Flint Taylor, "Racist and Systemic Police Violence, Chicago Style," UMass Feinberg Series, Oct 2016

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"Racist and Systemic Police Violence, Chicago Style." Lecture by longtime civil rights attorney Flint Taylor of the People's Law Offices on police torture and violence in Chicago, including the 1969 assassination of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, the torture of African American suspects by police commander Jon Burge, and the recent videotaped police murder of Laquan McDonald. University of Massachusetts Amherst History Department 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. October, 2016. Image credit: "Freedom" by Ronnie Goodman, www.ronniegoodman.com