Chicago Police Raided A Black Woman’s Home By Mistake — The City Tried To Stop The Video From Going Public
A heartbreaking video that was just released to the public nearly two years after the incident went down, shows Chicago police raiding a black woman’s home by mistake!
The victim of the botched raid, Anjanette Young, recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against the police. The distressing police bodycam footage from Feb. 21, 2019, shows cops raiding Young’s home shortly after the social worker just returned from her shift at the hospital and had undressed. The group of officers broke down the front door of her Chicago home and told her to stand with her hands up as she was naked.
Young was then forced to stand in the living room while she was handcuff with her entire body exposed as officers swarmed her apartment. She yelled at least 43 times “You’ve got the wrong house!” The officers were looking for a 23-year-old suspect who allegedly had a gun, but they didn’t verify the address before conducting the search warrant. That suspect lived in the unit next door to Young. It was also noted that the suspect had an electronic monitoring bracelet on and would’ve been easy to trace.
“It’s one of those moments where I felt I could have died that night. Like if I would have made one wrong move, it felt like they would have shot me. I truly believe they would have shot me,” Young tearfully said in an interview with CBS 2 Chicago. As the Daily Mail notes, Young had filed a Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA) request for the video to be shown to the public. A court forced Chicago police to turn over the footage as a part of Young’s lawsuit against the department. “I feel like they didn’t want us to have this video because they knew how bad it was. They knew they had done something wrong. They knew that the way they treated me was not right,” Young said.
A day before the raid a confidential informant told the lead officer that he recently saw a 23-year-old man who was a known felon armed with a gun and ammunition. They gave the faulty address to police and cops clearly believed that the information was correct. The suspect was awaiting trial on home confinement and was wearing an electronic monitoring device, meaning cops could have easily tracked his exact location.
On Tuesday, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) said they’re investigating the footage and incident.
They didn’t launch the investigation until nine months after the incident when it was first reported by CBS2. Here’s what Mayor Lightfoot had to say about this:
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