On July 11th Cook County State Attorney Dick Devine is slated to receive the "Abraham Lincoln Award" at the annual "Lincoln Awards Banquet" of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. For a mere $150 a ticket or up $5000 for a table of ten, you can witness Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln compared to a man who has refused to prosecute a single Chicago police officer for brutality since he was elected in 1996.

You can watch the well-heeled fawn over a man who aided one of the most notorious police brutality campaigns in Chicago history. From 1980 to 1983, Devine was the #2 man to then-States Atty Richard M. Daley, when 27 African American men were tortured with the use of electric shock, suffocation and Russian Roulette at Area 2 Police Headquarters to extract "confessions" from them. As State's Attorneys, Devine and Daley approved the use of these "confessions" against these black men to get convictions. As a result of the torture and "confessions," 13 were sentenced to death and dozens more received very long prison sentences.

To protest these outrages, please join a PICKET of Dick Devine's receiving the "Abraham Lincoln Award":

11:30 a.m. (sharp) through 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11
57 W. Jackson (between Clark and Dearborn)

Sponsors: Chicago Anti-Bashing Network, Comité Exigimos Justicia, Sangat
For information, contact 773.878.4781 or 773.878.3697