amy: former chicago police commander jon burge served a short prison sentence for perjury and obstruction justice before his release last year. statistics compiled by your office, the people's law office, show chicago was paid at least $64 million in settlements and judgments in civil rights cases related to burge's police abuses alone. reporting some of his techniques may have been learned in vietnam were he served as the military policeman. -- where he served as a military policeman. how long did john burge served? there are cannon, did you meet him at any point when you are being the man tortured? >> no, ma'am, i did not personally meet him. he was at the station that day and he assigned his own personal hand-picked soldiers to come and get me. the most vicious detective out of all of them, he is the one that did all the announcing of john burge, anytime they did a fundraiser, he took him to his house on holidays and sat with his family, etc. as far as i'm concerned, he wasn't directly there but indirect the, oh yes ma'am, he was there. amy: darrell cannon, will you benefit from this $

under the rein of chicago police commander jon burge from 1972 to 1991, more than 200 people, most of them african-american, were tortured with tactics including electric shocks and suffocation. the reparations proposal includes free city college tuition for victims and relatives, counseling services a memorial to victims, inclusion of burge's actions in school curriculum, and a formal apology. a city councilmember and mayor rahm emanuel hailed the move. >> finally -- finally, we have begun to acknowledge this horrible wrong. first of all, we finally settled the lawsuits were brought by the victims -- or many of the victims. and now we have done something that no other city in the united states has ever done. >> this is another step, but in essential step, and writing a wrong. removing a stain on the reputation of this great city in the people who make up this great city. amy: a number of torture victims attended wednesday's council session. burge served a short prison sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice before his release last year. a north dakota town was evacuated wedne