The update to the policy comes more than two months after video was released showing a botched 2019 police raid in which officers went to the wrong home and handcuffed a naked woman in an incident caught on body camera footage.
Anjanette Young and her attorney say police raided her home on Feb. 19, 2019, as they served a warrant based on information from an unnamed informant. Video showed officers handcuffing Young while she stood naked for several minutes, despite her repeated cries that they were in the wrong home.
The raid on Young’s home was brought to light in December when footage of the raid was leaked to a local television station by Young’s lawyer. Lightfoot s administration tried to prevent footage of the raid from being aired on television in an emergency court filing that a federal judge rejected.
All Chicago police search warrants, no-knock or otherwise, would have to be approved by a deputy chief or higher within the department under the proposed changes, Lightfoot said, noting that deputy chief is three ranks above the previous requirement of lieutenant approval.
And before any search warrant is served, Lightfoot proposed two other requirements: that all warrants undergo an independent investigation prior to approval to verify information used to obtain the warrant, and that the team executing the warrant conduct a planning session in which they identify any potentially vulnerable people, including children, who may be at the location in question.
A social worker who endured a botched raid conducted by Chicago police officers in 2019 has sued the city, alleging officials engaged in a conspiracy to cover.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was killed by Chicago police during a raid on his West Side apartment in 1969.
Anjanette Young, botched Chicago police raid victim, rallies for reform outside South Side church
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CHICAGO (WLS) There was a big show of support Monday for the woman at the center of a botched Chicago Police Department raid.
A large group gathered at Anjanette Young s church on Chicago s South Side calling for police reform. Young and her supporters called for changes in the police department to make sure this doesn t happen again.
Instead of fighting her battle in silence, Young continued to share her humiliating experience with the Chicago police as call to action against injustice. I would tell it again today, I would tell it again tomorrow. I will tell it again until no other woman in the city of Chicago is ever treated that way again, Young said.