The Guardian is reporting that a local Chicago filmmaker, Angel Perez, was interrogated and sexually assaulted at the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square "black site" in October 2012.
(Warning: This description is GRAPHIC)
Spencer Ackerman:
...Perez was handcuffed by his right wrist to a metal bar behind a bench in an interrogation room on the second floor of Homan Square. Behind him were two police officers that a lawsuit Perez recently re-filed identifies as Jorge Lopez and Edmund Zablocki. They had been threatening him with a stint at the infamously violent Cook County jail if he didn’t cooperate.
“They’re gonna think you’re a little sexy bitch in jail,” Perez recalled one of them saying. The lawsuit quotes Lopez: “I hear that a big black nigger dick feels like a gun up your ass.”
Perez claims he was bent over in front of the bench and a piece of detritus. He recalled smelling urine and seeing bloodstains in the room. The police officers pulled his shirt up and slowly moved a metallic object down his bare skin. Then they pulled his pants down.
“He’s talking all this sexual stuff, he’s really getting fucking weird about it, too,” Perez remembered. He began shaking, the beginnings of a panic attack.
“They get down to where they’re gonna insert it, this is where I feel that it’s something around my rear end, and he said some stupid comment and then he jammed it in there and I started jerking and going all crazy – I think I kicked him – and I just go into a full-blown panic attack … The damage it caused, it pretty much swole my rear end like a baboon’s butt.”
Whatever the object was, the police suggested it was the barrel of a handgun. After Perez involuntarily jerked from the penetration, Officer Edmund Zablocki is alleged to have told him: “I almost blew your brains out.”
Perez is the 13th detainee of the Homan Square "black site" (so-called because the Homan Square site was modeled after the notorious CIA's interrogation black sites) that has been interviewed by the Guardian. Perez filed a lawsuit in 2013 but Perez did not know, apparently, that he was detained at the Homan Square site until recently.
Four other detainees of the Homan Square "black site" have joined Perez's lawsuit.
The Chicago Police Department did not respond to The Guardian's list of questions for this story but a police spokesperson did tell the Guardian that Perez's claims were "unfounded"
Mr. Perez was not charged with any crime.
The Guardian has exclusive video at the link to this story.