Cabrini Youth in Infamous Photo Arrested, Injured While in Police Custody

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"I don't want to seem like we're opportunists and media hounds, but I'm not about to sit back and watch them take advantage of our people anymore," [Fleming] said. "This is about land; this is about these white people wanting Cabrini-Green back. They are raising war against us. Well, we're going to raise war back with them through the media and other legal recourse that we have. We're not going to sit back and just take this anymore. There will be an action."

"Whatever Mr. Taylor's mother told you I told her is probably true," [Diane Aniolaw] said. "I can't comment to the media, but I did relay what I saw to Mr. Taylor's mother."

"Up to now, I didn't know nothing like this was going on with my son," Taylor said about her son's issues with the police. "But my daughter and my niece told me that the police was threatening my son. They just told me that some (Black) police told them that my son should file a complaint with the (Office of Professional Standards). I was like, 'Why are you just telling me all of this now?'"

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Cabrini Youth in Infamous Photo Arrested, Injured While in Police Custody

A 17-year-old teenager who was featured in an Aug. 9 Chicago Defender photo pointing his finger at an amused white Chicago police officer was arrested Sunday and allegedly injured while in custody.

According to Sherry Taylor, her son, Maurice, was grabbed by Chicago police and thrown against a car when he was taken into custody at abo...

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