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February 19, 2015

Report: Police Detective Committed Abuses from Chicago to Guantánamo Bay 
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A former Guantánamo Bay interrogator involved in torture was also a
longtime Chicago police officer known for abusing people of color.
According to The Guardian, Richard Zuley spent three decades as a
notoriously brutal detective on the Chicago police force. From 1977 to
2007, Zuley used tactics including torture, threats and abuse to elicit
confessions from suspects, the majority of whom were not white. One of
those confessions was later ruled to be false, and the sentence was
vacated. Zuley's methods included shackling suspects to walls through
eyebolts for several hours, allegedly planting evidence, and issuing
threats of harm to family members and sentences of the death penalty
unless a suspect confessed. Zuley was also accused of brutal methods at
Guantánamo Bay, where he was a reserve officer in charge of
interrogating a prisoner who said he made a false confession due to
torture.

 

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