The Advocate

January 1, 2002

A Chicago police sergeant last August threatened a 20-year old University of Chicago employee at gunpoint, rammed his head into a police car, choked and continued to beat him after he was placed in handcuffs, according to recently filed federal civil rights lawsuit....

December 20, 2001

Two attorneys were manhandled by Chicago police officers and supervisors as part of a systematic department practice of blocking detainees from seeing attorneys, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday charged....