CBS Chicago reports that four people are now in custody following a recent Facebook livestream that appears to show an unidentified young man tied up, gagged and tortured as his assailants shout f*ck Donald Trump.
The video shows a young man tied up and gagged in the corner of a room, cowering as two men threaten him with a knife while shouting, f*ck white people, f*ck Donald Trump. The video also shows the victim being hit and cut repeatedly all while his mouth is taped shut and hands and legs bound. Chicago PD are reporting that the man has special needs and had previously been reported missing from a suburb.
A woman who is apparently recording the video laughs and says, let me see before aiming her camera at the man and inspecting a large, open wound on his head which appears to show bone beneath.
Chicago police were made aware of the video on Tuesday afternoon and told Fox32 that four arrests have been made relating to it but did not reveal the identities of the assailants or the victim in the video. The situation is reportedly still under investigation.
Chicago PD held a press conference Wednesday night where Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said, Its sickening, it makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that. Ive been a cop for 28 years, and Ive seen things that you shouldnt see in a lifetime, but it still amazes me how you still see things that you just shouldnt. Johnson continued, Im not going to say it shocked me, but it was sickening.
Some alert 11th District officers encountered an individual that didnt seem right. They saw that this individual was in distress; he was in crisis, Lt. Stephen Sesso said. And they cared enough to do something about it. This individual was taken to the hospital, and an investigation conducted. At the same time, there were some individuals from another incident taken into custody at roughly the same address. The officers working together hand in hand were able to put together that the individual they encountered in distress was missing from one of our suburbs, and considered an endangered missing.
Chicago Police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin provided some background on the victims relationship to his assailants, He is an acquaintance of one of these subjects, apparently, they met out in the suburbs. These subjects then stole a van out in the suburbs and then brought him into Chicago. According to the police Two men and two women have been arrested in relation to the incident and the victim has since been released from hospital, he is with his parents.
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Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said, Its sickening, it makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that".
Yeah, it really does make you wonder.
Using digital audio recording devices carried by the officers, surveillance video from a pole camera at the Fullerton Transportation Center, and other evidence, Rackauckas provided evidence that Thomas did comply with orders from Ramos, who had put on latex gloves and asked Thomas "Now see my fists? They are getting ready to fuck you up."
Rackauckas went on to describe how Thomas begged for his life, before being struck repeatedly by the officers. He was admitted to the hospital, slipped into a coma, and died five days later.
Officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cincinelli, two of the six officers who participated in the beating, were acquitted of second-degree murder on January 13, 2014. Ramos, who was subsequently fired by the department and no longer clothed in qualified immunity, was arrested on a domestic violence charge.