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The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Written by Flint Taylor
Narrated by Arthur Morey
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Learn more about the landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department and the city's corrupt political machine.
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Flint Taylor
Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago. For more than thirty years, he has represented numerous survivors of Chicago police torture in criminal and civil cases, as well as in seeking reparations. He was also co-counsel in the civil-rights case brought by the victims of the KKK and Nazi terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1979. He is still actively fighting against, and writing about, systemic police violence and racial injustice as a senior partner at the PLO.
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