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Hispanic—Puerto Rican this paper reported—but he was Mexican. Officer Terry Rourke shot and killed him in an alley just above the river at Halsted. Terry Rourke had a 30-year history of violent responses. The Mexican boy had none. He was thirteen, deaf and dumb. His parents protested; the neighborhood protested. No one listened. And that’s how it started.
—“MONSTER,” by Tracy Moens; © 2011 Chicago Herald ARLEEN BRENNANFRIDAY, 7:00 PM Don’t do this. Fast breath, face wipe. If the VW I’m driving had velvet lining it’d be a coffin.
Wheel the car, Arleen. Turn around. Drive straight to the U.S. attorney’s office and confess. Tell the whole truth on videotape—Detective Ruben Vargas and TAC cop Robbie Steffen are scamming the Korean mafia. I was/am the unwitting front woman. Vargas and Steffen will kill me if I don’t continue and the Korean mafia will kill me if I do.
There. Police corruption. Send in the FBI. Okay?
My heart rate stays at one-sixty.
The U.S. attorneys will nod to each other, then ask, Okay, Ms.
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