Comments on: Trial begins for cops accused of beating gay man

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:17:07 +0000

It has been said that we (gays)are missing a spokes person to tell their story my thought is because usually they are killed not just beaten sounds like we just found a good spokesperson to show what society does to us since our fight isnt the same as the civil rights movement of blacks because we arent being killed,beaten,starved etc.

By: TANK

TANK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:13:40 +0000

Chicago’s got its own brute squad and has for decades. It’s basically a state sanctioned gang…and yadda yadda, good cops, blah blah blah.

The only way that this is gonna change is by the city losing serious money and these piggies going to the rape rooms. That’s not too likely, though. Especially if the victim’s been convicted of a misdemeanor and is an HIV positive gay man. They’ll just lie there way out of it, and it’ll come down to a he said they said.

You don’t hunt with blow dryer, and you don’t get justice from the system rigged to deny it to you.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:03:16 +0000

if anyone wants proof of how far we’ve come to equality, this is it…

By: Bob Schwartz

Bob Schwartz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:32:41 +0000

A top Chicago cop commander, Jon Burge, tortured scores of African American men during the 1980s and early 90s when Richard M. Daley was States Attorney. Burge is finally being brought to justice on Federal charges, no thanks to the Daley Administration which continues to fight release of information on brutal cops. Daley continues to deploy cops to interfere with political protest with which he disagrees.

Naturally, there is a memorial to cops killed while on duty. Where is the memorial to the hundreds of people killed by cops– workers, immigrants, Latinos and Blacks as well as gays?

By: cathy knight

cathy knight — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:16 +0000

This has been going on for too long in this town. Gay men and especially young gay men have been the targets of homophobic cops with power and guns. It’s time this criminal underbelly of ‘to serve and protect’ was revealed.

By: TheRadicalRealist

TheRadicalRealist — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:54:56 +0000

Filthy pigs.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:49:40 +0000

From personal experience – Chicago cops are SCUM – plain and simple!

By: Peter-Nicholas

Peter-Nicholas — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:45:41 +0000

For those of us who are old enough to
remember (I demonstrated against the
Vietnam war in 1968 while my then
unknown life partner of 31 years was
fighting there) the Chicago police
have a long history of abuse to people
whom they don’t agree with, i.e. blacks, jews, hispanics, gays etc. One would think by now that they should have had re-training into the 21st century. Guess not?