The Shrine

"The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'"

"The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights. Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:

• Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
  Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
  Shackling for prolonged periods.
  Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
  Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.
  At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.

Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the “Nato Three”, was held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid. Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to be booked and charged. "Homan Square is definitely an unusual place,” Church told the Guardian on Friday. “It brings to mind the interrogation facilities they use in the Middle East. The CIA calls them black sites. It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you.”"

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... black-site

I'd heard about this. It sounds pretty fucked up and I think there needs to be a federal investigation. Definitely won't happen as long as Obama's in the White House and his former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is running the place.

Suffice it to say that I've been worried about this ever since Rahm took over there. Thanks for taking a look.