i see why the chanches are so slim for ryan getting a pardon.pardoning all thoe innocent black men, george bush never gave any pardons when he was govenor of texas, what a shame! a known criminal get to render a decision on the moral/criminal determination to warrant a pardon!
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Burge's lawyer, Richard Beuke, told reporters that the former police commander deserved the standard of "a reasonable doubt" in the case.
Burge was charged with lying in his answer to a questionnaire about abuse. His written reply includes the statement: "I have not observed nor do I have knowledge of any other examples of physical abuse and/or torture on the part of Chicago police officers."
Mayor Richard M. Daley, who was the Cook County state's attorney at the time of Burge's reign as police commander, sloughed off questions that he bore any responsibility for failing to uncover the alleged torture. "I wasn't the mayor," he told reporters. "I wasn't the police chief."
Cannon has a pending civil suit against the city of Chicago, charging that his civil rights were violated.
A soft-spoken man in a brown suit and tie, Cannon appeared last Saturday at meeting of Operation Push, the organization founded by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. People stood in line to shake his hand, hug him and tell their own stories, some with tears in their eyes.
Cannon was 33 and living with his girlfriend in a South Side apartment on the day in 1983 when he says detectives pounded on the door. He says one of them told him, "We have a scientific way of interrogating niggers."
He said detectives took him to a remote section of the South Side, while a second car driven by detectives was parked in a way to block any view by onlookers.
He said one detective put a gun in his mouth while another detective shouted, "Blow that [black man's] head off!" Cannon said he trembled as the detective pulled the trigger. He heard a click. "But the way the mind works, I thought my brains were being blown out the back of my head," he said.
During an interview with NEWSWEEK, Cannon said he still suffers nightmares remembering the torture. He said he still harbors "hatred for the detectives who tortured me and the judges who covered it up."
His lawyer asked Cannon if he wanted to reconsider using the word "hatred" in his comments with NEWSWEEK.
"No," said Cannon quietly, as he shook his head. "I do feel hatred. I hate the very air that they breathe."
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