“I call for his [Rahm Emanuel’s] election team to put away politics by announcing… that he will probe an independent investigation into these claims,” Clements said.
Clements argued Emanuel should create an independent board to examine all citizen claims of misconduct by CPD officers, as well as collect data from the citizens’ claims and make them available to the Chicago City Council.
“I call for all known victims of this abuse to be afforded with psychological treatment and through city of Chicago attorneys cease any and all delays that will stall settlements and judgments for these victims,” he stated.
Clements suggested any police officer with more than two abuse claims should be removed from the streets pending an investigation by the independent citizen board.
Clements noted the CPD practices are all too familiar to his experience growing up in Chicago.
“I could only relive the harsh nightmare that occurred to me as a 16 year old child chained to a wall having my genitals grabbed and squeezed,” he said, adding the police denied access to his parents throughout the ordeal.
Clements said he spent 28 years in prison across the US state of Illinois for a crime he never committed. He explained that he is a torture survivor from the days of former CPD detective and commander Jon Burge, who tortured more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 to force confessions.
Burge is currently behind bars for two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury.
