that's the amount of city council agreed to pay marvin reeves and ronald kitchen after police allegedlyed them to confessing to four murders in 1988 the city later declared them innocent. >> we do not kid ourselves that the fight is over. or that the city has somehow become a kinder and gentler one. i don't think that's the case. >> reporter: mayor rahm emanuel called the scandal a dark sharp ter on the history of the city of chicago and gave a long awaited apology. saying i am sorry this happened. let us all now move other. the man accused of heading the torture team was police commander john, now serving four and a half years in prison. earlier cases bring the city's total cost and settlements and legal fees to $85 million. it was here the commander oversaw the unit accused of torturing and beating black men in to false confessions in some cases they were nearly suffocateed with plastic bags and others the men say police used elect tick cattle products their genitals. ronald kitchen who spent 13 years of his sentence on death row, said no amount of money can give me and my family back

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