Victim of botched Chicago raid agrees to meeting with mayor
Columbia Basin Herald | UPDATED 4 years AGO
CHICAGO (AP) — A Black woman who wasn’t allowed to dress before being handcuffed during a mistaken 2019 police raid on her home has agreed to meet with Chicago’s mayor, her attorney said Monday.
The woman, social worker Anjanette Young, plans to meet with Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wednesday at Progressive Baptist Church where she is a member, attorney Keenan J. Saulter said.
But Lightfoot said Monday that specific “details were still being worked out” on the meeting.
“It is certainly my hope that Miss Young and I meet and meet soon," Lightfoot told reporters at an unrelated news conference.
Saulter said Young has also planned for a larger meeting with aldermen and Police Superintendent David Brown
The February 2019 wrongful raid on Young's home has drawn wide criticism because police officers didn’t allow her to dress before handcuffing her. In police video footage, she repeatedly tells officers executing a search warrant that they have the wrong home. Lawmakers and civil rights activists have decried the incident, first aired by Chicago's WBBM-TV, as racist and an affront to a Black woman’s dignity.
In the fallout, Chicago’s top attorney resigned, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced an independent investigation and 12 officers were placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. Lightfoot has publicly apologized for what happened to Young during the raid that occurred before her election in spring 2019 and several missteps by the city, including attempting to block the television station from airing the footage.