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Just when it seemed like the CPD was getting its act together (atcha, J-Fed!), a local man who was acquitted of murder is now suing the police, alleging that they tried to beat a confession out him, while also soliciting his wife for sex.
Robinson was arrested in September 2004 on a domestic battery charge, and over the course of three days he was allegedly beaten by detective Jack Boock in an attempt to force him to confess to killing three-year-old Diamonte Williams. "They handcuffed me to a wall and beat me with a TV antenna," Robinson told the Tribune. "Kicked me, stomped me, spit on me. Did that for like three days, from Sunday to Tuesday. I was thinking, why would they do this?" he said. "It's not like I'm a troublemaker, I've got no criminal record. Why pick on me?" (Read the comments on this article for an extra special treat!)
The lawsuit also claims that while Robinson was being held in Cook County jail awaiting trial, a second detective, Vincent Humphrey, was soliciting his wife for sex. Phone records show that Humphrey, who claimed that he heard Robinson confess to the murder, called Mrs. Robinson 17 times, sometimes in the middle of the night. "After he met her, he decided that he was going to continue to call her and to pursue her and to have a sexual relationship with her," said Andre Grant, Robinson's attorney, told ABC7. According to Grant, Humphrey asked her what her bra and pantie sizes are, offered her an apartment in his building, a job in a restaurant, and requested oral sex.
Robinson was acquitted of the murder last October in Cook County court, and Judge Vincent Gaughan ruled that Humprey was "hitting on Mrs. Robinson at the time that he's the one saying that her husband made an oral confession." In spite of the judge's ruling, and a complaint filed with the police department three years ago, Humphrey has yet to be disciplined. "There are many officers who have been relieved of powers that the media and the public doesn't even know about... [s]ince Superintendent Weis has taken the helm," Monique Bond, police spokeswoman told ABC7.
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is this a real-life scene from 'crash?'
It doesn't sound overwrought and cliched enough to be from "Crash"
There is a difference between this story and the on in "Crash." Specifically, in "Crash," the offending police officer was white.
In the case of today's CPD story, the offending police officer is African-American.
I would also point out that "Crash" was fiction. In typical Hollywood form, whites were bad.
Ward...that may be true but it doesn't change the fact that Crash is a steaming pile of shit passing itself off as an Oscar winner
Mike Thoms:
What are you TALKING about?! We are all INTER-CONNECTED! We get TESTED in various ways! The "good guys" aren't ALWAYS what we seem.
If there was ever a deserving lesson flick, it was Crash.
Oh yeah I loved Crash...I loved how manipulative it was. It was all the great lessons of an after school special only with more profanity and bigger celebrities.
Also, "Crash" was not even close to being as good as "Brokeback Mountain," the film it beat for Best Picture.
Mike:
Again, a movie with a "GAY" theme will NEVER win best picture. Crash was about WHO WE ALL ARE. Not just being gay. Obvs.
Spav...i thought you were being sarcastic...tell me you're being sarcastic, please.
By the way, maybe I should say that I was NOT being sarcastic.
I am TOTES being sarcastic!
Quoth Robinson:
"Kicked me, stomped me, spit on me. Did that for like three days, from Sunday to Tuesday. I was thinking, why would they do this?" he said. "It's not like I'm a troublemaker, I've got no criminal record. Why pick on me?"
If he's telling the truth, that's easy. Because the cops were sociopaths. Honestly solving crimes is hard. Framing innocent people is much easier, and getting a more or less free pass on those nasty, narrowminded laws that keep some of us from indulging their sadistic urges? Pure joy.
If one is a sadistic sociopath, that is. For the rest of us, it can kind of suck.
Kevin Robinson (any relation, I wonder) writes:
"Read the comments on this article for an extra special treat!"
They were, but not as bad as I expected. A few idiots arguing that the fact that he was acquitted was beside the point, a genuine brownshirt or two making his appearance, but this time the idiots met resistence.
Usually, they really don't.
I feel like the voice of the Sheriff in the movie “No County for Old Men”.
Like this "stuff" is just a bit over my head, and I can’t quiet grasp it.
I wanna understand why, like I wanna make some sense of it. But it just don’t. Especially after looking at the picture of the dude’s Mom in today’s paper and him in a suit.
She must have gone out of her mind as much as she was able to hold it together for her son, while he, a good kid, was locked up for a murder he didn’t commit, and she with little resources being his only hope.
Mean while this cop is not feeling guilty, but is coercing this dude’s girl friend for sex.
I just don’t understand.
p.s.
The book "No Country for Old Men) was better than the movie and both were
better than this.
In typical Hollywood form, whites were bad.
Too true Ward,
It truly is a black man's world. Hopefully that'll change some day.
LAMO Navin
You just launched the first White Reparations Movement. Do you think they will want their own States and proportional representation, Congress and Universities ? Next thing they will discover the glass ceiling!
to quote D. Tilman "Iwants my forty acres and a lexus"
Well, much as I hate to say it, compared to the FBI, I guess Chicago cops aren't so bad after all...