Naked woman handcuffed during search, sharp criticism in Chicago

Handcuffed while she was naked, a black American social worker filed a complaint against the police, who had raided her home with the wrong address. The police raid, which smashed down Anjanette Young’s door with a ram, dates back to February 21, 2019.

That night, Anjanette Young had just returned home and was changing when the police broke into her home, she told CBS 2 Chicago. On the video, taken by the police pedestrian cameras, we see her naked (the image is blurred) and handcuffed, visibly shocked and terrified.

“What’s going on?” Asks the social worker. “There is no one else here, I live alone. This is not the house you are looking for.” “How is it possible that this is legal?” we hear him cry while crying in the video.

Disturbing body camera footage reveals how Chicago police raided the wrong apartment in a 2019 raid, and detained an innocent woman.

12 male officers entered the home of Anjanette Young and handcuffed her while she was naked.@cbschicago‘s @davesavinicbs2 broke the story. pic.twitter.com/eKproa2uKw

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The police seem to finally realize their mistake, and one of them apologizes to her. Ms. Young, 50, told the TV station that she thought she “may have died that night.” “If I had made a sideways gesture, I think they would have shot me,” she said, saying she felt “humiliated”.

Complaint filed

According to CBS 2, the person wanted by police lived right next to Ms. Young’s home. An informant would have given the wrong address. The video was just released after a court recently ordered police to provide it to Ms Young as part of her law enforcement complaint.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she was “deeply sorry” about the incident according to the Chicago Tribune, promising those responsible would be held to account. City lawyers, however, tried to block the video from being broadcast.

Ms. Young’s attorney questioned whether the police would have acted this way if she had been “a young white woman.” “I don’t think so,” Keenan Saulter told CBS 2. “I think (the agents) would have rightly seen this woman as someone vulnerable who deserved to be protected, who deserved to stay worthy. . (Now) they saw Mrs. Young as less than human. “

What happened to Anjanette Young is reminiscent of the Breonna Taylor case, a young black caregiver killed in the middle of the night during a search of her home in March in Kentucky, and whose name was chanted during anti-racist protests that rocked the country this summer following the death of George Floyd. A resounding federal investigation concluded in 2017 that abuse of force and racist prejudice among police officers was recurrent in Chicago.

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