that the torture of the survivors themselves have gone on far too long without getting any justice and without getting any redress. so with respect to just this reparations package that was passed yesterday, we originally filed the ordinance in october of 2013 and the last six months, we ve mounted a truly inspirational grassroots campaign to get it presented to the city council and finally to get it passed yesterday. there s still i think some 19 people who remain in jail and who have confessions that may have been coerced through torture. can you tell us what the sta tuts is with them? sure. so this torture was committed to extract these confessions and
reparations package after decades of alleged torture at the hands of its police force. on november 2nd 1983 at about 6:30 a.m. a group of white detectives kicked in the door of chicago resident darrell canon, a black man. arrested for the murder of another man, darren ross. over the course of the day, police allegedly tried to hang canon by his handcuffs and place an unloaded shotgun in his mouth, pulling the trigger in mock execution. it seemed like the hay on the back of my head. straight up. here s what happened next. torture treatment, use the cow prod to my testicles and my mouth and they continued to do this until i couldn t stand anymore and i agreed to do whatever they wanted me to say.