Inside Chicago's Legacy Of Police Abuse: Violence 'As Routine As Traffic Lights'

Inside Chicago's Legacy Of Police Abuse: Violence 'As Routine As Traffic Lights'
Dr. Nenehemiah Russell, left, from the adhoc committee to end police brutality, and a demonstrator holding a cell phone, protest during a Chicago City Council meeting, Thursday, June 17, 1999, held on two recent police shootings of unarmed people Thursday. One of those killed, LaTanya Haggerty, was allegedly shot as she reached for her cell phone. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)
Dr. Nenehemiah Russell, left, from the adhoc committee to end police brutality, and a demonstrator holding a cell phone, protest during a Chicago City Council meeting, Thursday, June 17, 1999, held on two recent police shootings of unarmed people Thursday. One of those killed, LaTanya Haggerty, was allegedly shot as she reached for her cell phone. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

He would go on to investigate torture for a distinguished religious group, become an anti-apartheid campaigner and even an adviser to his city’s mayor. But before all that, in the early 1960s, Prexy Nesbitt was just another young black man thrown over the hood of his car by one of Chicago’s notoriously brutal police.

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