jerome finnigan – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Wed, 27 May 2015 18:01:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 White Chicago Cops Dressed a Black Suspect in Antlers & Posed For Photo https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-chicago-cops-dressed-a-black-suspect-in-antlers-posed-for-photo/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-chicago-cops-dressed-a-black-suspect-in-antlers-posed-for-photo/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 18:01:22 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=1813 A photo has surfaced of  two white cops — Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan of  the Chicago Police Department posing with rifles over a Black man wearing antlers. The department has fought to bar the public from seeing the image ever since, claiming it wants to protect the unidentified Melanoid man’s privacy. But a federal judge has finally ordered the photograph released—and it’s a startling indictment of a police force already under fire for its systemic white supremacist actions and brutality.

Believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003, the Polaroid photo was given to the city by the feds in 2013 and resulted in McDermott, a clout-heavy cop, being fired last year by the police board in a 5-to-4 vote. The four dissenters said McDermott should only have been suspended. But a majority of the board wrote that “appearing to treat an African-American man not as a human being but as a hunted animal is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.”

Finnigan is a notoriously dirty ex-cop who was a member of the police department’s elite Special Operations Section (SOS) until 2006, when he was charged with leading a gang of fellow officers who robbed suspects, illegally invaded homes and stole thousands of dollars in cash. He’s now serving 12 years in federal prison.

 

This newly surfaced photo is further proof that we are in a new system of American Nazism and Melanoid people are being systematically targeted for genocide.

 

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