Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says all cops involved in raid that saw innocent social worker handcuffed while naked are on desk duty after the city s top lawyer resigned for trying to block the bodycam footage
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that all cops involved in botched raid on Anjanette Young s home have been placed on desk duty amid investigation
Announcement comes a day after city s top attorney, Mark Flessner, resigned
Lightfoot said she has accepted Flessner s resignation effective immediately
Video of the raid was recently released and shows cops bust into Young s apartment in search of a 23-year-old felon who actually lives next door
Lightfoot to address resignation at press conference Monday
By Alexis McAdams, ABC7 News
Chicago’s top attorney Mark Flessner has resigned after trying to block release of a video showing a botched Chicago police raid last year.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Sunday that she accepted the resignation of the corporation counsel effective immediately. Mayor Lightfoot will hold a press conference Monday afternoon to address the resignation.
Lightfoot went on to thank Flessner for his service, but also said “I am committed to a full review of everything that occurred surrounding this incident, will take corrective action where appropriate, and will hold people accountable.”
Chicago s top attorney has resigned amid the fallout from a botched CPD raid
Mayor Lori Lightfoot s office announced Sunday that she accepted the resignation of Mark Flessner effective immediately
Lightfoot thanked Flessner for his service adding I will take corrective action where appropriate, and will hold people accountable
Video of the raid was recently released and shows cops bust into Anjanette Young s apartment in search of a felon who didn t live there
She repeatedly told cops they had the wrong house
Young was naked when police came in and almost 45 minutes passed before cops allowed her to put on clothes
Sun-Times file
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Administration denied to federal investigators that it helped General Iron’s owner relocate its car-shredding operation to the Southeast Side from Lincoln Park, despite a previous agreement to assist in the company’s “expeditious transition” to the new location.
“The proposed expansion is not a relocation of General Iron’s operation at North Clifton but an entirely distinct effort undertaken by a different entity,” city lawyers wrote to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this week.
The letter, dated Tuesday, defends the city’s actions as HUD officials continue their investigation into whether the Lightfoot Administration violated Southeast Side residents’ civil rights. Advocacy groups have accused the city of helping move a polluting nuisance to a Latino-majority neighborhood to make way for a $6 billion residential and retail development in the mostly white and affluent Lincoln Park. The new facility bei