Chicago cops involved in botched raid placed on desk duty
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Lightfoot admits she knew about botched police raid, orders changes
Footage of the botched raid prompted wide criticism from civil rights groups, city aldermen and Black state legislators who’ve call it racist, gendered violence and a violation of a Black woman’s dignity.
CHICAGO - Chicago police officers who wrongly raided the home of a Black woman who wasn’t allowed to dress before being handcuffed have been placed on desk duty, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
The announcement comes a day after
Chicago’s top lawyer resigned in the fallout of the February 2019 incident where officers executed a search warrant on the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Body camera video of the incident, first aired by Chicago’s WBBM-TV, and a series of missteps by the city have
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A federal judge said Tuesday he is considering sanctions against Anjanette Young’s lawyer for releasing video of the infamous botched raid on Young’s home to the media, even though City Hall took back its request that he be punished for violating a confidentiality order.
U.S. District Judge John Tharp made his comments during a hearing in which Young’s attorney, Keenan Saulter, admitted he released the videos to the press. He said he realized he made a mistake last week after reading a transcript of a February hearing in which the judge said the footage would be turned over to him but only for use in a civil lawsuit, “not in creating publicity for the case or arguing the case in the media.”
Chicago s top attorney Mark Flessner resigns in fallout over botched police raid
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Lightfoot admits she knew about botched police raid, orders changes
Footage of the botched raid prompted wide criticism from civil rights groups, city aldermen and Black state legislators who’ve call it racist, gendered violence and a violation of a Black woman’s dignity.
CHICAGO - The city of Chicago’s top attorney resigned Sunday in the fallout of a botched police raid on the home of a Black woman who was not allowed to put on clothes before being handcuffed.
Corporation Counsel Mark Flessner announced the move in an email to employees, saying he was only recently involved with the legal case connected to police video of the February 2019 wrongful raid on the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Flessner did not say if he was asked to resign.
Chicago’s top attorney resigns over fallout from botched raid that saw naked Black woman handcuffed in wrong house Theresa Braine
Chicago’s top attorney resigned on Sunday amid fallout from his office’s attempt to squelch the public release of video from a botched February 2019 raid. During the raid, cops went to the wrong house and handcuffed a naked Black woman as they sought someone who didn’t live there.
“Today I have offered my letter of resignation as Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago,” Corporation Counsel Mark Flessner said on Twitter. “It has been an honor to work alongside my friend (Mayor) Lori Lightfoot for the last two years.”
CHICAGO (WLS) Eleven police officers and one police sergeant who raided the home of Anjanette Young last year have been placed on desk duty while the Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigates, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday. Until the COPA investigation is complete, these officers need to be off the street. But that investigation needs to be handled and come to conclusion in an expeditious way, Mayor Lightfoot said.
A day after the mayor sought and received the resignation of Corporation Counsel Mark Flessner, the fallout continues to mount following last week s broadcast of a nearly two-year-old police bodycam video.