Exonerated man sues Chicago police, city

A man who spent 26 years locked up for a murder he didn't commit - a victim, he says, of officers working under former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge - is suing the city and the police officers.

"They had a pattern of picking on people who basically couldn't withstand coercive interrogations using physical violence, as in Arnold's case, and psychological intimidation," attorney Jon Loevy said in announcing the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

Arnold Day was 18 in 1992 and living in the city when he was arrested for the unrelated shooting deaths of Raphael Garcia and Jerrod Erving from a year earlier. In the lawsuit, Day says officers "choked" him and threatened to toss him out a window if he didn't start "cooperating."

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