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The story of Michael Tillman makes you cheer and shudder. After being tortured into a confession for a rape he didn’t commit, he is a free man. But the question is how many other men are in prison right now for crimes they didn’t commit. Police in Chicago and other major cities are notorious for torturing black men into false confessions and sending them away for life. Maybe it’s time to revisit the last 30 years and start making things right on a massive scale. This can be done in Washington, but we have to go ask for it.
KultureKritic.com tells the story:
Michael Tillman spent more than 20 years in prison after he was accused of the rape and murder of a South Side Chicago woman in 1986. Tillman confessed to the crime, but only after he was tortured by police detectives. Officers allegedly hit Tillman with their fists with a phone book, threatened to kill him and even held a plastic bag over his head. Tillman recanted the confession just days later.
Tillman was still convicted of the murder even though police discovered another man with the woman’s car and the murder weapon, and whose DNA was found on a soda can near her body, according to city Corporation Counsel Steve Patton.
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jayson
July 25, 2012 at 4:51 pm
I’m not sure I agree with unleashing more potential murderers on the streets of urban america to destroy women and children. The rascist faction of white america love to see negroes beg for their worse people to be unleased to victimize and make more criminals. You have to be careful what u ask for.
There might be more innocent white men in prison than black ones.
jayson
July 25, 2012 at 4:51 pm
I’m not sure I agree with unleashing more potential murderers on the streets of urban america to destroy women and children. The rascist faction of white america love to see negroes beg for their worse people to be unleased to victimize and make more criminals. You have to be careful what u ask for.
There might be more innocent white men in prison than black ones.
ALICIA RAE
July 25, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Hope those dirty b#$%^&*@ rot right here on earth!
Derrick
July 25, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Another Black man that was ‘hung’ at the new plantation called prison!
These stories are non stop on this site, but are news worthy because this shows how racist and ILLEGAL this system is toward Black men. Our lives mean nothing to these creatures, and they are the scum of Black Mother Earth!
I keep telling y’all this is not a war on drugs, but a ‘war on Black men, women and children’. We are being attacked just like we were attacked, during our forced enslavement!
The Black woman is still being treated like a ‘low-life’ slave, but she is still running to be with the ‘white knight’ and live in his house. I call them ‘new age slaves’.
Just think of the other 80% of Black men, who are behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE TO WAKE Y’ALL UP?