1000s of blacks held in Chicago police warehouse: Report
Newly uncovered records show that US police have detained and interrogated thousands of Americans, mostly black citizens inside a warehouse in Chicago since 2004.
Documents obtained by the Guardian show that at least 3,500 Americans were held at the secretive facility.
Records indicate that only three detainees at Homan Square facility received documented visits from an attorney.
The detainees were eventually charged, mostly with drug possession but also for minor offenses such as traffic violations.
The Chicago police made detailed information available after the Guardian sued them.
Prominent civil rights lawyers who reviewed the data condemned Chicago police and politicians for having long denied the existence of the facility.
“I am extremely troubled but sadly not shocked at the exceedingly broad scope and fundamentally racist nature of the unconstitutional police conduct at Homan Square that the Guardian’s most recent study documents,” said Flint Taylor.
“Hopefully, Chicago’s political leadership and its establishment media will finally take notice and stop collaborating to bury this story, so righteously championed by the Guardian, under the rug of denial and false ignorance,” Taylor added.
The United States has suffered from an epidemic of racial discrimination throughout its history, which some experts say has increased after the election of President Barack Obama.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the racial ratio of the victims of the death penalty in the US has been striking since the revival of the practice in 1976, with the penalty being disproportionately imposed on ethnic minorities.
Statistics released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice show that 11 of the 16 executed prisoners in the state of Texas, which is responsible for nearly 40 percent of all executions in the US since 1976, were African American or Hispanic in 2013.
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