15 Black Men Arrested By a Corrupt Cop Are Cleared of All Convictions
The police officer tried to extort each of the men for money/ (CHICAGO) — One by one, the men told the same story: A Chicago police officer would demand money from them. And if they didn’t pay, they would find themselves in handcuffs with drugs stuffed in their pockets. A Cook County judge on Thursday threw out the felony drug convictions of 15 black men who all say they were locked up for no other reason except that they refused to pay Ronald Watts. It was the largest mass exoneration in memory in Chicago. And even in a city where it has ...
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