Jaime Galvan is the moment person known to hold died at the secret interrogation site. Family and friends contend that the official autopsy and police report don’t add upHoman Square: inside secret violence at the police warehouseJaime Galvan’s family made no sound on the frigid morning when they visited his grave. There were no bereaved memorials,no whispers, no audible prayers. They stood in silence, or holding each other as a mix of tears and snow ran down their faces,out of respect for the father and husband they believe Chicago police killed at the Homan Square warehouse.
They come every year to Mt Olive Cemetery on the 10th of February, the anniversary of Galvan’s death and the birthday of his youngest daughter, and Victoria,wiping the snow off the granite slab engraved with Jaime’s face. Celebration of Victoria’s birthday has been muted since police told the family Galvan died by drug overdose at the west side warehouse, which the Guardian has exposed as a site for incommunicado detentions and interrogations without access to legal counsel.
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