Will the dominos continue to fall as happened recently in Ferguson? Or will Nicholas Roti, the chief of the bureau of organized crime, operating out of the now-infamous Homan Square police warehouse, be the fall guy?

According to the Guardian, which weeks ago reported how the Homan Square facility was used by Chicago police to "disappear" people for many hours, subject them to illegal questioning, and leave them chained and handcuffed for hours in isolation



A senior Chicago police commander in charge of a major unit operating out of the controversial Homan Square police warehouse has resigned... Nicholas Roti, the chief of the bureau of organized crime, resigned from the Chicago police department last week, Chicago police public affairs officer Mike Sullivan told the Guardian... Roti took charge of the organized crime division in 2010... the organized crime bureau was cited by the Chicago police "fact sheet" released on 1 March, attempting to refute the Guardian's reporting about a complex where 11 people thus far have told the Guardian they were effectively disappeared. "Sensitive units housed at the [Homan Square] facility include the Bureau of Organized Crime (including the narcotics unit)," the fact sheet reads.

(I can't help but remark how 'the Bureau of Organize Crime' is a fitting description of many police departments, but especially Chicago's

Some of the men "disappeared" at Homan Square are in the process of filing a civil rights lawsuit.



The civil rights lawsuit, expected to be filed on Thursday evening in the US district court for the northern district of Illinois, comes on behalf of two Homan Square victims the Guardian wrote about on 4 March: John Vergara and Jose Garcia... Vergara and Garcia told the Guardian that masked police police officers "kidnapped" them from a Humboldt Park deli; held them and three others in a Homan Square "cage" without booking or access to counsel for eight to nine hours... "The plaintiffs would like the facility to be shut down," said attorney Blake Horwitz."

Amen to that.

The resignation and the lawsuit may not be the end of it, even.



The lawsuit comes a day after US congressman Danny Davis and Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin hand delivered a letter to US attorney general Eric Holder requesting a Justice Department investigation into Homan Square.

And with the behavior of Republicans in the Senate, Holder may still be around if and when the results of the investigation get published.